Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Unified nVidia Driver Ebuild ready for testing

2005-12-24 Thread Niklas Bolander
On Friday 23 December 2005 20:59, Peter wrote: I can tell you that I would be disappointed if this replaces the current ebuilds, because I really don't need to reinstall nvidia-settings and nvidia-glx every time I build a new kernel. That's why we are having this dialog. When I proposed

Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support

2005-12-24 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 24 December 2005 12:58, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 12:50:33 +0900 Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | SLOT is currently an arbitrary string (without spaces) so general | matching of * might be useful. Of course, there's no restriction of | not using * in SLOTs

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Unified nVidia Driver Ebuild ready for testing

2005-12-24 Thread Dale
Niklas Bolander wrote: On Friday 23 December 2005 20:59, Peter wrote: I can tell you that I would be disappointed if this replaces the current ebuilds, because I really don't need to reinstall nvidia-settings and nvidia-glx every time I build a new kernel. That's why we are having

Re: [gentoo-dev] X.Org 7.0 Release

2005-12-24 Thread Alexandre Buisse
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 00:49:35 +0100, Joshua Baergen wrote: As many of you no doubt have noticed, spyderous and I finished bumping the modular packages to the newly released 7.0, which includes many changes and bug fixes since 6.8.2. Over the next few weeks we'll be finalizing licenses

[gentoo-dev] Re: Unified nVidia Driver Ebuild ready for testing

2005-12-24 Thread R Hill
Peter wrote: To Gentoo nVidia users: We are in the process of developing and testing a unified nVidia driver ebuild. When implemented, it will replace the nvidia-kernel, nvidia-glx, and nvidia-settings ebuilds. It will also add the utility nvidia-xconfig. Well I just wanted to say thanks

Re: [gentoo-dev] X.Org 7.0 Release

2005-12-24 Thread Peter Cech
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 10:31:25AM +0100, Alexandre Buisse wrote: On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 00:49:35 +0100, Joshua Baergen wrote: As many of you no doubt have noticed, spyderous and I finished bumping the modular packages to the newly released 7.0, which includes many changes and bug

Re: [gentoo-dev] Optimizing performance

2005-12-24 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 00:52:46 +0100 Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, if the binaries are not stripped, they consume more memory. I'm still convinced this is untrue (apart from disk space). Debug symbols are not part of the executable view. The kernel loader map

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Unified nVidia Driver Ebuild ready for testing

2005-12-24 Thread Peter
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 03:16:53 -0600, Dale wrote: Niklas Bolander wrote: snip... I have to agree. Do it sort of like KDE, with kde, kde-meta or as seperate packages. Have it so you can pull in all three in one emerge command but have the option to do it seperately as well. I have only

Re: [gentoo-dev] Optimizing performance

2005-12-24 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Saturday 24 December 2005 12:37, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: I'm still convinced this is untrue (apart from disk space). IIRC was solar who said some time ago that executables are mmapped before the sections to load are loaded. And when I was using non-stripped binaries, I had less free memory than

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Unified nVidia Driver Ebuild ready for testing

2005-12-24 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Saturday 24 December 2005 12:34, Peter wrote: THAT is a very reasonable comment! Not at all. Meta ebuilds are a provisional and fugly workaround as long as we have to wait for proper sets and only to be used for a larger set of packages. Wrapping three or four ebuilds with another one, just

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Unified nVidia Driver Ebuild ready for testing

2005-12-24 Thread Peter
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 13:09:36 +0100, Carsten Lohrke wrote: On Saturday 24 December 2005 12:34, Peter wrote: THAT is a very reasonable comment! Not at all. Meta ebuilds are a provisional and fugly workaround as long as we have to wait for proper sets and only to be used for a larger set of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Unified nVidia Driver Ebuild ready for testing

2005-12-24 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Saturday 24 December 2005 13:50, Peter wrote: Also, I find it absolutely fascinating that the only people against this concept are devs, and the only people for it are users. Remember that users are your customers. Every effort should be made to keep them happy. Considering that we aren't

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Unified nVidia Driver Ebuild ready for testing

2005-12-24 Thread Jon Portnoy
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 07:50:51AM -0500, Peter wrote: Also, I find it absolutely fascinating that the only people against this concept are devs, and the only people for it are users. Remember that users are your customers. Every effort should be made to keep them happy. customer n

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Unified nVidia Driver Ebuild ready for testing

2005-12-24 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Saturday 24 December 2005 13:50, Peter wrote: Would you please add the comments to the bug report? Or, may I copy them? Please advise. Feel free to do so. Also, I find it absolutely fascinating that the only people against this concept are devs, and the only people for it are users.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Unified nVidia Driver Ebuild ready for testing

2005-12-24 Thread Jean-Francois Gagnon Laporte
On 12/24/05, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 13:09:36 +0100, Carsten Lohrke wrote: On Saturday 24 December 2005 12:34, Peter wrote: THAT is a very reasonable comment! Not at all. Meta ebuilds are a provisional and fugly workaround as long as we have to wait for

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Unified nVidia Driver Ebuild ready for testing

2005-12-24 Thread Peter
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 14:09:01 +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: snip... nVidia upstream combines all the products together in their .run files. There is minimal time difference between having the entire suite installed versus each one individually. Well depends how you see it. If you

Re: [gentoo-dev] contents of /dev after initial installation

2005-12-24 Thread Bjarke Istrup Pedersen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthias Langer skrev: I'm just a more or less simple user of gentoo who somtimes tries to look a bit behind the curtain, so if you think this posting doesn't belong to gentoo-dev let me know. However, maybe this is interesting to you:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Unified nVidia Driver Ebuild ready for testing

2005-12-24 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Saturday 24 December 2005 16:31, Peter wrote: Not really. glx does not compile at all and the entire pkg file has to be extracted. Same amount of files being processed... No, because the glx part files needs to be processed by portage, too, and that's something that takes time, especially

Re: [gentoo-dev] X.Org 7.0 Release

2005-12-24 Thread Joshua Baergen
Peter Cech wrote: I solved my problems by commenting RgbPath setting in xorg.conf. I would suggest the line with RgbPath is commented in xorg.conf.example. While I'll respond here, it's generally better to post these sorts of issues on bugs.gentoo.org (searching first!), as they don't really

Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support

2005-12-24 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 17:57:30 +0900 Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Heh. Yep, that's another one. Checking with a quick script, it seems | that there are 478 unique SLOTs and the regex [a-zA-Z0-9\._\-]* | matches them all. Perhaps it would be worthwhile locking it down to | those characters

Re: how to contribute to use/slot deps: was Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support

2005-12-24 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 23:56:37 -0800 Brian Harring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | It's really pretty simple- get off your butt and chip in if you want | it, else you're on _our_ timeline (eg, we implement it when we deem | it sane/ready to go). Is Portage development done to support the needs of those

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Unified nVidia Driver Ebuild ready for testing

2005-12-24 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 07:50:51 -0500 Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Also, I find it absolutely fascinating that the only people against | this concept are devs, and the only people for it are users. Remember | that users are your customers. Every effort should be made to keep | them happy. Hardly

Re: how to contribute to use/slot deps: was Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support

2005-12-24 Thread Dan Meltzer
On 12/24/05, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 23:56:37 -0800 Brian Harring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | It's really pretty simple- get off your butt and chip in if you want | it, else you're on _our_ timeline (eg, we implement it when we deem | it sane/ready to go).

Re: [gentoo-dev] contents of /dev after initial installation

2005-12-24 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 24 December 2005 10:43, Bjarke Istrup Pedersen wrote: Is there any reason for not doing this, and then recommend that the users that don't use udev/devfs to run MAKEDEV ? because the process can easily go wrong leaving new users without a clue of whats going on -mike --

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Unified nVidia Driver Ebuild ready for testing

2005-12-24 Thread Jan Kundrát
Peter wrote: Also, I find it absolutely fascinating that the only people against this concept are devs, and the only people for it are users. Please see Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (for those using MUAs that suck, it's Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 03:16:53 -0600, From: Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Unified nVidia Driver Ebuild ready for testing

2005-12-24 Thread fire-eyes
As an end user, I would prefer the ebuilds kept seperately. Also right now, nvidia-settings will not compile for some of us, which would result in a single merge failing: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114649 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Unified nVidia Driver Ebuild ready for testing

2005-12-24 Thread Dale
fire-eyes wrote: As an end user, I would prefer the ebuilds kept seperately. Also right now, nvidia-settings will not compile for some of us, which would result in a single merge failing: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114649 Looks like I started something. O_O I finally said

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Unified nVidia Driver Ebuild ready for testing

2005-12-24 Thread lnxg33k
I'm just a user, but I personally would prefer the three separate ebuilds. If a meta-ebuild was included as an additional way to build, that'd be fine. I update whenever a new version comes out, but only build -kernel after updating the kernel. This makes sense as being the most efficient way to

Re: how to contribute to use/slot deps: was Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support

2005-12-24 Thread Curtis Napier
Dan Meltzer wrote: On 12/24/05, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 23:56:37 -0800 Brian Harring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | It's really pretty simple- get off your butt and chip in if you want | it, else you're on _our_ timeline (eg, we implement it when we deem | it

Re: how to contribute to use/slot deps: was Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support

2005-12-24 Thread Dan Meltzer
On 12/24/05, Curtis Napier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Meltzer wrote: On 12/24/05, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 23:56:37 -0800 Brian Harring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | It's really pretty simple- get off your butt and chip in if you want | it, else you're

[gentoo-dev] Re: Unified nVidia Driver Ebuild ready for testing

2005-12-24 Thread R Hill
Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten wrote: On Saturday 24 December 2005 16:31, Peter wrote: Not really. glx does not compile at all and the entire pkg file has to be extracted. Same amount of files being processed... No, because the glx part files needs to be processed by portage, too, and that's

Re: how to contribute to use/slot deps: was Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support

2005-12-24 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:33:06PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 23:56:37 -0800 Brian Harring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | It's really pretty simple- get off your butt and chip in if you want | it, else you're on _our_ timeline (eg, we implement it when we deem | it

[gentoo-dev] mac/xmms-mac licence issue

2005-12-24 Thread Bret Towe
earily today i updated the ebuilds for mac and xmms-mac, for those that dont know their applications for monkey's audio (.ape files), and got them submited to bug 94477[1] which was closed due to the way the licence was done my issue is i think the ebuilds should be commited to portage as i dont

Re: [gentoo-dev] mac/xmms-mac licence issue

2005-12-24 Thread Jakub Moc
25.12.2005, 3:11:53, Bret Towe wrote: i can understand putting proper warning in the ebuild if the dev thinks that its worth the user really noting the issues surrounding it, not forcing their ideals onto the user if i wanted that i would run debian Erm, we are not forcing our ideal on

Re: [gentoo-dev] mac/xmms-mac licence issue

2005-12-24 Thread Brian Harring
License in question... http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=35862action=view On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 06:11:53PM -0800, Bret Towe wrote: earily today i updated the ebuilds for mac and xmms-mac, for those that dont know their applications for monkey's audio (.ape files), and got them

Re: [gentoo-dev] mac/xmms-mac licence issue

2005-12-24 Thread Carsten Lohrke
This isn't politics, but copyright infringement on top of a ridiculous license (when you want to see it as one) we had a short discussion¹ about several months ago. Carsten [1] http://tinyurl.com/9oxgc pgpHcVb3ubq0c.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] mac/xmms-mac licence issue

2005-12-24 Thread Jakub Moc
25.12.2005, 3:51:15, Brian Harring wrote: Jakub responded in this thread about shipping a crap license... imo, that's not the issue. The issue is that we would be knowingly violating a license (however horrid the license is). Two routes out of this- clean room reimplementation of the

Re: [gentoo-dev] mac/xmms-mac licence issue

2005-12-24 Thread Bret Towe
On 12/24/05, Carsten Lohrke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This isn't politics, but copyright infringement on top of a ridiculous license (when you want to see it as one) we had a short discussion¹ about several months ago. im sorry i fail to see how copyright infringement or a ridiculous licence

Re: [gentoo-dev] mac/xmms-mac licence issue

2005-12-24 Thread Bret Towe
On 12/24/05, Brian Harring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: License in question... http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=35862action=view On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 06:11:53PM -0800, Bret Towe wrote: earily today i updated the ebuilds for mac and xmms-mac, for those that dont know their

Re: [gentoo-dev] mac/xmms-mac licence issue

2005-12-24 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 19:17:05 -0800 Bret Towe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On 12/24/05, Carsten Lohrke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | This isn't politics, but copyright infringement on top of a | ridiculous license (when you want to see it as one) we had a short | discussion¹ about several months ago.

Re: [gentoo-dev] mac/xmms-mac licence issue

2005-12-24 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 07:17:05PM -0800, Bret Towe wrote: On 12/24/05, Carsten Lohrke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This isn't politics, but copyright infringement on top of a ridiculous license (when you want to see it as one) we had a short discussion¹ about several months ago. im sorry

Re: [gentoo-dev] mac/xmms-mac licence issue

2005-12-24 Thread Daniel Ostrow
On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 19:17 -0800, Bret Towe wrote: On 12/24/05, Carsten Lohrke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This isn't politics, but copyright infringement on top of a ridiculous license (when you want to see it as one) we had a short discussion¹ about several months ago. im sorry i fail

Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] mac/xmms-mac licence issue

2005-12-24 Thread Jakub Moc
25.12.2005, 4:17:05, Bret Towe wrote: On 12/24/05, Carsten Lohrke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This isn't politics, but copyright infringement on top of a ridiculous license (when you want to see it as one) we had a short discussion1 about several months ago. im sorry i fail to see how

Re: [gentoo-dev] mac/xmms-mac licence issue

2005-12-24 Thread Bret Towe
On 12/24/05, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 19:17:05 -0800 Bret Towe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On 12/24/05, Carsten Lohrke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | This isn't politics, but copyright infringement on top of a | ridiculous license (when you want to see it as

Re: [gentoo-dev] mac/xmms-mac licence issue

2005-12-24 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 07:22:50PM -0800, Bret Towe wrote: i can understand putting proper warning in the ebuild if the dev thinks that its worth the user really noting the issues surrounding it, not forcing their ideals onto the user if i wanted that i would run debian See above,

Re: [gentoo-dev] mac/xmms-mac licence issue

2005-12-24 Thread Bret Towe
On 12/24/05, Daniel Ostrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 19:17 -0800, Bret Towe wrote: On 12/24/05, Carsten Lohrke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This isn't politics, but copyright infringement on top of a ridiculous license (when you want to see it as one) we had a short

Re: [gentoo-dev] mac/xmms-mac licence issue

2005-12-24 Thread Dale
Bret Towe wrote: On 12/24/05, Carsten Lohrke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This isn't politics, but copyright infringement on top of a ridiculous license (when you want to see it as one) we had a short discussion¹ about several months ago. im sorry i fail to see how copyright infringement

Re: [gentoo-dev] mac/xmms-mac licence issue

2005-12-24 Thread Daniel Ostrow
On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 19:35 -0800, Bret Towe wrote: On 12/24/05, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 19:17:05 -0800 Bret Towe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On 12/24/05, Carsten Lohrke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | This isn't politics, but copyright infringement on top of

Re: [gentoo-dev] mac/xmms-mac licence issue

2005-12-24 Thread Bret Towe
On 12/24/05, Brian Harring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 07:22:50PM -0800, Bret Towe wrote: i can understand putting proper warning in the ebuild if the dev thinks that its worth the user really noting the issues surrounding it, not forcing their ideals onto the

Re: [gentoo-dev] mac/xmms-mac licence issue

2005-12-24 Thread Bret Towe
On 12/24/05, Daniel Ostrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 19:35 -0800, Bret Towe wrote: On 12/24/05, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 19:17:05 -0800 Bret Towe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On 12/24/05, Carsten Lohrke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |

Re: [gentoo-dev] mac/xmms-mac licence issue

2005-12-24 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 22:32:03 -0500 Daniel Ostrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | What you are missing is that Gentoo (the foundation) is legally | culpable for making sure that none of the packages that we provide in | our tree violate any form of license. If we shipped these e-builds | then the

Re: how to contribute to use/slot deps: was Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support

2005-12-24 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Sunday 25 December 2005 02:33, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 23:56:37 -0800 Brian Harring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | It's really pretty simple- get off your butt and chip in if you want | it, else you're on _our_ timeline (eg, we implement it when we deem | it sane/ready to