[gentoo-dev] [RFC] [EAPI=3] Add approprietly prefixed values of IUSE_* variables to IUSE

2009-07-04 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
I would like to suggest that values of IUSE_* variables (whose names end with values of USE_EXPAND variable), after prefixing with lower-cased names of appropriate variables included in USE_EXPAND, should be automatically added to IUSE variable. Example: IUSE="abc" IUSE_LINGUAS="en fr +la pl ru"

Re: [gentoo-dev] rsync mirrorstats page (generation and parsing)

2009-07-04 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 02:44:07AM +0200, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > When collecting information on the SYNC variable for my Summer of Code > gentoo stats project I'd like to check if the URL in SYNC is publically > known or some private/secret rsync mirror. The page behind > http://mirrorstats.

Re: [gentoo-dev] About time to unify "cdda" and "cdaudio" USE flags and make the remaining one global?

2009-07-04 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Lars Wendler wrote: > So what do you think? Should we convert the bug into a tracker and open bugs > for any package using the USE-flag that should be converted into the other > one? +1 from me, sounds reasonable. Sebastian

[gentoo-dev] mirrorselect: request for extraction of class MirrorParser

2009-07-04 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Hello! app-portage/mirrorselect is a single file Python program. It contains a class MirrorParser that parses mirrors.xml from the Gentoo website. I would like to use that code (unmodified) for my GSoC project. My request is to extract an extra file for that class from mirrorselect so the G

Re: [gentoo-dev] Manifesto archive

2009-07-04 Thread Denis Dupeyron
2009/7/3 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto : > Yes, that is another thing I was planning to do. The only reason I > haven't done it yet, is that older manifestos were stored as txt files > and this year the candidates mostly opted for html/xml files. > I'll probably just go ahead, "ignore the looks" and c

Re: [gentoo-dev] [gsoc-status] portage backend for PackageKit

2009-07-04 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 5:05 AM, Steve Dommett wrote: > I'm no Python programmer,  and I haven't even read the code involved,  but in > the interests of minimising duplication of effort,  I thought you'd be > interested to know that Sabayon,  a Gentoo based binary distro,  look like > they may be on

[gentoo-dev] About time to unify "cdda" and "cdaudio" USE flags and make the remaining one global?

2009-07-04 Thread Lars Wendler
Hi list, while finally doing some bug-wrangling again, I stumbled about [1] where a user requested to unify "cdda" and "cdaudio" USE flags. After leaving a request for further opinions about this in #-bugs I only got one reply: 14:11:28 <+Poly-C_atwork> Any idea what to do about bug #274818? Is