Re: [gentoo-dev] stripping out the DO NOT REPLY from bugzie emails

2007-09-29 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Robin H. Johnson wrote: DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. Also, do not reply via email to the person whose email is mentioned below. To comment on this bug, please visit: Please consider lowercasing the first sentence, to stop the yelling, and removing the repetition from the second sentence, which

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bye Gentoo!

2007-05-31 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Juergen.Schinker wrote: Bryan Østergaard schrieb: It's with a bit of sadness but also a bit of relief that I'm finally retiring from Gentoo. Aj! kloeri! No! i want you to stay, you are important for Gentoo but what can I do Bribe him! Benno -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion: INVALID - NOCHANGE in bugzilla

2007-03-25 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Kevin F. Quinn wrote: I know I've seen many instances where the word INVALID has got peoples hackles up, [...] This is the same issue I have with NOTABUG - it's like saying, you're wrong, shouldn't have raised the report, just perhaps not as in-your-face as INVALID. Precisely. NOTABUG

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Package Manager Specification: configuration protection

2006-09-15 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: I think that protection against harmfull new config files should be selective to be useful. It should only affect directories from which files are blindly sourced by some services you are already running. There, and only there¹, new config files are

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Package Manager Specification: configuration protection

2006-09-14 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Daniel Gryniewicz wrote: On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 19:47 +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Ideally the package manager would unconditionally respect the config protection area, and it should be up to tools like etc-update to (configurably) automerge new files and identical files, just like

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Package Manager Specification: configuration protection

2006-09-13 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: * If no existing file with the intended target name exists, or if the existing file has identical content to the file to be installed, the file to be installed is installed as normal. I would much prefer new files to be treated as if replacing an existing zero

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Masking practics

2006-08-07 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Steve Dibb [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: See the little D? It's not big, it's not fat, but it's warning you. :) Not actually an eye-catching. To be fair, do *you* actually look through *all* the emerge output if there's any D flag, without the risk of overlooking

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Overlays: Status Report

2006-08-04 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Stuart Herbert wrote: * Developers and Users Guides online [2], [3] [3] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/usersguide.xml Without the s: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/userguide.xml -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Request for Comment

2006-02-11 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Klaus-J. Wolf wrote: http://www.seismic.de/gentoo/gentoo_mask_proposal.html * Manually keyword unmasking an ebuild, automatically means unmasking the last one in the line of masked versions. No. Use the = to unmask a specific version only. For example: =sys-apps/findutils-4.2.25

Re: [gentoo-dev] status of http://wwwredesign.gentoo.org

2005-11-21 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Curtis Napier wrote: I'm especially interested in feedback from anyone who uses accessibilty programs such as screen readers or if you are color blind or have any other accessibilty issues. Not being blind or otherwise visually handicapped, but I use rather large letters (18 pixels), do not

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-11 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Next draft will propose being able to append .read to a filename to mark it read without deleting it. But don't use .read, as it can be understood as both present tense (imperative) and past tense. Better use something like .seen. Benno -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org