[gentoo-dev] License group proposal: @BINARY-REDISTRIBUTABLE

2009-10-22 Thread Robin H. Johnson
As an extension of the October trustees meeting, the Ten team enquired about license usage for including firmware and binary-source material on the media they were producing. The items they wanted were fine, but I realize that it's a more general issue, that is solved well by GLEP23. I'd like to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: News item for default-linux removal (bug #287976)

2009-10-22 Thread Samuli Suominen
Duncan wrote: Samuli Suominen posted on Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:00:43 +0300 as excerpted: If a machine is not migrated to a new valid profile then emerge will have very limited functionality. If a machine is not migrated to a new valid profile before the deprecated profiles are removed,

Re: [gentoo-dev] License group proposal: @BINARY-REDISTRIBUTABLE

2009-10-22 Thread Sebastian Pipping
My vote for it, sounds reasonable. Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-dev] Support for multiple ABIs for amd64 (64bit,32bit) in multilib overlay

2009-10-22 Thread Thomas Sachau
Mike Frysinger schrieb: On Monday 19 October 2009 16:59:55 Thomas Sachau wrote: Mike Frysinger schrieb: the majority of the time, the compiler driver (i.e. `gcc`) should be used for linking. very few packages should invoke the linker directly. that is why currently the toolchain-func.eclass

Re: [gentoo-dev] Support for multiple ABIs for amd64 (64bit,32bit) in multilib overlay

2009-10-22 Thread Thomas Sachau
Mike Frysinger schrieb: On Sunday 18 October 2009 14:46:07 Thomas Sachau wrote: Mike Frysinger schrieb: another quick look at _setup_abi_env() looks like it needs work: - LD should not default to `ld` Whats your suggestion? the majority of the time, the compiler driver (i.e. `gcc`) should

[gentoo-dev] [Last rites]: sys-kernel/sh-sources

2009-10-22 Thread Raúl Porcel
# Raúl Porcel armi...@gentoo.org (22 Oct 2009) # Not needed anymore, vanilla kernel works # pretty well on SH nowadays. # Removal in 30 days sys-kernel/sh-sources

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: News item for default-linux removal (bug #287976)

2009-10-22 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 10:52 Wed 21 Oct , Alec Warner wrote: I'm trying to avoid using 'you' in the announcement which is why all the rewording. I encourage informal language and speaking directly to the users. Use of you and we helps us to better connect with users through the documentation. It also has the