Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Dependencies on system packages

2006-12-17 Thread Alec Warner
Jason Stubbs wrote: There's ways to manage this complexity, such as putting the dependencies into autotools' RDEPEND (if it can be considered correct) or by using meta-packages. However, your point is against requiring that packages _must_ specify all system dependencies. While I personally

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Dependencies on system packages

2006-12-17 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 03:14:57 -0500 Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | As an aside, If you are unsure in a given situation feel free to ask | someone about it. Worse case you (put an extra dep in|leave out a | dep); both are easily repairable. No, worst case you go and break anyone trying to

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] USE_EXPAND variable to choose ALSA PCM plugins

2006-12-17 Thread Rémi Cardona
Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: Not sure if anybody here knows, but alsa-plugins is not the only set of plugins an user installs in its system, many others are installed by alsa-lib itself, they are the basic plugins like dmix, dsnoop, iec958, plug... the ones that many asoundrc already

[gentoo-dev] Treecleaner meeting summary

2006-12-17 Thread Elfyn McBratney
Ciao, The treecleaner project held a meeting today on IRC (#gentoo-treecleaners on Freenode, log attached) to discuss the goals of the project, why it was frozen and ways in which to improve the process - treecleaning without a vengence, maybe? ;) The outcome of the meeting is, basically, that

[gentoo-dev] Re: Treecleaner meeting summary

2006-12-17 Thread Elfyn McBratney
Typically, I failed at something: meeting log *really* attached this time... -- Elfyn McBratney, Gentoo Developer, Nutty between the hours of 3AM and 14AM... +--+ | irc.freenode.net / beu | | beu [EMAIL PROTECTED] gentoo [.] org |

Re: [gentoo-dev] Treecleaner meeting summary

2006-12-17 Thread Bryan Østergaard
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 07:22:13PM +, Elfyn McBratney wrote: Ciao, The outcome of the meeting is, basically, that we need to be a lot more careful/cautious when it comes to punting packages from the tree. For example, in cases where packages work but the ebuilds themselves do not, we

[gentoo-dev] Proxy maintainers

2006-12-17 Thread Steve Long
Bryan Østergaard wrote: Thanks, I believe many users (and devs) will be happy to see improved policies regarding package removals. I'm also personally very much looking forward to an official Proxy Maintainers project -proxy maintaining is one of the things I've been advertising in my own

[gentoo-dev] Re: anybody wants app-misc/nomad-tool?

2006-12-17 Thread Steve Long
George Shapovalov wrote: Masked, as per previous announement. Nobody stepped up, so this is now on track for removal. I read the original post, and you seemed quite keen on keeping it in; have you posted to the user rep forum to see if you can p-maintain it for a user or group of users? --

[gentoo-dev] Re: SAMBA needs a maintainer

2006-12-17 Thread Steve Long
Doug Goldstein wrote: I'll give some of the issues a look over Monday if you ping me about it jakub. But I don't want to maintain it. I'll proxy maintain it for a user and help them out if they need. Alec Warner wrote: If there are any interested users, I am willing to proxy-maintain this

[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2006-12-17 23:59 UTC

2006-12-17 Thread Robin H. Johnson
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2006-12-17 23h59 UTC. Removals: games-fps/ut2004-domain2049 2006-12-12 15:46:17 wolf31o2 dev-db/dbbalancer 2006-12-17 08:57:15 dev-zero Additions: sci-biology/amap

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Dependencies on system packages

2006-12-17 Thread Steve Long
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: That one pulls us back into the lack of distinction between stuff needed when compiling against this library and stuff this library needs to run. Wouldn't your c-toolchain or a compiler eg for PERL or Java do? | or by using meta-packages. DEPEND=virtual/c-toolchain

[gentoo-dev] Re: Dependencies on system packages

2006-12-17 Thread Steve Long
Ryan Hill wrote: Cool, that's exactly what I was looking for. thanks ;d Yeah me too, thanks for a straight reply! ;) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2006-12-17 23:59 UTC

2006-12-17 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 11:20:38PM -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote: The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2006-12-17 23h59 UTC. ... Removals: x11-wm/qvwm 2006-12-04 06:40:02 omp ... Oops, I

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Dependencies on system packages

2006-12-17 Thread Steve Long
Alec Warner wrote: Jason Stubbs wrote: There's ways to manage this complexity, such as putting the dependencies into autotools' RDEPEND (if it can be considered correct) or by using meta-packages. However, your point is against requiring that packages _must_ specify all system