Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Python 2.5 unmasked

2007-08-25 Thread Luis Medinas
On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 12:43 +0200, Tiziano Müller wrote: Luis Medinas wrote: Nice to know this, python 2.4 is really broken for us but python 2.5 is the right thing to do imo. Too bad it took too much to unmask it. Well, finally some good people joined the python-herd and helped

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 2.5 unmasked

2007-08-23 Thread Luis Medinas
On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 17:01 +0200, Tiziano Müller wrote: Hi everyone, Thanks to an increased number of people who helped with testing and fixing within the last two months, we were able to finally unmask python 2.5 today. On behalf of the Gentoo Python Team, dev-zero Nice to know this,

Re: [gentoo-dev] default desktop profile

2007-08-03 Thread Luis Medinas
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 14:28 -0700, Chris Gianelloni wrote: Thanks. I knew there had to be some reason for it, but couldn't remember what it was off the top of my head. Luckily, this won't be much of an issue with the next release, since we're switching to Xfce rather than GNOME to bring the

Re: [gentoo-dev] So...

2007-07-16 Thread Luis Medinas
On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 15:06 -0400, Doug Goldstein wrote: So it's 97 degrees outside.. it's pretty hot... Since everyone loves to debate non-technical things on this list.. Let's debate Fahrenheit vs Celcius... Discuss! Well Celcius isn't the S.I scale for temperature but it's related with

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removal request for several desktop-wm packages

2006-10-29 Thread Luis Medinas
On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 19:15 -0800, David Shakaryan wrote: The desktop-wm herd is understaffed and has a bunch of dead packages lying around which no one wants to maintain. I tried to give a valid alternative for all of the packages I want removed. At first glance, it seems like all of the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removal request for several desktop-wm packages

2006-10-29 Thread Luis Medinas
On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 19:57 -0800, David Shakaryan wrote: Luis Medinas wrote: Pwm is a different wm than ion but they are both provided on the same tarball so why remove pwm ? Are you trying to add a USE for ion to provide pwm ? Hrm... After a quick glance at the ebuilds and distfiles

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: cdrtools license issues

2006-09-01 Thread Luis Medinas
On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 15:24 +0200, Carsten Lohrke wrote: On Friday 01 September 2006 14:51, Lars Weiler wrote: We have a lot of other applications in the tree, which is not free. The problem is not that it's not free*, but that linking GPL and CDDL code violates the GPL. If the whole

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

2006-08-25 Thread Luis Medinas
On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 16:49 -0400, Alec Warner wrote: I don't see how whining about a package you don't maintain, nor helping out with it helps anyone. Either it stays in pmask, or it stays in sunrise (since I would bet 5 bucks it ends up in sunrise after getting punted). The sound team has

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

2006-08-24 Thread Luis Medinas
On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 05:21 -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote: The last time this came up, a few months ago, mentioned in somebodies blog, I made an effort to look at both bmpx and audacious. Both used significantly more CPU, and one of them was completely unusable with the size of my playlist

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

2006-08-23 Thread Luis Medinas
On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 20:07 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Wednesday 23 August 2006 16:30, Luis Medinas wrote: So i'm asking for a solution either remove xmms, move the maintainer for anyone who volunteer or the sound herd. no one has answered the previous problems ... xmms is the only

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Forums Staff : jmbsvicetto

2006-08-19 Thread Luis Medinas
On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 00:44 +0530, Shyam Mani wrote: Hi Everyone, Please welcome our latest forums staff, Jorge Vicetto aka jmbsvicetto. Bem Vindo Jorge!! I wish you good luck and don't kill my posts on forums. -- Gentoo Linux Developer http://dev.gentoo.org/~metalgod --

Re: [gentoo-dev] Developer Upgrade! Steve Dibbs

2006-08-06 Thread Luis Medinas
On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 00:20 +0100, Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: Hi all, It is with geat pleasure that I can knight Steve (aka beandog) a 'real dev'. Congrats Steve, just don't kill the tree :P. -- Gentoo Linux Developer http://dev.gentoo.org/~metalgod -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] proxy-dev (an alternative to sunrise?)

2006-07-28 Thread Luis Medinas
On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 22:09 +0200, Robert Cernansky wrote: On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:49:02 +0200 Alexandre Buisse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 21:27:31 +0200, Robert Cernansky wrote: I just understand it so, that if a user submits a new ebuild he has to in fact

[gentoo-dev] Last Rites from media-plugins/xmms-xmmsd

2006-07-23 Thread Luis Medinas
Hi This plugin will be removed in a few weeks because it as a dead upstream and it doesn't work. I masked it. Reference bug 132449 Thanks -- Gentoo Linux Developer http://dev.gentoo.org/~metalgod -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for some CD/DVD-recording applications

2006-07-08 Thread Luis Medinas
On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 14:11 +0200, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: On Sat, 8 Jul 2006 13:09:29 +0200 Lars Weiler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: app-cdr/xcdroast: A nice rustical application, which reminds me to my first CD-burnings on Linux... But there was no upstream update within 2,5 years.

[gentoo-dev] New sub-project Gentoo Science Physics

2006-07-03 Thread Luis Medinas
Hi I'm glad to announce a new sub project from Gentoo Science. The Physics sub project! You may noticed i created a new category on the tree and moved a few packages from another categories to the new one. Now the future is to maintain and add new applications to provide the best platform for

[gentoo-dev] New sub-project Gentoo Science Physics

2006-07-03 Thread Luis Medinas
Hi I'm glad to announce a new sub project from Gentoo Science. The Physics sub project! You may noticed i created a new category on the tree and moved a few packages from another categories to the new one. Now the future is to maintain and add new applications to provide the best platform for

Re: [gentoo-dev] Scientific Gentoo reorg: lets get it moving

2006-07-01 Thread Luis Medinas
to mentor a candidate and start this thing for real. -- Luis Medinas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Linux Developer http://dev.gentoo.org/~metalgod -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Default useflag cleanups: -apm -foomaticdb -fortran -imlib -motif -oss -xmms

2006-06-08 Thread Luis Medinas
On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 01:30 -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote: On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 08:58:46PM +0100, Luis Medinas wrote: Xmms will be removed soon... Lot's of users still use xmms mostly because it has many plugins that others don't. Xmms is still stable but the upstream is dead so it won't

Re: [gentoo-dev] Default useflag cleanups: -apm -foomaticdb -fortran -imlib -motif -oss -xmms

2006-06-05 Thread Luis Medinas
On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 21:22 +0200, Wernfried Haas wrote: On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 07:03:57PM +0200, Stefan Schweizer wrote: today I would like to propose a few default keywords for removal. They are outdated and no longer needed on current systems: What do you want to remove, the use flags

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: Chris Parrott

2006-05-30 Thread Luis Medinas
On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 11:16 -0500, Mike Doty wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 All- Chris has move from various AT projects to a developer. cparrot was fist on the amd64 AT project, then he moved on to other arches and some other hards. It's my great pleasure to have

Re: [gentoo-dev] New staffer: Steve Dibbs

2006-05-16 Thread Luis Medinas
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 13:14 -0500, Mike Doty wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 All- Take a moment to welcome our newest staffer, beandog. Steve will be helping dsd with planet/universe administration. In his own words, Hi there, I'm Steve from Utah. Lots of Linux

Re: [gentoo-dev] app-cdr/dvdrtools needs a newer version stable

2006-04-20 Thread Luis Medinas
On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 20:39 +0200, Grégoire Baron wrote: Hello, I have decided to use app-cdr/dvdrtools rather than app-cdr/cdrecord-prodvd to burn my DVDs because app-cdr/dvdrtools comes with a GPL2 license. However, the last stable version in portage is 0.1.6 and this version can't use

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Thomas Cort (tcort)

2006-04-16 Thread Luis Medinas
On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 20:24 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. Thomas Cort has recently joined the gentoo team to work on sound and (more importantly) Alpha stuff :) He's been helping the alpha team for quite a while already and doing a great job. Thomas hails from Quebec, Canada and

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: bbj

2006-04-04 Thread Luis Medinas
aboard! Parabens!! One more Portuguese speaker nice!! Best wishes for you! -- Luis Medinas [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dev.gentoo.org/~metalgod Gentoo Linux Developer: AMD64,Printing,Media-Optical,Sound -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Official overlay support

2006-03-23 Thread Luis Medinas
with external contribs maintained by users and devs (of course commit rights only for devs.). -- Luis Medinas [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dev.gentoo.org/~metalgod Gentoo Linux Developer: AMD64,Printing,Media-Optical,Sound -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: deltacow (Scott Stoddard)

2006-02-08 Thread Luis Medinas
and congrats. -- Luis Medinas [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dev.gentoo.org/~metalgod Gentoo Linux Developer: AMD64,Printing,Media-Optical,Sound -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Projects and simple guides

2006-01-08 Thread Luis Medinas
in this area simply because they don't have much to do about this and they have of course high level of docs to maintain. -- Luis Medinas [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dev.gentoo.org/~metalgod Gentoo Linux Developer: AMD64,Printing,Media-Optical,Sound -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Projects and simple guides

2006-01-08 Thread Luis Medinas
requests, ideas, interaction between everyone and it's a simple method for doing all this stuff. -- Luis Medinas [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dev.gentoo.org/~metalgod Gentoo Linux Developer: AMD64,Printing,Media-Optical,Sound -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Gunnar Wrobel (wrobel)

2005-12-29 Thread Luis Medinas
On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 00:16 +, Tom Martin wrote: Hi list, Gunnar Wrobel is joining to help with the webapps herd, in particular the webapp-config utility. Gunnar lives in Hamburg, Germany. He studied biochemistry, and went on to study biotechnology to become a bioinformatician. He

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage 2.0.53 now stable on x86 and amd64

2005-12-21 Thread Luis Medinas
show this help message and exit -c, --check check for problems -f, --fixattempt to fix problems Regards, Petteri Räty (Betelgeuse) Following this post... i marked portage 2.0.53 stable on amd64 too... happy upgrade! -- Luis Medinas [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dev.gentoo.org/~metalgod

Re: [gentoo-dev] http://people.gentoo.org/

2005-12-06 Thread Luis Medinas
/ http://people.gentoo.org/~vapier/ - http://dev.gentoo.org/~vapier/ http://www.gentoo.org/~vapier/ - http://dev.gentoo.org/~vapier/ Actually is only working atm like this http://people.gentoo.org/vapier/ It would be great if we can get a full rewrite instead of a redirect. -- Luis Medinas [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-dev] http://people.gentoo.org/

2005-12-05 Thread Luis Medinas
://dev.gentoo.org/~brix/ and http://people.gentoo.org/brix/ URLs? It's up to infra but i would like to see this too. -- Luis Medinas [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dev.gentoo.org/~metalgod Gentoo Linux Developer: AMD64,Printing,Media-Optical,Sound -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Email subdomain

2005-11-19 Thread Luis Medinas
not just AMD64 team. -- Luis Medinas [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dev.gentoo.org/~metalgod Gentoo Linux Developer: AMD64,Printing,Media-Optical,Xmms -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-plugins/rmxmms

2005-10-16 Thread Luis Medinas
as WONTFIX, and then starting masking plugins with bugs open to remove them. We're plenty of alternatives :) After talking with Diego i will maintain xmms packages (including plugins and skins). I will remove a few obsolete packages and closing a few bugs asap. -- Luis Medinas [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-plugins/rmxmms

2005-10-16 Thread Luis Medinas
On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 18:01 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 19:22 +, Luis Medinas wrote: After talking with Diego i will maintain xmms packages (including plugins and skins). I will remove a few obsolete packages and closing a few bugs asap. Excellent. I

Re: [gentoo-dev] grub reiser4

2005-10-03 Thread Luis Medinas
for AMD64 atm. There are a couple of users that tried reiser4 and they got nothing more than data corruption because reiser4 is unstable. For somehow reiser4 isn't in the stable kernel. -- Luis Medinas [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dev.gentoo.org/~metalgod Gentoo Linux Developer: AMD64,Printing,Media

Re: [gentoo-dev] tentative x86 arch team glep

2005-09-05 Thread Luis Medinas
of the people don't understand that ~arch is a testing keyword and it's not stable. Fortunatly most of the bugs we get are from ~arch and not from stable arch. -- Luis Medinas [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dev.gentoo.org/~metalgod Gentoo Linux Developer: AMD64,Printing,Media-Optical -- gentoo-dev

Re: [gentoo-dev] combining x86 and amd64

2005-09-01 Thread Luis Medinas
work to do on the x86 team. -- Luis Medinas [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dev.gentoo.org/~metalgod Gentoo Linux Developer: AMD64,Printing,Media-Optical -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] crap use flags in the profiles

2005-08-30 Thread Luis Medinas
. I Belive that MIPS team is doing the same thing they test packages then mark stable if the packages are really stable. -- Luis Medinas [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dev.gentoo.org/~metalgod Gentoo Linux Developer: AMD64,Printing,app-cdr -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] crap use flags in the profiles

2005-08-30 Thread Luis Medinas
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 16:45 -0400, Olivier Crete wrote: On Tue, 2005-30-08 at 21:40 +0100, Stephen Bennett wrote: On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 21:15:18 + Luis Medinas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I belive the worse QA is in x86 and not in AMD64 and MIPS. Between AMD64 and x86 there's a lot