Re: [gentoo-dev] Big change ideea

2006-12-06 Thread Michael Weyershäuser
Alexandru Mincu wrote: Hi all, I don't know if this has come up before so excuse me if I am repeating. I recently stumbled upon the following Linux distribution: http://www.gobolinux.org/ They have an idea that Mac OS X implemented it when it first came out to be more user friendly. They

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for net-im/kopete

2006-10-27 Thread Michael Weyershäuser
Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò schrieb: As per summary, net-im/kopete is going away (again). For a while upstrem released some versions out of the KDE release cycle (0.12_alpha through 0.12.2), but now 0.12.3 was merged again inside kdenetwork-3.5.5, so the point of having it in net-im is gone

Re: [gentoo-dev] [treecleaner] Last rites: media-sound/alsaplayer

2006-08-20 Thread Michael Weyershäuser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Abhay Kedia wrote: Can someone suggest an appropriate alternate please? I don't know if it's appropriate since I never used alsaplayer, but mpeg123 is a good player for Just play me this file on a console without much hassle. Other candidates would

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

2006-08-07 Thread Michael Weyershäuser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Enrico Weigelt wrote: To be fair, do *you* actually look through *all* the emerge output if there's any D flag, without the risk of overlooking it someday ? Yes. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux)

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

2006-08-04 Thread Michael Weyershäuser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Gianelloni wrote: Well, we would hope that people using the package would file a bug, but this obviously doesn't always happen. A little request here: Please don't mass-file bugs with a single sentence like It works, please stabilise.. At

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: last ritest for dev-java/saxon-bin

2006-08-03 Thread Michael Weyershäuser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Duncan wrote: If a user isn't syncing and updating at least once a month, well... the ebuilds and related files remain available from viewCVS, which is open to the public, so they can still be retrieved and stuck in an overlay, if necessary, and

Re: [gentoo-dev] VNC packages need your help [pre-emptive last rites]

2006-06-23 Thread Michael Weyershäuser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Donnie Berkholz wrote: Not really, tightvnc isn't on this list ... is there some reason you can't use it instead? tightvnc doesn't provide the vnc.so module for X. x11vnc can do the job, but it's unstable for me and quite sluggish... -BEGIN