Re: [gentoo-dev] dedicated USE-flag is inconsequent and confusing

2008-05-15 Thread Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Albert Zeyer wrote: | Hi! [snip] | So, what do you think? I think it makes no sense to have a no-server no-gui option, so this just doesn't map cleanly to our binary use flag system. Marijn - -- Marijn Schouten (hkBst), Gentoo Lisp project,

Re: [gentoo-dev] dedicated USE-flag is inconsequent and confusing

2008-05-15 Thread Benedikt Morbach
I think it should be made consistent or it should be turned into a local use flag. no-* or *-only flag don't make sense in my opinion, because you can get the same with: -gui instead of nogui (maybe -gtk/-qt4/-kde or something would be even better) -* server instead of server-only (sure, this can

Re: [gentoo-dev] dedicated USE-flag is inconsequent and confusing

2008-05-15 Thread Albert Zeyer
On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 15:42 +0200, Benedikt Morbach wrote: I think it should be made consistent or it should be turned into a local use flag. no-* or *-only flag don't make sense in my opinion, because you can get the same with: -gui instead of nogui (maybe -gtk/-qt4/-kde or something would

[gentoo-dev] Spring clean package.mask, please.

2008-05-15 Thread Samuli Suominen
If you have a entry in package.mask for removal, please do so now. If you want treecleaners to handle it, please state so. Already cleaned up quite a bit today, and yeah.. it will surely look bad in GMN ;-) Thanks, Samuli -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Spring clean package.mask, please.

2008-05-15 Thread Andrey Grozin
Samuli Suominen wrote: If you have a entry in package.mask for removal, please do so now. If you want treecleaners to handle it, please state so. Already cleaned up quite a bit today, and yeah.. it will surely look bad in GMN ;-) I'd propose to update dev-python/visual to the current beta

Re: [gentoo-dev] Special meeting [WAS: Council meeting summary for 8 May 2008]

2008-05-15 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 16:33 Thu 08 May , Donnie Berkholz wrote: Enforced retirement: After 2.5 hours on the previous topics, people had to go to sleep and jokey's computer broke. Instead of waiting till the next regular meeting, because of its urgency, we scheduled a special session next week at the same

[gentoo-dev] last rites for net-dialup/{mclient,mserver,linesrv,xlc}

2008-05-15 Thread Alin Năstac
Packages in $subj will be removed in 30 days because: - upstream is dead (for years in the case of the first 2 packages) - I don't think they have even one gentoo user (who would be crazy enough to install gentoo while using a dialup connection?) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

[gentoo-dev] Re: dedicated USE-flag is inconsequent and confusing

2008-05-15 Thread Duncan
Albert Zeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 15 May 2008 16:24:10 +0200: I also don't like no* USE-flags that much. But there are already a lot available. I thought they were introduced because it's most probable that you want to have the specific support