[gentoo-dev] economic disadvantage of closed-source software and patents

2006-09-10 Thread Mashilamani Sambasivam
Hello, I wanted to get gentoo developers' viewpoints on 10 slides: Brief Analysis And Generalisation of Closed-Source Software Business Models to All Maximum Profit Based Businesses http://www.archive.org/download/profitAndPoverty/slide1.html Thanks, Mashi

[gentoo-dev] xinitrc/startx scripts unification

2006-09-10 Thread Lukasz Pawelczyk
I wanted to fill bugzilla report about this but found few existing without neither serious solution nor being current. There is an incosistency in current xinitrc behaviour (i'm only talking about xinitrc run through startx, not {k,g,x}dm). Problems: 1. /etc/X11/xinitrc tries to load xresources

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monolithic X unsupported

2006-09-10 Thread Steev Klimaszewski
Donnie Berkholz wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: how about a local USE flag like all-the-junk-in-the-trunk ? Why? Just makes more work for us, for no apparent reason. I'd rather be able to pull unused stuff from the tree after a while than add a new option to install stuff nobody will ever run.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monolithic X unsupported

2006-09-10 Thread Steev Klimaszewski
Stephen P. Becker wrote: Steev Klimaszewski wrote: Donnie Berkholz wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: how about a local USE flag like all-the-junk-in-the-trunk ? Why? Just makes more work for us, for no apparent reason. I'd rather be able to pull unused stuff from the tree after a while than add a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Required Features for $package_manager to Aid... Development!

2006-09-10 Thread Francesco Riosa
Alec Warner wrote: Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 21:19 -0600, Ryan Hill wrote: Elfyn McBratney wrote: I've been inspired by the local/global USE flag threads recently posted by Doug (Cardoe), and it got me to thinking... I've recently joined the pkgcore development effort,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Why you use Gentoo

2006-09-10 Thread Troy Curtis Jr
On 9/7/06, Chris White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, wondering why people use Gentoo. Put [dev] or something if you're an actual gentoo dev and [user] if you're a user. Doesn't need to be fancy, you can put community or something if that's all you want. All responses off list please. Thanks.

[gentoo-dev] Re: Why you use Gentoo

2006-09-10 Thread Ryan Hill
So, wondering why people use Gentoo. Put [dev] or something if you're an actual gentoo dev and [user] if you're a user. Doesn't need to be fancy, you can put community or something if that's all you want. All responses off list please. Thanks. I use Gentoo because of its intelligent user

[gentoo-dev] colon separated variables in /etc/env.d/

2006-09-10 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone, Portage currently has two hard-coded lists of variables that control the behavior of env-update. I'd like to make these variables configurable so that package maintainers have direct control over them. The variables break down into two

Re: [gentoo-dev] colon separated variables in /etc/env.d/

2006-09-10 Thread Drake Wyrm
Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Portage currently has two hard-coded lists of variables that control the behavior of env-update. I'd like to make these variables configurable so that package maintainers have direct control over them. The variables break down into two basic types: colon

[gentoo-portage-dev] mysql workbench - bug #131383

2006-09-10 Thread Anthony Ettinger
I get the following error when trying to compile mysql workbench from the bugzilla ebuilds. /usr/include/sigc++-2.0/sigc++/adaptors/bound_argument.h:158: error: 'const class sigc::bound_argumentstd::listMYX_GRT_VALUE*, std::allocatorMYX_GRT_VALUE* ' has no member named 'visit' It's something

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] mysql workbench - bug #131383

2006-09-10 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Anthony Ettinger wrote: I get the following error when trying to compile mysql workbench from the bugzilla ebuilds. /usr/include/sigc++-2.0/sigc++/adaptors/bound_argument.h:158: error: 'const class sigc::bound_argumentstd::listMYX_GRT_VALUE*, std::allocatorMYX_GRT_VALUE* ' has no member named

[gentoo-portage-dev] tiny erp - ebuild

2006-09-10 Thread Anthony Ettinger
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107045 I get a patch error, but I'm not familar with how to edit the patch files. === can't find file to patch at input line 3 Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option? The text leading up to this was:

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] mysql workbench - bug #131383

2006-09-10 Thread Anthony Ettinger
On 9/10/06, Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anthony Ettinger wrote: I get the following error when trying to compile mysql workbench from the bugzilla ebuilds. /usr/include/sigc++-2.0/sigc++/adaptors/bound_argument.h:158: error: 'const class

[gentoo-portage-dev] Re: mysql workbench - bug #131383

2006-09-10 Thread Ryan Hill
Anthony Ettinger wrote: I get the following error when trying to compile mysql workbench from the bugzilla ebuilds. /usr/include/sigc++-2.0/sigc++/adaptors/bound_argument.h:158: error: 'const class sigc::bound_argumentstd::listMYX_GRT_VALUE*, std::allocatorMYX_GRT_VALUE* ' has no member named