Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages broken by phase ordering change

2008-06-18 Thread Chris Gianelloni
t on the lists, PMS would have been approved long ago. Of course, that doesn't mesh well with your apparent need to be a complete dick to people, so continue on with the status quo. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Games Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

2008-06-18 Thread Chris Gianelloni
7;m curious as to why you think the actively contributing members of the PMS > team aren't acting in Gentoo's interests, though. Maybe because they were booted from Gentoo for not acting in Gentoo's best interest? -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Games Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

2008-06-18 Thread Chris Gianelloni
eloper any longer and you shouldn't have a say in how *we* manage ourselves. You're more than welcome to contribute code, fork, or whatever the hell you want. This is open source, after all, but that doesn't mean you should be allowed to hold the position of power over Gentoo that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

2008-06-18 Thread Chris Gianelloni
profiles. Second, there's a newer official (and stable) media set. Sorry if you don't like the "beta" moniker, which applies to the media set. After all, does a package suddenly become less stable because it is included in a tarball that has "beta" in the *FILE NAME*

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

2008-06-18 Thread Chris Gianelloni
the facts to suit your needs. After all, looking at /releases on the mirrors, I see a nice and shiny 2008.0_beta2 on all of the officially-supported arches. Isn't it about time that you gave up on your little mission to consistently undermine the hard work put in by a community of volunteers?

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

2008-06-18 Thread Chris Gianelloni
;re just posting more of your bullshit where you obscure or otherwise lie about the facts to suit yourself. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Games Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

2008-06-18 Thread Chris Gianelloni
> > There's a reason for Paludis not accepting them, and the same reason > > applies > > to the question of allowing them in PMS or not, therefore PMS doesn't allow > > them. There's no evil conspiracy here, just pure logic. > > Care to share

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

2008-06-18 Thread Chris Gianelloni
t; Fortunately you don't have to think, you can just read Ciaran's > explanation. Yes, because we all should stop thinking for ourselves and let Ciaran tell us what to think. After all, we all want to be like the cool Paludis developers. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering S

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

2008-06-18 Thread Chris Gianelloni
've decided to put you and all of your little cohorts into my killfile so I no longer have to read your constant barrage of bullshit. Seriously, you're a complete fucking waste. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Games Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-18 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 14:46 +0100, Alex Howells wrote: > I agree with both of these and also think both agaffney and wolf31o2 > would serve us excellently on Council. Consider them nominated too :) Thanks, but I no longer have the time nor the desire to dedicate to the Council. --

Re: [gentoo-dev] OT Foundation <-> Council was -> Nominations for council

2008-06-06 Thread Chris Gianelloni
Can you take this off-topic thread to the appropriate list? I'm pretty tired with hearing the Foundation's self-promotional comments on how important it is to development on this list. You guys have your own list for that crap, as it is. Thanks, -- Chris Gianelloni Release E

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: lzma tarball usage

2008-05-07 Thread Chris Gianelloni
sing lzma for system (and lower) packages. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220074 We're already getting reports of this due to someone deciding that it'd be a good idea to use lzma for our daily portage snapshots without any discussion here. Luckily, we still have the oth

Re: [gentoo-dev] config_eth0 deprecated - new name?

2008-04-23 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 16:21 +0100, Roy Marples wrote: > address_eth0? > addresses_eth0? I think one of these two is the most obvious to people. Since most people will likely only have one address per interface, I'd say that "address_eth0" sounds good. -- Chris Gianellon

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dependencies that're available at pkg_*inst

2008-04-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
ted dependencies, but less > strong? Pretty much, yeah. The main difference that I would see from the current *DEPEND variables, besides what was said above, would be that a lack of visibility wouldn't stop the package merge. If sys-apps/foo had ODEPEND="dev-libs/bar" and d

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dependencies that're available at pkg_*inst

2008-04-21 Thread Chris Gianelloni
This way, we could "ship" a more robust configuration/setup for many popular applications without forcing software on people. It's an idea, anyway, and I hope that I didn't hijack the thread. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Games Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Early stabilisation

2008-04-17 Thread Chris Gianelloni
ry simple. If you don't have time to do something, don't do it. However, the common courtesy in such cases would be to inform the requester of said time constraint, so he can either adjust his expectations, or find someone else to do the work. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Games Developer -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Early stabilisation

2008-04-16 Thread Chris Gianelloni
; options. > > I'd say leave the current norm and smack the misbehaving maintainers :) Who says that they're misbehaving? Again, the maintainers probably know their packages better than anyone else, so why are we not trusting their judgement again? -- Chris Gianelloni Releas

[gentoo-dev] New profiles

2008-04-09 Thread Chris Gianelloni
, please let me know so I can sync the changes into the snapshot tree. Thanks, -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Games Developer -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April

2008-04-03 Thread Chris Gianelloni
pace. The only difference is the commit access and the Gentoo resources used by the individual. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Games Developer -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April

2008-04-03 Thread Chris Gianelloni
had a single commit of several profiles take up to 6 minutes to complete, and that's not with repoman or anything. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Games Developer -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Chris Gianelloni
ion. I'm trying to reproduce on > machine > 2 the same state of packages that package A was compiled against on machine > 1. And > even make it optional to do so, via an emerge flag. This is likely usually done by controlling the binrepo. At least, that's how I do it. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Games Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 17:48 +0100, Fabio Erculiani wrote: > On 3/13/08, Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm a distro builder, too, and I haven't been hitting any of these > > problems. Would you care to point out the actual problems, or will the >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Chris Gianelloni
5:11] * agaffney cries in the corner > [gio mar 13 2008] [02:55:40] what stupid are you Thanks for reminding me once again how you like to interact with the people that you're trying to "help" out. You wonder why people respond negatively to your demands and this is h

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Chris Gianelloni
t. Well, I sincerely hope that you do not file such a bug, as it would royally screw over the one team in Gentoo that *does* consistently use our binary package support. I would definitely like to see the support improved, but not at the expense of doing very stupid things like locking to specific ve

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Chris Gianelloni
since > it was close to useless. I'm a distro builder, too, and I haven't been hitting any of these problems. Would you care to point out the actual problems, or will the "close to useless" comment be our only indication of the perceived problems? -- Chris Gianelloni Release

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree

2008-03-13 Thread Chris Gianelloni
t. Demanding respect tends to give the exact opposite response than the demanding individual intends. Try doing something worthy of respecting, and you'll likely gain some respect. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Games Developer signature.asc Description: This is

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Tobias Klausmann (klausman)

2008-03-11 Thread Chris Gianelloni
my bidding! Welcome to the team (officially)... -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Games Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] RE: Mesa on i965 (DRI)

2008-02-29 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 20:19 +0100, Mateusz Mierzwinski wrote: > Ok, I've try i810 and... no DRI. Please take this off the general development mailing list and to one of the support lists, or, even better, to our bug tracker at http://bugs.gentoo.org instead. Thanks, -- Chris Gianelloni

Re: [gentoo-dev] MESA i965 SUPPORT PLEASE!

2008-02-27 Thread Chris Gianelloni
thout > ./configure script?. Better to add i965 to mesa VIDEO_CARD variable. I > don't want to change compile profile to non-NPTL. Even better... i965 support is added by VIDEO_CARDS=i810 already. You don't need to do anything by hand... -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engin

Re: [gentoo-dev] MESA i965 SUPPORT PLEASE!

2008-02-27 Thread Chris Gianelloni
thout > ./configure script?. Better to add i965 to mesa VIDEO_CARD variable. I > don't want to change compile profile to non-NPTL. This belongs in a bug report. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Games Developer -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: What is "bump request"?

2008-02-27 Thread Chris Gianelloni
hat bugs do not act the same as a web forum, or they're simply rude and trying to tell the developer that they think that their issue is more important than others. ;] Generally, "bump request" means to bump the version of a package, whereas just "bump" is for "bu

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removing default-darwin profiles

2008-02-14 Thread Chris Gianelloni
in my snapshot. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Games Developer -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] clean deprecated eclasses(?)

2008-02-14 Thread Chris Gianelloni
that it only makes sense that we keep them around for a long time from here on out, but they *can* be safe to move in the future. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Games Developer -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] clean deprecated eclasses(?) (was: missing quotes in eclasses)

2008-02-14 Thread Chris Gianelloni
}" \{\} \; > > For inherit eclass I've searched manually. There's also games-etmod games-ut2k4mod and games-q3mod which were all replaced by games-mods quite some time ago. There isn't anything in the tree using these. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Games Developer -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Changes to some profiles

2008-02-02 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 14:21 +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > Do we really need a front-page news item for this? I don't think the > > impact would be terribly great, as I suspect this affects a very small > > number of people whom are likely

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Changes to some profiles

2008-02-02 Thread Chris Gianelloni
fo to GMN/gentoo-dev-announce/gentoo-user should suffice. If someone thinks we need to do a front-page article, we can do that, too. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Games Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Adding two USE flags to 2008.0's profiles

2008-02-02 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 09:45 +0100, Christian Faulhammer wrote: > Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > If adding "bluetooth" seems to be a bit much, how about just the "usb" > > USE flag? After all, my UPS won't work with apcupsd without USE="

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] Adding two USE flags to 2008.0's profiles

2008-02-01 Thread Chris Gianelloni
ter all, my UPS won't work with apcupsd without USE="usb" on my server... ;] -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Games Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changes to some profiles

2008-02-01 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 23:47 +0200, Petteri Räty wrote: > Chris Gianelloni kirjoitti: > > > > base/packages: > > removed debianutils > > I don't think we reached a decision on whether debianutils should go to > kernel-2.eclass before this is done. Actually, it

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for February

2008-02-01 Thread Chris Gianelloni
entoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0046.html for anybody wanting to know what GLEP49 entails. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Games Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[gentoo-dev] Changes to some profiles

2008-02-01 Thread Chris Gianelloni
autoconf and automake from packages and packages.build above, since things *should* now be depending on them if they need them. Of course, I won't commit that until after posting here again after testing it and being sure it's good. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lea

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: removal of digest files from the tree

2008-01-30 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 00:45 +0100, Santiago M. Mola wrote: > On Jan 31, 2008 12:32 AM, Robin H. Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 12:05:26AM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > > > Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > >> I think thro

Re: [gentoo-dev] debianutils: system worthy ?

2008-01-30 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 10:32 -0800, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > That nothing that you've said counters the package not being needed in > the system target. In fact, the packages that you list all explicitly > depend on debianutils, so they wouldn't break if we removed it from >

Re: [gentoo-dev] debianutils: system worthy ?

2008-01-30 Thread Chris Gianelloni
e debianutils but do *not* depend on it, because it's in "system" now. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Games Developer -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: removal of digest files from the tree

2008-01-27 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 18:01 -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 05:34:14PM -0800, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 06:27 -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > > > Due to how CVS hooks operate, it's not quite possible. > > > You woul

Re: [gentoo-dev] archives.gentoo.org linking brokenness

2008-01-27 Thread Chris Gianelloni
again. Thanks for taking the time to code that part up. I hope that you sent that patch upstream! ;] -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Games Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: removal of digest files from the tree

2008-01-27 Thread Chris Gianelloni
of anything aside from portage/paludis/pkgcore use the digest files, and I'd bet that paludis/pkgcore don't use them, at all. I think throwing up an announcement today/tomorrow for Thursday/Friday should be sufficient for this sort of a change, as it won't affect any user who has a v

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: removal of digest files from the tree

2008-01-27 Thread Chris Gianelloni
s what I'm asking is if it is possible to have repoman create a digest for sys-apps/portage only, for the slow upgraders. Of course, this assumes its even possible on the portage side to bother. If not, just ignore this part. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Games Develop

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: removal of digest files from the tree

2008-01-27 Thread Chris Gianelloni
ong with a patch, this would be very > bad, as the ebuild+Manifest would get committed, but the patch wouldn't. Bleh... CVS vs. SVN. There's no "pre-commit" equivalent on CVS? Also, wouldn't the second Manifest run "fix" the missing digest commit? -- Chris G

Re: [gentoo-dev] archives.gentoo.org linking brokenness

2008-01-27 Thread Chris Gianelloni
hing on archives? How are we going to find the articles if the old links don't work? -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Games Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Concerns about WIPE_TMP change [offtopic]

2008-01-23 Thread Chris Gianelloni
4-data which weighs in at nearly 7GB to install. I'm pretty sure that games-strategy/nwn-data is pretty close with USE="hou sou" enabled. ;] -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Games Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Available hardware

2008-01-15 Thread Chris Gianelloni
I rescind my "dibs" since mine is more powerful. I just want to be able to have decent video so I can do games on IA64. As you know, my Itanium box is a server without AGP and with only PCI-X (so PCI video is my only choice). -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Gam

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: USE flag documentation

2008-01-15 Thread Chris Gianelloni
rely presenting some topic for discussion on this.) -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Games Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Seeking questions for a user survey

2008-01-14 Thread Chris Gianelloni
at it gives people an excuse to argue about even the biggest piece of junk being added to our tree or supported, as if we have to, to give them the "choice". Instead, I prefer the concept of empowering the user to make their own choices, where they can choose to add anything that they w

Re: [gentoo-dev] Seeking questions for a user survey

2008-01-14 Thread Chris Gianelloni
t; Never heard of it I'd like to see the answers to this one, but I have a feeling that everybody has a love/hate relationship with this. They either love it, or they hate it. I also tend to think that *many* people have an opinion on the Installer without ever even using it. As such, I don't think that we'd get any usable results out of this, but it'll still be fun to ask. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Games Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Seeking questions for a user survey

2008-01-14 Thread Chris Gianelloni
associated with the release or the > latest available snapshot or other? > - Do you use a Gentoo derivative? (give a list with an other option) What features do you think are lacking on Gentoo install media? (free form) -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Games Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] extend profiles.desc to include "experimental" profiles

2008-01-12 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 00:40 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Friday 11 January 2008, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > For one, a way to mark a profile as deprecated in profiles.desc so > > repoman doesn't scan it (currently, we remove tend to remove them from > > the list).

Re: [gentoo-dev] RE: Re: Item for 10 Jan 2008 Council meeting

2008-01-12 Thread Chris Gianelloni
(Didn't really have anything specific to reply to, so just picking this) On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 05:39 +, Steve Long wrote: > Mr McCormick Ehh, Ferris and I resolved our issues after a couple emails and just a little time to chill out. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strate

Re: [gentoo-dev] extend profiles.desc to include "experimental" profiles

2008-01-11 Thread Chris Gianelloni
would be stacked with the in-tree one). The main problem with doing this has been the effect on repoman, since it scans every listed profile every time. I know that most of the profile selection tools out there already only show profiles that are listed in profiles.desc, so it wouldn't real

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GMN (was: Re: Projects and subproject status)

2008-01-11 Thread Chris Gianelloni
are of course, more > than welcome. Feel free to ask me any questions that you have along the way. I tried to make publishing the GWN easier, but I still didn't get nearly as much accomplished as I had wished. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Games Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Projects and subproject status

2008-01-10 Thread Chris Gianelloni
s it'll save a little bit of time for the person doing the GWN and also it'll make sure you don't forget to run it. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Games Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2008-01-10 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 07:08 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:33:40 -0800 > Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is why I find it funny that people even bother to listen to > > Ciaran, at all. All he cares about is his little pet projec

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Item for 10 Jan 2008 Council meeting

2008-01-09 Thread Chris Gianelloni
your signature? Are you speaking on behalf of pubs? Beer? Maybe mouths? (Yes, you can quickly see just how asinine the assumption is...) -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Games Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reducing the size of the system package set

2008-01-09 Thread Chris Gianelloni
huge > disservice to everyone. Well, I wasn't really saying that it wouldn't end up in the stages. More that by moving it into the sub-profiles, it allows people to choose a profile where it isn't in "system" anymore. Of course, most of this is rather moot consider

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Item for 10 Jan 2008 Council meeting

2008-01-09 Thread Chris Gianelloni
bout Chrissy and my relationship, yet you make your assumptions. Keep on assuming. I really couldn't care less. It's this exact form of double standard and using things only when they fit what you want that keeps things from actually getting done, especially when they're untrue or bas

Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenRC available for testing.

2008-01-09 Thread Chris Gianelloni
one know what other distro conventions are in use out there ? Well, RH/RHEL/Fedora/CentOS/Mandrake/Mandriva all use /etc/localtime -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reducing the size of the system package set

2008-01-09 Thread Chris Gianelloni
le at the detriment of 99.9% of the people out there makes no sense > at all. Well, openssh has always been questionable. Sure, *I* think it should be on any Gentoo system I'd want to touch, but it really isn't necessary for a lot of people. Moving this to, say, the "

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2008-01-09 Thread Chris Gianelloni
is mostly done. [1] http://dev.gentoo.org/~wolf31o2/killmips.sh [2] http://dev.gentoo.org/~wolf31o2/mips_to_testing.patch -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2008-01-09 Thread Chris Gianelloni
tegory. Yes, hard numbers are always misleading, especially when they show that the entire team is barely active, at all, and only one of those people is doing *any* mips work. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer signat

Re: [gentoo-dev] Projects and subproject status

2008-01-09 Thread Chris Gianelloni
hing RelEng: work on catalyst/genkernel, no further plans PR: no clue, looks like nothing Trustees: I retired as a Trustee since there's not much point without a Foundation to run, leaving us with one (or possibly two) trustees. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2008-01-09 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 20:50 +0200, Petteri Räty wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh kirjoitti: > > On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:59:29 -0800 > > Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The issue that was raised is that certain arch teams are incapable of > >> ke

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2008-01-09 Thread Chris Gianelloni
is little pet projects/teams and doesn't care if it increases workload for everybody else. I mean, where would Gentoo be if not for our support of mips? Oh dear, we'd definitely be nowhere near as popular... *cough* -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2008-01-09 Thread Chris Gianelloni
ppy, no? > > Everyone except the users, who end up with pages and pages of horrible > Portage output... What, all six of them? -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2008-01-09 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 18:56 +0100, Jan Kundrát wrote: > Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > I have foo 1.0, which is mips. There is foo 2.0, which is stable > > everywhere else. The foo 1.0 ebuild does not conform to current ebuild > > standards. I want to commit changes to foo 2

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2008-01-09 Thread Chris Gianelloni
7;s stable tree as it currently sits. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2008-01-09 Thread Chris Gianelloni
s unable to back it up, then yes, it definitely does matter. I'm just making sure that people are aware of the situation, as you like to portray yourself as important to the Gentoo project, when the project has deemed you as not important and forcibly removed you. Thanks for playing, but yo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2008-01-09 Thread Chris Gianelloni
on as any arches *were* mentioned, everybody was talking about the same one. It's rather funny that everybody seems to have the exact same impression of what architecture might be a slacker and would be affected by this. I wonder why that is? -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strate

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Item for 10 Jan 2008 Council meeting

2008-01-09 Thread Chris Gianelloni
out what the hell I did to you to make you feel like you need to personally attack me every step of the way, but I'm not putting up with it, anymore. I'm adding Developer Relations to this email and will be filing a formal complaint against you. Have a good day. -- Chris Gianelloni

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2008-01-08 Thread Chris Gianelloni
nion isn't very important to the much of the current developer pool, seeing as how it doesn't affect you in any way, having been thrown from the project, and all. Now, if you have something possibly constructive to add to this conversation, as a user, feel free, but don't pretend

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2008-01-08 Thread Chris Gianelloni
t; > problem. > > That's an interesting assertion. Can you back it up? Sure. You can, too. Just look at bugs. If you think I'm taking the time to do it to justify my statements to YOU, you're sorely mistaken. Have a nice day, -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineerin

Re: [gentoo-dev] Item for 10 Jan 2008 Council meeting

2008-01-08 Thread Chris Gianelloni
esigned to curb or prevent bad behavior, where DevRel's job is to prevent bad behavior from recurring, or taking disciplinary action when necessary for repeat offenders. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reducing the size of the system package set

2008-01-08 Thread Chris Gianelloni
; > > Probably would be useful to separate DEPEND and RDEPEND base systems. So > things like gcc would only be needed for the DEPEND part. Be careful with this one. Lots of things end up linking with libstdc ++.so.* from GCC. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reducing the size of the system package set

2008-01-08 Thread Chris Gianelloni
ime. Implicit dependencies waste more time than pretty much anything else. Almost all circular dependency issues we currently have are due to implicit dependencies. Also, several things have been added either to system or (more commonly) packages.build, to try to work around these deficiencie

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2008-01-08 Thread Chris Gianelloni
ly can't be that many people who actually care if nobody even notices when *system* breaks. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2008-01-08 Thread Chris Gianelloni
up for the people who don't understand this as well as you do. This is especially true since you've been pretty much the main proponent for keeping things as they are with these slack arches. I mean, if vapier can maintain arm/sh/s390, by himself, to a better degree than the mips *TEAM* can

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2008-01-08 Thread Chris Gianelloni
on is useless in this case, as *his* work flow is not affected. As such, I think we can simply just ignore him. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2008-01-08 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 04:32 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:20:18 -0800 > Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No offense to anyone, but holding back hundreds of developers and > > thousands of users for a handful of developers > > .

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2008-01-04 Thread Chris Gianelloni
pable of maintaining stable KEYWORDS in a timely manner, why should we care about them, again? -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2008-01-04 Thread Chris Gianelloni
thing to change, the package maintainers will want to make things easier on themselves. This is to be expected. We elect the Council for a reason. Making decisions like this is one of them. Let's let them do their job and follow their leadership. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Some new global USE-flags

2007-12-28 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 05:53 +, Steve Long wrote: > Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > >> branding: Enable Gentoo specific branding > >> [questionable, as used for splashes/shortcuts/artwork] > > > > Well, my personal opinion here is that we should enable t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI) [2]

2007-12-27 Thread Chris Gianelloni
at be? We've already ruled out purple, brown > and yellow, and no-one has yet found any other colour of paint. Any chance we can back on, you know, the actual topic, rather than these useless analogies? Thanks, -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Archi

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Some new global USE-flags

2007-12-26 Thread Chris Gianelloni
or branding or optional Gentoo-specific minor config changes. Also, it can still be disabled for people who want everything as upstream intended. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation signature.a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Patch make_desktop_entry to produce entries that validate better

2007-11-20 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sun, 2007-11-18 at 02:59 +0100, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > I have attached an updated patch. Thanks, Daniel. The patch has been applied. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundat

Reminder: Set your Reply-To (was Re: [gentoo-dev] packages.gentoo.org lives!)

2007-11-15 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 13:22 -0700, Joe Peterson wrote: > (Sorry for the previous reply to announce..) Let me take this opportunity to remind people to set a reply-to when sending anything to gentoo-dev-announce so people replying will reply to the proper place. Thanks, -- Chris Gianell

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Place of EAPI variable in ebuild

2007-11-13 Thread Chris Gianelloni
beginning, the thread/discussion would have been over. This is exactly what people mean when they say that they feel that you are not participating in discussions fairly. It's like you specifically hold back information that you know and bait people into saying things simply so you call put ou

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Place of EAPI variable in ebuild

2007-11-13 Thread Chris Gianelloni
o completely screw over a *huge* number of our users. I am just trying to point this out and hopefully get discussion going on how to utilize these great new features without potentially causing damage to our user's machines and our reputation. I still think that EAPI should not be allowed t

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Place of EAPI variable in ebuild

2007-11-13 Thread Chris Gianelloni
ly EAPI=* functions need to be "hidden" behind EAPI. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-print/cups: ChangeLog cups-1.3.4-r1.ebuild cups-1.3.4.ebuild

2007-11-10 Thread Chris Gianelloni
n't likely be having this conversation, though you and I know the functional meaning of the two words in that context are nearly identical. This is mostly the case with words with multiple meanings, where non-native speakers might not know all of the alternate meanings and can misinterpret

Re: [gentoo-dev] Slapd calls nss_ldap before opening its ports

2007-10-29 Thread Chris Gianelloni
etitive error messages of > that plenty could be seen at least as a documentation bug. Which should be filed as a bug report or sent to the gentoo-doc list. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer : Dawid Węgliński (cla)

2007-10-16 Thread Chris Gianelloni
, another welcome to Dawid, and his feti--er, enthusiasm--for tall > trees! (What do you use to tame trees, anyway? Somehow, whips--mmm, > whips!--wouldn't seem to do the job.) :) Welcome (again) Dawid! -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Tea

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