Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: squinky86

2006-04-18 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
> A few words from the horses mouth: > > "I'm Jon Hood from Huntsville, AL. I was a Gentoo developer before, but > some problems came up and now I'm returning. All my spare time is put > into developing applications for voip (esp. Asterisk), Gentoo, and last > but DEFINITELY not least, my wonderf

Re: [gentoo-dev] Old-style PHP packages vanishing

2006-04-18 Thread Eldad Zack
On Monday 17 April 2006 05:08, Luca Longinotti wrote: > The PHP Herd announces that the old-style PHP packages, which were > unsupported and deprecated for months, are finally going away. > After months of work, the team considers the new dev-lang/php package > and the related dev-php[4,5]/ categor

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: squinky86

2006-04-18 Thread Eldad Zack
On Tuesday 18 April 2006 21:49, John Mylchreest wrote: > "I'm Jon Hood from Huntsville, AL. I was a Gentoo developer before, but > some problems came up and now I'm returning. All my spare time is put > into developing applications for voip (esp. Asterisk), Gentoo, and last > but DEFINITELY not lea

[gentoo-dev] net-wireless/aircrack users: please migrate to aircrack-ng

2006-04-18 Thread Marcelo Góes
Hello, As some may have noticed, net-wireless/aircrack's upstream vanished a few months ago. However, a new project named aircrack-ng [1] should take over where aircrack left. An ebuild for aircrack-ng-0.4 [2] is now in Portage as net-wireless/aircrack-ng. Please test and migrate to aircrack-ng i

Re: [gentoo-dev] killing USE=userlocales

2006-04-18 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 18 April 2006 18:38, Tuan Van wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > as part of my on going effort to make the glibc experience suck less, ive > > decided to kill USE=userlocales and /etc/locales.build aspects. > > but then it will suck (in) more stuff into /usr/lib/locale/, no ? the amount

Re: [gentoo-dev] killing USE=userlocales

2006-04-18 Thread Tuan Van
Mike Frysinger wrote: > as part of my on going effort to make the glibc experience suck less, ive > decided to kill USE=userlocales and /etc/locales.build aspects. > but then it will suck (in) more stuff into /usr/lib/locale/, no ? regards, Tuan Van PS: nice header ;) ... User-Agent: KMail/1.9.

[gentoo-dev] killing USE=userlocales

2006-04-18 Thread Mike Frysinger
as part of my on going effort to make the glibc experience suck less, ive decided to kill USE=userlocales and /etc/locales.build aspects. so what do you get in return ? a bastardized Gentoo version of Debian's locale-gen. now you edit /etc/locale.gen with a slightly diff syntax from /etc/loca

[gentoo-dev] New Developer: squinky86

2006-04-18 Thread John Mylchreest
OK, You got me. Not really *new* but meh! I'd like to welcome back Jon Hood (squinky86) who has returned after a prolonged hiatus. If you wish to cheer or throw underwear, this is your cue. Jon hails from Huntsville, AL, but its not his fault, bless. Jon will be mostly working on accessibility and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-sound/nforce-audio

2006-04-18 Thread Daniel Drake
Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten wrote: It's the driver for NVIDIA nForce motherboard sound card. It's OSS-only, it's badly broken (hardlocks machines and so on), lacks someone who can maintain it (missing hardware mostly) and there are bugs open for it. If nobody steps up, I'm going to remove it a mo

[gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-sound/nforce-audio

2006-04-18 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
It's the driver for NVIDIA nForce motherboard sound card. It's OSS-only, it's badly broken (hardlocks machines and so on), lacks someone who can maintain it (missing hardware mostly) and there are bugs open for it. If nobody steps up, I'm going to remove it a month from now. -- Diego "Flameeye

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for dev-util/cccc

2006-04-18 Thread Philippe Trottier
foser wrote: On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 17:56 +0300, Philippe Trottier wrote: If no one has an objection, I'll pick up that package, I think it is fun, never tought I'd use it, but I have so much code written I'd like how much I have really done. If there is no objection I'll make the update need

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for dev-util/cccc

2006-04-18 Thread foser
On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 17:56 +0300, Philippe Trottier wrote: > If no one has an objection, I'll pick up that package, I think it is fun, > never > tought I'd use it, but I have so much code written I'd like how much I have > really done. > > If there is no objection I'll make the update needed,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for dev-util/cccc

2006-04-18 Thread foser
On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 10:53 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > dont know what policy you're referring to seeing as how we dont have any > concerning unmaintained packages Still hiding... c'mon you are better than this. > sure, for new packages ... isnt a new package The policy concerning metad

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for dev-util/cccc

2006-04-18 Thread Philippe Trottier
foser wrote: On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 10:22 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: either you have a policy of cutting unmaintained packages or you dont ... you cant have some vague middle ground Hide behind policy if you can't do it with common sense. The policy is to add valid metadata.xml data to pack

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for dev-util/cccc

2006-04-18 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 18 April 2006 10:41, foser wrote: > On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 10:22 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > either you have a policy of cutting unmaintained packages or you dont ... > > you cant have some vague middle ground > > Hide behind policy if you can't do it with common sense. dont know wh

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for dev-util/cccc

2006-04-18 Thread foser
On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 10:22 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > either you have a policy of cutting unmaintained packages or you dont ... you > cant have some vague middle ground Hide behind policy if you can't do it with common sense. The policy is to add valid metadata.xml data to packages that do n

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for dev-util/cccc

2006-04-18 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 18 April 2006 09:51, foser wrote: > On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 14:11 +0100, Chris Bainbridge wrote: > > Maybe you aren't a native English speaker; it was clear from Mike's > > post that he would rather you didn't go ahead with removing hundreds > > of packages. > > I don't know how this relat

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for dev-util/cccc

2006-04-18 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 18 April 2006 07:00, foser wrote: > On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 16:42 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > well the logical thing would be to go to bugzilla and search for "" > > ... and guess what ? no more open bug reports > > I already did that when I wrote it, actually there still is an o

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Thomas Cort (tcort)

2006-04-18 Thread Luca Barbato
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Give Thomas a warm welcome if you haven't already done so :) Welcome Thomas! lu -- Luca Barbato Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] New ebuild Developer: Christian Hartmann (ian!)

2006-04-18 Thread Luca Barbato
Danny van Dyk wrote: Congratulations Christian! :-) Danny Another perl monk joining! Welcome and beware of the rabid vapier! lu -- Luca Barbato Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for dev-util/cccc

2006-04-18 Thread foser
On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 14:11 +0100, Chris Bainbridge wrote: > Are you suggesting that all packages with long standing open bug > reports should be removed? There are thousands that fit that > description. If not, then what is your definition of "maintained"? It > could be argued that since Mike fixe

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for dev-util/cccc

2006-04-18 Thread Chris Bainbridge
On 18/04/06, foser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 16:42 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > well the logical thing would be to go to bugzilla and search for "" ... > > and guess what ? no more open bug reports > > I already did that when I wrote it, actually there still is an

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for dev-util/cccc

2006-04-18 Thread foser
On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 16:42 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > well the logical thing would be to go to bugzilla and search for "" ... > and guess what ? no more open bug reports I already did that when I wrote it, actually there still is an open bug for it. So I guess you didn't actually go tro