[gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available

2012-04-15 Thread Duncan
the possibility, and wranglers/maintainers could request the longer output if necessary. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: A tiny news item for migrating to libjpeg-turbo

2012-04-23 Thread Duncan
.) Or better yet, the reasons the fallback might be needed don't really need to be enumerated at all. What about simply omitting that, leaving only: media-libs/jpeg:0 will be left in the tree as a fallback implementation. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: A tiny news item for migrating to libjpeg-turbo

2012-04-24 Thread Duncan
: emerge --deselect media-libs/jpeg emerge --oneshot media-libs/libjpeg-turbo That's exactly the sort of solution I was hoping for. Thanks. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master

[gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available

2012-04-26 Thread Duncan
to worry about whether dropping it in patches is enough or not. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available

2012-04-26 Thread Duncan
Zac Medico posted on Wed, 25 Apr 2012 23:26:24 -0700 as excerpted: On 04/25/2012 11:18 PM, Duncan wrote: IOW, let's quit letting the perfect be the enemy of the good, and just get on with it, already. If that means settling on something that's fragile and prone to lots of bug reports

[gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available

2012-04-26 Thread Duncan
Zac Medico posted on Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:21:02 -0700 as excerpted: On 04/26/2012 02:55 AM, Duncan wrote: Zac Medico posted on Wed, 25 Apr 2012 23:26:24 -0700 as excerpted: On 04/25/2012 11:18 PM, Duncan wrote: IOW, let's quit letting the perfect be the enemy of the good If that means

[gentoo-dev] Re: New license: yEd Software License Agreement

2012-04-27 Thread Duncan
Amadeusz Żołnowski posted on Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:30:32 +0200 as excerpted: This license would go to EULA group. Is this correct? That appears to be correct to me, yes. No distribution allowed. You're going to be doing restrict=mirror, correct? -- Duncan - List replies preferred

[gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available

2012-04-27 Thread Duncan
Zac Medico posted on Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:41:21 -0700 as excerpted: On 04/26/2012 03:08 PM, Duncan wrote: Zac Medico posted on Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:21:02 -0700 as excerpted: Also, don't forget to consider the possibility of interference between FEATURES=userpatch and epatch_user (applying same

[gentoo-dev] Re: New license: yEd Software License Agreement

2012-04-27 Thread Duncan
worry about. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: New license: yEd Software License Agreement

2012-04-27 Thread Duncan
an auto-fetch either, generally due to direct click-thru agreement required, it's restrict=fetch. My definitely non-professional legal understanding, of course. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your

[gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available

2012-04-27 Thread Duncan
Nikos Chantziaras posted on Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:55:12 +0300 as excerpted: On 27/04/12 17:15, Duncan wrote: Zac Medico posted on Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:41:21 -0700 as excerpted: Having the package manager interact with an eclass function like epatch_user is ugly, and it's unnecessary since we can

[gentoo-dev] Re: New license: yEd Software License Agreement

2012-04-28 Thread Duncan
tend to help as much, except to the extent that there really is a disagreement about the conditions of said license. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: busybox[sep-usr] support for mounting /usr w/out hassle

2012-05-01 Thread Duncan
the phrase? Operating as indented! Indeed! Sounds like a bit too much percussive maintenance! -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: Tightly-coupled core distro [was: Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012]

2012-05-10 Thread Duncan
of how things ultimately turn out. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: Tightly-coupled core distro [was: Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012]

2012-05-10 Thread Duncan
Duncan posted on Fri, 11 May 2012 00:59:22 + as excerpted: Fabio Erculiani posted on Thu, 10 May 2012 22:48:29 +0200 as excerpted: On a side note, I find it quite odd to be accused of trash talking by Linux Kernel people. hwoarang is a kernel person? FWIW, I see the gregkh post you

[gentoo-dev] Re: Proposal of accepting arguments to `default` in src_install (and more?) phases in EAPI=5 (for the next council meeting?)

2012-05-13 Thread Duncan
restricting gentoo upgrades for awhile!) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Enable FEATURES=config-protect-if-modified by default?

2012-05-15 Thread Duncan
it the default, from here! =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: news item: Portage's config-protect-if-modified feature is enabled by default

2012-05-18 Thread Duncan
. And that's what this is, as it is. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: Portage Git migration - clean cut or git-cvsserver

2012-05-24 Thread Duncan
between it and current HEAD, are extremely useful. I haven't thought of it much until now, but I think maintaining overlays as simple branches would be great, as well. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he

[gentoo-dev] Re: Portage Git migration - clean cut or git-cvsserver

2012-05-24 Thread Duncan
cost, as does merging between them. (CVS... I don't actually know enough about to make an informed comparison. It'd be a real shame not to expose the read-only git tree to the users who want it. Git was /designed/ to be distributed in that manner. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML

[gentoo-dev] Re: anybody interested in writing a Perl ebuild?

2012-05-26 Thread Duncan
. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Enable FEATURES=userpriv usersandbox by default?

2012-05-28 Thread Duncan
, which can only be a good thing. =:^) So from this user, +1 (+1000? =:^), news item requested. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: Portage Git migration - clean cut or git-cvsserver

2012-05-30 Thread Duncan
someone from infra have the time and be willing to work closely with them, is going to be critical. But again, given a council *priority*, let's move on it! decision, I'd at least /hope/ that's not a blocker. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord

[gentoo-dev] Re: Portage Git migration - clean cut or git-cvsserver

2012-05-30 Thread Duncan
, but there's apparently some sort of issue between gmane, pan, and lists commonly crossposted between, that has already killed project for me, header-fetch does nothing, and scmm would almost certainly be similarly dead to me.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree

[gentoo-dev] Re: Portage Git migration - clean cut or git-cvsserver

2012-05-31 Thread Duncan
workaround idea doesn't work. If it does, great!) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: Portage Git migration - clean cut or git-cvsserver

2012-06-01 Thread Duncan
William Hubbs posted on Thu, 31 May 2012 15:57:14 -0500 as excerpted: On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 08:26:58PM +, Duncan wrote: William Hubbs posted on Thu, 31 May 2012 14:54:50 -0500 as excerpted: I don't know what's going to happen to all the overlays with the main tree switch to git

[gentoo-dev] Re: metadata/md5-cache

2012-06-03 Thread Duncan
, but as I said, that's handwavey guesses. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: Git braindump: 1 of N: merging git signing

2012-06-03 Thread Duncan
, that clarifies things and helps get people at least discussing the same thing. Looking forward to more in the series! =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite: =thunderbird-3.1*, enigmail, replytolist, cxterm

2012-06-06 Thread Duncan
useflag. # to your local overlay. # Masked for removal in 30 days. =mail-client/thunderbird-3.1* x11-plugins/enigmail x11-plugins/replytolist What happened with the enigmail sentence there? Seems to be inserted in the middle of the copy-to-overlay sentence. -- Duncan - List replies preferred

[gentoo-dev] Re: UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-14 Thread Duncan
it, personally. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-14 Thread Duncan
to be mandatory, tho in reality that platform has always lacked the user-end base standard support and flexibility of x86, so it's not like they're losing it. But if the entire market moves toward arm as some are predicting... -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree

[gentoo-dev] Re: spec draft for cross-compile support in future EAPI (EAPI-5)

2012-06-16 Thread Duncan
go the standard route and avoid further issues.) Long lines as paragraphs would probably be easier especially early in the process when you're modifying a lot, but you still risk (even more) limited clients having issues with it. YMMV. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every

[gentoo-dev] Re: About using USE flags to pull in needed RDEPENDs being discouraged by devmanual

2012-06-16 Thread Duncan
, at least for stable or even unmasked into ~arch. =:^( -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: About using USE flags to pull in needed RDEPENDs being discouraged by devmanual

2012-06-16 Thread Duncan
solved that using sets as discussed in a different reply, but they're not yet available to the stable gentooer, and the way it looks, may remain that way for years...) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program

[gentoo-dev] Re: About using USE flags to pull in needed RDEPENDs being discouraged by devmanual

2012-06-16 Thread Duncan
Peter Stuge posted on Sun, 17 Jun 2012 00:16:36 +0200 as excerpted: Duncan wrote: users would unmerge ppp if they knew about it when they no longer needed it, but knowing about it is the problem. Sorry, but what is the connection to a USE flag? I agree that knowing about

[gentoo-dev] Re: UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-16 Thread Duncan
specified optical, above. Direct-partitioned and bootable USB media may not be included. I'm sure GKH or others who have been following it closer can fill in the details. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he

[gentoo-dev] Re: spec draft for cross-compile support in future EAPI (EAPI-5)

2012-06-17 Thread Duncan
...) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: Killing UEFI Secure Boot

2012-06-21 Thread Duncan
or secondary bootloader (after the BIOS) can even work! -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: My wishlist for EAPI 5

2012-06-21 Thread Duncan
-5 years for EAPI5!) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: Killing UEFI Secure Boot

2012-06-21 Thread Duncan
), but then you're back to hard-configuring it in ordered to do so, thus losing all that extra flexibility that's part of what makes x86 different. Which was the question that I was addressing. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master

[gentoo-dev] Re: My wishlist for EAPI 5

2012-06-21 Thread Duncan
the advantages of [[ tests, looser quoting, ==/=~ pattern matching tests, etc. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: My wishlist for EAPI 5

2012-06-23 Thread Duncan
in support of your position could be missed.) [1] Practically: favorable cost/benefit ratio for the work needed. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: My wishlist for EAPI 5

2012-06-23 Thread Duncan
Duncan posted on Sat, 23 Jun 2012 10:37:38 + as excerpted: Ciaran McCreesh posted on Sat, 23 Jun 2012 10:38:33 +0100 as excerpted: 3) Given the above, it would be of /great/ benefit to your argument if either Zac or Brian (or preferably both) stepped up from time to time and said yes

[gentoo-dev] Re: My wishlist for EAPI 5

2012-06-23 Thread Duncan
. Seeing people working on other PMs make the point as well, helps, and I hope to see both a bit more of that and more reminders of it in other subthreads/replies, where appropriate. I know that helps me keep a bit better perspective. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every

[gentoo-dev] Re: About using USE flags to pull in needed RDEPENDs being discouraged by devmanual

2012-06-24 Thread Duncan
Zac Medico posted on Sat, 23 Jun 2012 16:30:53 -0700 as excerpted: On 06/16/2012 02:56 PM, Duncan wrote: Meanwhile, one coming solution to this, in portage 2.2 anyway, is sets. Unfortunately, it has begun to look like sets are where baselayout2 and openrc were for many years, forever coming

[gentoo-dev] Re: grub:2 keywords

2012-06-25 Thread Duncan
rather behind us, now. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: grub:2 keywords

2012-06-25 Thread Duncan
in the profiles packages file, but either there was but it's long gone, or I'm mis-remembering entirely. So, ummm... interesting idea, but never mind! -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master

[gentoo-dev] Re: -Werror unwanted?

2012-06-25 Thread Duncan
other references or quote-worthy material. I believe he has specifically covered -Werror too. I know he mentioned it (with a link to /something/, of his or not I didn't check) in a recent entry. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master

[gentoo-dev] Re: euscan GSoC project - requesting feedback

2012-06-28 Thread Duncan
simply specifying a variable to be defined for each ebuild that euscan can't immediately get correct. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: grub:2 keywords

2012-06-28 Thread Duncan
Mike Frysinger posted on Fri, 29 Jun 2012 01:12:38 -0400 as excerpted: On Tuesday 26 June 2012 00:04:35 Duncan wrote: I could have sworn there was a virtual/bootloader or some such, that was a part of @system and that thus would have likely had a default in the profiles packages file

[gentoo-dev] Re: grub:2 keywords

2012-06-29 Thread Duncan
to map those on mdraid devices last I checked), and mount can mount by partition name using udev in much the same way as it mounts by UUID or filesystem label. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your

[gentoo-dev] Re: About trying to prevent downgrades of packages that cause system breakage

2012-07-01 Thread Duncan
, not check the one in the binpkg! -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: Kernel compiles and you

2012-07-08 Thread Duncan
bugs pre-rc1 should be available, and I can then bisect back into the previously blackout period with a bit more confidence. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: virtual/libudev

2012-07-11 Thread Duncan
I'd guess be joining us... Regardless, I agree with the point, and yes, debian at least will certainly be doing something as they have non-linux to worry about too, tho OTOH they move slow enough they might indeed be joining us, size or no size. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: virtual/libudev

2012-07-11 Thread Duncan
to actually require its own udev which means that systemd would need to build it anyway. What's the point? Being able to choose not to run systemd at all? If there's no need to build systemd, than what it requires is irrelevant. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every

[gentoo-dev] Re: udev - mdev

2012-07-12 Thread Duncan
and removal schedule for awhile. (I've not checked to see if it's there already.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: udev-rules.eclass

2012-07-13 Thread Duncan
in gentoo/ amd64, that every PM should cope with it just fine, or said PM would be rather broken. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: udev - mdev

2012-07-14 Thread Duncan
the bandwidth management headaches trying to do so, thus implying 2-3 USB host-ports, minimum. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: udev - mdev

2012-07-14 Thread Duncan
, the whole shebang! -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: udev - mdev

2012-07-14 Thread Duncan
Rich Freeman posted on Sat, 14 Jul 2012 19:57:41 -0400 as excerpted: On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: BTW, any gentooish documentation out there on rootfs as tmpfs, with /etc and the like mounted on top of it, operationally ro, rw remounted for updates

[gentoo-dev] Re: udev - mdev

2012-07-15 Thread Duncan
filesystems, and anybody using it now without backups is simply playing Russian Roulette with their data. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: udev - mdev

2012-07-15 Thread Duncan
. =:^) I'll have to do some research and think about that a bit more... Definitely thanks for the tarball idea, as otherwise I'd probably have not got out of my box and thought about squashfs. I'm probably missing its downsides ATM, but you still broke my thinking out of the box! -- Duncan

[gentoo-dev] Re: udev - mdev

2012-07-16 Thread Duncan
sounds more complex than simply running an initial script as init, and having it exec init. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: udev - mdev

2012-07-16 Thread Duncan
are in separate storage, you can mount 'em all in the appropriate place... I'm not sure whether that was asked of me or Maxim K, but that was beginning to be my conclusion as well. See the earlier comment about not even using an initr* at all, tho this would be close. -- Duncan - List replies preferred

[gentoo-dev] Re: news item: upgrading to postfix-2.9

2012-07-17 Thread Duncan
be a relatively small thing, but with this sort of package a single person missing a single warning can mean a service outage for dozens or hundreds, so I think it's worth it. And since only postfix users who haven't upgraded yet will see it, and then only once, yes, do it. -- Duncan - List replies

[gentoo-dev] Re: Opinion against /usr merge

2012-07-17 Thread Duncan
and at least semi-compatible package- management. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: Opinion against /usr merge

2012-07-18 Thread Duncan
it has some maturing to do still. Meanwhile, openrc's working great for me ATM and I have no immediate plans to switch.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: Opinion against /usr merge

2012-07-18 Thread Duncan
Michał Górny posted on Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:55:32 +0200 as excerpted: On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 09:49:24 + (UTC) Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Michał Górny posted on Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:18:49 +0200 as excerpted: Didn't you see Lennart's opinions on Gentoo Linux? I don't think

[gentoo-dev] Re: Opinion against /usr merge

2012-07-18 Thread Duncan
that, no real objection, but it's far afield from the current discussion and would be a lot of (arguably unnecessary) work to migrate. FWIW, tho, that does look a lot like... I think it's gobo linux... If you like that sort of thing, I'd suggest looking at it. -- Duncan - List replies preferred

[gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: openrc init scripts taking command line arguments

2012-07-18 Thread Duncan
on) ++ This makes sense, especially the single command when using --args bit. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: Opinion against /usr merge

2012-07-18 Thread Duncan
. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

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

2012-07-21 Thread Duncan
it actually kept to that. I'd guess by now it'd be a reasonably mature solution, tho I've not used either one, personally. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: news item: changes to stages (make.conf and make.profile)

2012-07-24 Thread Duncan
similar... so totally confused they have no idea what the news item is actually trying to say!) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: news item: changes to stages (make.conf and make.profile)

2012-07-25 Thread Duncan
... that nobody reads! I guess I'm nobody, then, so you can now say nobody thanks you, too! =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: ROMs category suggestion

2012-07-26 Thread Duncan
-* categories that would otherwise just have a single package or two, there could be a firmware-misc, if category-proliferation is seen to be a big issue. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: virtual/libudev

2012-07-26 Thread Duncan
, like debian with its slow release cycles, as he was president of kde ev, not president of debian, or of the trinity project, which AFAIK didn't even exist at the time, and didn't specify support from OTHERS, not kde, so he was clearly speaking for kde, not for other entities.) -- Duncan

[gentoo-dev] Re: Detecting ignored *FLAGS

2012-07-27 Thread Duncan
) alternative for those that prefer to use them. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: Fwd: Heads up for Qt5

2012-07-28 Thread Duncan
considered worth it. Thus as new versions appear, gtk3 and now qt5, they simply follow type. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: virtual/libudev

2012-07-28 Thread Duncan
the responsibility of whatever organization to either follow thru or repudiate, as it's the reputation and credibility of that organization on the line if they don't. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he

[gentoo-dev] Re: UTF-8 locale by default

2012-08-02 Thread Duncan
not, so I'm emphasizing it.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

2012-08-08 Thread Duncan
... ...senil emas eht gnolA !saw ti tahw s'TAHT !LOL http://www.textreverse.com/ (While the link I had saved was stale it did mean I still remembered enough about it to plug the idea into google and successfully find it. Link updated. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every

[gentoo-dev] Re: Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

2012-08-08 Thread Duncan
useful in a couple years, I expect you'll see a lot more overt respect that simply isn't evident, now. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

2012-08-08 Thread Duncan
that! =:^) http://ss64.com/bash/tac.html http://ss64.com/bash/rev.html -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: Global Systemd USE Flag

2012-08-09 Thread Duncan
and probably officially, at least five years out. But a decade out, all bets are off! [1] LWN 2007 timeline, one big page version: http://lwn.net/Articles/307167/ -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he

[gentoo-dev] Re: Global Systemd USE Flag

2012-08-09 Thread Duncan
Michał Górny posted on Thu, 09 Aug 2012 09:24:26 +0200 as excerpted: On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 06:57:17 + (UTC) Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: So I really expect people to be switching to systemd 2-3 years from now, and that it'll be the gentoo default in 3-5 years, tho openrc will almost

[gentoo-dev] Re: Global Systemd USE Flag

2012-08-09 Thread Duncan
that changes, systemd really has reasonably matured and stabilized. Prospects look reasonable so far! =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: pid 1 design

2012-08-09 Thread Duncan
kernel as well. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

2012-08-09 Thread Duncan
description, enough to both get the concept and google with would be good, but links could be quicker if you have them handy, and are less likely to spawn even further afield subthreads.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use

[gentoo-dev] Re: Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

2012-08-09 Thread Duncan
where the experience takes us. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

2012-08-10 Thread Duncan
Michał Górny posted on Fri, 10 Aug 2012 09:43:26 +0200 as excerpted: On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 05:04:40 + (UTC) Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Michał Górny posted on Thu, 09 Aug 2012 22:47:38 +0200 as excerpted: Or anything else what can be spawned for shell. And a lot more what you

[gentoo-dev] Re: Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

2012-08-12 Thread Duncan
gentoo support, since they have similar issues themselves. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

2012-08-12 Thread Duncan
really should try it one of these days and know from personal experience, but in this case, it really /is/ easier to just talk than to do, since trying it requires rebooting, so I can't simply try it in another window while I keep this post open, waiting on the result... -- Duncan - List

[gentoo-dev] Re: Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

2012-08-15 Thread Duncan
a minimal installed tree, for similar reasons. I'm not actually sure how they interact. That'd be releng/arch/catalyst territory. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: OpenRC network provides revisited

2012-08-24 Thread Duncan
runlevel there is, right? I know it was with baselayout-1 (which i'm actually still running on my NFS-root cluster). Yes, it still works that way. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] new vala.eclass

2012-08-26 Thread Duncan
inside the [[ ]], as I've seen that suggested numerous times in other cases. The better quote handling regarding variables is in fact one of the reasons the [[ ]] form is preferred to the POSIX compliant [ ] form. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-crypt/gpa: gpa-0.9.3.ebuild ChangeLog gpa-0.9.1_pre20100416-r1.ebuild

2012-08-27 Thread Duncan
for that. Thanks. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-crypt/gpa: gpa-0.9.3.ebuild ChangeLog gpa-0.9.1_pre20100416-r1.ebuild

2012-08-27 Thread Duncan
/ compliance? Yuck! -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-crypt/gpa: gpa-0.9.3.ebuild ChangeLog gpa-0.9.1_pre20100416-r1.ebuild

2012-08-27 Thread Duncan
Rich Freeman posted on Mon, 27 Aug 2012 22:25:53 -0400 as excerpted: On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: [snip] Honestly, while I might agree with that sentiment on some of these threads, my only complaint with Ciaran's original response was that he could

[gentoo-dev] Re: Any official position from Gentoo about systemd, mdev and udev-static ?

2012-08-29 Thread Duncan
gentoo's position, it's a pretty safe bet that any changes of that size that WOULD occur are safely out beyond that three-year horizon where things start getting fuzzy, and beyond that, it's anyone's guess. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord

[gentoo-dev] Re: Any official position from Gentoo about systemd, mdev and udev-static ?

2012-08-30 Thread Duncan
hands-off policy. But one thing's for sure, there's money there, and where there's that sort of money involved, one way or another, the code usually appears. So all is not YET lost, regarding insane dependencies at the base udev level. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every

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