Re: [gentoo-dev] Are you guys for real?

2007-06-13 Thread Mike Owen
On 6/13/07, Jayson Vaughn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, Gentoo is over. As an outsider who has been following gentoo-dev and other gentoo lists for a while, this is just completely nuts. Is there any order or clear idea anymore for this distro? No other distro seems to be as lost or confused as

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Useflags: qt, qt3, qt4?

2006-06-20 Thread Mike Owen
On 6/20/06, Stefan Schweizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, with kde4 approaching and the new Qt-4 being in the tree we suddenly see the same problems that gtk had with the gtk2 flag again. snip From this user's perspective, simple is better. qt3 and qt4 as use flags are completely and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-23 Thread Mike Owen
On 11/22/05, Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Give me one example of something that you can do with a stage1 or stage2 tarball that you cannot with a stage3 tarball. I may not be the typical user, but I use Stage1 to build servers, because I can fit a boot image + stage1 tarball on a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-23 Thread Mike Owen
On 11/23/05, Dan Meltzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/23/05, Mike Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I may not be the typical user, but I use Stage1 to build servers, because I can fit a boot image + stage1 tarball on a small usb drive, boot to that, and then I nfs mount $DISTDIR and $PORTDIR

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

2005-11-10 Thread Mike Owen
On 11/10/05, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 23:12:28 + Stuart Herbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Should the GLEP explain how Portage will know how many unread news | items there are in /var/lib/gentoo/news? I couldn't spot where this | is covered in the

Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Mike Owen
On 10/20/05, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Add foo to profiles, users sets -* to remove the use.defaults flags, then the user has no foo :) Which is exactly as it should be. If someone is going to use -*, then they should learn to live with the consequences. Even I, as a