Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation)

2006-08-03 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2006.08.03 04:27, Lance Albertson wrote: [snip] There's a good chance that a package in the regular tree will link against a package from sunrise, the user will have no idea or forget that they installed that app from sunrise (and the dep exists), and a bug arises. [snip] Anyways, I've

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation)

2006-08-03 Thread Bryan Ãstergaard
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 10:46:22AM +0100, Roy Bamford wrote: On 2006.08.03 04:27, Lance Albertson wrote: [snip] There's a good chance that a package in the regular tree will link against a package from sunrise, the user will have no idea or forget that they installed that app from sunrise

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation)

2006-08-03 Thread Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen
On Thursday 03 August 2006 04:56, Brian Harring wrote: snipped alot Besides... frankly it's kind of BS to push the vuln angle onto sunrise when gentoo can't even clean out years old vulnerable packages from gentoo-x86 (that doesn't absolve sunrise from having to watch it, nor a potshot at the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation)

2006-08-03 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Thursday 03 August 2006 04:56, Brian Harring wrote: *cough*. bit hypocritical for you to lecture me about viewing your statements as 'flaming', and in the same breath label my own as 'flaming' ;) Why am I pointing this out? My initial points were that of why the double standard, with

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation)

2006-08-03 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 18:21 +0200, Carsten Lohrke wrote: The difference is that I argue, while you accuse me to play false. I consider this as ad hominem and together with all this FUD and BS calling, in contrary to my email, inflammatory. ... and that is inflammatory :-) I'd appreciate,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation)

2006-08-02 Thread Thierry Carrez
Brian Harring wrote: What the hell do you think the tree is? It's a bunch of arbitrary packages maintained loosely by subgroups of people; you're stating that sunrise is too loose yet gentoo-x86 is fundamentally no different. Sunrise is pretty much the same damn thing. Or maybe he

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation)

2006-08-02 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 11:21:38 +0200 Thierry Carrez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Or maybe he means the Gentoo developers are an elite group of | flawless people, blessed by the mighty ebuild quizz ? That elitism | would in the end kill us, and I thank the Sunrise project for opening | up Gentoo a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation)

2006-08-02 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On 8/2/06, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The alternative to elitism is mediocrity. Would you like Gentoo to be a mediocre distribution? The real world isn't binary. So there's a whole range of alternatives between elitism and mediocrity. Denis. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation)

2006-08-02 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 2 Aug 2006 11:41:10 +0200 Denis Dupeyron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On 8/2/06, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | The alternative to elitism is mediocrity. Would you like Gentoo to | be a mediocre distribution? | | The real world isn't binary. So there's a whole range of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation)

2006-08-02 Thread Alex Tarkovsky
On 8/2/06, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The alternative to elitism is mediocrity. Would you like Gentoo to be a mediocre distribution? Every time you post it's like fingernails on a chalkboard... http://arcanux.org/scarecrow.png Cheers. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation)

2006-08-02 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2006.08.02 10:51, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 2 Aug 2006 11:41:10 +0200 Denis Dupeyron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On 8/2/06, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | The alternative to elitism is mediocrity. Would you like Gentoo to | be a mediocre distribution? | | The real world

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation)

2006-08-02 Thread Jochen Maes
On 8/2/06, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The alternative to elitism is mediocrity. Would you like Gentoo to be a mediocre distribution? Every time you post it's like fingernails on a chalkboard... http://arcanux.org/scarecrow.png but this time he is right, am i gl Cheers. --

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation)

2006-08-02 Thread Jochen Maes
On 8/2/06, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The alternative to elitism is mediocrity. Would you like Gentoo to be a mediocre distribution? Every time you post it's like fingernails on a chalkboard... http://arcanux.org/scarecrow.png but he has a valid point. this is not a step

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation)

2006-08-02 Thread Stephen P. Becker
Every time you post it's like fingernails on a chalkboard... http://arcanux.org/scarecrow.png Ha ha ha! Oh gosh that's funny! That's really funny! Do you photoshop your own material? Do you? Because that is so fresh. Ciaranm is like a scarecrow. You know, I've, I've never heard anyone make

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation)

2006-08-02 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Monday 31 July 2006 08:47, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Knowing what the problem is is part of making the solution. The problem is not that users can't push arbitrary content into a centralised official repository with no oversight from the herds appropriate for said content quickly enough. I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation)

2006-08-02 Thread Carsten Lohrke
First I'd like to state that I do offer my opinion. You don't have to like it, but disqualifying it as flaming, while exactly doing this yourself, disqualifies you. I'd appreciate, if you would try to have a controversial discussion, without starting to loose your manners. On Wednesday 02

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation)

2006-08-02 Thread Alex Tarkovsky
On 8/2/06, Stephen P. Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Every time you post it's like fingernails on a chalkboard... http://arcanux.org/scarecrow.png Ha ha ha! Oh gosh that's funny! That's really funny! Do you photoshop your own material? Do you? Because that is so fresh. Ciaranm is like a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation)

2006-08-02 Thread Alec Warner
Alex Tarkovsky wrote: On 8/2/06, Stephen P. Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Every time you post it's like fingernails on a chalkboard... http://arcanux.org/scarecrow.png Ha ha ha! Oh gosh that's funny! That's really funny! Do you photoshop your own material? Do you? Because that is so

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation)

2006-08-02 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 2 Aug 2006 14:49:19 -0500 Alex Tarkovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On 8/2/06, Stephen P. Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Every time you post it's like fingernails on a chalkboard... | | http://arcanux.org/scarecrow.png | | Ha ha ha! Oh gosh that's funny! That's really funny! Do

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation)

2006-08-02 Thread Jakub Moc
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 2 Aug 2006 14:49:19 -0500 Alex Tarkovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On 8/2/06, Stephen P. Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Every time you post it's like fingernails on a chalkboard... | Ha ha ha! Oh gosh that's funny! That's really funny! | There's a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation)

2006-08-02 Thread Brian Harring
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 08:05:15PM +0200, Carsten Lohrke wrote: First I'd like to state that I do offer my opinion. You don't have to like it, but disqualifying it as flaming, while exactly doing this yourself, disqualifies you. *cough*. bit hypocritical for you to lecture me about

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation)

2006-08-02 Thread Lance Albertson
Brian Harring wrote: On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 08:05:15PM +0200, Carsten Lohrke wrote: First I'd like to state that I do offer my opinion. You don't have to like it, but disqualifying it as flaming, while exactly doing this yourself, disqualifies you. *cough*. bit hypocritical for you to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation)

2006-08-02 Thread Lance Albertson
Brian Harring wrote: On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 08:05:15PM +0200, Carsten Lohrke wrote: Local overlays are fine as the user exactly knows what he does in his private overlay (and hopefully follows eclass changes), development overlays are fine (assuming the group of people controls the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation)

2006-08-02 Thread Brian Harring
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 10:27:04PM -0500, Lance Albertson wrote: Brian Harring wrote: On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 08:05:15PM +0200, Carsten Lohrke wrote: Local overlays are fine as the user exactly knows what he does in his private overlay (and hopefully follows eclass changes),

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation)

2006-08-02 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Lance Albertson wrote: I think the point a lot of people are concerned about are packages that contain libraries or other dependencies that reside in the sunrise tree. There's a good chance that a package in the regular tree will link against a package from sunrise, the user will have no idea or

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation)

2006-08-01 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Monday 31 July 2006 07:05, Seemant Kulleen wrote: OK, let's start with: what exactly is the problem? Please reread my replies in the first sunrise thread. Points are: no security, issues with eclass changes which will result in bug spam, the fact that sunrise is a bunch of arbitrary

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation)

2006-08-01 Thread Alec Warner
Carsten Lohrke wrote: On Monday 31 July 2006 07:05, Seemant Kulleen wrote: OK, let's start with: what exactly is the problem? Please reread my replies in the first sunrise thread. Points are: no security, issues with eclass changes which will result in bug spam, the fact that eclass

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation)

2006-08-01 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Thursday 01 January 1970 01:00, Alec Warner wrote: eclass changes? You can't even commit eclasses to it... Eclass changes in the main tree, including all relevant ebuilds updated, but breaking the ebuilds in the Surise overlay, having whining users or borked systems in the worst case.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation)

2006-08-01 Thread Brian Harring
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 02:24:17AM +0200, Carsten Lohrke wrote: On Monday 31 July 2006 07:05, Seemant Kulleen wrote: OK, let's start with: what exactly is the problem? 1) Please reread my replies in the first sunrise thread. Points are: 1) no security, Suggest you read their responses, and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation)

2006-07-31 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 31 July 2006 01:53, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 01:38:42 -0400 Seemant Kulleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Please note the difference between pulling and pushing. Pushing | implies that people who don't want sunrise on their systems have to | have it and have to use it. This

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation)

2006-07-31 Thread Seemant Kulleen
They're not relevant to this discussion. We're not discussing what the right solution is, we're discussing why Sunrise is the wrong solution. There's a hell of a difference -- as an illustration, most people could tell you why giving everybody nukes is the wrong way to get peace in the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation)

2006-07-31 Thread Joshua Jackson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Knowing what the problem is is part of making the solution. The problem is not that users can't push arbitrary content into a centralised official repository with no oversight from the herds appropriate for said content

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed

2006-07-31 Thread Jan Kundrát
Alex Tarkovsky wrote: Gentoo is a team effort. There's no place in Gentoo for developers who can't function within a team environment where members must be capable of rational deliberation and, from time to time, compromise. OTOH this team collaboration doesn't mean that we have to agree with

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation)

2006-07-31 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 00:13:45 -0700 Joshua Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | That is the issue at hand at the core of this. Its called choice. Choice is not an end in itself. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail: ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

AW: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed

2006-07-31 Thread Noack, Sebastian
: Montag, 31. Juli 2006 09:42 An: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Betreff: Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed Alex Tarkovsky wrote: Gentoo is a team effort. There's no place in Gentoo for developers who can't function within a team environment where members must be capable of rational

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed

2006-07-31 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 31. Juli 2006 11:16 schrieb ext Noack, Sebastian: A patch for your signature to increase your life expectancy. ;) @@ -1 +1 @@ -cd /local/pub more beer /dev/mouth +cd /local/pub more beer | sed -e s/beer/water/g /dev/mouth Luckily, this doesn't even work :-) Beer will always be

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation)

2006-07-31 Thread Mike Kelly
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 00:13:45 -0700 Joshua Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a lot of irony in this entire discussion. We are actually talking about going against what the heck part of the reason this project was started. Are we seriously that *can't find the word I'm looking for*

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed

2006-07-30 Thread Stephen P. Becker
Mike Frysinger wrote: On Thursday 27 July 2006 18:21, Stephen P. Becker wrote: Looking at the meeting log, the council even noted that the concerns had not been addressed no, we noted that people claimed they had concerns but when cornered and asked what exactly their concerns were, no more

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed

2006-07-30 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Stephen P. Becker wrote: Ok, since the first time around apparently wasn't good enough, how about this? This project sucks. It takes random ebuilds without enough merit or demand to even have some team and/or developer within Gentoo pick it up, and dumps it to a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed

2006-07-30 Thread Alex Tarkovsky
On 7/30/06, Stephen P. Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is nothing you or anyone else can say that will make me think otherwise, You won't listen, yet you expect to be listened to. Speaking as a user and lover of Gentoo I believe you should resign as a developer. On this list and on IRC,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed

2006-07-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 30 July 2006 18:47, Stephen P. Becker wrote: There is nothing you or anyone else can say well if you're coming forth with such stout resolution of ignoring any one else's input, then there's no point in debating the topic with you now is there ? -mike pgpRLmOrTjAue.pgp Description:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation)

2006-07-30 Thread Seemant Kulleen
On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 03:53 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Partly, the part where it's run by people who have little clue about ebuild development or QA, who will be taking code from people who have little clue about ebuild development or QA and giving it to other people who have little clue

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation)

2006-07-30 Thread Seemant Kulleen
On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 06:30 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Their commit history backs it up all by itself. Ppint to specifically what, in their respective histories, proves your case. This is like pulling teeth. | Where is this code being pushed to, exactly? Users. Please note the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation)

2006-07-30 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 01:38:42 -0400 Seemant Kulleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 06:30 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | Their commit history backs it up all by itself. | | Ppint to specifically what, in their respective histories, proves your | case. This is like pulling

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed

2006-07-28 Thread Martin Schlemmer
On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 18:21 -0400, Stephen P. Becker wrote: Stefan Schweizer wrote: In last weeks council meeting [1] it was decided that the Sunrise project is no longer suspended. I can give a short overview of the current status of the overlay: - we currently have 154 ebuilds in 58

[gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed

2006-07-27 Thread Stefan Schweizer
To my fellow Gentoo developers and users, Sunrise is about contributing ebuilds and getting feedback and review while doing so. The main resource this currently happens for is the Gentoo User Overlay of Sunrise and second come ebuilds that get into portage afterwards In last weeks council

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed

2006-07-27 Thread Stephen P. Becker
Stefan Schweizer wrote: In last weeks council meeting [1] it was decided that the Sunrise project is no longer suspended. I can give a short overview of the current status of the overlay: - we currently have 154 ebuilds in 58 categories in the overlay not counting the ebuilds that got into