Re: [gentoo-dev] GPL-2 vs GPL-2+

2006-12-23 Thread expose
Yuri Vasilevski wrote: [...] But at the benefit of having less confusion for users about What the heck is a GPL-2+? for at last the same period of time. [...] So users will have to check what's the meaning of that + at the end of GPL-2+, so I think it'll create much more confusion than the

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-misc/ltsp

2006-12-23 Thread Josh Saddler
Christian Faulhammer wrote: Hi all, net-misc/ltsp will be removed on 15 Jan 2007, it has been hard masked today. There is no maintainer, we have an open security issue [1], so it will be punted. If someone steps to take it over, you know what to do. [1]

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: LAST RITES - rt2x00 beta 3

2006-12-23 Thread Roy Marples
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 00:01:23 + (UTC) Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 17:08:45 -0600: Roy Marples wrote: Hi list. Not often I issue a last rites, but here we go! rt2x00-beta3 driver

[gentoo-dev] CAMERAS as USE_EXPAND

2006-12-23 Thread Simon Stelling
Hi all, I would like to add CAMERAS to the list of USE_EXPANDed variables. It is currently used by media-libs/libgphoto2, which can be built with/without support for the following photo cameras: adc65 agfa-cl20 aox barbie canon casio clicksmart310 digigr8 digita dimera directory enigma13

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for net-wireless/ipw2100 and net-wireless/ipw2200

2006-12-23 Thread Doug Goldstein
Christian Heim wrote: Heya, net-wireless/ipw2100 and net-wireless/ipw2200 are both kernel drivers built as an external package through portage. The codebase currently in portage is the same that is present in any up-to-date kernel tarball (2.6.x). For this reason I am suggesting, everyone

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: portage idea - auto embed user patches

2006-12-23 Thread Edward Catmur
On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 21:47 -0600, Steev Klimaszewski wrote: Steve Long wrote: Alec Warner wrote: http://dev.gentoo.org/~solar/bashrc At the bottom of solar's bashrc you will find some lines dealing with AUTOPATCH, I don't see the bashrc.autopatch in his dev space, but you can

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for net-wireless/ipw2100 and net-wireless/ipw2200

2006-12-23 Thread Daniel Drake
Rémi Cardona wrote: On second thoughts, I'll raise a small objection to the removal. Latest gentoo version is 1.2.0 while the kernel (gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r2) says to contain 1.1.4. I know that difference isn't exactly huge, but still, it's a step backwards. The only changes from 1.1.4 to

Re: [gentoo-dev] www-servers/axis - commercial dependencies

2006-12-23 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Vlastimil Babka [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, I've noticed, axis has some commercial/non-free dependencies, ie. sun-javamail-bin and sun-jaf. Are there free replacements for them ? Yes, sun-javamail and sun-jaf are free (CDDL-licensed) replacements.

Re: [gentoo-dev] /var/lib/init.d/* vs. pidfiles

2006-12-23 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Roy Marples [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: snip I'm going to stop you right there. Before claiming design problems in the init system, you could at least have the good grace to try out the most current available in portage where you would know Well, I just sync'ed and `emerge -puD system`

Re: [gentoo-dev] /var/lib/init.d/* vs. pidfiles

2006-12-23 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 23 December 2006 14:50, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Well, I just sync'ed and `emerge -puD system` doesn't show up anything todo, and I didn't mask out anything. So can I assume my init system is up to date ? i'm pretty sure he's talking about the 1.13 series which he's put a lot of time

Re: [gentoo-dev] /var/lib/init.d/* vs. pidfiles

2006-12-23 Thread Roy Marples
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 20:50:06 +0100 Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Roy Marples [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: snip I'm going to stop you right there. Before claiming design problems in the init system, you could at least have the good grace to try out the most current available

Re: [gentoo-dev] /var/lib/init.d/* vs. pidfiles

2006-12-23 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: If the lookup would go directly to checking things like pidfiles (where applicable) instead of the flag files, such problems would (IMHO) be entirely fixed. well that's why it's just your opinion and not actual fact ... pidfiles are not

Re: [gentoo-dev] /var/lib/init.d/* vs. pidfiles

2006-12-23 Thread Roy Marples
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 20:50:06 +0100 Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) A simple status call to the init script checks running daemons and returns either 0 or 1 appropriately allowing a sys admin to report on crashed services and possible take an automated action. Yes, of course.

Re: [gentoo-dev] /var/lib/init.d/* vs. pidfiles

2006-12-23 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Roy Marples [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: snip baselayout-1.13 is currently package.masked as there are still a few upgrade/downgrade issues to resolve with the 1.12 branch. However, it is unmasked on BSD profiles where it's enjoying great success. Hopefully in the new year it can be moved to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Marking GPL-incompatible linkage?

2006-12-23 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Hi, Right now the aac useflag enable support for MP4v2 tags writing through libmp4v2; the problem is that the library is licensed under MPL, while Amarok is licensed under GPL, and they are likely not compatible one to the other,

Re: [gentoo-dev] /var/lib/init.d/* vs. pidfiles

2006-12-23 Thread Roy Marples
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 22:08:15 +0100 Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: baselayout-1.13 is currently package.masked as there are still a few upgrade/downgrade issues to resolve with the 1.12 branch. However, it is unmasked on BSD profiles where it's enjoying great success. Hopefully in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for net-wireless/ipw2100 and net-wireless/ipw2200

2006-12-23 Thread Rémi Cardona
Daniel Drake wrote: Rémi Cardona wrote: On second thoughts, I'll raise a small objection to the removal. Latest gentoo version is 1.2.0 while the kernel (gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r2) says to contain 1.1.4. I know that difference isn't exactly huge, but still, it's a step backwards. The only

Re: [gentoo-dev] Marking GPL-incompatible linkage?

2006-12-23 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Saturday 23 December 2006 22:35, Enrico Weigelt wrote: I'm not an license expert Then shut up. You're wrong, it's true for dynamic linking as well as for static linking. -- Diego Flameeyes Pettenò - http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/ Gentoo/Alt lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Sound,

[gentoo-dev] Wrong dependencies to postgresql

2006-12-23 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, since jakub (as always) closes all my bugs, I'll report the issue to this list before completely giving up and never ever waste a single second on reporting bugs ... Lots of packages have an wrong/unnecessary dependency to postgresql. Three cases: a) probably traditionally

Re: [gentoo-dev] Wrong dependencies to postgresql

2006-12-23 Thread Doug Goldstein
Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, since jakub (as always) closes all my bugs, I'll report the issue to this list before completely giving up and never ever waste a single second on reporting bugs ... Enrico, you know exactly why he does that. Review the last bug you filed to me if you're

Re: [gentoo-dev] Wrong dependencies to postgresql

2006-12-23 Thread Doug Goldstein
Doug Goldstein wrote: Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, since jakub (as always) closes all my bugs, I'll report the issue to this list before completely giving up and never ever waste a single second on reporting bugs ... Enrico, you know exactly why he does that. Review the last bug you

[gentoo-dev] Re: Wrong dependencies to postgresql

2006-12-23 Thread Tiziano Mueller
Hi Enrico Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, since jakub (as always) closes all my bugs, I'll report the issue to this list before completely giving up and never ever waste a single second on reporting bugs ... ... and we're grateful to you for that. Lots of packages have an

Re: [gentoo-dev] Wrong dependencies to postgresql

2006-12-23 Thread Jakub Moc
Enrico Weigelt napsal(a): Hi folks, since jakub (as always) closes all my bugs, I'll report the issue to this list before completely giving up and never ever waste a single second on reporting bugs ... Thanks, you've wasted at least one hour of my time I spent duping those bugs and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Marking GPL-incompatible linkage?

2006-12-23 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 23 December 2006 17:34, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: On Saturday 23 December 2006 22:35, Enrico Weigelt wrote: I'm not an license expert Then shut up. You're wrong, it's true for dynamic linking as well as for static linking. agreed on both points -mike pgpAOof6Yol88.pgp

Re: [gentoo-dev] www-servers/axis - commercial dependencies

2006-12-23 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Sat, 2006-12-23 at 20:20 +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Great :) It was really, really ugly getting tomcat emerge'd w/ all this commercial crap :( Blame upstream for using them. Granted the are somewhat optional more on that below. I had some talks w/ tomcat folks Where? Who? Just