Re: [gentoo-dev] Please use "eselect news" items!

2009-06-26 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Dale wrote: > I would like to see what you guys think about a small feature. Is > there a way to put a number next to each item and then we can select > by the number instead of typing the LONG name for the item? Sort of > like gcc-config -l does its listing and you can

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please use "eselect news" items!

2009-06-26 Thread Dale
AllenJB wrote: > Hi all, > > As a user, I'd like to encourage developers to make use of news items > (eselect news) for important changes. I find them much more noticeable > than elog messages (which, while I have set them up so they get > emailed to me, I admit I don't always read). I think they'r

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please use "eselect news" items!

2009-06-26 Thread Alec Warner
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote: > On 25-06-2009 22:57:08 +0100, AllenJB wrote: >> As a user, I'd like to encourage developers to make use of news items >> (eselect news) for important changes. I find them much more noticeable >> than elog messages (which, while I have set th

[gentoo-dev] Re: [GSoC status] Web-based image builder

2009-06-26 Thread Eitan Mosenkis
This week has been much slower with the image builder project. I've wrinkled out several issues and generally worked on usability and other frontend aspects. The backend (and frontend) currently handle building a complete tar/gz image and letting the user download it with the user's choice of pro

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please use "eselect news" items!

2009-06-26 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fabian Groffen wrote: > On 25-06-2009 22:57:08 +0100, AllenJB wrote: >> As a user, I'd like to encourage developers to make use of news items >> (eselect news) for important changes. I find them much more noticeable >> than elog messages (which, whil

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please use "eselect news" items!

2009-06-26 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 25-06-2009 22:57:08 +0100, AllenJB wrote: > As a user, I'd like to encourage developers to make use of news items > (eselect news) for important changes. I find them much more noticeable > than elog messages (which, while I have set them up so they get emailed > to me, I admit I don't always

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2009 Council Elections

2009-06-26 Thread Jim Ramsay
Richard Freeman wrote: > I suspect most devs just avoid the drama. ++ Less worrying, more working -- Jim Ramsay Gentoo Developer (rox/fluxbox/gkrellm/vim) signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Standalone libstdc++

2009-06-26 Thread Mike Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Казанков Александр Владимирович wrote: > Hello. Hi, Could you please file all this information (and the output from "emerge - --info" at https://bugs.gentoo.org/. This mailing list is for technical discussions, whereas the bug tracker at https://bug

[gentoo-dev] Standalone libstdc++

2009-06-26 Thread Казанков Александр Владимирович
Hello. I wish to compile library libstdc ++ being based on sys-dev/gcc/gcc-4.3.2-r3.ebuild: src_compile() { gcc_do_filter_flags einfo "CFLAGS=\"${CFLAGS}\"" einfo "CXXFLAGS=\"${CXXFLAGS}\"" # Build in a separate build tree mkdir -p "${WORKDIR}"/build pushd "${WORKDIR}"/b

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2009 Council Elections

2009-06-26 Thread Richard Freeman
Ben de Groot wrote: In my opinion it is in the best interest of Gentoo at this point to ignore Exherbo and to silence those people involved with Exherbo that have been so divisive and generated so much conflict in Gentoo channels. Nobody needs to be silenced (unless they're litereally spammin

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2009 Council Elections

2009-06-26 Thread Ferris McCormick
On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 14:46 +0200, Ben de Groot wrote: > Wulf C. Krueger wrote: > > I think it would be in the best interest of both Exherbo and Gentoo to > > elect > > [...] to the Gentoo Council. > > I would think the only thing that matters is the best interest of > Gentoo. This is after all

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2009 Council Elections

2009-06-26 Thread Alistair Bush
Ben de Groot wrote: > I would think the only thing that matters is the best interest of > Gentoo. This is after all the _Gentoo_ Council we're speaking of, not a > body that is concerned with non-Gentoo matters. ++ > In my opinion it is in the best interest of Gentoo at this point to > ignore

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE_EXPAND instead of SANE_BACKENDS for media-gfx/sane-backends

2009-06-26 Thread Luca Barbato
Patrick Kursawe wrote: > Hi all, > > I would like to introduce a new USE_EXPAND variable for the about 80 > different SANE backends to make it a bit easier than looking into the > source if you want to find possible backends and a bit harder to pick > invalid backend names. Any objections or quest

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2009 Council Elections

2009-06-26 Thread Joe Peterson
Denis Dupeyron wrote: > I'd be ready to believe part of it was that he wanted to > experiment. And experiments sometimes succeed, or sometimes they fail, Well, experimentation is OK (and I would encourage it for many things), but I'm not sure I'd agree that experimentally giving someone council po

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2009 Council Elections

2009-06-26 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 6:46 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: > To appoint as proxy for a council meeting someone who has been booted > from Gentoo is a clear lapse of judgement, and would in my eyes > disqualify the involved council member from functioning in that position. As Petteri noted it's not obvio

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2009 Council Elections

2009-06-26 Thread Ben de Groot
Wulf C. Krueger wrote: > I think it would be in the best interest of both Exherbo and Gentoo to elect > [...] to the Gentoo Council. I would think the only thing that matters is the best interest of Gentoo. This is after all the _Gentoo_ Council we're speaking of, not a body that is concerned wit

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please use "eselect news" items!

2009-06-26 Thread Ben de Groot
AllenJB wrote: > As a user, I'd like to encourage developers to make use of news items > (eselect news) for important changes. > 2 recent changes I would suggest having news items for are the libpcre > .la files issue, because it often doesn't get noticed until later when > builds fail, and the m

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2009 Council Elections

2009-06-26 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:04:14 +0530 Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > Oh so you'll argue semantics now? The spirit of the rule is > excessively clear. No non-gentoo-developer can be a member of council > -- permanent, temporary, or proxy. The spirit and the letter of the rules are clear: the electorate ca