Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council 2009/2010 - Nominations are now open

2009-06-15 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi again. Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: > Hello fellow developers and users. > > Nominations for the Gentoo Council 2009/2010 are now open for the next > two weeks (until 23:59 UTC, 14/06/2009). The "voting booth" has now opened and his waiting f

[gentoo-dev] Re: Adding Nipper license to the tree

2009-06-15 Thread Duncan
"Tony \"Chainsaw\" Vroon" posted 1245111501.11818.5.ca...@localhost, excerpted below, on Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:18:21 +0100: > On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 00:58 +0100, Mike Auty wrote: >> So I'll leave the source version out of the tree, but I'd like thoughts >> on using RPM as a solution? Also I don't

Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding Nipper license to the tree

2009-06-15 Thread Tony "Chainsaw" Vroon
On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 00:58 +0100, Mike Auty wrote: > So I'll leave the source version out of the tree, but I'd like thoughts > on using RPM as a solution? Also I don't know whether an exception > could be made for Gentoo, but equally I don't know how to phrase one of > them either (Gentoo Foundat

Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding Nipper license to the tree

2009-06-15 Thread Mike Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robin H. Johnson wrote: > The website stills says GPL v3: > http://nipper.titania.co.uk/licensing.php Yep, the website's going to be updated for version 1.0 (with the license change). > ... I can't really comment on a lot of this, unfortunately. >

[gentoo-dev] Re: Versioned use flags and preferencing (eg. qt3 / qt4 on same package)

2009-06-15 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, AllenJB : > Do packages that can use both/all always use both/all? No, app-editors/emacs(-cvs) will chose GTK+ above all others (Motif, Athena) if USE=gtk is specified. This is in compliance with upstream's wishes to have GTK+ as the default. Otherwise we order by usefulness from our poin

[gentoo-dev] Re: [packagekit] Inviting you to project "PackageMap"

2009-06-15 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, Sebastian Pipping : > > I am convinced the project will be more viable if people can choose > > their level of contribution. Many developers just won't care enough > > to take the extra hassle. > > Agreed. However, I don't see a huge difference in level of > extra hassle. The most difficul

Re: [gentoo-dev] [gsoc-status] portage backend for PackageKit

2009-06-15 Thread Petteri Räty
Mounir Lamouri wrote: > > So, where are we right now ? > The planning says "every basic features should be done June 15th". > Actually, I still have to do 2 features : list update candidates and do > update. Every other basic features (install, remove, sync, details, dep, > reverse-dep, groups, ..

[gentoo-dev] [gsoc-status] portage backend for PackageKit

2009-06-15 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Hi, I'm working on a portage backend for PackageKit [1]. As I did not really present my project, you have to know PackageKit is an universal (distribution-wide) package manager. To do so, every package manager which wants to work with PackageKit have to follow an api. PackageKit is compatible wi

Re: [packagekit] [gentoo-dev] Inviting you to project "PackageMap"

2009-06-15 Thread Petteri Räty
Sebastian Pipping wrote: > > > Can I have a few more voices on this?: Would you clearly feel more > comfortable and motivated to contribute to PackageMap if it works > at your distro's source package? > You are somewhat missing the point. My point is that most developers probably don't want to

Re: [packagekit] [gentoo-dev] Inviting you to project "PackageMap"

2009-06-15 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Robert Buchholz wrote: > The consumers of the PackageMap will always only use the central > database. I'm not sure about that. I rather assume it will happen. Especially use ignoring the substitution map. > I am convinced the project will be more viable if people can choose > their level of c

Re: [packagekit] [gentoo-dev] Inviting you to project "PackageMap"

2009-06-15 Thread Robert Buchholz
On Monday 15 June 2009, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > However there are a few more things to take into account, > please have a look at my reply to Paul: > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/popcon-developers/2009-June/ >001759.html > > Sorry for not CC'ing you, I should have though of that. > >

Re: [packagekit] [gentoo-dev] Inviting you to project "PackageMap"

2009-06-15 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Robert Buchholz wrote: > On Saturday 13 June 2009, Sebastian Pipping wrote: >> One of the stronger points for collaborating at the source is that >> poeple who are not Gentoo devs (yet) and therefore have no write >> access to the Gentoo tree can still extend and fix the Gentoo >> packagemap entrie

Re: [gentoo-dev] Versioned use flags and preferencing (eg. qt3 / qt4 on same package)

2009-06-15 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:48:03 +0100 AllenJB wrote: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=274197 > > The above bug brings up 2 issues: > > First, hplip says one thing, but does another with qt3 and qt4 > use-based dependencies. This is obviously a bug that needs to be > fixed. > > As a user,

[gentoo-dev] Versioned use flags and preferencing (eg. qt3 / qt4 on same package)

2009-06-15 Thread AllenJB
Hi all, https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=274197 The above bug brings up 2 issues: First, hplip says one thing, but does another with qt3 and qt4 use-based dependencies. This is obviously a bug that needs to be fixed. As a user, the second issue it brings up for me is what is the polic

Re: [packagekit] [gentoo-dev] Inviting you to project "PackageMap"

2009-06-15 Thread Robert Buchholz
On Saturday 13 June 2009, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > One of the stronger points for collaborating at the source is that > poeple who are not Gentoo devs (yet) and therefore have no write > access to the Gentoo tree can still extend and fix the Gentoo > packagemap entries. Doing it downstream would