Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New global USE flag: introspection

2010-06-22 Thread Arun Raghavan
On 23 June 2010 01:47, Mike Auty wrote: [...] >> Which should not be an issue since any library that has some sort of >> introspection can use this flag (and the use.desc can be changed >> appropriately at that time if it does not use gobject-introspection). > > Why have to change it in the future

Re: [gentoo-dev] ndiswrapper, anyone?

2010-06-22 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 06/22/2010 11:45 PM, Christoph Mende wrote: On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: there's nothing usable left in tree, it's bitrotted for too long. will be masked for removal in 30 days if nobody wants to pick it up. Well, I'm not using it, but I'd hate to see it go si

Re: [gentoo-dev] ndiswrapper, anyone?

2010-06-22 Thread Christoph Mende
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > there's nothing usable left in tree, it's bitrotted for too long. > > will be masked for removal in 30 days if nobody wants to pick it up. > Well, I'm not using it, but I'd hate to see it go since I remember how I was forced to use it, so

[gentoo-dev] ndiswrapper, anyone?

2010-06-22 Thread Samuli Suominen
there's nothing usable left in tree, it's bitrotted for too long. will be masked for removal in 30 days if nobody wants to pick it up.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New global USE flag: introspection

2010-06-22 Thread Mike Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/06/10 18:11, Arun Raghavan wrote: > It is not a GNOME-only flag. A general introspection flag may not be, but this isn't a general introspection flag, this is specific to gobject and the suggestions try to clarify that. People who want gobject-

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New global USE flag: introspection

2010-06-22 Thread Arun Raghavan
On 22 June 2010 22:03, Mike Auty wrote: [...] >> I still think "introspection" is easier to grok. It's unlikely that >> it's going to be used in a completely different sense by other >> packages in the future, so let's stick with "introspection" please. > > Gintrospection gives more information (t

[gentoo-dev] Re: New global USE flag: introspection

2010-06-22 Thread Arun Raghavan
On 20 June 2010 20:12, Arun Raghavan wrote: [...] > Any objections? I'll wait till Wed (June 23rd) before adding this if > there aren't any. Is anyone here vehemently against "introspection". -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) & (arunsr | GNOME)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New global USE flag: introspection

2010-06-22 Thread Jacob Godserv
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 12:33, Mike Auty wrote: > Gintrospection gives more information (things starting with g are > generally gnome related, which this is), and grepping for introspection > will still turn it up.  It also solves the concerns that all the people > on this thread have voiced about

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New global USE flag: introspection

2010-06-22 Thread Mike Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/06/10 15:33, Arun Raghavan wrote: >> Why not just gintrospection? > > I still think "introspection" is easier to grok. It's unlikely that > it's going to be used in a completely different sense by other > packages in the future, so let's stick w

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New global USE flag: introspection

2010-06-22 Thread Arun Raghavan
On 22 June 2010 16:54, Peter Hjalmarsson wrote: > tis 2010-06-22 klockan 15:17 +0530 skrev Arun Raghavan: >> On 21 June 2010 21:23, Arun Raghavan wrote: >> [...] >> > I'm still trying to think of a good name. I understand the concerns >> > about "introspection" being too generic and non GNOME-y,

[gentoo-dev] Lastrite: sys-apps/mkinitrd, net-nntp/knews

2010-06-22 Thread Samuli Suominen
# Samuli Suominen (22 Jun 2010) # Replaced by sys-kernel/dracut # # Unresolved bugs 127542, 144365, 174068, 181685, 268285 # # Removal in 30 days, see bug 324741 sys-apps/mkinitrd And a bit late, but also: # Samuli Suominen (20 Jun 2010) # No upstream, last release from 2002, libpng 1.4.x prob

[gentoo-dev] Re: New global USE flag: introspection

2010-06-22 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
tis 2010-06-22 klockan 15:17 +0530 skrev Arun Raghavan: > On 21 June 2010 21:23, Arun Raghavan wrote: > [...] > > I'm still trying to think of a good name. I understand the concerns > > about "introspection" being too generic and non GNOME-y, but "gir" is > > likely to cause confusion. > > "gir"

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Council manifesto of sping

2010-06-22 Thread Arun Raghavan
On 22 June 2010 15:32, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > Arun Raghavan posted on Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:43:42 +0530 as excerpted: > >> b) For questions like "- Should Python 3.x be stable?", isn't that for >> team leads to decide? And for the council to resolve in case of >> conflicts? > > Wouldn

[gentoo-dev] Re: Council manifesto of sping

2010-06-22 Thread Duncan
Arun Raghavan posted on Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:43:42 +0530 as excerpted: > b) For questions like "- Should Python 3.x be stable?", isn't that for > team leads to decide? And for the council to resolve in case of > conflicts? Wouldn't the point for specifically pointing out python 3.x as an example,

Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: introspection

2010-06-22 Thread Arun Raghavan
On 21 June 2010 21:23, Arun Raghavan wrote: [...] > I'm still trying to think of a good name. I understand the concerns > about "introspection" being too generic and non GNOME-y, but "gir" is > likely to cause confusion. "gir" is not good because it gives near-zero information. I can still not t