[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo stats server/client @ 2009-08-22

2009-08-25 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, Sebastian Pipping : > Christian Faulhammer wrote: > > That's a nice starting point to have a look if they aren't installed > > they are unpopular or because they fail to build (which makes them a > > candidate for removal). > > I'm not following - how would we find out about the reason a pac

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo stats server/client @ 2009-08-22

2009-08-25 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Christian Faulhammer wrote: > That's a nice starting point to have a look if they aren't installed > they are unpopular or because they fail to build (which makes them a > candidate for removal). I'm not following - how would we find out about the reason a package is never reported installed? I'

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA last rites for media-tv/linuxtv-dvb-firmware

2009-08-25 Thread Matthias Schwarzott
On Dienstag, 25. August 2009, Diego E. Pettenò wrote: > # Diego E. Pettenò (25 Aug 2009) > # on behalf of QA team > # > # Fails to fetch since June 2007 (bug #181908), that's over > # two years ago. > # > # Removal on 2009-10-24 > media-tv/linuxtv-dvb-firmware Only some of the many possible firm

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI 3 and "nonfatal die"

2009-08-25 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:21:46 +0200 "Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" wrote: > What is the reason that we are trying to generalize non-fatal from a > simple switch to a full-blown primitive that should handle whatever > it's thrown? We aren't. nonfatal is done as a prefix rather than a --switch for the sa

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI 3 and "nonfatal die"

2009-08-25 Thread Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christian Faulhammer wrote: > Hi, > > Ryan Hill : > >> On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:56:41 +0100 >> David Leverton wrote: >> >>> Does anyone have any opinions on which of the four options (#1 >>> make die respect nonfatal, #2 make die always die, #3 add a

[gentoo-dev] QA last rites for media-tv/linuxtv-dvb-firmware

2009-08-25 Thread Diego E . Pettenò
# Diego E. Pettenò (25 Aug 2009) # on behalf of QA team # # Fails to fetch since June 2007 (bug #181908), that's over # two years ago. # # Removal on 2009-10-24 media-tv/linuxtv-dvb-firmware