Re: [gentoo-dev] Managing users and groups

2007-09-08 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Mike Frysinger schrieb: > On Saturday 08 September 2007, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: >> While writing this i have found GLEP-27. What is the current status >> concerning this? > > presumably you'd search bugzilla and come across 53269 > -mike I have searched bugzilla, but not for the specific glep. T

Re: [gentoo-dev] Managing users and groups

2007-09-08 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 08 September 2007, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > While writing this i have found GLEP-27. What is the current status > concerning this? presumably you'd search bugzilla and come across 53269 -mike signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flag how are they supposed to work?

2007-09-08 Thread Vlastimil Babka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steen Eugen Poulsen wrote: > Alistair Bush skrev: >> * It is used by many different packages. > > yes, this is the rubber rule. It pretty much allows any use flag to be > promoted to global when it has XX packages with it, the confusion comes > be

[gentoo-dev] Managing users and groups

2007-09-08 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Hi, I have recently checked the contents of /etc/{group,passwd,shadow} and found that there are users and groups which are not needed anymore because the packages which need them have also been removed. I have deleted some of them which are unnecessary with userdel and groupdel. I have experience

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flag how are they supposed to work?

2007-09-08 Thread Alistair Bush
Ok, so I think I understand where you are coming from... Firstly, USE flags are not meant to have a specific purpose. Enabling python support is non-specific as it doesn't describe how it is enabled or what python support actually is. Lets compare 2 packages to demonstrate... subversion has a p

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-commits list lives!

2007-09-08 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 17:52 Sat 08 Sep , Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Saturday 08 September 2007, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > buy Alex a beer > > and then buy Alec one :x Way to review! Donnie -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flag how are they supposed to work?

2007-09-08 Thread Steen Eugen Poulsen
Alistair Bush skrev: * It is used by many different packages. yes, this is the rubber rule. It pretty much allows any use flag to be promoted to global when it has XX packages with it, the confusion comes because the number of package using a flag is no indication whatever you should set

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flag how are they supposed to work?

2007-09-08 Thread Alistair Bush
Firstly... >From http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/use-flags/index.html "Local and Global USE Flags USE flags are categorised as either local or global. A global USE flag must satisfy several criteria: * It is used by many different packages. * It has a general non-specific p

[gentoo-dev] USE flag how are they supposed to work?

2007-09-08 Thread Steen Eugen Poulsen
I'm trying to write a Replicator for /etc/portage and that leads me to work with USE flags, trying to design the replication of them among similar systems, but I can't find the golden set of rules for how best to apply USE flags. There seem to be a global/local USE flag system, but many so cal

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-commits list lives!

2007-09-08 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 08 September 2007, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Saturday 08 September 2007, Alec Warner wrote: > > On 9/8/07, Christian Faulhammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > "Robin H. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > After much toiling, Infra has finally got the commits list active. > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-commits list lives!

2007-09-08 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 08 September 2007, Alec Warner wrote: > On 9/8/07, Christian Faulhammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Robin H. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > After much toiling, Infra has finally got the commits list active. > > > > Kudos to you all! > > > > What we now need is the installation

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-commits list lives!

2007-09-08 Thread Alec Warner
On 9/8/07, Christian Faulhammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Robin H. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > After much toiling, Infra has finally got the commits list active. > > Kudos to you all! > > What we now need is the installation of some kind of peer review. For > example add to the recrui

Re: [gentoo-dev] New eclasses for XEmacs lisp

2007-09-08 Thread Petteri Räty
Hans de Graaff kirjoitti: > On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 17:33 +0300, Petteri Räty wrote: > >> Would it be possible to have one set of eclasses that handles both >> XEmacs and Emacs? > > Possible, yes, but I don't think it is practical. Even though the > general steps to compile and install elisp are th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-commits list lives!

2007-09-08 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 08 September 2007, Steve Long wrote: > Roy Marples wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 17:25 -0700, Alec Warner wrote: > >> People who parse xml with sed make me cry. > >> > >> grep = also bad. > > > > Where do you stand on awk | head | cut | tail | xargs chains? > > Just awk will do all t

Re: [gentoo-dev] New eclasses for XEmacs lisp

2007-09-08 Thread Hans de Graaff
On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 17:33 +0300, Petteri Räty wrote: > Would it be possible to have one set of eclasses that handles both > XEmacs and Emacs? Possible, yes, but I don't think it is practical. Even though the general steps to compile and install elisp are the same for GNU Emacs and XEmacs, there

Re: [gentoo-dev] New eclasses for XEmacs lisp

2007-09-08 Thread Petteri Räty
Hans de Graaff kirjoitti: > I'm about to commit two new eclasses to support the compilation, > configuration, and installation of XEmacs lisp classes. In a desperate > attempt not to re-invent the wheel the interface and structure of the > classes has been shamelessly copied from the Emacs lisp cla

[gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-commits list lives!

2007-09-08 Thread Christian Faulhammer
"Robin H. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > After much toiling, Infra has finally got the commits list active. Kudos to you all! What we now need is the installation of some kind of peer review. For example add to the recruitment guide a recommendation to watch the recruitee one mentored on the

[gentoo-dev] Re: New eclasses for XEmacs lisp

2007-09-08 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hans de Graaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Bring on the comments, improvements, and most importantly: approval to > put this in the tree. Thumbs up from me. All other flaws I were able to find have already been spotted. V-Li -- Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project http://www.gentoo.org/proj/

[gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-commits list lives!

2007-09-08 Thread Steve Long
Roy Marples wrote: > On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 17:25 -0700, Alec Warner wrote: >> People who parse xml with sed make me cry. >> >> grep = also bad. > > Where do you stand on awk | head | cut | tail | xargs chains? > Just awk will do all that, Roy ;) It's a shame xmlGawk got punted, it was the best

[gentoo-dev] Re: Desktop research project, dead?

2007-09-08 Thread Steve Long
Davide Italiano wrote: > Are/were there some people involved in that project? > It could be useful and pretty to (re)activate this project, considering > that also gentoo-guis project is active (the two projects are actually > related). I've some ideas about, I'll write it after you'll tell me (if

[gentoo-dev] Re: New eclasses for XEmacs lisp

2007-09-08 Thread Steve Long
Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote: >> http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/emacs/browser/emacs-overlay/eclass/xemacs-elisp-common.eclass > > You use $* and $@ here which are the same when unquoted. They should > probably be quoted and that means that all instances would become the four > characters "$@". >

Re: [gentoo-dev] New eclasses for XEmacs lisp

2007-09-08 Thread Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hans de Graaff wrote: > I'm about to commit two new eclasses to support the compilation, > The eclasses have been in the Emacs overlay for some time now in support > of the forthcoming app-xemacs/gentoo-syntax package: > > http://overlays.gentoo.org/p

Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-commits list lives!

2007-09-08 Thread Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alec Warner wrote: > On 9/7/07, Doug Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Mike Frysinger wrote: >>> On Friday 07 September 2007, Robin H. Johnson wrote: On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 02:44:21PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> X-VCS-Repository: ge

[gentoo-dev] New eclasses for XEmacs lisp

2007-09-08 Thread Hans de Graaff
I'm about to commit two new eclasses to support the compilation, configuration, and installation of XEmacs lisp classes. In a desperate attempt not to re-invent the wheel the interface and structure of the classes has been shamelessly copied from the Emacs lisp classes. Currently the implementati