Re: [gentoo-dev] showing file diffs as root

2010-05-31 Thread Francesco R
why not make a temporary copy of the files with appropriate permission, send a message the application the user originally opened to diff the files, then apply the user modified file and cleanup the $tmpdir? This would leave the user the possibility to choose whatever application she want to do

Re: [gentoo-dev] showing file diffs as root

2010-05-31 Thread Gilles Dartiguelongue
Le dimanche 30 mai 2010 à 10:59 -0400, Christopher Harvey a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello gentoo-dev, I'm working on an app for GSoC that needs to show a diff of two files to the user. Right now I've just been calling meld from the python os.system call. I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [Survey || RFC] autotools-utils.eclass

2010-05-31 Thread Maciej Mrozowski
On Wednesday 26 of May 2010 19:27:43 Mike Frysinger wrote: On Wednesday 26 May 2010 05:38:00 Maciej Mrozowski wrote: I've updated documentation, added example usage and option to keep libtool files (ltdl.so supposedly needs those as I was told, no idea what for). more applicable to us

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] toolchain-funcs.eclass: functions to call compiler

2010-05-31 Thread Michał Górny
Hello, As suggested by j...@g.o in bug #321165, I would like to raise a proposal on extending toolchain-funcs.eclass with helper functions to compile applications directly. There are many simple applications which come without neither a sophisticated build system or even a tiny Makefile. In some

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] toolchain-funcs.eclass: functions to call compiler

2010-05-31 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 31 May 2010 21:12:46 +0200 Michał Górny gen...@mgorny.alt.pl wrote: * media-sound/wavegain - ${LDFLAGS} before ${CFLAGS}, '-o' after sources, defines after '-o', Just curious why you're pointing out the ordering of options. As far as I know it doesn't matter (except some LDFLAGS

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] toolchain-funcs.eclass: functions to call compiler

2010-05-31 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 31 May 2010 20:11:22 -0600 Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, 31 May 2010 21:12:46 +0200 Michał Górny gen...@mgorny.alt.pl wrote: * media-sound/wavegain - ${LDFLAGS} before ${CFLAGS}, '-o' after sources, defines after '-o', Just curious why you're pointing out

[gentoo-dev] Council 201006 elections

2010-05-31 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello fellow developers and remaining community. We've arrived at that time of the year again in which we elect a new Council into office. Here are the details for the Council 201006 elections: * nominations: June 5th to 18th * voting: June 20th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council 201006 elections

2010-05-31 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 02:46:50AM +, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: the election officials. You can send them an e-mail Correct address is (elections at gentoo dot org) -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee Infrastructure Lead E-Mail : robb...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP