Hi Daniel,
On 3/4/07, Daniel Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just as a note, I've resigned as a Gentoo dev so I'm going to at some
point today unsubscribe from -dev and stop replying to -dev emails.
-Daniel
Thanks for trying, but Gentoo just has too many folks who don't
understand the issue
On 11/28/06, Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You make it sound like releng doesn't care at all about non-desktop packages.
That wasn't how it was meant. Was simply meant as a statement of
fact. Releng activities are currently exclusively desktop-oriented.
Until that changes, releng
On 11/29/06, Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The 3-4 weeks of releng filing a ton of doesn't build with gcc-4.1.1 bugs
wasn't a big enough clue? :)
No. We get those all the time; there's always someone trying out an
unsupported release of gcc.
Also, the arch teams (or at least the
On 11/29/06, Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As of this release, I kept a copy of all of the distfiles for the entire
release, and can make a DVD of it, on request. This fulfills our
requirements with the GPL.
What are the arrangements should you go under a bus on the way home
from
On 11/29/06, Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From other developers, most of which were releng members?
I get most of mine from users, who are normally kind enough to submit
the required patches at the same time.
It's stupid to blame releng for the stabilization of gcc-4.1.1. We
On 11/29/06, Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What are the arrangements should you go under a bus on the way home
from work tonight?
You'd like that, wouldn't you?
That was _completely_ uncalled for.
go under a bus is just a phrase that's commonly used here in the UK
(because our
On 11/29/06, Mike Doty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Stuart Herbert wrote:
I have a couple of locations where I could store backups, depending on
size and projected growth. I suppose it'll have to wait until 2007.0
though so we can actually gage it as opposed to speculating wildly.
If anything
On 11/29/06, Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm sorry, but how the hell do you know? You are not a member of
Release Engineering, and have *NO CLUE* what we do over there. What we
release isn't the only thing we do.
Then this is a great opportunity to set the record straight, by
Hi,
On 11/29/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maybe you should read the replies you got the first time you made this claim
on this list [1].
Many thanks for these links. I didn't see your original email.
Best regards,
Stu
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On 11/28/06, Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As I have said, I've mentioned several times the idea of doing a
release tree to go along with each release.
The release tree is not the basis for this.
a) Releases (and the releng work that goes into it) are exclusively
desktop-oriented.
On 11/27/06, paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can't take workload out of the picture since it's the main issue
here. Stable tree means backport fixes and I don't see this happening as
it can't be automated:
Stable tree means backport fixes is an assumption, not a requirement.
It's one reason
On 11/8/06, Steve Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What I was wondering about was what mechanism you might use to provide those
binary packages; would other devs also be contributing? Or is there simply
nothing that might be useful for a binary distro?
Wrt the Seeds project, it's too early to
to be built as a set, to be
sure that there is no ABI breakage going on.
Stuart Herbert wrote:
If the Seeds project proves successful, I'd be interested in providing
binary packages for seeds. Whether that'll be as part of Gentoo, or
whether it'll be better to move downstream (so to speak) to do
On 11/7/06, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd like to ask how many Gentoo devs get paid for contributions to Gentoo?
How many of you (paid or non-paid) think MS's threat to sue over patents is
a real danger?
I think this is a non-issue until Microsoft issues a direct threat (or
On 11/7/06, Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No devs get paid directly for working on Gentoo -- they are all
volunteers.
That statement may or may not be true. We don't require Gentoo
developers to disclose this information, so it's always possible that
some Gentoo developers are paid to work
On 11/3/06, Jon Portnoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been mostly inactive for a good while but hanging on mostly for
sentimentality's sake, it's past time for that to stop.
It's a damn shame to see you go. I guess most of today's devs won't
know or appreciate just how much you've done for
On 11/3/06, Grant Goodyear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Steve Long wrote: [Fri Nov 03 2006, 02:47:52AM CST]
The main problem I see is USE flags (devs already
compile with standard C-flags right?) but I was thinking about standardising
for 2 or 3 types of network- SOHO, medium and large enterprise
Reposted from http://planet.gentoo.org for the devs who live in
caves^H^H^Hdon't read planet.gentoo.org.
Best regards,
Stu
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Whilst sat here this morning waiting for the NX packages to build, it
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On 10/31/06, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Uh, security bugs are not the highest priority.
Would it be possible to have some arch team leaders join in this
debate? Atm, it just seems to be bouncing back and forwards between
package maintainers asking questions, and a Gentoo user
On 10/31/06, Stephen Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Having a system that actually works is usually reckoned to be more
important than patching minor security holes on architectures that
aren't security-supported anyway. On systems that are almost never used
in production or in externally
Hi Chris,
On 10/31/06, Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 17:02 +0100, Stuart Herbert wrote:
3) ??
Get your hands on some of the minority arch hardware and help out?
It's a good idea. It's not an option for me, but hopefully others
will follow your advice
Hi,
On 10/25/06, Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Danny van Dyk wrote:
Design phase for new projects: New projects need to post an RFC
containing information about their goals, the plan on how to
implement their goals and the necessary resources to -dev prior to
creating
Hi Chris,
On 10/25/06, Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, let's make it simpler, then. Does it say anywhere in GLEP 39 that
the elected Council cannot change it? Does it limit the council's
powers in any way?
No, it does not. That's why I've asked for a discussion of this as
On 10/25/06, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Council has already done so, with the addition of the final bullet
point in Specification list B.
Thanks for pointing that out.
Best regards,
Stu
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Hi Chris,
On 10/25/06, Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think the likely best way would be to do something like:
[snip]
Yeah, that works for me.
Best regards,
Stu
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Best regards,
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http
On 10/23/06, Stuart Herbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone know where I can find a copy of the Foundation's by-laws, to
see what it says about this situation?
Never mind, I found them [1]. Section 5.7 says that the remaining
Trustees can vote in a replacement for Seemant. It doesn't require
On 10/23/06, Seemant Kulleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear All (specifically, the voting members of the foundation),
Thank you all so much for expressing your confidence in me with the most
recent Trustee elections. I fear, however, that for personal reasons I
will be unable to assume my
On 10/23/06, Caleb Cushing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Weapons allowed?
melee weapons only, maybe?
Guns for show; knives for a pro.
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On 10/17/06, Stephen Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is no analogy to be made there. Arguing against carrying profile
metadata in IUSE is trying to prevent a design decision, not trying to
work around one by forcing extra work on people.
There seems to be very little support for your
Hi George,
On 10/13/06, George Shapovalov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The suggested projects are:
Projects to be moved (tentative, may opt out):
Common Lisp
java
perl
php
python
The PHP team will be opting out.
Best regards,
Stu
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Hi Zac,
On 10/13/06, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've written a patch for portage [1] that implements per-package default USE
flags at
both the ebuild and profile levels (discussed a couple of months ago [2] on this
list). At the ebuild level, default flags are specified in IUSE with
On 10/13/06, Paul de Vrieze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would go for the EAPI bump. Even then I think it would be smart to
wait a short while for packages to use this as we ensure that the
supporting portage version is stable.
+1 from me on that.
Best regards,
Stu
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On 10/13/06, Jakub Moc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yeah, the big picture here is that make.defaults has been bloated by use
flags needed/relevant for one or two ebuilds only for quite some time
and users and devs alike have been ranting about the same for quite some
time...
I believe Ciaran's
On 10/13/06, Stephen Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sure they do. They should be enabled by default, so put them in the
place where the default USE flags are set.
They should be enabled by default _only_ for the package that needs
them enabled. Support for package.use in profiles gives us
On 10/13/06, Stephen Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The examples he gave were of flags that should be enabled by default
for every package that uses them. Even if that's just one or two
packages, there's no reason not to put them in global defaults.
That's one way. I know some folks prefer
Hi Thierry,
On 10/13/06, Thierry Carrez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello everyone,
I think the time has come for me to leave this project after two and a
half years of service.
Congrats on the new family. And many thanks for everything you've
done for Gentoo during your time as a dev. Here's
On 10/12/06, George Shapovalov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Funnily I already got questions like is this thing only to move stuff around?
I would be all for it if it had a bit more meat. I added that PPS expecting
questions like that would be asked. Of course, realistically I do not
think anything
On 10/11/06, Stephen Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We also use space-delimited depend atoms everywhere else. It makes no
sense to break that when a comma works equally well.
I'm sorry, are you telling everyone that it's too difficult for you to
write an ungreedy regex that also tests for
On 10/11/06, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not an issue for me. It's an issue for random people writing scripts,
for people using command line things and for people who don't want to
use a full parser framework for some quick hack. There's no need to
make things harder for random
Hi,
Whatever happened to the work to implement GLEP 42? Is there anyone
actively working on this atm?
Best regards,
Stu
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Hi Zac,
This is all good news.
On 10/11/06, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2) Default USE flags at the ebuild and/or profile level [2].
This one would be very very useful for Seeds, if we can set per-ebuild
USE flags at the profile level.
Best regards,
Stu
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On 10/11/06, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Spaces in dep atoms would be highly evil, since it'd mean they were no
longer simply space delimited. Commas [foo,-bar,baz] would be fine...
Write a better parser then :P
We use space-delimited USE flags everywhere else. It would make a
Hi George,
On 10/11/06, George Shapovalov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi gang.
As I looked for a place where to put some documentation naturally falling in
a project domain for Ada, I realized that we have TLPs for many individual
(programming) languages. First I though to ping some people on
On 10/10/06, Seemant Kulleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If the design was in any way user-centric, then that was a side-effect
of the design being developer-centric. The choices are all about
enabling development and developers. The Gentoo philosophy is about
empowerment -- we provide a platform
Hi Zac,
On 10/8/06, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm only proposing that we add support to portage now because it
seems like it will be useful in the future. How and when people
make use of this support does not concern me much.
Zac
I believe that multiple parent support would be
Hi Tim,
On 10/7/06, Tim Yamin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to wish all of you the very best, and would like to thank
all of you who have (and haven't) made my time here so enjoyable.
All the very best with whatever you do next. It's been a real
pleasure working with you on Gentoo,
Hi,
Just a note to say that I've upgraded overlay.gentoo.org's copy of Planet to
the latest nightly release. (We use Planet to generate o.g.o's front page).
If you notice any problems, please let me know.
Best regards,
Stu
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Hi Ciaran,
On 10/6/06, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Meh, but since this has been brought out in public, here's the full
text. Hopefully it'll help dispel some of the fud a few people are
spreading:
Anyone spreading FUD over this issue should be ashamed of themselves.
The whole
On 10/7/06, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If anyone had still any doubt about this, he can easily try to tweak a
release :P
I've been doing releng-like work lately to build Gentoo/FreeBSD stages with
catalyst and I have to say that releng is doing a heck of an hard job to
On 10/4/06, Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Work is done in the overlays, tested, improved, then committed
into the main tree once the kinks have been worked out. We get a
stronger core tree with fewer developers and a better interaction with
the community.
And a Gentoo that's so
Hi,
One of the things that the LAMP Server seed will install will be
something to do automatic server monitoring - CPU, RAM, swap, disk
space, bandwidth, and so on.
I'm a cacti user myself on my own boxes, but I'm interested to hear if
anyone has any strong preference for an alternative tool.
On 9/21/06, Lance Albertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Stuart: When you get a chance, can you please either message me on irc
or send em an email with your thoughts on how hosting might work so we
can start planning that?
Lance: Will do.
Everyone else: Please stop speculating about how we're
On 9/20/06, Daniel Ostrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 00:56 +0200, Carsten Lohrke wrote:
First step should imho be, that you work with the Portage team on having
proper set support implemented. Current meta ebuilds do suck, really.
No need for meta ebuilds...stage4 specs +
On 9/20/06, Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Uhh... seeds?
Yes, seeds. Seems to describe what we're working towards as well as
any other name.
bring the work to the main tree?
As in... duplicate functionality already provided by catalyst for quite
some time?
No. As in, bring
On 9/20/06, Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Catalyst doesn't provide ongoing maintenance or migration of installed
systems ... you need more than just a spec file for one of these seeds.
Like what? It sounds like they aren't providing anything but tarballs.
Tarballs, VMware
On 9/20/06, Matthew Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
3) We are where we are at today. Stuart comes up with a great idea for the
seeds project which might help address the virtualization address image and
it appears releng doesnt like it, so progress could be delayed by another 6
months to year.
On 9/20/06, Danny van Dyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Stuart,
The pages are correct.
Cool.
He didn't called you a liar.
You haven't spoken to anyone on the genkernel or catalyst development
teams. - was in response to me saying that I had. It's difficult to
interpret that as anything
On 9/20/06, Danny van Dyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As long as we have no package sets support in portage, I do indeed think
that this is the best way to go. Didn't realize that you mentioned it,
too.
@Stuart: What do you think?
Right now, I'm not too concerned about the lack of package set
On 9/20/06, Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, now it's gotten to the point where people are being sneaky and underhanded
about this whole thing. Stuart (I believe) said that they had talked to members
of releng about this, but the truth seems to be that Stuart talked with rocket
and
On 9/21/06, Luca Barbato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Could you please planning something about acting as liason between
projects touched by seeds?
E.G. random guy starts contributing a media seed, I'd like to be
notified and maybe have also x11 people notified, just in case the seed
overlay is
regards,
Stu
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Hi Matt,
On 9/19/06, Matthew Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can we integrate this somehow with a project (new?) to build ready-to-use
vmware or xen images? It would be silly to duplicate the work, and
testing would be much better this way.
Sure. For the moment, we're focusing on getting
On 9/14/06, Doug Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Caleb,
question... gem is the official package manager for Ruby. Why do we
put Ruby stuff, other than the bare minimums to get Ruby running, in the
portage tree? Why not just let gem handle it?
I favor this the same way I favor pear
On 9/9/06, Christel Dahlskjaer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Drupal has had QA bug #98542 open for over a year now, and has seen no
progress in resolving it. It has now been package.masked, and unless
someone jumps up to fix the outstanding issues will be removed in 30
days.
Why didn't you escalate
On 9/11/06, Jakub Moc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Uhm, web-apps has been CCed on the bug since the beginning. Last time I
asked, noone wanted to touch the FUBARed ebuild, IIRC. :)
The package was masked without Christel (on behalf of QA) posting an
advance warning of their actions. That's not
On 9/10/06, Luca Barbato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alec Warner wrote:
upstream for that reason
Upstream sucks badly here.
us because we haven't a tool like the one BaSS wrote for the ebooks.
Such a tool would deal with many modules, but not all of them. Some
modules require additional
On 9/11/06, Roy Marples [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm more than happy for you to take Drupal instead of me :)
However, is there any reason that the main drupal ebuild cannot stay in
portage?
No reason at all, that I know of.
Drupal's a package I can't really work on; I work for a company that
On 9/7/06, Carsten Lohrke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How wonderful this sort of maintenance is you can read here:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146626
Am I the only one who has a problem with this?
No. And I'm sure I'm not the only one who has a problem with your
comment in that bug
On 9/6/06, Stephen P. Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually, I *think* he was trying to ask why Stuart feels that he can
take on the responsibility of being a trustee if he felt that he didn't
have the time to take on the responsibility of being a council member.
I also must admit that I'm
On 9/6/06, Alin Nastac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Doug Goldstein wrote:
dba
dio
ingres
msession
mcve
are all used by 1 ebuild... and that's dev-lang/php... they should be
moved to local's.
Consequence: php eclasses code should be moved in dev-lang/php ebuild.
Please don't do that. The
On 9/5/06, Stephen P. Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just remembered something. Didn't Stuart say that he planned on
leaving Gentoo when he was nominated for the Council recently (and
declined)?
Yes I did. There are a few things I want to achieve before I leave;
being on the Council would
On 9/3/06, Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And no one has implemented any kind of solution.
You need someone to implement a solution? Surely what we need is for
folks to actually make an announcement in the first place?
I asked for what has become GLEP 42 because we do have a problem
On 9/3/06, Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Because the thought that stable is always stable or that because we
released things are stable is incorrect ;)
You're not supposed to break the stable tree; that surely must include
stabilising a compiler (which is the _default_ for new installs)
On 9/2/06, Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Give us about 3000 more developers, and sure* ;)
I don't think that that's good thing to be saying to our users.
We didn't need 3000 more developers ... we just needed to give the
developers we have more reasonable notice.
This is the second
Hi,
On 9/2/06, Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It might be worth putting together a list of folks interested in doing
this on the Gentoo website, under a Third-party Paid Support section. We
already have a Support link on the top of www.g.o, it could be on that page.
This is a good
On 9/2/06, Dan Meltzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 9/2/06, Stuart Herbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 9/2/06, Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Give us about 3000 more developers, and sure* ;)
I don't think that that's good thing to be saying to our users.
Is it a bad thing to be saying
On 8/24/06, Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A distribution is more than just an entity that packages upstream
tarballs. I agree with your point, but it misses a large chunk of what
we do.
We do more than that, sure, but the vast majority of the day to day
work in Gentoo is exactly
On 8/24/06, Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A distribution is more than just an entity that packages upstream
tarballs. I agree with your point, but it misses a large chunk of what
we do.
We do more than that, sure, but the vast majority of the day to day
work in Gentoo is exactly
On 8/14/06, Thierry Carrez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Council will meet on Thursday, August 17, 1900 UTC.
AFAICT agenda is at the moment empty.
Here's something I'd like to see the council address. We've just had
baselayout-1.12 go stable. You might have missed this, because
there's no
On 8/7/06, Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
big_snip
Okay, you simply don't want to talk or even think about this issue.
You have had lots of help from many different Gentoo developers and
users on your recent issues. All of these people are volunteers, and
have given their time and
Hi Zac,
On 8/8/06, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Hi everyone,
I've written a patch [1] that implements support for use.force and package.use.force as originally
described by Sven Wegener [2] over a year ago. Basically, this feature is the
Hi Zac,
On 8/8/06, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Stuart Herbert wrote:
Any chance of per-package USE defaults support? That's much more useful
to me.
Attached to bug 61732 there's a patch that implements this via a new
IUSE_DEFAULTS
Hi,
On 8/4/06, Aaron Kulbe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am the current maintainer of WordPress. Let's just say I've lost
interest in maintaining it. At this point, I don't even use it any
more, other than to test out new builds on my system, when a bump is
required. I have switched over to
, but before we do, I thought
it'd be a good idea to get feedback from the wider dev community.
Best regards,
Stu
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[2] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/devguide.xml
[3] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/usersguide.xml
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Hi Mike,
On 8/1/06, Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i'm tired of looking at this package, anyone care about this thing enough to
be its maintainer ?
-mike
I'll take it, if no-one else wants it.
Best regards,
Stu
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Lisa Seelye wrote:
Is there any news on a 2007 event? This time, really, I promise I'll be
in the country to attend!
No, and you won't hear anything from me. I won't be in the country.
Daniel
Someone needs to step up and volunteer to organise next year's conference.
Dunno about other
regards,
Stu
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Key
adding an alias into a second
category makes the tree more of a mess - not less.
Best regards,
Stu
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http
On 7/19/06, Kevin F. Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In my opinion moving packages from one category to another just causes
unnecessary disruption to the tree - all relevant dependencies
throughout the tree have to be altered, putting current installations
out-of-date with respect to it.
Some
On 7/6/06, Patrick Lauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So here's my nominations:
Flameeyes
brix
lu_zero
kosmikus
Stuart
jakub
marienz
patrick
Thanks, but I don't accept. I'm planning on leaving Gentoo.
Best regards,
Stu
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Hi Mike,
On 7/21/06, Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
in Gentoo or in general ? in general, kaffe should support pretty much all
our arches, but in Gentoo, i dont have time to get it working for:
Last time I checked, kaffe didn't provide a libjvm, which is used for
embedding Java in
Hi,
On 7/11/06, Gustavo Felisberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm removing net-misc/ssh from the tree as Tectia no longer provides a free
version of they're ssh client and server. The last update to this package was
one year and half so I'm a bit afraid of security issues that might exist that
On 7/7/06, Steve Dibb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If your blog is being aggregated on Planet Gentoo / Universe, it's time to send
us a copy of your smiling face. I'm putting out a request for some
hackergotchis. Really, you don't want just a few of us to have all the fun, do
you?
Any chance of
On 7/6/06, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[Snip]
Note that you need to set your CFLAGS corretly or it will, by default, tell
you that everything is disabled.
Thoughts? Comments?
The one advantage of using USE flags for this is that the support can
be controlled very
Hi,
On 6/28/06, Mivz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I have just read the following story, which scared me a bit:
http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/06/23/1728205tid=150
Does this obligation, to provide your own source, also count for a none
Gentoo developer making a overlay
On 6/28/06, Mivz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How free is free software if you need a lawyer and a expensive server
just to be able to publish your addition under your own name?
With the GPL v2, you don't need a server at all. You're perfectly
entitled to distribute the code on DVD (for example),
On 6/25/06, Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This topic has come up in the past, and I'd like to revive it once
again. The gentoo-dev list has gotten a lower and lower signal to noise
ratio over the past year or two, and it's difficult to dig out the stuff
that's truly required reading.
On 6/27/06, Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(At this point, I'd like to remind you on my distro independent
QM project ...)
Never heard of it, sorry.
*BUT*: it doesn't make any sense just talking about it. Simply do it
or forget it. Only talking is nonsense.
If I was admin
On 6/27/06, Simon Stelling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't think so. As I understand it, it's not the amount of threads that makes
the noise, it's mainly all the sub-sub-sub-sub-threads.
As long as they're about Gentoo, they're not 'noise' to everyone. I
confess I don't read every email on
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