Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] C++ herd proposal

2005-09-19 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On 20/9/2005 7:37:19, Georgi Georgiev ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > maillog: 20/09/2005-07:21:08(+0200): Christian Parpart types > > On Monday 19 September 2005 15:22, warnera6 wrote: > > > Mark Loeser wrote: > > > > Paul de Vrieze wrote: > > > >> I think that dev-util is a very specific category co

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] C++ herd proposal

2005-09-19 Thread Georgi Georgiev
maillog: 20/09/2005-09:37:23(+0300): Alin Nastac types > Georgi Georgiev wrote: > > >- that package in my overlay that has net-wireless/gnome-phone-manager > > in its *DEPENDs to work for as long as needed > > > > > gnome-phone-manager can be found in portage tree under app-mobilephone > catego

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] C++ herd proposal

2005-09-19 Thread Alin Nastac
Georgi Georgiev wrote: >- that package in my overlay that has net-wireless/gnome-phone-manager > in its *DEPENDs to work for as long as needed > > gnome-phone-manager can be found in portage tree under app-mobilephone category. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] C++ herd proposal

2005-09-19 Thread Georgi Georgiev
maillog: 20/09/2005-07:21:08(+0200): Christian Parpart types > On Monday 19 September 2005 15:22, warnera6 wrote: > > Mark Loeser wrote: > > > Paul de Vrieze wrote: > > >> I think that dev-util is a very specific category containing > > >> development utilities of some sort. There might be some > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] C++ herd proposal

2005-09-19 Thread Christian Parpart
On Monday 19 September 2005 15:22, warnera6 wrote: > Mark Loeser wrote: > > Paul de Vrieze wrote: > >> I think that dev-util is a very specific category containing > >> development utilities of some sort. There might be some > >> misclassifications in them, but from a user perspective I don't reall

[gentoo-dev] Pending removal of app-arch/gzip-x86

2005-09-19 Thread Mark Loeser
I'm masking app-arch/gzip-x86 as we speak. It seems to cause problems for people[1] and is based off of gzip-1.3.3. As such, it is vulnerable to a couple[2] exploits[3]. Upstream appears dead (last update was 2003-05-20) and no one is currently maintaining it for us. If you don't want to see it

Re: [gentoo-dev] cvs keywording.

2005-09-19 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 20:38 +0300, Alin Dobre wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Alec Warner wrote: > > Official policy states that CVS ebuilds should never be marked > > stable[1]. Yet many ebuilds that are based on cvs sources and are > > marked stable on arch's. I wo

Re: [gentoo-dev] cvs keywording.

2005-09-19 Thread Alin Dobre
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alec Warner wrote: > Official policy states that CVS ebuilds should never be marked > stable[1]. Yet many ebuilds that are based on cvs sources and are > marked stable on arch's. I would like to know why this is so. > > ./net-misc/netcomics-cvs/netc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resolution - GTK Useflag Situation

2005-09-19 Thread Thomas de Grenier de Latour
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 15:48:43 + (UTC) "John N. Laliberte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How to keep gtk1 off of your system: > * use the proper, built in methods for this: add > "=x11-libs/gtk+-1*" to /etc/portage/package.mask. Since this may not be that easy for the end-user (lots of ebuilds t

[gentoo-dev] cvs keywording.

2005-09-19 Thread Alec Warner
Official policy states that CVS ebuilds should never be marked stable[1]. Yet many ebuilds that are based on cvs sources and are marked stable on arch's. I would like to know why this is so. ./net-misc/netcomics-cvs/netcomics-cvs-0.14.1.ebuild:KEYWORDS="x86 ~amd64" ./games-fps/blackshades-cvs

Re: [gentoo-dev] UK Linux Expo

2005-09-19 Thread Marcus D. Hanwell
On Monday 19 September 2005 10:14, Rob Holland wrote: > This is a gentle reminder that the UK Linux Expo is on 5th-6th October > at Olympia, London. Gentoo will have a (small) booth at the expo, so if > you are interested in being in the booth (dev's only I'm afraid) please > let me know. > I just

[gentoo-dev] Re: aging ebuilds with unstable keywords

2005-09-19 Thread Duncan
Anthony Gorecki posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Mon, 12 Sep 2005 01:09:34 -0700: > On Sunday, September 11, 2005 20:42, Daniel Ahlberg wrote: >> The page shows results from a number of tests that are run against the > ebuilds. > > Why does this script no longer include the result

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] C++ herd proposal

2005-09-19 Thread warnera6
Mark Loeser wrote: Paul de Vrieze wrote: I think that dev-util is a very specific category containing development utilities of some sort. There might be some misclassifications in them, but from a user perspective I don't really care about the language anything is written in. As C++ is so wi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resolution - GTK Useflag Situation

2005-09-19 Thread Mike Gardiner
On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 07:28 -0500, Brian Harring wrote: > On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 03:48:43PM +, John N. Laliberte wrote: > > * "but you are taking away choice!" - If a program has both GTK2 and GTK3 > > interfaces, there are many ways to allow for testing of the experimental > > interface. For

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] C++ herd proposal

2005-09-19 Thread Mark Loeser
Paul de Vrieze wrote: I think that dev-util is a very specific category containing development utilities of some sort. There might be some misclassifications in them, but from a user perspective I don't really care about the language anything is written in. As C++ is so widespread I don't think

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resolution - GTK Useflag Situation

2005-09-19 Thread Brian Harring
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 03:48:43PM +, John N. Laliberte wrote: > * "but you are taking away choice!" - If a program has both GTK2 and GTK3 > interfaces, there are many ways to allow for testing of the experimental > interface. For instance, package.mask with a revision number. package.mask is

Re: [gentoo-dev] The tree is now utf-8 clean

2005-09-19 Thread Georgi Georgiev
maillog: 19/09/2005-11:52:26(+0200): Paul de Vrieze types > On Saturday 17 September 2005 22:06, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Saturday 17 September 2005 01:15 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 12:56:37 +0200 "Fernando J. Pereda" > > > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > | On S

Re: [gentoo-dev] The tree is now utf-8 clean

2005-09-19 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Saturday 17 September 2005 22:06, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Saturday 17 September 2005 01:15 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 12:56:37 +0200 "Fernando J. Pereda" > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > | On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 02:42:09AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > | | S

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] C++ herd proposal

2005-09-19 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Saturday 17 September 2005 22:24, Mark Loeser wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Saturday 17 September 2005 02:22 pm, Mark Loeser wrote: > >>The reason for me adding that bit is the metadata from dev-cpp: > >> > >>The dev-cpp category contains libraries and utilities relevant to the > >>c++ p

Re: [gentoo-dev] first council meeting

2005-09-19 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Friday 16 September 2005 23:51, Mike Frysinger wrote: > that's the problem, there's no way to flag which packages should be > consulted and which ones are a non-issue This indeed kind of sums up my point. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.de

[gentoo-dev] UK Linux Expo

2005-09-19 Thread Rob Holland
All, This is a gentle reminder that the UK Linux Expo is on 5th-6th October at Olympia, London. Gentoo will have a (small) booth at the expo, so if you are interested in being in the booth (dev's only I'm afraid) please let me know. I will be drawing up a rota on Wednesday, so if you've not repli

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resolution - GTK Useflag Situation

2005-09-19 Thread Peter Volkov Alexandrovich
Hello. On Пнд, 2005-09-19 at 20:24 +0900, Chris White wrote: > I think the problem here isn't about choice, but support. Mainly deprication > is the issue here. GTK2 was meant to be an upgrade of GTK1 interfaces. At > some point upstream is going to have to giveup and say "Sorry sam, use gtk2