Re: [gentoo-dev] Resolution - GTK Useflag Situation

2005-09-19 Thread Peter Volkov Alexandrovich
Hello. On Пнд, 2005-09-19 at 20:24 +0900, Chris White wrote: I think the problem here isn't about choice, but support. Mainly deprication is the issue here. GTK2 was meant to be an upgrade of GTK1 interfaces. At some point upstream is going to have to giveup and say Sorry sam, use gtk2

[gentoo-dev] UK Linux Expo

2005-09-19 Thread Rob Holland
All, This is a gentle reminder that the UK Linux Expo is on 5th-6th October at Olympia, London. Gentoo will have a (small) booth at the expo, so if you are interested in being in the booth (dev's only I'm afraid) please let me know. I will be drawing up a rota on Wednesday, so if you've not

Re: [gentoo-dev] first council meeting

2005-09-19 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Friday 16 September 2005 23:51, Mike Frysinger wrote: that's the problem, there's no way to flag which packages should be consulted and which ones are a non-issue This indeed kind of sums up my point. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage:

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] C++ herd proposal

2005-09-19 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Saturday 17 September 2005 22:24, Mark Loeser wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: On Saturday 17 September 2005 02:22 pm, Mark Loeser wrote: The reason for me adding that bit is the metadata from dev-cpp: The dev-cpp category contains libraries and utilities relevant to the c++ programming

Re: [gentoo-dev] The tree is now utf-8 clean

2005-09-19 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Saturday 17 September 2005 22:06, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Saturday 17 September 2005 01:15 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 12:56:37 +0200 Fernando J. Pereda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 02:42:09AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | | Something

Re: [gentoo-dev] The tree is now utf-8 clean

2005-09-19 Thread Georgi Georgiev
maillog: 19/09/2005-11:52:26(+0200): Paul de Vrieze types On Saturday 17 September 2005 22:06, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Saturday 17 September 2005 01:15 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 12:56:37 +0200 Fernando J. Pereda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Sat, Sep 17, 2005

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resolution - GTK Useflag Situation

2005-09-19 Thread Brian Harring
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 03:48:43PM +, John N. Laliberte wrote: * but you are taking away choice! - If a program has both GTK2 and GTK3 interfaces, there are many ways to allow for testing of the experimental interface. For instance, package.mask with a revision number. package.mask isn't

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] C++ herd proposal

2005-09-19 Thread Mark Loeser
Paul de Vrieze wrote: I think that dev-util is a very specific category containing development utilities of some sort. There might be some misclassifications in them, but from a user perspective I don't really care about the language anything is written in. As C++ is so widespread I don't

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resolution - GTK Useflag Situation

2005-09-19 Thread Mike Gardiner
On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 07:28 -0500, Brian Harring wrote: On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 03:48:43PM +, John N. Laliberte wrote: * but you are taking away choice! - If a program has both GTK2 and GTK3 interfaces, there are many ways to allow for testing of the experimental interface. For

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] C++ herd proposal

2005-09-19 Thread warnera6
Mark Loeser wrote: Paul de Vrieze wrote: I think that dev-util is a very specific category containing development utilities of some sort. There might be some misclassifications in them, but from a user perspective I don't really care about the language anything is written in. As C++ is so

[gentoo-dev] Re: aging ebuilds with unstable keywords

2005-09-19 Thread Duncan
Anthony Gorecki posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 12 Sep 2005 01:09:34 -0700: On Sunday, September 11, 2005 20:42, Daniel Ahlberg wrote: The page shows results from a number of tests that are run against the ebuilds. Why does this script no longer include the results in

Re: [gentoo-dev] UK Linux Expo

2005-09-19 Thread Marcus D. Hanwell
On Monday 19 September 2005 10:14, Rob Holland wrote: This is a gentle reminder that the UK Linux Expo is on 5th-6th October at Olympia, London. Gentoo will have a (small) booth at the expo, so if you are interested in being in the booth (dev's only I'm afraid) please let me know. I just

[gentoo-dev] cvs keywording.

2005-09-19 Thread Alec Warner
Official policy states that CVS ebuilds should never be marked stable[1]. Yet many ebuilds that are based on cvs sources and are marked stable on arch's. I would like to know why this is so. ./net-misc/netcomics-cvs/netcomics-cvs-0.14.1.ebuild:KEYWORDS=x86 ~amd64

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resolution - GTK Useflag Situation

2005-09-19 Thread Thomas de Grenier de Latour
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 15:48:43 + (UTC) John N. Laliberte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How to keep gtk1 off of your system: * use the proper, built in methods for this: add =x11-libs/gtk+-1* to /etc/portage/package.mask. Since this may not be that easy for the end-user (lots of ebuilds to avoid

Re: [gentoo-dev] cvs keywording.

2005-09-19 Thread Alin Dobre
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alec Warner wrote: Official policy states that CVS ebuilds should never be marked stable[1]. Yet many ebuilds that are based on cvs sources and are marked stable on arch's. I would like to know why this is so.

Re: [gentoo-dev] cvs keywording.

2005-09-19 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 20:38 +0300, Alin Dobre wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alec Warner wrote: Official policy states that CVS ebuilds should never be marked stable[1]. Yet many ebuilds that are based on cvs sources and are marked stable on arch's. I would like

[gentoo-dev] Pending removal of app-arch/gzip-x86

2005-09-19 Thread Mark Loeser
I'm masking app-arch/gzip-x86 as we speak. It seems to cause problems for people[1] and is based off of gzip-1.3.3. As such, it is vulnerable to a couple[2] exploits[3]. Upstream appears dead (last update was 2003-05-20) and no one is currently maintaining it for us. If you don't want to see it

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] C++ herd proposal

2005-09-19 Thread Christian Parpart
On Monday 19 September 2005 15:22, warnera6 wrote: Mark Loeser wrote: Paul de Vrieze wrote: I think that dev-util is a very specific category containing development utilities of some sort. There might be some misclassifications in them, but from a user perspective I don't really care

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] C++ herd proposal

2005-09-19 Thread Georgi Georgiev
maillog: 20/09/2005-07:21:08(+0200): Christian Parpart types On Monday 19 September 2005 15:22, warnera6 wrote: Mark Loeser wrote: Paul de Vrieze wrote: I think that dev-util is a very specific category containing development utilities of some sort. There might be some

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] PATCH: gentoolkit: Make portage.config object a global object

2005-09-19 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Saturday 17 September 2005 02:32, Alec Warner wrote: Jason Stubbs wrote: On Saturday 17 September 2005 01:59, Paul Varner wrote: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90680 Author: Paul Varner The current implementation of gentoolkit creates a portage.config object for every

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] PATCH: gentoolkit: Make portage.config object a global object

2005-09-19 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Monday 19 September 2005 10:26, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Monday 19 September 2005 17:18, Paul de Vrieze wrote: I doubt though that the config object should be modified. The Package object needs to call setcpv() on the config object to get at the per-package USE flags after they have been

[gentoo-portage-dev] PATCH glep31 checking

2005-09-19 Thread Brian Harring
Hola. http://glep.gentoo.org/glep-0031.html-- the details http://bugs.gentoo.org/106544-- the bug http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?=68828 -- the patch Attached the patch also; one additional tweak is that file.size is now a fatal check, since the tree seem's to

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] PATCH glep31 checking

2005-09-19 Thread Brian Harring
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 04:12:08PM -0500, Brian Harring wrote: Attached the patch also; one additional tweak is that file.size is now a fatal check, since the tree seem's to finally be clean. Dropped the file.size becoming fatal change on the bug, and intend to for the final version. Either