Fwd: [gentoo-dev] Increasing contributions and interest via personal project aggregation

2007-05-11 Thread Alec Warner
I hate gmail -- Forwarded message -- From: Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: May 11, 2007 10:50 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Increasing contributions and interest via personal project aggregation To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org On 5/8/07, Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[gentoo-dev] New herd: kernel-misc

2007-05-11 Thread Daniel Drake
I have created a kernel-misc herd, plus corresponding mail alias and bugzilla account. metadata for the following packages has been updated: app-admin/addpatches app-doc/linux-device-drivers app-misc/fdutils app-misc/klive app-misc/zisofs-tools dev-libs/klibc net-misc/arpstar sys-apps/kexec-too

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Optional Package Dependencies for netscape-flash -> libflashsupport

2007-05-11 Thread Josh Saddler
Ryan Hill wrote: > net-www/netscape-flash-9.0.31.0 USE="libflashsupport -debug" > media-lib/libflashsupport-1.2 USE="esd gnutls oss pulseaudio ssl" > > is the right way to do it. Absolutely! I was about to post the same thing -- put some kind of use on netscape-flash to pull in libflashsupport

[gentoo-dev] Suitable USE flag name for stuff that requires non volatile memory

2007-05-11 Thread Roy Marples
Hi List! dhcpcd-3.1 is making good progress and is almost ready to be put into the tree. One of it's new features is that it generates a DUID-LLT. This has to be stored in non volatile storage, so it persists across reboots. I would like a nice USE flag name, so it can be compiled with or without

Re: [gentoo-dev] invalid in metadata.xml

2007-05-11 Thread Thilo Bangert
> Can you re-run this with a fully up to date tree? sure app-emulation/hercules invalid herd: s390 sys-apps/cpint invalid herd: s390 sys-apps/lkcdutils invalid herd: s390 sys-apps/s390-oco invalid herd: s390 Found

Re: [gentoo-dev] missing metadata.xml

2007-05-11 Thread Thilo Bangert
> the packages in the attached list have no metadata.xml. all fixed. however with the following metadata.xml: http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd";> no-herd as no maintainer implies maintainer-needed and this is being done in lots of other ebuilds as well. kind regards Thilo pgpttgHIm

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] missing tag in metadata.xml

2007-05-11 Thread Ryan Hill
Thilo Bangert wrote: > open questions: > > - what does it mean when the package is maintained by a herd and an >additional maintainer? how does one determine the order in which to >contact multiple maintainers? See "Planning for automatic assignment of bugs" (http://thread.gmane.org/gma

[gentoo-dev] Re: invalid in metadata.xml

2007-05-11 Thread Ryan Hill
Stefan Schweizer wrote: > Thilo Bangert wrote: >> All packages with maintainer-needed will be moved to >> no-herd. > > I think that is not quite right, and since maintainer-needed is not a > maintainer but multiple people listening to the alias and users I would > like to suggest the following add

[gentoo-dev] Re: Optional Package Dependencies for netscape-flash -> libflashsupport

2007-05-11 Thread Ryan Hill
Jim Ramsay wrote: > This libflashsupport-1.2 will have the following use flags: > > pulseaudio oss esd ssl gnutls > > Now, I was thinking that it would be much easier for users if > the netscape-flash ebuild automatically pulled this in, and was > wondering the best way to do this. I have 2 i

[gentoo-dev] media-sound/DBMix removed from tree

2007-05-11 Thread Steve Dibb
# Steve Dibb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (8 Mar 2007) # dead upstream, requires xmms to build # p.masking for treecleaners media-sound/DBMix punted -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Optional Package Dependencies for netscape-flash -> libflashsupport

2007-05-11 Thread Olivier Crête
On Fri, 2007-11-05 at 13:52 -0600, Jim Ramsay wrote: > Thomas Rösner wrote: > > Jim Ramsay wrote: > > > [snip] > > > Have netscape-flash with IUSE="vanilla" (by default it is off), > > > which when enabled will not pull in libflashsupport. > > > > > > > I don't quite see why this is necessary?

Re: [gentoo-dev] Optional Package Dependencies for netscape-flash -> libflashsupport

2007-05-11 Thread Jim Ramsay
Olivier Crête wrote: > On Fri, 2007-11-05 at 13:19 -0600, Jim Ramsay wrote: > > Olivier Crête wrote: > > > On Fri, 2007-11-05 at 12:12 -0600, Jim Ramsay wrote: > > > > Josh Saddler wrote: > > > > > Jim Ramsay wrote: > > > > > > I suppose I could also propose: > > > > > > > > > > > > 4) netscape-fl

Re: [gentoo-dev] Optional Package Dependencies for netscape-flash -> libflashsupport

2007-05-11 Thread Jim Ramsay
Thomas Rösner wrote: > Jim Ramsay wrote: > > [snip] > > Have netscape-flash with IUSE="vanilla" (by default it is off), > > which when enabled will not pull in libflashsupport. > > > > I don't quite see why this is necessary? Or why you do have this > discussion? I started this discussion to f

Re: [gentoo-dev] Optional Package Dependencies for netscape-flash -> libflashsupport

2007-05-11 Thread Thomas Rösner
Hi, Jim Ramsay wrote: > [snip] > Have netscape-flash with IUSE="vanilla" (by default it is off), which > when enabled will not pull in libflashsupport. > I don't quite see why this is necessary? Or why you do have this discussion? > This meets the following goals: > > 1) It makes it easy for

Re: [gentoo-dev] Optional Package Dependencies for netscape-flash -> libflashsupport

2007-05-11 Thread Olivier Crête
On Fri, 2007-11-05 at 13:19 -0600, Jim Ramsay wrote: > Olivier Crête wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-11-05 at 12:12 -0600, Jim Ramsay wrote: > > > Josh Saddler wrote: > > > > Jim Ramsay wrote: > > > > > I suppose I could also propose: > > > > > > > > > > 4) netscape-flash just RDEPENDS on libflashsupport

Re: [gentoo-dev] Optional Package Dependencies for netscape-flash -> libflashsupport

2007-05-11 Thread Jim Ramsay
Olivier Crête wrote: > On Fri, 2007-11-05 at 12:12 -0600, Jim Ramsay wrote: > > Josh Saddler wrote: > > > Jim Ramsay wrote: > > > > I suppose I could also propose: > > > > > > > > 4) netscape-flash just RDEPENDS on libflashsupport all the time. > > > > It's certainly not a large library to be adde

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites sys-apps/855resolution

2007-05-11 Thread Rémi Cardona
Markus Ullmann wrote: >> Because it looks like the 2.x intel driver might still need this type of >> hack to work properly for some types of machines (my laptop being a good >> example of this...) > > Also 2.x breaks on my notebook when using xinerama and dual monitor atm > so nothing rock solid y

Re: [gentoo-dev] Optional Package Dependencies for netscape-flash -> libflashsupport

2007-05-11 Thread Olivier Crête
On Fri, 2007-11-05 at 12:12 -0600, Jim Ramsay wrote: > Josh Saddler wrote: > > Jim Ramsay wrote: > > > I suppose I could also propose: > > > > > > 4) netscape-flash just RDEPENDS on libflashsupport all the time. > > > It's certainly not a large library to be added on. > > > > > > > That is a ter

Re: [gentoo-dev] Optional Package Dependencies for netscape-flash -> libflashsupport

2007-05-11 Thread Jim Ramsay
Josh Saddler wrote: > Jim Ramsay wrote: > > I suppose I could also propose: > > > > 4) netscape-flash just RDEPENDS on libflashsupport all the time. > > It's certainly not a large library to be added on. > > > > That is a terrible idea. Don't make it "depend" on something that it > clearly does

Re: [gentoo-dev] Optional Package Dependencies for netscape-flash -> libflashsupport

2007-05-11 Thread Josh Saddler
Jim Ramsay wrote: > Olivier Crête wrote: >> On Thu, 2007-10-05 at 14:20 -0400, Patrick McLean wrote: >>> Jim Ramsay wrote: 1) Create a single local USE flag (flashsupport or something) that will just pull in this dependency. 2) Use the same set of USE flags as libflashsupport ha

Re: [gentoo-dev] Optional Package Dependencies for netscape-flash -> libflashsupport

2007-05-11 Thread Jim Ramsay
Olivier Crête wrote: > On Thu, 2007-10-05 at 14:20 -0400, Patrick McLean wrote: > > Jim Ramsay wrote: > > > > > > 1) Create a single local USE flag (flashsupport or something) > > > that will just pull in this dependency. > > > > > > 2) Use the same set of USE flags as libflashsupport has, with a

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites sys-apps/855resolution

2007-05-11 Thread Markus Ullmann
> Because it looks like the 2.x intel driver might still need this type of > hack to work properly for some types of machines (my laptop being a good > example of this...) Also 2.x breaks on my notebook when using xinerama and dual monitor atm so nothing rock solid yet ;) Greetz -Jokey -- [EMAI

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites sys-apps/855resolution

2007-05-11 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 08:01:46PM -0400, Seemant Kulleen wrote: > On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 00:33 +0300, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > sys-apps/915resolution superseed this package and support 855 > > configurations. > > > > Please upgrade your configuration to sys-apps/915resolution.