Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: User support system [WAS: Sunrise contemplations]

2006-08-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 22:01:48 -0400 Mike Cvet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 21:05 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:42:52 -0500 James Potts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | wrote: | | hmmmdoesn't the GNU ClassPath implement enough of Java's | | runtimes to handle

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: User support system [WAS: Sunrise contemplations]

2006-08-18 Thread Stephen P. Becker
Mike Cvet wrote: On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 21:05 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:42:52 -0500 James Potts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | hmmmdoesn't the GNU ClassPath implement enough of Java's runtimes | to handle a command-line app like this (the app needs, basically, to | be

Re: [gentoo-dev] If I may interject...

2006-08-18 Thread Jean-François Gagnon Laporte
Oh please stop the FUD. Move this slaverythingie out of gentoo-dev. I know I'm feeding the trolls but this has to stop. On 8/17/06, Samuel Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoth the subject: If I may interject. The term slaveryware is a little extreme, but not out of reality. Microsoft does

[gentoo-dev] Proposal for cleaning portage a bit (themes and other eyecandy stuff)

2006-08-18 Thread Simon Toth
Hi, I posted this to the bugzilla, but was redirected here, so: INTRO: I have just a small proposal. There are many theme packages in portage, but many good are still missing, the problem I actually noticed when creating my own ebuild for comix cursors, is that there is really a mess in theme

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] If I may interject...

2006-08-18 Thread Alec Warner
Feel free to discuss with each other privately, but this has nothing to do with gentoo development. Thanks, Alec Warner -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for cleaning portage a bit (themes and other eyecandy stuff)

2006-08-18 Thread Chris White
On Friday 18 August 2006 08:12 am, Simon Toth wrote: INTRO: I have just a small proposal. There are many theme packages in portage, but many good are still missing, the problem I actually noticed when creating my own ebuild for comix cursors, is that there is really a mess in theme packages.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for cleaning portage a bit (themes and other eyecandy stuff)

2006-08-18 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Simon Toth wrote: Hi, I posted this to the bugzilla, but was redirected here, so: INTRO: I have just a small proposal. There are many theme packages in portage, but many good are still missing, the problem I actually noticed when creating my own ebuild for comix cursors, is that there is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for cleaning portage a bit (themes and other eyecandy stuff)

2006-08-18 Thread Simon Toth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 * Donnie Berkholz wrote, On 18.8.2006 17:44: Simon Toth wrote: Hi, I posted this to the bugzilla, but was redirected here, so: INTRO: I have just a small proposal. There are many theme packages in portage, but many good are still missing,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for cleaning portage a bit (themes and other eyecandy stuff)

2006-08-18 Thread Simon Toth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 * Chris White wrote, On 18.8.2006 17:32: On Friday 18 August 2006 08:12 am, Simon Toth wrote: INTRO: I have just a small proposal. There are many theme packages in portage, but many good are still missing, the problem I actually noticed when

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for cleaning portage a bit (themes and other eyecandy stuff)

2006-08-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 08:44:04 -0700 Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | What would be more interesting is something like app-portage/g-cpan | for various themes sites. This way, individual themes wouldn't need | to get packaged and maintained. If anyone's looking to experiment with this

[gentoo-dev] [treecleaner] Last rites: media-sound/alsaplayer

2006-08-18 Thread Christian Heim
The media-sound/alsaplayer package is pending removal as requested by [EMAIL PROTECTED] for multiple buffer overflows [1], dead upstream [1] and a crash occurring when playing uLaw/AU Audio File [2]. The package is currently masked and is pending removal on 15th September. [1]

[gentoo-dev] Coda file system needs new maintainer

2006-08-18 Thread Maurice van der Pot
Hi guys, I've been maintaining Coda, but I'm not using it anymore. I'm looking for someone to take over maintenance. It's a low-maintenance package. Any takers? Regards, Maurice. -- Maurice van der Pot Gentoo Linux Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org Creator of BiteMe!

[gentoo-dev] Re: [treecleaner] net-misc/mirror has been removed

2006-08-18 Thread Christian Heim
On Friday, 18. August. 2006 19:16, Christian Heim wrote: The net-misc/mirror package has been removed. This is closing the following open bugs: #69698: mirror-2.9 and emirror-2.1.21 both install /usr/bin/mirror #138404: net-misc/mirror - removal request And forgot about this one:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Setting USE_EXPAND defaults in profiles (in some cases)

2006-08-18 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Donnie Berkholz wrote: For ebuilds that use USE_EXPAND to pull in other dependencies rather than just internally building drivers (I suspect xorg is the only one), I've been thinking of a way to make the whole setup cleaner. agaffney suggested this in the first place, and every time I think

Re: [gentoo-dev] Make FEATURES=test the default

2006-08-18 Thread Hanno Böck
Am Samstag, 5. August 2006 02:11 schrieb Kevin F. Quinn: I'd like to suggest we make FEATURES=test (and therefore USE=test) the default behaviour, rather than the opt-in we currently have. Far too many packages fail their test phase. I'm all for making more use of features like test and

[gentoo-dev] [treecleaner] net-im/gtalk has been removed

2006-08-18 Thread Christian Heim
The net-net-im/gtalk package has been removed. This is closing the following open bugs: #79986: net-im/gtalk removal request -- Christian Heim phreak at gentoo.org GPG key ID: 9A9F68E6 Fingerprint: AEC4 87B8 32B8 4922 B3A9 DF79 CAE3 556F 9A9F 68E6 Your friendly

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for cleaning portage a bit (themes and other eyecandy stuff)

2006-08-18 Thread Michael Cummings
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 08:44:04 -0700 Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | What would be more interesting is something like app-portage/g-cpan | for various themes sites. This way, individual themes wouldn't need | to

[gentoo-dev] [adopt-a-dev] New Resource Offers and Requests

2006-08-18 Thread Thomas Cort
Greetings Fellow Developers, New items are being added to the Adopt a Developer project page[1] all the time. However, developers who don't check the project page won't know about all the new stuff. Similarly, users won't be aware of new developer needs unless they check the project page. So, I'd