Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-project] New developer: Fabio Erculiani (lxnay)

2009-09-28 Thread Fabio Erculiani
Thanks to everybody involved in the process and in building up good relationships firstly between Gentoo and Sabayon and secondly among their devs. I am looking forward to contribute to Gentoo KDE and Portage Projects with my knowledge and ideas. In particular, I am looking forward to merge the

[gentoo-dev] Lastrite: media-video/qc-usb-messenger

2009-09-28 Thread Samuli Suominen
# Samuli Suominen (28 Sep 2009) # Obsolete. Supported by in-kernel drivers. Masked for removal, # see bug 277605. media-video/qc-usb-messenger It supported 4 device id's which have been supported by in-kernel gspca drivers for quite a while. Also, it doesn't compile with any recent kernel.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-project] New developer: Fabio Erculiani (lxnay)

2009-09-28 Thread likewhoa
Welcome aboard, looking forward to your contributions, and don't worry about rectifying false rumours, just committing to the tree and making new friends is enough for most. Once again welcome to gentoo it's about freaking time you became a developer :p On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 10:55 +0200, Fabio Er

[gentoo-dev] [rfc] layman-global.txt, repositories.xml, layman, overlays.gentoo.org

2009-09-28 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Hello there! This may look like like a lot of text but it actually isn't. Please read on. Thanks. During the last few days rbu and I have been teaming up on a proposal implementation improving on some of the issues that persist around layman-global.txt. (previously summarized in [1]) Both la

[gentoo-dev] Lastrite: spca drivers

2009-09-28 Thread Samuli Suominen
So, you might remember me lastriting qc-usb-messenger earlier today... here's some more webcam drivers: # Samuli Suominen (28 Sep 2009) # Obsolete. Supported by in-kernel drivers. Masked for removal, # see bug 159176. media-video/gspca media-video/spca5xx media-video/gspcav1 In fact 2 out of 3 w

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dropping (or enabling only on request) bootstrap from SCM eclasses

2009-09-28 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 15:46 Thu 24 Sep , Maciej Mrozowski wrote: > Because autopatcher makes it able to specify patches that are version > independent (same patches for live and tagged ebuilds), while SCM > patching/bootstrapping may be used for some specific cases (I haven't seen > any > yet personally, henc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo usage in companies

2009-09-28 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 13:58 Sat 26 Sep , Patrick Lauer wrote: > Hello everybody! > > As Gentoo approaches its 10th birthday I've been wondering how and where it > is > used. We used to have some great stories from companies in the weekly > newsletter, but that one has become very dormant a while ago. > > I'd

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future

2009-09-28 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 20:46 Sun 13 Sep , Ryan Hill wrote: > On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:15:34 +0200 > Sebastian Pipping wrote: > > Ryan Hill wrote: > > > Personally I don't see how gaming the system helps us in any way. > > > > I was afraid it could be read in such a way. Handing out fake version > > numbers would