Re: [gentoo-dev] Non-free software in Gentoo

2009-12-31 Thread Richard Freeman
On 12/30/2009 11:48 PM, Greg KH wrote: Heh, no, it does not, unless your BIOS, and your keyboard firmware, and your mouse firmware are all under a free license. The only thing close to this type of machine is the OLPC, and even then, I don't think all the microcode for the box was ever

Re: [gentoo-dev] Qt3 deprecation and removal policy

2009-12-31 Thread Richard Freeman
On 12/30/2009 12:14 PM, Ben de Groot wrote: 2010-01-21: * Qt team meeting: discuss actions to be taken regarding remaining pkgs that use qt:3 2010-02-21: * mask qt:3 and depending ebuilds, pending removal 30 days isn't a long time. How about filing bugs against anything that currently

Re: [gentoo-dev] Qt3 deprecation and removal policy

2009-12-31 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 12/31/2009 02:39 PM, Richard Freeman wrote: On 12/30/2009 12:14 PM, Ben de Groot wrote: 2010-01-21: * Qt team meeting: discuss actions to be taken regarding remaining pkgs that use qt:3 2010-02-21: * mask qt:3 and depending ebuilds, pending removal 30 days isn't a long time. How

[gentoo-dev] Re: Qt3 deprecation and removal policy

2009-12-31 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org: Just saying... Please track progress somehow. I know it is a lot of work, but makes understanding the process easier. V-Li -- Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Qt3 deprecation and removal policy

2009-12-31 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 12/31/2009 03:13 PM, Christian Faulhammer wrote: Hi, Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org: Just saying... Please track progress somehow. I know it is a lot of work, but makes understanding the process easier. V-Li It's been done in,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Qt3 deprecation and removal policy

2009-12-31 Thread Richard Freeman
On 12/31/2009 08:24 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 12/31/2009 03:13 PM, Christian Faulhammer wrote: Hi, Samuli Suominenssuomi...@gentoo.org: Just saying... Please track progress somehow. I know it is a lot of work, but makes understanding the process easier. V-Li It's been done in,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Qt3 deprecation and removal policy

2009-12-31 Thread Richard Freeman
On 12/31/2009 07:51 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: Stable MythTV has more issues than just Qt3, as the current stable doesn't compile anymore, http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=280303 which is about to get masked tomorrow with kdelibs-3... Those of us who run it wouldn't mind seeing a

[gentoo-dev] Re: Qt3 deprecation and removal policy

2009-12-31 Thread Mark Bateman
Ben de Groot yngwin at gentoo.org writes: As announced 5 months ago[1], Gentoo's Qt team now officially deprecates usage of x11-libs/qt:3 and packages depending on this version of Qt. # Policy for remaining ebuilds depending on qt:3 # * if Qt3 optional, remove this option * if Qt4

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Qt3 deprecation and removal policy

2009-12-31 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 12/31/2009 03:38 PM, Richard Freeman wrote: On 12/31/2009 08:24 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: It's been done in, http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=292791 That is for kdelibs-3.5 - not for qt-3. However, it wouldn't shock me True, it's linked to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Qt3 deprecation and removal policy

2009-12-31 Thread Maciej Mrozowski
On Thursday 31 of December 2009 14:43:54 Mark Bateman wrote: Ben de Groot yngwin at gentoo.org writes: As announced 5 months ago[1], Gentoo's Qt team now officially deprecates usage of x11-libs/qt:3 and packages depending on this version of Qt. # Policy for remaining ebuilds

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Qt3 deprecation and removal policy

2009-12-31 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 31-12-2009 13:10, Maciej Mrozowski wrote: On Thursday 31 of December 2009 14:43:54 Mark Bateman wrote: Ben de Groot yngwin at gentoo.org writes: As announced 5 months ago[1], Gentoo's Qt team now officially deprecates usage of x11-libs/qt:3 and

[gentoo-dev] package up for grabs (almost everything in the livecd herd)

2009-12-31 Thread Andrew Gaffney
[I'm resending this, because I never saw it come through last week.] In the olden days, the livecd herd was basically wolf31o2 and covered any packages that releng had a passing interest in, even if not directly used during the release building process. Since wolf31o2 retired over a year ago,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Qt3 deprecation and removal policy

2009-12-31 Thread Ben de Groot
2009/12/31 Richard Freeman ri...@gentoo.org: 30 days isn't a long time.  How about filing bugs against anything that currently uses qt3 right away, so that maintainers have an extra three weeks to resolve these issues?  Granted, one would hope they've been paying attention. We've already

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Qt3 deprecation and removal policy

2009-12-31 Thread Ben de Groot
2009/12/31 Maciej Mrozowski reave...@gmail.com: On Thursday 31 of December 2009 14:43:54 Mark Bateman wrote: QUCS is a qt3 only application. This is a fantastic electrical simulation package and is in active developement. There is a svn branch for the qt4 port but it isn't there yet.

Re: [gentoo-dev] package up for grabs (almost everything in the livecd herd)

2009-12-31 Thread Dror Levin
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 16:55, Andrew Gaffney agaff...@gentoo.org wrote: app-arch/pbzip2 - We pondered using it at some point to take advantage of all the shiny new multi-proc boxes that releng and its members had laying around I'll take pbzip2. -- Dror Levin

Re: [gentoo-dev] package up for grabs (almost everything in the livecd herd)

2009-12-31 Thread justin
On 31/12/09 15:55, Andrew Gaffney wrote: app-admin/pwgen - This is used by the LiveCD to generate a random password. It looks like upstream hasn't touched this since it was last bumped in the tree. I would take this one. Jeremy, would you proxy me the next time? signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-dev] package up for grabs (almost everything in the livecd herd)

2009-12-31 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Andrew Gaffney agaff...@gentoo.org wrote: If you are interested in any of the below packages, feel free to steal it (and change the maintainer and herd bit in the metadata.xml). dev-python/pyparted - Used by the now defunct GLI This has also not been updated

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: clutter.eclass -- new eclass for packages related to Clutter

2009-12-31 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Christian Faulhammer fa...@gentoo.org wrote: Nirbheek Chauhan nirbh...@gentoo.org: The eclass is attached, and is very simple, consisting of just SRC_URI, DEPEND, LICENSE, DOCS, and src_install.  No objections. Thanks to you (and the silent reviewers) for

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Election for the Gentoo Council empty seat

2009-12-31 Thread Luca Barbato
On 12/20/2009 11:43 PM, Fabian Groffen wrote: On 15-12-2009 23:57:41 -0100, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: nomination: December 17th to 30th voting: January 1st to 14th To nominate anyone for the empty seat, please send an email to the gentoo-dev ml. Anyone can nominate for the Council,

[gentoo-dev] Election for the Gentoo Council empty seat - nominations closed and voting delayed 24 hours

2009-12-31 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello again. The nominations for the empty seat in the Council were closed 20 hours ago. All the details about this election can be found in the Council Elections Archives[1]. The information about the nominees can be seen in the 200912 nominees[2]

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles: use.local.desc

2009-12-31 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 01/01/2010 12:07 AM, Robin H. Johnson (robbat2) wrote: +app-accessibility/flite:alsa - use alsa for audio output. +app-accessibility/flite:oss - Use Open Sound System for audio output. Why? USE alsa and oss are global flags.

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] can an overlay force a USE flag on a host?

2009-12-31 Thread Zac Medico
On 12/31/2009 11:57 AM, Zac Medico wrote: Other than IUSE defaults, the only way is to create a /etc/make.profile directory and list multiple profiles in the parent file. I forgot the mention that as a workaround for bug 238887 you might check for the required USE combination in pkg_setup and