[gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April

2006-04-01 Thread Mike Frysinger
This is your monthly friendly reminder ! Same bat time (typically the 2nd Thursday once a month), same bat channel (#gentoo-council @ irc.freenode.net) ! If you have something you'd wish for us to chat about, maybe even vote on, let us know ! Simply reply to this e-mail for the whole Gentoo dev

[gentoo-dev] Glep 00 - Cashing In On Drama RFC

2006-04-01 Thread Chris White
Please see the attached glep for a proposal to cash in on the ZOMG DRAMA we encounter. Shout out to my boys at Tony's Diner, The llama farm, and the AirForce for letting me borrow their ROFLCOPTERS. Chris White GLEP: 00 Title: Cashing In On Drama Version: $Revision: 1.0 $ Last-Modified: $Date:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: who renamed adsl-start to pppoe-start and why

2006-04-01 Thread Curtis Napier
Alin Nastac wrote: Philip Webb wrote: It is debatable whether users whose systems are already working properly should be expected to read sections of the Handbook merely in order to accommodate a newly-introduced form of configuration or whether some brief note in the emerge output or in

[gentoo-dev] Not offering help to certain parts of society

2006-04-01 Thread George Prowse
I have always respected Gentoo for it's ability to be completely helpful for people no matter what their circumstances but i fear we are pushing a secion of society away. We offer forums, mailing lists and the distribution itself in a variety of languages, we have attempted to port portage to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: who renamed adsl-start to pppoe-start and why

2006-04-01 Thread Alin Nastac
Curtis Napier wrote: And that change was duly noted and acted upon by almost everyone. We had several threads in the forums plus the einfo warnings. Most people made the transition without any problems. Good work on the adsl mrness, it works so much better than rp-pppoe now, thanks! Thank

Re: [gentoo-dev] Not offering help to certain parts of society

2006-04-01 Thread Carsten Lohrke
Given that most of the world not necessarily knows who the Amish are, it should be added, that they form the heart and soul of the north american technology eliteĀ¹. Carsten [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish pgpDbje8gW1U8.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [last rites] media-gfx/sodipodi

2006-04-01 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Thursday 30 March 2006 01:55, Mark Loeser wrote: Not directed specifically at you, but it seems a lot of people are masking stuff and removing it very quickly, and I'd really like to see everyone wait the 30 days to remove something from the tree. That way anyone using this package in some

[gentoo-dev] Last rights for dev-util/perforce

2006-04-01 Thread Stuart Herbert
Hi, The dev-util/perforce packages: - dev-util/perforce - dev-util/perforce-cli - dev-util/perforce-gui - dev-util/perforce-proxy - dev-util/perforce-server are in need of a new maintainer. If no-one volunteers in time, the packages will be masked Saturday 8th April, and removed from the tree

Re: [gentoo-dev] Glep 00 - Cashing In On Drama RFC

2006-04-01 Thread Wernfried Haas
I'd just like to donate my two cents to this issue. cheers, Wernfried -- Wernfried Haas (amne) - amne at gentoo dot org Gentoo Forums: http://forums.gentoo.org IRC: #gentoo-forums on freenode - email: forum-mods at gentoo dot org pgpwlPRokLEfA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Not offering help to certain parts of society

2006-04-01 Thread Paul Varner
On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 16:41 +, George Prowse wrote: The problem is that we are in no way helping our Amish friends. If we made it easier to use linux then i'm sure they'd embrace FOSS straight away! I suggest some measures that would help them integrate better because it may be frowned

[gentoo-dev] adding INSTALL_MASK to info_vars

2006-04-01 Thread John Mylchreest
Hey guys, Anyone got any objections to this? If you do, please speak up now, else I will add this in the close to immediate future. Cheers, John -- Role:Gentoo Linux Kernel Lead Gentoo Linux:http://www.gentoo.org Public Key: gpg --recv-keys 9C745515 Key fingerprint: A0AF

Re: [gentoo-dev] [last rites] media-gfx/sodipodi

2006-04-01 Thread Daniel Goller
On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 19:18 +0200, Carsten Lohrke wrote: On Thursday 30 March 2006 01:55, Mark Loeser wrote: Not directed specifically at you, but it seems a lot of people are masking stuff and removing it very quickly, and I'd really like to see everyone wait the 30 days to remove

Re: [gentoo-dev] [last rites] media-gfx/sodipodi

2006-04-01 Thread Mark Loeser
Carsten Lohrke [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thursday 30 March 2006 01:55, Mark Loeser wrote: Not directed specifically at you, but it seems a lot of people are masking stuff and removing it very quickly, and I'd really like to see everyone wait the 30 days to remove something from the tree.

[gentoo-portage-dev] Re: r3046 - main/trunk/pym

2006-04-01 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 01 April 2006 02:34, Zach Medico wrote: Modified: main/trunk/pym/portage.py Log: Fix ROOT handling for timestamps of lib directories. Only run ldconfig when timestamps have changed (the makelinks flag does not force ldconfig unless timestamps have changed). no, this is still

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] rewriting the ldconfig logic

2006-04-01 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 01 April 2006 17:17, Zac Medico wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: i thought about this some more ... why do we even care about the mtimes during package merge ? if a package doesnt install any files into a libdir, why should we bother running ldconfig ? if a user updated the