Re: [gentoo-dev] Non-free software in Gentoo

2009-12-30 Thread Harald van Dijk
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 08:51:18PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 06:43:47AM -0500, Richard Freeman wrote: > > On 12/29/2009 07:52 PM, Greg KH wrote: > >> No, the readme/copying is correct, it covers all of the code that runs > >> on the processor as one body of work. Firmware blo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Non-free software in Gentoo

2009-12-30 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 06:43:47AM -0500, Richard Freeman wrote: > On 12/29/2009 07:52 PM, Greg KH wrote: >> No, the readme/copying is correct, it covers all of the code that runs >> on the processor as one body of work. Firmware blobs are different in >> that they do not run in the same processor

Re: [gentoo-dev] Non-free software in Gentoo

2009-12-30 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 09:42:06PM -0500, Vincent Launchbury wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > The fact that some people claim that the firmware blobs somehow violate > > the GPLv2 license of the kernel is a claim, not a fact, so please do not > > state it as such. > > Hi Greg, > > Thanks for your re

Re: [gentoo-dev] Qt3 deprecation and removal policy

2009-12-30 Thread Ben de Groot
2009/12/30 Zhu Sha Zang : > A question: > > My systems don't use qt3 use flag since six months ago, but using > qt3support USE FLAG. It's sane keep this flag set in make.conf? Absolutely. That useflag is also enabled by default in the desktop profile, because KDE4 depends on it. Qt3support is a Qt

Re: [gentoo-dev] Qt3 deprecation and removal policy

2009-12-30 Thread Espen Hustad
2009/12/30 Zhu Sha Zang : >> Cheers, > > A question: > > My systems don't use qt3 use flag since six months ago, but using > qt3support USE FLAG. It's sane keep this flag set in make.conf? If you use KDE or anything else that depends on the qt3support use flag, then it is a requirement. qt3suppor

Re: [gentoo-dev] Qt3 deprecation and removal policy

2009-12-30 Thread Zhu Sha Zang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Em 30-12-2009 15:14, Ben de Groot escreveu: > As announced 5 months ago[1], Gentoo's Qt team now officially > deprecates usage of x11-libs/qt:3 and packages depending on this > version of Qt. The only supported and maintained version of Qt, both > by t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Election for the Gentoo Council empty seat

2009-12-30 Thread Alex Alexander
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 09:27:12PM +0200, Markos Chandras wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:57:41PM -0100, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > Hello. > > > > > > As announced by Denis (Calchan)[1], we need to have an election f

Re: [gentoo-dev] Election for the Gentoo Council empty seat

2009-12-30 Thread Markos Chandras
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:57:41PM -0100, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Hello. > > > > As announced by Denis (Calchan)[1], we need to have an election for the > > Gentoo Council's empty seat. > > We'll be putting up a page with all

Re: [gentoo-dev] Election for the Gentoo Council empty seat

2009-12-30 Thread Thomas Anderson
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:57:41PM -0100, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello. > > As announced by Denis (Calchan)[1], we need to have an election for the > Gentoo Council's empty seat. > We'll be putting up a page with all the information

[gentoo-dev] Qt3 deprecation and removal policy

2009-12-30 Thread Ben de Groot
As announced 5 months ago[1], Gentoo's Qt team now officially deprecates usage of x11-libs/qt:3 and packages depending on this version of Qt. The only supported and maintained version of Qt, both by the upstream developers (Nokia) and the Gentoo Qt Project, is now only version 4 (specifically >=4.5

Re: [gentoo-dev] Why do packages which will not build remain in the distribution list?

2009-12-30 Thread Alex Legler
On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 06:58:48 -0500, Richard Freeman wrote: > [...] > So a build error might not reflect a > problem with the package you're trying to build. This is the case here. Some packages install broken pkg-config files (missing a Name: field) which will cause pkg-config --list-all to fai

Re: [gentoo-dev] Why do packages which will not build remain in the distribution list?

2009-12-30 Thread Richard Freeman
On 12/30/2009 05:18 AM, Petteri Räty wrote: You need to understand what the world set means. The world set is the packages in /var/lib/portage/world and the sets from /var/lib/portage/world_sets . From this follows that we can't change the content of the world set as it's a user specific configur

Re: [gentoo-dev] Non-free software in Gentoo

2009-12-30 Thread Richard Freeman
On 12/29/2009 07:52 PM, Greg KH wrote: No, the readme/copying is correct, it covers all of the code that runs on the processor as one body of work. Firmware blobs are different in that they do not run in the same processor, and can be of a different license. Yes, but they don't cover everythi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Why do packages which will not build remain in the distribution list?

2009-12-30 Thread Petteri Räty
On 12/30/2009 12:11 PM, Robert Bradbury wrote: > For the last week or so, there have been packages in the "world" > distribution list which previously installed fine which currently do > not, these include ruby-gdkpixbuf2, ruby-pango, ruby-gtk2, > ruby-gnomecanvas2, ruby-gnome2 and ruby-libglade2 (

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: clutter.eclass -- new eclass for packages related to "Clutter"

2009-12-30 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, Nirbheek Chauhan : > The eclass is attached, and is very simple, consisting of just > SRC_URI, DEPEND, LICENSE, DOCS, and src_install. No objections. V-Li -- Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode http://gentoo.faulhammer.

[gentoo-dev] Why do packages which will not build remain in the distribution list?

2009-12-30 Thread Robert Bradbury
For the last week or so, there have been packages in the "world" distribution list which previously installed fine which currently do not, these include ruby-gdkpixbuf2, ruby-pango, ruby-gtk2, ruby-gnomecanvas2, ruby-gnome2 and ruby-libglade2 (this is on an x86 system). My reading of the bug repor