Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: What are blocks used for?

2008-04-16 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:59:26 +0200 Mateusz A. Mierzwiński [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just want to know that Gentoo will be usable for me and my client's that I provide Gentoo Linux support. I recommending Gentoo whatever I can, but when I see what happens than I starting to worry. If you

[OT] Re: [gentoo-dev] Keyword request interface (SoC candidate?)

2008-02-29 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:49:25 -0500 Richard Freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cringe when I see a stable request for some dialup networking package - I doubt many devs even own modems these days. I do own few modems, but alas, no phone line to hook them up to. :) -- Andrej Ticho Kacian

Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages of for grabs

2007-09-06 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 23:03:39 +0200 Cédric Krier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 05/09/07 22:48 +0200, Andrej Kacian wrote: On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 20:08:29 +0200 Christian Heim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - app-admin/psmon (mcummings) - net-im/bitlbee (weeve) I'll take these two

Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages of for grabs

2007-09-05 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 20:08:29 +0200 Christian Heim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - app-admin/psmon (mcummings) - net-im/bitlbee (weeve) I'll take these two unless someone else wants them more. Regards, -- Andrej Ticho Kacian ticho at gentoo dot org Gentoo Linux Developer - net-mail, antivirus,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Zombie: Sven Vermeulen (swift)

2007-07-31 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:22:56 +0300 Petteri Räty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your doc zombie Sven Vermeulen has risen from his grave and is back to beat www.gentoo.org/doc/en with his fingers. Give him the usual welcome with nice head shots. Welcome back, Sven. And no, you can't have my brain. I

Re: [gentoo-dev] New (old) Developer: Deedra Waters (dmwaters)

2007-06-05 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 18:08:48 +0200 Christian Heim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's my pleasure to welcome back Deedra Waters (also known as dmwaters on IRC). Deedra is joining us from Pensacola, FL. She is going to work on the accessibility stuff (she is blind), will be re-joining Developer

Re: [gentoo-dev] Planning for automatic assignment of bugs

2007-04-26 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:24:06 -0700 Robin H. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 02:57:59AM +0300, Mart Raudsepp wrote: This is exactly the reason that I proposed the contact=0 attribute - for some of the packages that I maintain, I do not want the bugs assigned

Re: [gentoo-dev] new herd: theology

2007-04-26 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:11:26 -0400 Josh Sled [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: E.g., I don't know what genealogy has to do with theology, but I do see that both relate to the human condition. The fact that Adam and Eve will be found at the beginning of every genealogy graph. Just kidding, just

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-2 and volumes (raid, lvm, crypt, etc)

2007-04-13 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:40:53 +0200 Jan Kundrát [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So just get a beer and be cool, okay? It's friday, after all... No! No beer until my work shift ends! Then I'll join you. -- Andrej -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] genlop-0.30.6 released

2007-04-10 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:28:52 +0200 Timothy Redaelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Imho is a waste of time to maintain two projects which does the same things (genloop and qlop) Perhaps because each has features that the other doesn't (genlop's --date, for example). Also, as long as involved people

Re: [gentoo-dev] [soc] Python bindings for Paludis

2007-03-31 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 20:02:28 +0200 Christopher Covington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The first condition you list is a sort of nativism that I for one would expect not to find in a successful copyleft project created on the Internet. Why should the code Gentoo uses be written by Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] [soc] Python bindings for Paludis

2007-03-31 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 15:24:03 -0400 Seemant Kulleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The point being made, then, is that for an official package manager to exist *for Gentoo*, it needs to be under *Gentoo's* control. Well, the source is open, and there are already enough Gentoo devs working on it, so

Re: [gentoo-dev] [soc] Python bindings for Paludis

2007-03-30 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:55:55 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If Ubuntu or Fedora do the job better then Gentoo has failed in its goal of providing a near-ideal tool... Semantically speaking, it hasn't failed - there's nothing about providing a better (or nearer-ideal) tool than

Re: [gentoo-dev] www-apps/dokuwiki maintainer needed

2007-03-15 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:46:30 +0100 Raphael Marichez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone willing to take care of this package in the future, please update metadata.xml and CC yourself on the bug. Non-vulnerable version is in the tree, and I have added myself to metadata.xml with description Backup

Re: [gentoo-dev] A User's View of the Code of Conduct

2007-03-14 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:47:16 -0500 Larry Lines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So maybe I will stick around and maybe I will find a niche to help out with that I can feel passionately enough to start a flame war. Yes please, by all means, do that (the helping out part, not the flame war part :) ).

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Something positive! (was Re: Client-serve flags (again ;))

2007-03-10 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 12:28:29 -0600 Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thing is that kinda stuff just puts ppl off; i've seen you carry on bugzilla but i always thought fair enough he's stressed and working on loads a bugs; if you really wanted to say that crap to me, you could have

Re: [gentoo-dev] New eclass: gkrellm-plugin

2007-03-08 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 20:02:50 +0200 Petteri Räty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How useful is the X use flag in gkrellm? Just thinking if it would be better to just remove the use flag and always build that code. There is a possibility for headless servers to run gkrellmd, which runs in background,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-04 Thread Andrej Kacian
the dubious official status of Gentoo developership - since when is volunteer work about political (yes, political) status? Just. Drop. It. Regards, -- Andrej Kacian ticho at gentoo org Gentoo Linux developer - net-mail, antivirus, sound, x86 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-04 Thread Andrej Kacian
, because I have packages to maintain and only limited time, which you're already cutting into with your nonsensical notions about boundaries. -- Andrej Kacian ticho at gentoo org Gentoo Linux developer - net-mail, antivirus, sound, x86 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-04 Thread Andrej Kacian
different IMHO. No, in this context it is exactly the same. -- Andrej Kacian ticho at gentoo org Gentoo Linux developer - net-mail, antivirus, sound, x86 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: What do you think about removing gtk-1.2 theme engines from tree?

2007-03-03 Thread Andrej Kacian
, -- Andrej Kacian ticho at gentoo org Gentoo Linux developer - net-mail, antivirus, sound, x86 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing Daniel Robbins (drobbins)

2007-02-27 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:06:17 +0200 Petteri Räty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's my please to introduce to you Daniel drobbins Robbins. Daniel is going to work with the amd64 arch team but will probably venture to other areas too. Daniel doesn't have much experience with Gentoo so let's give him

Re: [gentoo-dev] What do you think about removing gtk-1.2 theme engines from tree?

2007-02-25 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 13:43:10 +0200 Samuli Suominen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do YOU think about removing these from tree? gtk-engines/gtk-engines-0.12.ebuild:DEPEND==x11-libs/gtk+-1.2* gtk-engines-begtk/gtk-engines-begtk-1.0.1-r2.ebuild:DEPEND==x11-libs/gtk+-1.2* [snip] As long as we

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: EAPI spec (was Re: Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-25 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 18:51:51 + Steve Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like I said, tho, I'm happy if the council is. Although I'm starting to worry at the increasingly poisonous atmosphere, and that devs are leaving. Flameeyes was on the council, no? It concerns me that this atmosphere is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: What do you think about removing gtk-1.2 theme engines from tree?

2007-02-25 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 23:10:16 + (UTC) Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keep in mind that those who have it already merged along with their favorite theme can keep them in overlay, so removing the themes from the tree simply keeps new users from merging something that's already on its way

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI spec (was Re: Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-22 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 21:48:49 -0700 Daniel Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/21/07, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you insane? What on earth could Jakub possibly contribute? If you want a rough indication of Jakub's level of ebuild understanding, take a look at bug 160328.

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: reduce conflicts, separate keywording from ebuilds

2007-02-19 Thread Andrej Kacian
just because some people got scary CVS conflict messages. Those happen all the time in larger repositories. Kind regards, -- Andrej Kacian ticho at gentoo org Gentoo Linux developer - net-mail, antivirus, sound, x86 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] A Gentle Reminder

2007-02-11 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 19:50:02 +0100 Jakub Moc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Won't waste my time on your trollish rants any more. Hehe, whenever you write this, there's always several more posts from you down the same thread. It's kind of amusing. -- Andrej Ticho Kacian ticho at gentoo dot org

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Another council topic for Feb

2007-02-03 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 17:17:40 -0500 Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: after all the pains we went through to enforce if you want to stabilize on $ARCH, talk to the $ARCH team, how is this a good thing ? I think Mike meant adding ~arch keywords - if you own and use ${ARCH} then you may

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Ideas for projects...

2007-01-26 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:04:31 -0500 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Submit your ideas here, so we can discuss them. I will be choosing one idea that we think we can accomplish to test out the idea of Council-driven projects. How about unified (and enforced) rules about Manifest PGP

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: x11-misc/gtk2mp

2007-01-08 Thread Andrej Kacian
Hi all, as of today, x11-misc/gtk2mp has been masked, and is pending removal around February 9th. It is unmaintained, deprecated, and somewhat broken. Also, better MPD clients exist as alternative - gmpc, glurp, qmpdclient, pympd, sonata. Kind regard, -- Andrej Ticho Kacian ticho at gentoo dot

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Miroslav Šulc (fordfrog)

2007-01-01 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 00:40:55 +0200 Petteri Räty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's my pleasure to introduce to you Miroslav fordforg Šulc. He is joining the über cool java people. Expect him to spend endless night battling with the horrors of bundled jars and sucky build systems. Welcome aboard,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: net-misc/cidr

2006-12-16 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 11:16:25 +0200 Petteri Räty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Upstream for net-misc/cidr has disappeared (their homepage has been dead for a long long time according to archive.org), and a cursory check on the Internets doesn't yield a new home. Masked accordingly, pending

Re: [gentoo-dev] missing metadata.xml

2006-11-23 Thread Andrej Kacian
this, they need to be spanked - and for that, we need to know who they are. Kind regards, -- Andrej Kacian [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Gentoo Commitfests

2006-10-23 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:46:25 -0400 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is what happens when you let a bunch of hippies build an OS. No need to involve council - just call Eric Cartman. He'll teach those hippies all there is about fun. Kind regards, -- Andrej Ticho Kacian ticho at

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Ryan Hill (dirtyepic)

2006-10-22 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 22:45:04 +0300 Petteri Räty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's my pleasure to introduce to you Ryan dirtyepic Hill. He is joining us to help with the endless x86 testing effort, treecleaners, and gcc-porting. Ryan, your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Developer retirement

2006-10-16 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:31:32 +0200 Jakub Moc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen Bennett napsal(a): Which behaviour is this? All the gentoo mailing lists seem fine to me... The behaviour that _all_ other mailing lists get replies to the list by default when you hit Reply, just the _one_

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Developer retirement

2006-10-16 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 22:10:37 +0200 Harald van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anybody explain how that one list is different from the others? Are the headers being munged differently for gentoo-core? This list sets Reply-to to direct replies to the list. gentoo-core doesn't. People who

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proxy maintainers (was: Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide)

2006-10-07 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 10:06:39 +0200 Natanael Copa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because of gentoo devs always seems to fight? Don't get confused by all the flames. It's only 10-20 devs out of ~150 who are always fighting - and that's usually only on mailinglists, they work together quite well outside

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: Jeffrey Gardner (je_fro)

2006-10-06 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Fri, 6 Oct 2006 16:05:16 -0600 Jim Ramsay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Excellent, another member of the soon-to-be-famous Gentoo rock band! I think Joshua Jackson (tsunam) has already volunteered to be the singer :) What is it, three new musical devs so far in the last 2 weeks? Ahh, I'm

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer - Vlastimil Babka

2006-09-09 Thread Andrej Kacian
Dňa Sat, 09 Sep 2006 19:07:02 +0100 Christel Dahlskjaer [EMAIL PROTECTED] napísal: So, make sure you all welcome him onboard, and as he's Czech, I figure the beer is on him.. Uh-oh, the Czech conspiracy keeps growing! -- Ticho signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: packages going into the tree with non-gentoo maintainers

2006-09-06 Thread Andrej Kacian
will die... :) Kind regards, -- Andrej Kacian -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Xmms needs to die.

2006-08-24 Thread Andrej Kacian
regards, -- Andrej Kacian -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Xmms needs to die.

2006-08-24 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 18:42:27 +0200 Robert Cernansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank You for the tip. I looked at mpd also (only on web page). It have probably good posibility to control it via command line. But what about xosd support? (Which I mention in my previous post.) I do not see any

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2007

2006-07-31 Thread Andrej Kacian
Dňa Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:21:38 +0200 Jan Kundrát [EMAIL PROTECTED] napísal: I'd like to nominate Andrej Kacian (ticho). He's quite a silent dev (speaking about -dev and -core flamefests :) ), so chances are that he won't go bananas. He also wrote nice articles about his hiking activities so I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: aging ebuilds with unstable keywords - how can we help?

2006-07-29 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:41:09 -0400 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's actually how I read the first email, was that it's really the majority of the _minor_ packages that get completely neglected, and just sits in the tree for months or years marked unstable because nobody

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Resignation

2006-06-27 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 13:07:45 +0200 Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I have been swamped with emails, private messages and phone calls from certain people, I will retract my resignation for the final time. I'm fairly new to Gentoo, but I'd like to help. So, what shall I do ? You

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Resignation

2006-06-27 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 16:03:32 +0200 Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But: * I'm fairly new here and not familar with the development and qm process yet, so I need some assistance. Anything still onclear on my last posting ? My apologies, Enrico, for snapping out on you. Kind

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defining the Tree: a proto-GLEP.

2006-06-13 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:14:02 -0400 Daniel Ostrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing I do ask...Lets all start now getting used to calling the portage tree something different. I'm all for terms like the tree or the ebuild tree or the package tree but at this point, given the prompting subject

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sharing portage?

2006-06-13 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 10:02:59 -0400 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You want the tree to be writable, too, so that you can sync from any machine and also because of distfiles. Or you can put distfiles dir outside of portage by adjusting the $DISTDIR variable in make.conf. -- Andrej

Re: [gentoo-dev] User Relations Co-lead

2006-06-03 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Sat, 03 Jun 2006 02:05:42 +0100 Christel Dahlskjaer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is my pleasure to inform you that after much discussion I can announce that Joshua Jackson (tsunam) has come onboard to act as my co-lead in Userrel[1]. Will that result in dramatic increase of anime smilies

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo theming during bootup

2006-04-10 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:21:14 -0400 Curtis Napier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Instead, I'm now the Web Coordinator. I proposed this new role to the Infra Leads and met no resistance or objections so I have taken the initiative and created the role. Also, neysx and I together were approached and

Re: [gentoo-dev] [last rites] media-gfx/sodipodi

2006-04-02 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Sun, 2 Apr 2006 18:42:50 -0300 Marcelo Góes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/2/06, Carsten Lohrke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is not the case. At least unless the user actively looks at package.mask. Since Portage doesn't provide the information, this point is void. And even if - four

Re: [gentoo-dev] Official overlay support

2006-03-24 Thread Andrej Kacian
Dňa Fri, 24 Mar 2006 17:15:37 +0100 Jakub Moc [EMAIL PROTECTED] napísal: Yeah, and the point is? It happens every day, there are already tons of third-party overlays used by Gentoo users, but once this thread about official overlays started, you came here to tell us wow, this all will cause

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sandboxes

2006-03-24 Thread Andrej Kacian
Dňa Fri, 24 Mar 2006 15:23:14 + Stuart Herbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] napísal: On 3/24/06, Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so we're clear, users would be able to create their own overlays and publish their ebuilds right ? Not on overlays.g.o, no. FWIW, this is already possible

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Staffer: Christel Dahlskjaer

2006-03-13 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 14:49:10 +0100 Jochen Maes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /me gives a hot welcome hump to christel now yer branded :-) I don't remember you branding *me* when I was new. :)) Anyway, welcome, Christel! -- Andrej signature.asc Description: PGP signature

OT: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-lang/nhc98

2006-02-10 Thread Andrej Kacian
. I there are no objections I will remove this package in a week. Duncan Hello, could you please use your @gentoo.org address for such announcements? Thanks. Kind regards, -- Andrej Kacian -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] ChangeLogs and rsync time

2006-01-01 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 21:35:34 +0100 Francesco Riosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thoughts ? It's doable in some way ? Whatever way will get chosen, a full copy of every ChangeLog should be made available somewhere (somewhere other than CVS Attic), for future reference. Kind regards, -- Andrej

Re: [gentoo-dev] ChangeLogs and rsync time

2006-01-01 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 22:55:19 + Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 21:35:34 +0100 Francesco Riosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | That said I can see only two ways to reduce the ChangeLog files (a | centralized one is obviously not viable) 5) Anyone who really cares

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: Peter Volkov

2005-12-22 Thread Andrej Kacian
back in my MS-DOS (gaming) days? Well, I was going to suggest that, but then I realized that he would have to be 35+ at this point and to be from Kiev ;). Yes, and what's worse, I confused the name with Peter Norton - it was Vladimir Volkov, not Peter. :) Anyway, welcome, Peter! -- Andrej Kacian

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: Peter Volkov

2005-12-21 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:28:03 -0600 Mike Doty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 All- Please take a moment to welcome our newest developer, pva. Peter is joining to help out with netmon. In his own words, I was born in Moscow (it's in Russia). I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: aging ebuilds with unstable keywords

2005-11-24 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 20:39:43 -0600 R Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * if ebuild installs COPYING and/or INSTALL into doc. Is this actually important? There are a hell of a lot of ebuilds that fail under this rule. I'd like to start filing patches for some of the packages in this list so

Re: [gentoo-dev] aging ebuilds with unstable keywords

2005-11-14 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 08:12:25 +0100 (CET) Daniel Ahlberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is an automatically created email message. http://gentoo.tamperd.net/stable has just been updated with 14406 ebuilds. Just FYI, it doesn't display correctly in Opera - I can provide screenshots if you want.

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting

2005-11-01 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 01:51:25 + Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The attached GLEP is a draft proposal for the emerge --news thing that's been under discussion. There are still some TODO items. These are calls for people to weigh in with suggestions. Of course, suggestions on other

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting

2005-11-01 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:18:55 + Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Before this, make pre-install and post-install emerge messages more | usable, instead of having them lost among thousands of gibberish text | in batch emerges. Separate issue. That one's the whole elog thing. Yes,

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting

2005-11-01 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 13:44:17 -0600 Grant Goodyear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That seems a bit unfair to me. There's a complete logging facility in portage CVS for a version that's probably not going to be released, but I believe that the logging stuff is being back-ported to the current version

Re: [gentoo-dev] Daemon users that need an actual home directory

2005-10-18 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 22:58:51 +0300 Petteri Räty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to solve http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109079. I asked on #gentoo-dev and ciaramn said that we do not have a policy on where to make a home directory. So I would now like the input of other

Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites for avifile, vcr, zphoto, drip, divx4linux, quicktime4linux

2005-10-15 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 22:33:58 +0200 Luca Barbato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: zphoto: not maintained I'm afraid. Not maintained and working, or not maintained and FUBARed ? -- Andrej Ticho Kacian ticho at gentoo dot org Gentoo Linux Developer - net-mail, antivirus, x86 pgpe9YBpjsses.pgp

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposed security policy for web-based apps

2005-07-10 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 09:57:44 +0100 Stuart Herbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It'd perhaps make sense to extend the DTD for metadata.xml, so that the maintainer tag has 'type' and 'organisation' attributes. This would allow tools to tell the difference between an entry for a Gentoo maintainer,

Re: [gentoo-dev] lcars gets his commit bit

2005-06-23 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 13:32:53 -0500 Grant Goodyear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, After quite some time merely being an infra dev, lcars has finally taken the leap and gained commit access to the tree. He's going to be officially taking over sendmail and supporting other packages that

[gentoo-dev] warning: no newline at end of file

2005-06-19 Thread Andrej Kacian
Hi all, I've been wondering - is there any eclass for fixing gcc warnings in $SUBJ for C/C++ source files? I know it's upstream's job to fix these, and that they have no effect on the compilation, but all there needs to be done is 'echo $file', and let's face it - it looks nicer when the code

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: List of aging ebuilds?

2005-06-18 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 05:39:37 -0700 Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] but the effect was that the top ten list was of little practical use at all [...] What was useful for me wasn't the topten feature at all, rather it was the list of packages browsable by herd and architecture. It allowed

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: mail-filter/amavis

2005-06-18 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 22:30:37 +0200 Andrej Kacian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mail-filter/amavis has been package.mask-ed, and will remain so until next Wednesday, or until someone picks it up. My first mail never made it to the list, it seems, so again: mail-filter/amavis is no longer

[OT] Re: [gentoo-dev] Intent to help with #gentoo-dev voicing issues

2005-06-15 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:56:20 +0200 Thierry Carrez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, ChrisWhite in a protocol IRC bot. Also speaks a few million languages, including Japanese. Who's R2D2 then? -- Andrej Ticho Kacian ticho at gentoo dot org Gentoo Linux Developer - net-mail, antivirus, amd64

Re: [gentoo-dev] Intent to help with #gentoo-dev voicing issues

2005-06-15 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:21:20 +0200 Paul de Vrieze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not create a voicebot that would sit in the irc channel (the subject would refer to it), that developers could send a message to, and that would automatically be forwarded to a team of developers. If the bot

Re: [gentoo-dev] Intent to help with #gentoo-dev voicing issues

2005-06-15 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:54:20 +0200 Paul de Vrieze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be an easy contact point for users. The other way would certainly be still allowed, but it might be easier if there was a fixed contact even if that is actually multiple people. Just out of curiosity -

Re: [gentoo-dev] Intent to help with #gentoo-dev voicing issues

2005-06-15 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 19:03:44 +0900 Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is that not a win/win situation? Where exactly is the bureaucracy? Maybe I used wrong term - I was thinking about time and effort spent on setting up and maintaining the ircbot. I've been in charge of a large botnet in the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: New Bugzilla resolution: NEEDMAINTAINER

2005-06-13 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 05:33:01 -0400 Luis F. Araujo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like this idea. I actually proposed a similar idea time ago in #-dev , but instead of doing it from bugzilla, to do it from the web site, (i like yours better) the main idea is to have a list of unmantained packages

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: New Bugzilla resolution: NEEDMAINTAINER

2005-06-13 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 18:36:09 +0200 Maurice van der Pot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I definitely would like to see this. Just a few days ago I was considering adding a comment along the lines of we need a maintainer for this package, that's why nothing is happening to some bug reports.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: mail-filter/amavis

2005-06-08 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Fri, 3 Jun 2005 00:06:41 +0200 Andrej Kacian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 23:39:41 +0200 Andrej Kacian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As this package doesn't seem to be actively maintained upstream (and people on amavis-user mailinglist suggest everyone upgrading to amavisd

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: mail-filter/amavis

2005-06-02 Thread Andrej Kacian
As this package doesn't seem to be actively maintained upstream (and people on amavis-user mailinglist suggest everyone upgrading to amavisd-new), has some open bugs[1][2][3] about it, and noone seems to be maintaining the ebuild itself, we (net- mail) would like to get rid of it, unless someone

Re: [gentoo-dev] .keep files

2005-05-22 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Sat, 21 May 2005 17:37:53 -0700 Drake Wyrm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I always thought that they were to keep 'emerge unmerge' from removing an empty directory, but I could be wrong... That, and to keep portage from removing empty directories during the post-merge clean phase. Were it

[gentoo-dev] .keep files

2005-05-21 Thread Andrej Kacian
Are .keep files necessary in a live filesystem? AFAIK they're only there to keep portage from removing a directory from emerge-time image. Would it be possible to just remove them from live filesystem after package files are merged to / ? Or do .keep files serve another purpose, not obvious to