On 2007/03/19, Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> the nice thing about having a ~/.config/ [...]
Other nice things about it come from it not being an hardcoded path,
but just a default for $XDG_CONFIG_HOME.
For instance, when testing a new version of an application, you can
"XDG_CONFI
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 03:38 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> what is the problem as you see it ? the nice thing about having a ~/.config/
> is that it's a directory that can obviously be added to backups or sync
> programs for keeping $HOME the same across multiple machines ... you dont
> have to
On Sunday 18 March 2007, Simon Stelling wrote:
> Petteri Räty wrote:
> > Many applications save preferences in ~/./. When testing
> > applications please make sure you test with an empty directory to catch
> > cases when an upgrade works fine but a clean install doesn't. Thanks.
>
> Even better: Fi
On Monday 19 March 2007, Josh Saddler wrote:
> I prefer per app configs right in my homedir, not in ~/.config/ --
this isnt really a point that will ever be "solved" ... you'll always have
people who prefer the classical *nix approach over anything else
-mike
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On Monday 19 March 2007, Pierre-Yves Rofes wrote:
> Well, I'd tend to say that it's not noticeable even under $(HOME) because
> one issues a "ls [-l]" more often than a "ls -a[l]".
> Besides, moving all into ~/.config is just moving the problem somewhere
> else, not really solving it.
what is the
Pierre-Yves Rofes wrote:
> Well, I'd tend to say that it's not noticeable even under $(HOME) because
> one issues a "ls [-l]" more often than a "ls -a[l]".
> Besides, moving all into ~/.config is just moving the problem somewhere
> else, not really solving it.
Agreed. It's just moving the problem
On Sun, March 18, 2007 10:53 pm, Stephen Bennett wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 21:46:40 +
> "Jeff Rollin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Which is why I was saying there was no point in a ~/.config
>> directory...
>
> Generally speaking one lists the contents of one's home directory more
often t
On Wednesday 14 March 2007, Alexandre Buisse wrote:
> The answer to that remark, and it has already been done in today's
> discussions, is that we should follow the spirit of the law and not its
> letter. But then, why do we need a Code of Conduct at all? There is
> nothing in it that people don't
Hi Alexandre.
I too would like to hear what your ideas are for the metastructure of
gentoo. Please if you dont feel up to "officially" submitting them then at
least submit them to this list.
Alistair
On 3/19/07, Seemant Kulleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Alexandre,
Good luck in your new
Mike Frysinger wrote:
On Saturday 17 March 2007, Steve Long wrote:
Piotr Jaroszy?ski wrote:
I have heard about the magic limit of 5, but whatever...
Is there a *technical* objection then to server?
if you're going to change the topic mid-thread, then you should update the
Hi Alexandre,
Good luck in your new life. My only comment is that I think you copped
out by not submitting your proposals for any sort of peer review. You
succumbed to the possibility (that you seem to think is more of a
probability -- you may be right, I don't know) that it would not be
receive
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed
from the tree, for the week ending 2007-03-18 23h59 UTC.
Removals:
net-p2p/mnet2007-03-13 11:48:29 armin76
games-fps/quake12007-03-14 02:16:29 mr_bones_
games-fps/ttyq
Hi,
I think the time has come for me to retire as a gentoo dev. There are
multiple reasons to that, but mainly, it has stopped being fun a good
while ago, and I don't like where I see the project heading.
One of the main reasons that I am involved in free software in the first
place is because o
Hi everyone,
as announced some time ago on this list, the text-markup herd has been
split in two different herds: sgml, which will deal with (surprisingly)
sgml and docbook packages, and tex for (La)TeX packages. An arbitrary
decision of herding general text and OCR packages under tex has also
bee
Jeff Rollin napsal(a):
> On 18/03/07, Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> It wouldn't become any more or less cluttered than ~/ now...
> Which is why I was saying there was no point in a ~/.config directory...
I guess you are missing the point? Fire up Midnight Commander and watch
the cruft i
On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 21:46:40 +
"Jeff Rollin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Which is why I was saying there was no point in a ~/.config
> directory...
Generally speaking one lists the contents of one's home directory more
often than one lists ~/.config. It moves the clutter to a place where
it'
On 18/03/07, Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jeff Rollin napsal(a):
> On 18/03/07, Piotr Jaroszyński <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Sunday 18 of March 2007 13:37:55 Jeff Rollin wrote:
>> > Also, if you have a .config directory to put all these files in, ~
>> > becomes less cluttered but ~/
Sorry for sending the mail in HTML :)
It won't happen again.
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Jeff Rollin napsal(a):
> On 18/03/07, Piotr Jaroszyński <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Sunday 18 of March 2007 13:37:55 Jeff Rollin wrote:
>> > Also, if you have a .config directory to put all these files in, ~
>> > becomes less cluttered but ~/.config becomes VERY cluttered!
>> Nothing prevents
On 18/03/07, Piotr Jaroszyński <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sunday 18 of March 2007 13:37:55 Jeff Rollin wrote:
> Also, if you have a .config directory to put all these files in, ~
> becomes less cluttered but ~/.config becomes VERY cluttered!
Nothing prevents from making appdirs in .config too.
Petteri Räty wrote:
> Raúl Porcel kirjoitti:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The mozilla team has decided that the
>> www-client/mozilla-firefox[-bin]-1.5* series will get masked two weeks
>> from now (18 Mar 2007), that is *1 April 2007*. *And will be removed
>> after two weeks from that date*, which will be *15 Apr
On Friday 16 March 2007, Petteri Räty wrote:
> Ned Ludd wrote:
> > Here are the remaining offenders for sync 1174037821 that match
> > '$(which ' or '`which ' in eclasses and ebuilds.
> >
> > dev-db/hsqldb/hsqldb-1.7.3.1-r1.ebuild:48:
>
> This one just echos which to a script so it's safe I think.
Andrew Gaffney kirjoitti:
> Petteri Räty wrote:
>> Raúl Porcel kirjoitti:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> The mozilla team has decided that the
>>> www-client/mozilla-firefox[-bin]-1.5* series will get masked two weeks
>>> from now (18 Mar 2007), that is *1 April 2007*. *And will be removed
>>> after two weeks fr
Petteri Räty wrote:
Raúl Porcel kirjoitti:
Hi,
The mozilla team has decided that the
www-client/mozilla-firefox[-bin]-1.5* series will get masked two weeks
from now (18 Mar 2007), that is *1 April 2007*. *And will be removed
after two weeks from that date*, which will be *15 April 2007*.
Sh
Raúl Porcel kirjoitti:
> Hi,
>
> The mozilla team has decided that the
> www-client/mozilla-firefox[-bin]-1.5* series will get masked two weeks
> from now (18 Mar 2007), that is *1 April 2007*. *And will be removed
> after two weeks from that date*, which will be *15 April 2007*.
>
Shouldn't an
Hi,
The mozilla team has decided that the
www-client/mozilla-firefox[-bin]-1.5* series will get masked two weeks
from now (18 Mar 2007), that is 1 April 2007. And will be
removed after two weeks from that date, which will be 15 April
2007.
Mozilla will drop support for that series from 24 Apr
# Raúl Porcel (18 Mar 2007)
# Pending removal 17 May 2007, for treecleaners
# www-servers/ncsa-httpd -> bug 122134
# net-im/aim-transport -> bug 145858
www-servers/ncsa-httpd
net-im/aim-transport
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On Sunday 18 of March 2007 13:37:55 Jeff Rollin wrote:
> Also, if you have a .config directory to put all these files in, ~
> becomes less cluttered but ~/.config becomes VERY cluttered!
Nothing prevents from making appdirs in .config too.
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Piotr Jaroszyński
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On 2007/03/18, Simon Stelling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Even better: Fix them to use ~/.config/ instead
You mean "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-${HOME}/.config}/", right?
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/ar01s03.html
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On 18/03/07, Nirbheek Chauhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
Won't that break configs/increase clutter for people who share their home
directories between two distributions since they'll have to restort to
symlinks to make stuff work?
I myself have gentoo and ubuntu installed and am sharing my ho
Krzysiek Pawlik kirjoitti:
> Simon Stelling wrote:
>> Even better: Fix them to use ~/.config/ instead, so they don't
>> clutter up the home unnecessarily :)
>
> Won't it change how the vanilla upstream version and the one from portage
> behave? IMHO such changes are not a good idea.
>
Just send
Hi,
Won't that break configs/increase clutter for people who share their home
directories between two distributions since they'll have to restort to
symlinks to make stuff work?
I myself have gentoo and ubuntu installed and am sharing my home directory
between them. I have to use ubuntu for mainta
Simon Stelling wrote:
> Even better: Fix them to use ~/.config/ instead, so they don't
> clutter up the home unnecessarily :)
Won't it change how the vanilla upstream version and the one from portage
behave? IMHO such changes are not a good idea.
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Petteri Räty wrote:
Many applications save preferences in ~/./. When testing
applications please make sure you test with an empty directory to catch
cases when an upgrade works fine but a clean install doesn't. Thanks.
Even better: Fix them to use ~/.config/ instead, so they don't
clutter up t
Many applications save preferences in ~/./. When testing
applications please make sure you test with an empty directory to catch
cases when an upgrade works fine but a clean install doesn't. Thanks.
Regards,
Petteri
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maillog: 18/03/2007-10:57:01(+0100): Matthias Schwarzott types
> On Donnerstag, 15. März 2007, Matthias Schwarzott wrote:
> > Hi fellows!
> >
> >
> > 2. I think we should get udev rules directory (/etc/udev/rules.d/) a bit
> > more cleaned up.
> >
> > At the moment a lot of packages install their f
On Donnerstag, 15. März 2007, Matthias Schwarzott wrote:
> Hi fellows!
>
>
> 2. I think we should get udev rules directory (/etc/udev/rules.d/) a bit
> more cleaned up.
>
> At the moment a lot of packages install their files prefixed with 99.
> I does not like that, and in the future that should pe
On Saturday 17 March 2007, Steve Long wrote:
> Piotr Jaroszy?ski wrote:
> > I have heard about the magic limit of 5, but whatever...
>
> Is there a *technical* objection then to server?
if you're going to change the topic mid-thread, then you should update the
subject
you already know the state
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