[gentoo-dev] Re: Last Rites on slots (was: Re: Last Rites - August 27th - September 2nd 2007)

2007-09-04 Thread Steve Long
Lars Weiler wrote: Think about apache1, php4, KDE-3, gcc-2.95, etc. IMHO they are worth being announced in the last rites section, probably along with a nice upgrade-guide. ++ A slot definitely is equivalent to a package from user/code perspective; eg if gtk-1 were removed. -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Graphical User Interfaces Project

2007-09-04 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 04:53 Mon 03 Sep , Luis Francisco Araujo wrote: Our main idea is to develop and collect all the necessary applications to offer GUI's (keeping Gentoo flexibility) for most of our system tasks, offering an alternative for those users who like these kind of interfaces. Please keep in mind

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] udev rules cleanup / merging rules files with other distros

2007-09-04 Thread Matthias Schwarzott
Hi there! As you all know up to now we have our very own rules file 50-udev.rules This is good for getting our specials - but bad from maintainance view. So here we are: In udev git-gtree suse and redhat rules are already merged. But they use a different permission / group system than we have,

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Graphical User Interfaces Project

2007-09-04 Thread Steve Long
Luis Francisco Araujo wrote: himerge is not really new ; it's been around for a good while now. Its name stands for 'Haskell Interface for Emerge' ; plus i think some of those GUI's you are mentioning didn't exist when i started himerge or they don't offer all that himerge does.

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Adding /etc/udev/rules.d/ to CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK

2007-09-04 Thread Matthias Schwarzott
On Samstag, 1. September 2007, Matthias Schwarzott wrote: On Samstag, 1. September 2007, Daniel Drake wrote: I like the idea of adding this to CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK. Ok seems we should do this! Next udev ebuild will add rules directory to CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK. I also tested now what happens

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Graphical User Interfaces Project

2007-09-04 Thread Luis Francisco Araujo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Donnie Berkholz wrote: On 04:53 Mon 03 Sep , Luis Francisco Araujo wrote: Our main idea is to develop and collect all the necessary applications to offer GUI's (keeping Gentoo flexibility) for most of our system tasks, offering an alternative

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last Rites on slots (was: Re: Last Rites - August 27th - September 2nd 2007)

2007-09-04 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 07:49 +0200, Lars Weiler wrote: * Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] [07/09/02 19:11 -0500]: I'm not so sure. The last rites have historically always been for complete removals of a package from the tree. Is there any reason to change it? Just removing an older version

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] udev rules cleanup / merging rules files with other distros

2007-09-04 Thread RĂ©mi Cardona
Maybe some of those groups could be merged (cdrom, cdrw) or dropped (tape maybe?) Having usb devices as root:root 644 is going to be a PITA if we don't have something like a sane pam_console (one that doesn't change all /dev nodes whenever someone logs in over ssh, like the one we used to have