Hi,
I recently emailed the Gentoo PR team, voicing my concerns about the
amount of non-free software within Gentoo. I got an interesting response
from Sebastian Pipping, who said that while Gentoo is all about choice,
including the choice to install non-free software, the project is
interested in
Started new subject since this is only tangentially related to the election.
On 12/27/2009 06:16 PM, Tomáš Chvátal wrote:
Anyway, i wont write huge manifesto but these things i would like spent
my time:
QA propagation (motivating people, explaining why we are doing stuff and
so on)
Could thi
# Diego E. Pettenò (28 Dec 2009)
# on behalf of QA team
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# Package fails to build (second time in a row), bug #298522.
# Unneeded, unmaintained, just use the dd from coreutils or
# from FreeBSD userland packages.
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# Removal on 2010-02-26
sys-apps/sdd
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed
from the tree, for the week ending 2009-12-27 23h59 UTC.
Removals:
dev-java/jessie 2009-12-23 00:33:20 caster
dev-java/blackdown-jre 2009-12-23 00:53:54 caster
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Dne 20.12.2009 15:43, Fabian Groffen napsal(a):
> I nominate (in no particular order):
> lu_zero
> patrick
> scarabeus
>
>
Thanks,
I will try it :] Maybe someone will vote for me after all :P
Anyway, i wont write huge manifesto but these things i w
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Dne 27.12.2009 19:32, James Cloos napsal(a):
> As a user, I can only say bullshit to that.
>
> Packages should not go away over trivial issues. That is harmful,
> not helpful.
That is big false, we can fix it for one time but when it is broken for
lo
> "Samuli" == Samuli Suominen writes:
>> The QA team should generate more patches and fewer kills.
Samuli> Manpower. Feel free to join up and help. A handful of people
Samuli> can't fix everything.
It would have taken him less effort to fix the bug and commit a new
ebuild when he first saw
# Diego E. Pettenò (27 Dec 2009)
# on behalf of QA team
#
# Package fails to build (second time in a row), bug #298522.
# Unneeded, unmaintained, just use the dd from coreutils or
# from FreeBSD userland packages.
#
# Removal on 2010-02-25
sys-apps/sdd
On 12/24/09 23:50, Roy Bamford wrote:
> On 2009.12.16 00:36, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> As announced by Denis (Calchan)[1], we need to have an election for
>> the
>> Gentoo Council's empty seat.
>> We'll be putting up a page with all the information for the Council
>> electio
