Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-project] New developer: Fabio Erculiani (lxnay)

2009-09-28 Thread Fabio Erculiani
Thanks to everybody involved in the process and in building up good relationships firstly between Gentoo and Sabayon and secondly among their devs. I am looking forward to contribute to Gentoo KDE and Portage Projects with my knowledge and ideas. In particular, I am looking forward to merge the

[gentoo-dev] Lastrite: media-video/qc-usb-messenger

2009-09-28 Thread Samuli Suominen
# Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org (28 Sep 2009) # Obsolete. Supported by in-kernel drivers. Masked for removal, # see bug 277605. media-video/qc-usb-messenger It supported 4 device id's which have been supported by in-kernel gspca drivers for quite a while. Also, it doesn't compile with any

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-project] New developer: Fabio Erculiani (lxnay)

2009-09-28 Thread likewhoa
Welcome aboard, looking forward to your contributions, and don't worry about rectifying false rumours, just committing to the tree and making new friends is enough for most. Once again welcome to gentoo it's about freaking time you became a developer :p On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 10:55 +0200, Fabio

[gentoo-dev] [rfc] layman-global.txt, repositories.xml, layman, overlays.gentoo.org

2009-09-28 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Hello there! This may look like like a lot of text but it actually isn't. Please read on. Thanks. During the last few days rbu and I have been teaming up on a proposal implementation improving on some of the issues that persist around layman-global.txt. (previously summarized in [1]) Both

[gentoo-dev] Lastrite: spca drivers

2009-09-28 Thread Samuli Suominen
So, you might remember me lastriting qc-usb-messenger earlier today... here's some more webcam drivers: # Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org (28 Sep 2009) # Obsolete. Supported by in-kernel drivers. Masked for removal, # see bug 159176. media-video/gspca media-video/spca5xx media-video/gspcav1

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dropping (or enabling only on request) bootstrap from SCM eclasses

2009-09-28 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 15:46 Thu 24 Sep , Maciej Mrozowski wrote: Because autopatcher makes it able to specify patches that are version independent (same patches for live and tagged ebuilds), while SCM patching/bootstrapping may be used for some specific cases (I haven't seen any yet personally, hence

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo usage in companies

2009-09-28 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 13:58 Sat 26 Sep , Patrick Lauer wrote: Hello everybody! As Gentoo approaches its 10th birthday I've been wondering how and where it is used. We used to have some great stories from companies in the weekly newsletter, but that one has become very dormant a while ago. I'd like

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future

2009-09-28 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 20:46 Sun 13 Sep , Ryan Hill wrote: On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:15:34 +0200 Sebastian Pipping webmas...@hartwork.org wrote: Ryan Hill wrote: Personally I don't see how gaming the system helps us in any way. I was afraid it could be read in such a way. Handing out fake version