[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Adding two USE flags to 2008.0's profiles

2008-02-02 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If adding bluetooth seems to be a bit much, how about just the usb USE flag? After all, my UPS won't work with apcupsd without USE=usb on my server... ;] I don't know how badly needed bluetooth is (no need here), but I remember we had to mask

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Changes to some profiles

2008-02-02 Thread Rémi Cardona
Vlastimil Babka a écrit : How about just some elog If you use make install, emerge --noreplace debianutils in the kernel's postinst or something. Bellow is my contribution to this thread :) Cheers, Rémi --- kernel-2.eclass 2007-12-17 17:06:02.0 +0100 +++ kernel-2.eclass

[gentoo-dev] Re: Changes to some profiles

2008-02-02 Thread Duncan
Vlastimil Babka [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 02:55:12 +0100: How about just some elog If you use make install, emerge --noreplace debianutils in the kernel's postinst or something. Well, that doesn't help those who get their kernels

Re: [gentoo-dev] debianutils: system worthy ?

2008-02-02 Thread Natanael Copa
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 08:54 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Friday 01 February 2008, Natanael Copa wrote: On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 18:46 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Thursday 31 January 2008, Natanael Copa wrote: ... I can create a bug on this so we get rid of both perl and debianutils

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2008 Google Summer of Code

2008-02-02 Thread George Prowse
Richard Freeman wrote: George Prowse wrote: How does the SoC work within Gentoo? Do the developers suggest things they want worked on or do the users suggest things, the developers okay it and then they get worked on or what? I think the good ideas matter more than who came up with them!

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Adding two USE flags to 2008.0's profiles

2008-02-02 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 09:45 +0100, Christian Faulhammer wrote: Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If adding bluetooth seems to be a bit much, how about just the usb USE flag? After all, my UPS won't work with apcupsd without USE=usb on my server... ;] I don't know how badly needed

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Changes to some profiles

2008-02-02 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 09:45 +, Duncan wrote: How about just some elog If you use make install, emerge --noreplace debianutils in the kernel's postinst or something. Well, that doesn't help those who get their kernels elsewhere, which IMO are the ones most likely to have their own

[gentoo-dev] Re: Changes to some profiles

2008-02-02 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If I don't hear any complaints, I'd like to go ahead and get a GMN article together. Good to go in my eyes... Do we really need a front-page news item for this? I don't think the impact would be terribly great, as I suspect this affects a very

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Changes to some profiles

2008-02-02 Thread Vlastimil Babka
Chris Gianelloni wrote: Do we really need a front-page news item for this? I don't think the impact would be terribly great, as I suspect this affects a very small number of people whom are likely to be more advanced users. I think adding the info to GMN/gentoo-dev-announce/gentoo-user should

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Adding two USE flags to 2008.0's profiles

2008-02-02 Thread Brent Baude
Chris Gianelloni wrote: I'm thinking of adding both the bluetooth and usb USE flags to the 2008.0 profiles for amd64/x86. I'll be adding just usb for everybody else, unless they want bluetooth, also. So why am I asking about this? Well, I'm wanting to add it to the 2008.0 profiles, not the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Changes to some profiles

2008-02-02 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 14:21 +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote: Chris Gianelloni wrote: Do we really need a front-page news item for this? I don't think the impact would be terribly great, as I suspect this affects a very small number of people whom are likely to be more advanced users. I think

[gentoo-dev] Developer Relations changes

2008-02-02 Thread Chrissy Fullam
We've seen a lot of change in Gentoo recently and the Developer Relations team is no exception. We have reviewed our policy for the resolution of conflicts, found it to be in need of improvement, and have taken this opportunity to reorganize ourselves, as well. The Conflict Resolution project has

[gentoo-dev] Re: Changes to some profiles

2008-02-02 Thread Duncan
Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 04:45:53 -0800: Well, we can hold off adding it to the actual tree until after the next GMN, so that's not really an issue. My main question was if there was any opposition, and it appears that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Adding two USE flags to 2008.0's profiles

2008-02-02 Thread Petteri Räty
Chris Gianelloni kirjoitti: Understandable, bluetooth isn't the most mature thing in Linux. It tends to either work or it doesn't. Actually bluetooth support is in quite a good shape. The thing was there was a urgent need to get bluez-utils-3* stable for which I need some doc updates etc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Changes to some profiles

2008-02-02 Thread Marius Mauch
On Sat, 02 Feb 2008 09:50:21 +0100 Rémi Cardona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vlastimil Babka a écrit : How about just some elog If you use make install, emerge --noreplace debianutils in the kernel's postinst or something. Bellow is my contribution to this thread :) Cheers, Rémi

[gentoo-dev] I want to steal your tools

2008-02-02 Thread Alec Warner
So it seems to me that we have tons of tools out there that people have writtten and we need to aggregrate and document them. I don't care necessarily how shitty they are, how old they are, what language they are in, or even who wrote them. I care that they are open source or public domain; that

Re: [gentoo-dev] I want to steal your tools

2008-02-02 Thread Hans de Graaff
On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 22:54 -0800, Alec Warner wrote: So reply with a URL pointing at your tool*. For XEmacs there is the pebuild script which tracks upstreams packages and automatically bumps ebuilds for them when newer versions are available:

[gentoo-dev] Re: I want to steal your tools

2008-02-02 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So reply with a URL pointing at your tool*. Please don't attach your tool to the email as that would make our mail server sad. If you need space; e-mail your tool to me (not the list) and I will host it somewhere. URL:http://gatt.sourceforge.net/ is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Adding two USE flags to 2008.0's profiles

2008-02-02 Thread Josh Saddler
Petteri Räty wrote: Actually bluetooth support is in quite a good shape. The thing was there was a urgent need to get bluez-utils-3* stable for which I need some doc updates etc before it can go stable. (Yes I am a slacker there) Doc updates? GDP hasn't heard anything about this, as far as I

Re: [gentoo-dev] I want to steal your tools

2008-02-02 Thread Josh Saddler
Alec Warner wrote: s/writtten/written s/aggregrate/aggregate s/genitellia/genitalia app-doc/nightmorph, your spellchecking tool. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] Auto-select slots based on system configuration

2008-02-02 Thread Daniel Barkalow
It seems to me like there are a number of things that should be able to hint that you want some particular slots of particular packages, such that --depclean doesn't remove them and emerge world updates them. For example, it shouldn't remove the version of gentoo-sources that your