[gentoo-dev] Re: Why you use Gentoo

2006-09-08 Thread Christian 'Opfer' Faulhammer
Tach Chris, 0x2B859DE3 (PGP-PK-ID) Chris White schrieb: So, wondering why people use Gentoo. Put [dev] or something if you're an actual gentoo dev and [user] if you're a user. Doesn't need to be fancy, you can put community or something if that's all you

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Why you use Gentoo

2006-09-08 Thread Roy Marples
On Friday 08 September 2006 04:08, Doug Goldstein wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: On Thursday 07 September 2006 20:31, Chris White wrote: So, wondering why people use Gentoo. penis envy -mike So are we suppose to admire yours? He might let you for a few pennies :P -- Roy Marples

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Why you use Gentoo

2006-09-08 Thread Bartlomiej Szymczak
[user] I was sick and tired of installing newer versions of Fedora and Suse (these two I used before Gentoo). Also you don't feel to good if there is a better version of the system if you pay for it and you can only use the worse one for free. And with Gentoo there is only one, perfect Gentoo.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Why you use Gentoo

2006-09-08 Thread Ioannis Aslanidis
Chris White wrote: All responses off list please. Thanks. GG -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] /opt for binary only packages

2006-09-08 Thread Caleb Tennis
I know that this is a convention we've followed (and is represented on the ebuild howto guide), but is it set in stone? The reason I ask is that I have a group of about 5 packages that I'm working on ebuilds for that by default all want to be in /opt/Pkgname-version. I've done some ebuild foo to

[gentoo-dev] Looking for a confcache maintainer

2006-09-08 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
After sending this mail, I'll be removing myself from the metadata of dev-util/confcache ; I've tried maintaining the ebuild and supporting confcache usage in Gentoo, but I'm unable to proceed with this task. The main issue are that confcache codebase, maintained by Brian, need a way to check

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Why you use Gentoo

2006-09-08 Thread Patrick Kursawe
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 01:29:11PM +0200, Bartlomiej Szymczak wrote: I don't see any reason why anyone would prefer to use other distro, maybe except for having only rudimentary computing skills. Having a dead slow machine with next to no computing power and very few disc space whould be such

Re: [gentoo-dev] council voting reminder

2006-09-08 Thread Daniel Ostrow
One last reminder...this weekend is the last weekend polls are open. Polls close at 00:00 UTC on Monday the 11th so if you haven't voted yet now is the time...lets see if we can break the 50% turnout mark! --Dan signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Required Features for $package_manager to Aid... Development!

2006-09-08 Thread Ryan Hill
Elfyn McBratney wrote: I've been inspired by the local/global USE flag threads recently posted by Doug (Cardoe), and it got me to thinking... I've recently joined the pkgcore development effort, and was asked by Brian (ferringb) what I'd like to hack on/what my niggles with portage are. My

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Why you use Gentoo

2006-09-08 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 12:00:00AM +, Christian 'Opfer' Faulhammer wrote: Tach Chris, 0x2B859DE3 (PGP-PK-ID) Chris White schrieb: So, wondering why people use Gentoo. Put [dev] or something if you're an actual gentoo dev and [user] if you're a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Paid support

2006-09-08 Thread Curtis Napier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: MD5 Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 23:50 -0400, Curtis Napier wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: MD5 I'm in support of having a list of devs who want to do paid support. Anything that helps people eat is OK in my book. ;)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Paid support

2006-09-08 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Curtis Napier wrote: Giving ad space to our sponsors is legal for us to do as a Not For Profit because they are donating goods and/or services to us. Technically we are not giving them ads, we are acknowledging the donated goods and/or services. Just like PBS does at the beginning of it's

[gentoo-dev] Re: Paid support

2006-09-08 Thread Duncan
Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 08 Sep 2006 20:16:26 -0700: Curtis Napier wrote: Giving ad space to our sponsors is legal for us to do as a Not For Profit because they are donating goods and/or services to us. Technically we are not giving

Re: [gentoo-dev] Why you use Gentoo

2006-09-08 Thread David Grant
On 9/7/06, Chris White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All responses off list please. Please people, it's common sense to read emails before you reply to them. :-)-- David Granthttp://www.davidgrant.ca

[gentoo-dev] Re: [user] Why you use Gentoo

2006-09-08 Thread reader
Unlike many linux users I started with linux and had to learn windows later. In both cases I was already an `old man'. On my fiftieth birthday in 1996, I started with Redhat linux somewhere in the 3X version area. I stumbled and plunged, plunged and stumbled all the way up to now. And here 10

[gentoo-dev] Re: Why you use Gentoo [user]

2006-09-08 Thread Sven Köhler
So, wondering why people use Gentoo. Put [dev] or something if you're an actual gentoo dev and [user] if you're a user. Doesn't need to be fancy, you can put community or something if that's all you want. All responses off list please. Thanks. Hi, so i'm using Gentoo because of the

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Moving ebuild-related where they belong

2006-09-08 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian Harring wrote: Just so we're clear... if gentoo-x86 wants to define their own base template all ebuilds in that repo use, that's fine. That's a different beast from moving the format definition into the tree though. Kind of curious if

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Moving ebuild-related where they belong

2006-09-08 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alec Warner wrote: Zac Medico wrote: Incompatible changes for a given EAPI specification are simply unacceptable. People really should know better than that. If not, educate them. See this is a bad idea. If you give them a hand, they take the