Re: [gentoo-dev] Seeking questions for a user survey

2008-01-15 Thread Galevsky
On Jan 15, 2008 4:05 AM, Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was really speaking mostly of the people who dislike the *idea* of an Installer for Gentoo, and then go and bash it as much as they can without providing any real evidence or reasons, except for the old faithful it's against

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-misc/zaptel: ChangeLog zaptel-1.2.22.1-r1.ebuild

2008-01-15 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 15 January 2008, Donnie Berkholz wrote: On 05:34 Tue 15 Jan , Rajiv Aaron Manglani (rajiv) wrote: 1.1 net-misc/zaptel/zaptel-1.2.22.1-r1.ebuild file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/net-misc/zaptel/zaptel-1.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Seeking questions for a user survey

2008-01-15 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 14 January 2008, likewhoa wrote: On Jan 15, 2008 12:16 AM, Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 22:53 +, likewhoa wrote: Which livecd(s) do they prefer? Gentoo livecd-2007.0 Sabayon livecd Sysresccd Knoppix My own Other

Re: [gentoo-dev] Seeking questions for a user survey

2008-01-15 Thread Marius Mauch
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:33:48 -0800 Robin H. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, so per the one discussion in #-dev this evening, I'm looking for questions to put on a new user survey. For style of questions, multiple choice (both pick-one and pick-many) or simple integers would be best.

[gentoo-dev] [Last rites]: net-libs/dclibc

2008-01-15 Thread Raúl Porcel
# Raúl Porcel armin76 at gentoo dot org (15 Jan 2008) # Pending removal 15 Feb 2008, upstream discontinued the software # Unstable, old net-libs/dclibc -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Projects and subproject status

2008-01-15 Thread Luis Francisco Araujo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, A brief summary about the Gentoo GUIs project: 1 - Markus (jokey) recently released a new version of Maintainer-Helper. It already has the basic operations running and some people are working in a Gtk+ port.

[gentoo-dev] Introducing new lead for xfce herd and project.

2008-01-15 Thread Samuli Suominen
Since dostrow is being retired or is retired, correct me if I'm wrong we decided (actually we rolled dices :-) that welp is the new lead. - drac -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing new lead for xfce herd and project.

2008-01-15 Thread Peter Weller
Yay for dice! :D On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 00:06 +0200, Samuli Suominen wrote: Since dostrow is being retired or is retired, correct me if I'm wrong we decided (actually we rolled dices :-) that welp is the new lead. - drac signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing new lead for xfce herd and project.

2008-01-15 Thread Patrick Ohearn
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Peter Weller wrote: Yay for dice! :D On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 00:06 +0200, Samuli Suominen wrote: Since dostrow is being retired or is retired, correct me if I'm wrong we decided (actually we rolled dices :-) that welp is the new lead. - drac Congrats welp, so

[gentoo-dev] Re: USE flag documentation

2008-01-15 Thread Ryan Hill
Mark Loeser wrote: Ryan Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: a) Keep use.desc as it is: a list of common flags and a short general description of their meaning. Sounds good. b) Keep use.local.desc as it is: a list of per-package flags that are specific to one to a few ebuilds (i think 5 is the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing new lead for xfce herd and project.

2008-01-15 Thread Peter Weller
Not much. Aside from the continuation of my plans for world domination! (Oops, did I mention that in public? :o) Night night dears! :P On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 08:50 +1000, Patrick Ohearn wrote: On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Peter Weller wrote: Yay for dice! :D On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 00:06 +0200,

[gentoo-dev] Re: USE flag documentation

2008-01-15 Thread Ryan Hill
Vlastimil Babka wrote: Ryan Hill wrote: What do people think of this? a) Keep use.desc as it is: a list of common flags and a short general description of their meaning. Good. b) Keep use.local.desc as it is: a list of per-package flags that are specific to one to a few ebuilds (i think

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing new lead for xfce herd and project.

2008-01-15 Thread Raúl Porcel
Samuli Suominen wrote: Since dostrow is being retired or is retired, correct me if I'm wrong we decided (actually we rolled dices :-) that welp is the new lead. - drac You're kidding... -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing new lead for xfce herd and project.

2008-01-15 Thread Daniel Ostrow
On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 00:06 +0200, Samuli Suominen wrote: Since dostrow is being retired or is retired, correct me if I'm wrong we decided (actually we rolled dices :-) that welp is the new lead. Not really retired, just not doing ebuild work anymore (only doing events management for LWE and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Available hardware

2008-01-15 Thread Daniel Ostrow
On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 16:25 -0800, Daniel Ostrow wrote: All: As I am no longer an ebuild dev (real life job got in the way) I have a whole slew of hardware that I'm willing to ship to any gentoo dev for the cost of shipping alone. The list of hardware is as follows: 1x HP C3700 750 MHz

Re: [gentoo-dev] Available hardware

2008-01-15 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:25:21 -0800 Daniel Ostrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If anyone is interested contact me off list. I live in northern California for shipping reference. That counts all Europeans out, I guess. Shipping is horrendous across the Pond, even to the UK, let alone the hop across

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: USE flag documentation

2008-01-15 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 17:00 -0600, Ryan Hill wrote: My expectation is that `grep flag use.local.desc` will give me a list of packages using that flag (or having it in the description), one per line. Putting paragraphs in there doesn't seem right. A single long line still fills this requirement

Re: [gentoo-dev] Available hardware

2008-01-15 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 16:25 -0800, Daniel Ostrow wrote: 1x HP ZX2000 1.4 GHz Itanium2 I know that you said off-list, but I'm stating this here simply because I want to make sure people know that I have dibs if this meets my needs. Can this box be upgraded to SMP? If not, I rescind my dibs

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: USE flag documentation

2008-01-15 Thread Alec Warner
On 1/15/08, Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 17:00 -0600, Ryan Hill wrote: My expectation is that `grep flag use.local.desc` will give me a list of packages using that flag (or having it in the description), one per line. Putting paragraphs in there doesn't

Re: [gentoo-dev] Available hardware

2008-01-15 Thread Daniel Ostrow
On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 18:27 -0800, Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 16:25 -0800, Daniel Ostrow wrote: 1x HP ZX2000 1.4 GHz Itanium2 I know that you said off-list, but I'm stating this here simply because I want to make sure people know that I have dibs if this meets my needs.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Available hardware

2008-01-15 Thread Jeremy Huddleston
Hey Dan, You don't happen to have IRIX discs for the Octane2 do you? I have an O2, and I wanted to install IRIX on it to test some stuff out, but I lost the disks and SGI wants $450 to send me new ones (yikes!). On Jan 15, 2008, at 16:25, Daniel Ostrow wrote: All: As I am no longer an

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: USE flag documentation

2008-01-15 Thread Mark Loeser
Ryan Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Mark Loeser wrote: Ryan Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: c) Allow flags from use.desc to also exist in use.local.desc. In the case that a flag for a package exists in both, the use.local.desc description overrides the use.desc one. This allows a more specific