On 6/18/07, Steve Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
Luca Barbato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
Paludis allows users to do some-cat/foo[=4.04-3] and
some-cat/foo[=4.1|=4.2|=4.3] . The syntax isn't particularly pretty,
but it's cleaner than requiring
Steve Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted
[EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:08:13
+0100:
Josh Saddler wrote:
As we've established earlier, being closed-source is not sufficient
reason for removing any program from Portage; you should have read the
rest of the thread.
No
Steve Long wrote:
Stephen Bennett wrote:
Not everyone sees that as a reason not to use a potentially useful
piece of software. We're not debian.
Could you clarify whether this is indeed a Gentoo QA issue, or in fact a
licensing issue? If the latter case, this discussion should prob'y go to
Steev Klimaszewski wrote:
Steve Long wrote:
Stephen Bennett wrote:
Not everyone sees that as a reason not to use a potentially useful
piece of software. We're not debian.
Could you clarify whether this is indeed a Gentoo QA issue, or in fact a
licensing issue? If the latter case, this
On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 12:18 -0500, Martin Jackson wrote:
Christian Heim wrote:
On Sunday 17 June 2007 14:43:59 Konstantin V. Arkhipov wrote:
i'm too busy with real life atm, is there anyone willing to help with
bind's maintaining?
What happened to mjolnir (as in Martin Jackson) ?
On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 20:05 +0100, Steve Long wrote:
keep. Or is it that Skype are a big company so we have to kowtow? /me is
well-confused.
It has nothing to do with money or the company, and everything to do
with the number of people using it. While ion3 is uncommonly used,
skype is much
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 06:01 +0100, Steve Long wrote:
Stephen Bennett wrote:
Not everyone sees that as a reason not to use a potentially useful
piece of software. We're not debian.
Could you clarify whether this is indeed a Gentoo QA issue, or in fact a
licensing issue? If the latter case,
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 08:58 +, Duncan wrote:
So at this point it's pretty much up to the maintainer. Why are the rest
of us still discussing it?
Because, like everything else, too many people on this list have to get
in the last word.
Also, there's nothing in our policy that really keeps
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 11:39:26AM -0700, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
Internet Explorer doesn't even *run* on Gentoo. If it did, it
would likely be in the tree since quite a few people would likely use
it, even if just for testing. I know that if I were able to test things
on IE from Linux
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 21:11 +0200, Wernfried Haas wrote:
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 11:39:26AM -0700, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
Internet Explorer doesn't even *run* on Gentoo. If it did, it
would likely be in the tree since quite a few people would likely use
it, even if just for testing. I
Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted
[EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 18
Jun 2007 11:50:51 -0700:
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 08:58 +, Duncan wrote:
So at this point it's pretty much up to the maintainer. Why are the
rest of us still discussing it?
Because, like everything
Steev Klimaszewski wrote:
It is neither a QA nor license issue, its an issue of the download being
unavailable. Please read the full thread.
And to reply to myself - its a licensing issue since we cannot mirror
the distfile.
Er thanks for that ;)
However, I hardly find that facist - my own
Chris Gianelloni wrote:
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 06:01 +0100, Steve Long wrote:
Stephen Bennett wrote:
Not everyone sees that as a reason not to use a potentially useful
piece of software. We're not debian.
Could you clarify whether this is indeed a Gentoo QA issue, or in fact a
licensing
Kent Fredric wrote:
If you can, try integrate a name based syntax into the requirement.
using decorative characters alone may have their uses, but there are
only so many you can use, and so many combinations you can create
before all your code starts looking like perl's acme eyedrops. I say
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 23:49 +0100, Steve Long wrote:
Could you clarify whether this is indeed a Gentoo QA issue, or in fact a
licensing issue? If the latter case, this discussion should prob'y go to
the new -project ml if and when, or indeed the user forums.
The problem with skype is
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 23:49 +0100, Steve Long wrote:
Oh I see, when it's
stuff *you* care about, it's development. Cool.
That's sort of the point, isn't it? Developers are here mostly to
scratch their own respective itches -- so, by necessity, we talk about
stuff we care about.
Chris Gianelloni wrote:
If the Gentoo developers as a whole decided to dedicate this list to
pink ponies, we can.
Are pretty purple ponies acceptable as well?
--
Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/
Gentoo Linux Developer
Hey,
On E, 2007-06-18 at 11:34 -0700, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
Also, remember that stabilization is *supposed* to be about the
stabilization of the *ebuild* and not the *package* itself.
This sentence made me personally start looking at the policy in a
different way as far as stabilization and
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Mart Raudsepp wrote:
Hey,
On E, 2007-06-18 at 11:34 -0700, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
Also, remember that stabilization is *supposed* to be about the
stabilization of the *ebuild* and not the *package* itself.
This sentence made me personally
Andrew Gaffney wrote:
Chris Gianelloni wrote:
If the Gentoo developers as a whole decided to dedicate this list to
pink ponies, we can.
Are pretty purple ponies acceptable as well?
As *everybody* knows, purple ponies aren't pretty.
Well, maybe a little bit.
--
dirtyepic
On Tuesday 19 Jun 2007 4:19:49 am Steve Long wrote:
Er what? Some of us don't wish to be at the mercy of anyone, especially
not some corporation nicking VOIP. That's why we use GNU software.
I don't understand this attitude. Do you really have to bash everything that
you do not use? Do you
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