Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending removal(?) of media-libs/pdflib

2011-02-22 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday, February 22, 2011 02:29:06 Ulrich Mueller wrote: On Mon, 21 Feb 2011, Jeremy Olexa wrote: The bugs are stacking up[1] and upstream only offers a paid version of pdflib-8[2]. It is my understanding that there is no way for us to package future versions and the bundled libs are

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending removal(?) of media-libs/pdflib

2011-02-22 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Mon, 21 Feb 2011, Jeremy Olexa wrote: The bugs are stacking up[1] and upstream only offers a paid version of pdflib-8[2]. It is my understanding that there is no way for us to package future versions and the bundled libs are vulnerable[3]. So, should it be removed? For more info, see

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending removal(?) of media-libs/pdflib

2011-02-22 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Mike Frysinger wrote: sci-visualization/gnuplot[pdf] is currently linking against pdflib. I'm going to remove that dependency, because in my understanding, clause 2.1 of the PDFLite license does not allow such linking. (It allows it for programs under an OSI approved

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: sys-apps/inotail

2011-02-22 Thread Christoph Mende
# Christoph Mende ange...@gentoo.org (22 Feb 2011) # Masked for removal, inotify support has been in tail -f since coreutils-7.5 sys-apps/inotail

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 83 bugs

2011-02-22 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 83 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click one of the following links: http: http://bit.ly/bsHeJt https: http://bit.ly/8Z4xUU Thanks!

Re: [gentoo-dev] Eclass review: xorg-2 virtualx

2011-02-22 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
really busy with real life, so just a quick comment: we have to make sure the new virtualx eclass works fine with kde4-base, since that one is using it... but I'm sure you know that already :) On Tuesday 22 February 2011 00:18:26 Tomáš Chvátal wrote: Hello lads, I would like you to review

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending removal(?) of media-libs/pdflib

2011-02-22 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 3:55 AM, Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Mike Frysinger wrote: that might disallow it for binaries, but it doesnt disallow it from being used in ebuilds. same situation as binary kernel drivers -- make it the end user's problem. Why should

[gentoo-dev] Lastrite: media-sound/libifp-module

2011-02-22 Thread Samuli Suominen
# Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org (22 Feb 2011) # Fails to build with Linux 2.6.31 and up wrt bug 286081. # Unrelated to masking but it also fails to understand # KBUILD_OUTPUT wrt bug 194765. # Needs a maintainer with the hardware. # Removal in 30 days. media-sound/libifp-module

Re: [gentoo-dev] Make sound a global USE flag?

2011-02-22 Thread Ulrich Mueller
Coming back to this. It has been suggested by ssuominen that the audio flag should be united with sound. It's used by the following packages: games-rpg/drascula:audio - Install optional audio files media-libs/libsdl:audio - Control audio support (disable at your own risk)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Make sound a global USE flag?

2011-02-22 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote: There's also a sounds local flag which generally means install optional sound data. Maybe games-rpg/drascula should use this one instead? I can vouch that eternal-lands-data uses the sound use flag in the same way - the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending removal(?) of media-libs/pdflib

2011-02-22 Thread Francesco R
2011/2/22 Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org: On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 3:55 AM, Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Mike Frysinger wrote: that might disallow it for binaries, but it doesnt disallow it from being used in ebuilds. same situation as binary kernel drivers -- make

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending removal(?) of media-libs/pdflib

2011-02-22 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Francesco R wrote: Build gnuplot with USE=cairo and you can get PDF output with the pdfcairo terminal. Last time (many moons ago) I've checked cairo did not generated pdf it did generated raster images and wrapped them in a thin pdf layer. pdflib is generating vector

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending removal(?) of media-libs/pdflib

2011-02-22 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday, February 22, 2011 12:54:11 Ulrich Mueller wrote: On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Francesco R wrote: Build gnuplot with USE=cairo and you can get PDF output with the pdfcairo terminal. Last time (many moons ago) I've checked cairo did not generated pdf it did generated raster images

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending removal(?) of media-libs/pdflib

2011-02-22 Thread Tomáš Chvátal
Dne 22.2.2011 19:20, Mike Frysinger napsal(a): On Tuesday, February 22, 2011 12:54:11 Ulrich Mueller wrote: On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Francesco R wrote: Build gnuplot with USE=cairo and you can get PDF output with the pdfcairo terminal. Last time (many moons ago) I've checked cairo did not

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending removal(?) of media-libs/pdflib

2011-02-22 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: Dne 22.2.2011 19:20, Mike Frysinger napsal(a): Last time (many moons ago) I've checked cairo did not generated pdf it did generated raster images and wrapped them in a thin pdf layer. pdflib is generating vector pdf which is a different thing.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending removal(?) of media-libs/pdflib

2011-02-22 Thread Antoni Grzymala
Tomáš Chvátal dixit (2011-02-22, 19:39): On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Francesco R wrote: Build gnuplot with USE=cairo and you can get PDF output with the pdfcairo terminal. Last time (many moons ago) I've checked cairo did not generated pdf it did generated raster images and wrapped them in a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending removal(?) of media-libs/pdflib

2011-02-22 Thread Matt Turner
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: Dne 22.2.2011 19:20, Mike Frysinger napsal(a): Last time (many moons ago) I've checked cairo did not generated pdf it did generated raster images and wrapped them in a thin pdf

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending removal(?) of media-libs/pdflib

2011-02-22 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Matt Turner wrote: Then please say that to begin with instead of something snooty like You should check again. Sorry, but I don't see what would be snooty about it. That was not at all my intention, and I apologise if it came across like that. Francesco's statement was

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending removal(?) of media-libs/pdflib

2011-02-22 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday, February 22, 2011 15:18:18 Ulrich Mueller wrote: On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Matt Turner wrote: Then please say that to begin with instead of something snooty like You should check again. Sorry, but I don't see what would be snooty about it. That was not at all my intention, and I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Make sound a global USE flag?

2011-02-22 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Rich Freeman wrote: There's also a sounds local flag which generally means install optional sound data. Maybe games-rpg/drascula should use this one instead? I can vouch that eternal-lands-data uses the sound use flag in the same way - the only difference it makes is