Re: [gentoo-dev] Request for changes to GLEP 41

2005-11-19 Thread Simon Stelling
inue to look up the AT page 3 times a week. It's really not a THAT big issue. I just thought it would be nice to give the ATs a @g.o address, but it's really not essentially for me to work. Regards, -- Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] implementation details for GLEP 41

2005-11-19 Thread Simon Stelling
ere dev = dev/staff/whatever)? There are devs who don't have commit permissions to any cvs repo, how is their activity tracked? In the AT case it wouldn't be so hard to check their activity. !seen on IRC and a bugzilla query printing out bugs where they made a comment should be eno

Re: [gentoo-dev] Request for changes to GLEP 41

2005-11-19 Thread Simon Stelling
d a subdomain". Those who thought that a subdomain would be a bad idea didn't step up at that moment (including me), at least if I recall right. -- Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] implementation details for GLEP 41

2005-11-19 Thread Simon Stelling
;) -- Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-22 Thread Simon Stelling
Harald van Dijk wrote: (Note that I'm not going to argue either way whether this is a good thing; I'm merely pointing out that the docs do say we're about choice.) You still can choose between stage3 and stage3+GRP without having to do anything but following the handbook :) --

Re: [gentoo-dev] my apologies for the mess with this release of MySQL 5.0.16

2005-11-25 Thread Simon Stelling
Albert Hopkins wrote: Now all-of-the-sudden MySQL 5 is marked -amd64 so now I must downgrade. Is this intentional? read the changelog, it says: 24 Nov 2005; Jory A. Pratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mysql-5.0.15.ebuild, mysql-5.0.16-r3.ebuild: version 5 does not work on clean install --

Re: [gentoo-dev] Misquoted in the GWN

2005-11-28 Thread Simon Stelling
Is there a good reason for sending this to -dev? You basically complain about the way the GWN authors handled the issue, so why do you tell it all the devs? It seems a bit like a lame attempt to blame them in public for their faults. Other than that, I agree with you. -- Simon Stelling

Re: [gentoo-dev] UPGRADE ANNOUNCEMENT bugs.gentoo.org

2005-12-14 Thread Simon Stelling
Jakub Moc wrote: :0: * ^From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null What a poor flame. Read through the flaming guide [1] twice, and try again. [1] It once was http://dev.gentoo.org/~chriswhite/flame.html, where has it gone? -- Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: pkg_{pre,post}inst misusage

2005-12-23 Thread Simon Stelling
be very nice though. -- Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] making dodoc and dohtml die when they fail and stricter is on

2005-12-26 Thread Simon Stelling
without knowing what that do... or is it a default nowadays, I'm not even sure. You're mixing up 'strict' with 'stricter'. -- Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stupid USE defaults that need cleaning

2005-12-26 Thread Simon Stelling
;s pretty much their decision what their defaults look like. -- Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2006-01-03 Thread Simon Stelling
27;s implement $foo with $bar." See above. My point is, either you have to generalize each project's goal to a real triviality or you have to define a goal which doesn't match some project's goals. Conclusion: Let it be. Regards, -- Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2006-01-03 Thread Simon Stelling
e.g. arches fit into this scheme? Yeah, sure, they make Gentoo easier to use because they keyword stuff. Great. I'm really glad somebody tells me why I am doing the stuff I've been doing for more than a year. So, the 'easy to learn/use' goal might be a goal that quite some pr

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Parallizing ebuilds - 'trivial' ebuilds

2006-01-12 Thread Simon Stelling
might be the purpose of that mail, re-read the last sentence with stress on the last three words. SCNR -- Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] learn to use RESTRICT=test people

2006-01-13 Thread Simon Stelling
Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: Can we have a RESTRICT=compile too, please? ;) Right after RESTRICT=lamejokes is implemented :P -- Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Patrick Mclean

2006-01-23 Thread Simon Stelling
Yo, welcome! (Not going to make a lame joke here, as I was the one who asked for a new RESTRICT feature ;)) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: deltacow (Scott Stoddard)

2006-02-08 Thread Simon Stelling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've got another new victim to present :) Scott is joining the amd64 > team that he's already been a part of for the last few months helping > out as an AT (arch tester). Welcome to the team, again ;) -- Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Le

Re: [gentoo-dev] Request for Comment

2006-02-11 Thread Simon Stelling
package might work great for one profile but terribly break for another (deprecated) one. You can apply the same idea to eclasses. Basically it all bails down to this: Give me 10 environments and I give you 10 different ways to break the package. Regards, -- Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Duplicated entries in use.desc and use.local.desc

2006-02-12 Thread Simon Stelling
ightly or not), it should get a local use flag. -- Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Bugzilla etiquette suggestions

2006-02-13 Thread Simon Stelling
really deserve it. If a user sticks -fvisibility=hidden into his CFLAGS (instead of CXXFLAGS), PLEASEGOAWAYKTHXBYE would be much more appropriate. -- Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-editors/gnotepad+

2006-02-17 Thread Simon Stelling
o your side! | | Code listing 1.6: Usage of plurality | | email: Stop wasting our time!" Apparently somebody did his homework ;) Kind regards, -- Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-03-01 Thread Simon Stelling
e webserver should make it available. So the SLOT="${PVR}" is not an issue in this case. -- Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA Roles v2

2006-03-02 Thread Simon Stelling
it Tool's IUSE check manually, for > example, we'd still be in app-something, and would have missed many of > the screwups. Then fix the tool. I find it somehow ironic that a member of the QA team is trying to force a 'work-around' just to avoid fixing the source of the p

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA Roles v2

2006-03-03 Thread Simon Stelling
everything else. This is why Ciaran and I opened a bug for the Portage team to get this handled up-front. Alas, I can't find the bug any more to reference it here :( bug 75936 -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Member -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Gratuitous useflaggery (doc and examples)

2006-03-04 Thread Simon Stelling
-- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Member -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Change layout of distfiles

2006-03-06 Thread Simon Stelling
or one person anyway. I guess it's not too hard to make a script that puts the stuff in toucan:/space/distfiles-local into the right dir. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Member -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Change layout of distfiles

2006-03-06 Thread Simon Stelling
nd Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Member -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] IMPORTANT: OSL outage

2006-03-13 Thread Simon Stelling
Josh Saddler wrote: The mail server is not hosted by OSL. That server is somewhere in Italy, iirc. I'm still receiving -dev mail just fine. George Prowse wrote: I cant pick up my -dev emails because of this outage Congratulations. You made us all laugh. -- Kind Regards, Simon Ste

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making the developer community more open

2006-03-21 Thread Simon Stelling
Users can (and do) attach patches to any bug in bugzilla. When applying such patches, the committing dev hopefully checks the patch and makes sure it's clean, so he already is the kind of proxy you are asking for. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gen

Re: [gentoo-dev] [last rites] media-gfx/sodipodi

2006-04-02 Thread Simon Stelling
ebuilds and a few digests. It's not like you would gain anything from removing it immediately. But those who use the package do gain a lot from you giving them a hint to search for alternatives. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] [last rites] media-gfx/sodipodi

2006-04-03 Thread Simon Stelling
ystem. Their portage will then tell them that the package is masked and why. So they DO get informed. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] [last rites] media-gfx/sodipodi

2006-04-03 Thread Simon Stelling
for x11-misc/xscreensaver !!! Depgraph creation failed. Note that this has been a feature since a veeery long time. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] When will KDE 3.5 be marked as stable?

2006-04-04 Thread Simon Stelling
mean because it was written in a form that could have been much more friendlier. A message is usually more than just the information in it. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo theming during bootup

2006-04-07 Thread Simon Stelling
d given that we tout Gentoo a meta distribution, encouraging others to build on it, there's no point forcing them to have to clean out the Gentoo brand, before they actually can use it. He said he wanted to make it easy, not forcing it. Or am I mistaken? -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/

Re: [gentoo-dev] Let portage symlink latest version of installed docs

2006-04-08 Thread Simon Stelling
documentation on the system. This would be a very cool feature. Not for portage though. Portage is a package manager, and a package manager has nothing to do with generating indexes of HTML files. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] xorg-server 1.0.99/1.1 ABI break

2006-04-17 Thread Simon Stelling
Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo: State of the Union

2006-04-28 Thread Simon Stelling
trust the guys who submitted it to do their job the right way. And IMHO, this is exactly the point. Trust the others to do their job seriously and well. We don't need a whole dev community voting on an idea. Having everybody vote instead of a 7-headed council won't reduce politicalness

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for dev-embedded/sdcc-cvs

2006-05-06 Thread Simon Stelling
Denis Dupeyron wrote: dev-embedded/sdcc-cvs will be masked right now, and then removed in a month or so if nobody complains. A pkg move might be wise to do, no? -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Heritage

2006-05-09 Thread Simon Stelling
n't without everybody looking strange at you afterwards. Especially the UFO guy somehow lives from the mythos around it, explaining it would destroy it, at least that's my feeling. I'd certainly like the 'Larry is confused!' though, makes error pages a lot more p

Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles

2006-05-16 Thread Simon Stelling
portage bashing and turn this into an on-topic discussion? Thanks. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles

2006-05-17 Thread Simon Stelling
y I see this as a very serious roadblock to the acceptance of paludis as a supported (secondary) package manager. This is not a block. -*>=sys-apps/portage-2.0.51.22 means that the depedency on portage is no longer in the system class (base defines it as such). -- Kind Regards, Simon St

Re: [gentoo-dev] new herd: vdr

2006-05-17 Thread Simon Stelling
on the answer of the question above. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] new herd: vdr

2006-05-17 Thread Simon Stelling
Simon Stelling wrote: 'Will it allow you to manage the vdr-related packages and it's bugs s/it's/its/ *sigh* -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] cmake.eclass

2006-05-18 Thread Simon Stelling
vecho cmake ${S} -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr $(cmake_use_option debug CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE debugfull) $* You can't use vecho yet. It's been introduced not long ago, stable portage versions will just tell you that there is no `vecho'. cmake_compile() { cmake_install() { aren&#x

[gentoo-dev] Funding Request

2006-05-18 Thread Simon Stelling
mentioned resolution should become obvious after having a glance at: http://dev.gentoo.org/~blubb/funding.png Thanks in advance for your help, it is greatly appreciated! -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] New eclass db-use

2006-05-18 Thread Simon Stelling
.html -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] New eclass db-use

2006-05-18 Thread Simon Stelling
se it briefly shows why the current eclass system has its problems and why contacting -dev *before* adding a new eclass to the tree is essential. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Need a use-expanded TV_GRAB variable for xmltv

2006-06-02 Thread Simon Stelling
You forgot to mention which package uses the variable. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA subproject, TreeCleaners

2006-06-06 Thread Simon Stelling
Peter Volkov (pva) wrote: > But how can I search for removed ebuild in cvs? Is there any quick way > for such things? Use "site:sources.gentoo.org " as query, e.g. http://www.google.ch/search?q=site%3Asources.gentoo.org+sonar&btnG=Suche&meta= -- Kind Regards, Sim

Re: [gentoo-dev] A heretical thought? Blessing project sunrise as an almost-fork.

2006-06-14 Thread Simon Stelling
nd bothering > Gentoo Council - such as fixing current bugs and cleaning the dead cruft > in the tree, or fixing things not yet ported for modular X, or unported > for gcc-4.x, or whatever else? Damn liberal! [1] SCNR [1] http://dev.gentoo.org/~chriswhite/docs/flame.html#doc_chap1_pre1 --

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Useflags: qt, qt3, qt4?

2006-06-20 Thread Simon Stelling
r to set a reasonable default, but in case the user only has the other version, it would take that one. If both are installed, the one that the maintainer deemed the best is chosen. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage by gentoo-java's doing migration work

2006-06-24 Thread Simon Stelling
s targetting at something completely different, or do we care about getting stuff done? There's nothing as unproductive as political correctness. Just my 0.02 SFr, -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage by gentoo-java's doing migration work

2006-06-25 Thread Simon Stelling
ding. This wording vs. intentions makes this whole thing really ridiculous. It makes you look like being nitpicking, even if you aren't. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Scientific Gentoo reorg: the proposal

2006-06-25 Thread Simon Stelling
st keywording it for amd64. wouldn't it be easier to only list people that are in the sci herd? > sci-misc: 19 > Size is Ok, but, if we follow the idea, should probably stay under sci (herd) > devs: > cryos, hansmi?, phosphan, ribosome, kugelfang?, pbienst, blubb? same here --

Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-dev-announce list

2006-06-27 Thread Simon Stelling
Stuart Herbert wrote: > But I also think you're over-exaggerating the situation by a long way, > sorry. I don't think so. As I understand it, it's not the amount of threads that makes the noise, it's mainly all the sub-sub-sub-sub-threads. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stell

Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-dev-announce list

2006-06-27 Thread Simon Stelling
things helluvalot nicer. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] arch-cruft in use.mask makes me angry

2006-07-05 Thread Simon Stelling
that make more sense ? I asked myself the same question about two weeks ago and made up a huge patch, I just didn't get around to verify it's really correct and complete. I can mail it to you if you want :) -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags

2006-07-06 Thread Simon Stelling
"regaining" control. Currently, users who want to cross-compile are screwed and need nasty use.mask-hacks to not end up with broken binaries. The inability to provide per-package CFLAGS is a missing feature in portage, it's got nothing to do with this issue. -- Kind Regards, Si

Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags

2006-07-06 Thread Simon Stelling
ssue. Also, it doesn't make the tree more complicated. It is far more intuitive that supported instruction sets are used if the user doesn't explicitly wish not to than having some strange use flags that don't mean what they're named like. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Ge

Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags

2006-07-07 Thread Simon Stelling
uggested. > To change this behavior now after all this time would be crazy IMHO. It might have become some sort of policy, but if the policy doesn't have a god-like status. Sometimes it becomes obsolete and new (better) rules are put in place. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags

2006-07-07 Thread Simon Stelling
ble mismatch between what the cflags could do and what > you expect to obtain eg: -mcpu=nocona use 3dnow would issue a warning > and disable it I'm not sure whether I understand this correctly. If we use flameeyes logic anyway, why keeping the use flags? -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags

2006-07-07 Thread Simon Stelling
w' bad if it results in the same thing as '-march=athlon-xp'? I guess I'm just lacking facts here, so please give me a hint :) -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags

2006-07-07 Thread Simon Stelling
Marius Mauch wrote: >> That's because CFLAGS="-msse" currently doesn't do what the user >> would think it does. Which is the real problem, which we're solving >> with the change Diego suggested. > > Huh? What do you assume users think that CFLAGS=-msse does? > I know some people get confused by th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dying on some CFLAGS instead of filtering them.

2006-07-10 Thread Simon Stelling
for if a package builds fine but crashes > randomly later. Sounds like your after bug 95741: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95741 -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] xpdf status

2006-07-12 Thread Simon Stelling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I really would like to see back the upstream version, what do you think? I don't think anybody would mind you putting them into the tree again. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags

2006-07-14 Thread Simon Stelling
, which is the only arch that has the mad USE flag in use.mask, doesn't have any version keyworded. Of course that doesn't fix the general problem, but at least it would save time for a lot of users... -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] making the firefox USE flag a global one

2006-07-18 Thread Simon Stelling
x27;s Gecko engine. If nobody objects, I'd like to push that change through in two weeks. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] making the firefox USE flag a global one

2006-07-18 Thread Simon Stelling
. > "use firefox's Gecko Engine" This is actually "build against firefox instead of mozilla/seamonkey". > sooo..which one is the global flag for? :) All of them, except if the openoffice one turn out to have a different meaning than '"build against fire

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Fwd: [gentoo-portage-dev] Breakout etc-update, dispatch-conf]

2006-07-18 Thread Simon Stelling
se name I have not come up with yet ( new style virtual ). If you don't scream loud, I will go and split them out, using virtual/configfile-manager. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] making the firefox USE flag a global one

2006-07-19 Thread Simon Stelling
Hanno Böck wrote: > Am Dienstag, 18. Juli 2006 14:06 schrieb Simon Stelling: >> If nobody objects, I'd like to push that change through in two weeks. > > As most of then are "use ff instead of mozilla" and that'll be deprecated in > favour of using ff

Re: [gentoo-dev] New category: net-voip

2006-07-22 Thread Simon Stelling
> updated on package moves. Err, yes. At least here you do. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: proxy-dev (an alternative to sunrise?)

2006-07-30 Thread Simon Stelling
l, this is the interesting stuff. Spending hours on one broken build system is far more interesting than writing 100 ebuilds. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Resignation

2006-07-31 Thread Simon Stelling
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Good intentions and trying to be helpful don't keep users or > developers. Screwups lose users and developers. It's really funny to hear such a statement from a person who made several great developers leave the project. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stell

Re: [gentoo-dev] Keep Sunrise... But not Here

2006-07-31 Thread Simon Stelling
Michael Crute wrote: > Thoughts anyone? That's all been done. That's why the last thread's title has the word 'resumed' in it, after all :P -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2006-08-03 Thread Simon Stelling
em to say 'bugzilla shall be fix0rd!'? What would that change in reality? I, (and I guess so does solar) fail to see what the council could effectively do in regard to this matter. You should probably elaborate on that. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for advanced useflag-syntax

2006-08-04 Thread Simon Stelling
responsibility, IMHO. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2006-08-04 Thread Simon Stelling
xactly is once they found it out, you wouldn't have ended up with all those "I'm sick and tired of your "we're working on it"". Asking people for patience is easy, but it's hard to swallow when you don't understand what the problem is at all.

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk1 vs. gtk2

2006-08-07 Thread Simon Stelling
You've already been told it's a non-issue, but here's why: http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/slotting/index.html -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk1 vs. gtk2

2006-08-07 Thread Simon Stelling
other gtk2. As long as dependencies don't cope the slot cleanly, slotting is utterly useless. =x11-libs/gtk+-1.2* >x11-libs/gtk+-2 do a decent job. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] PDA herd call for assistance

2006-08-07 Thread Simon Stelling
:' input field. Just add the PDA herd's email address there and you will receive all their bug mails, which has the advantage of not causing a lot of bugzi spam. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Masking practics

2006-08-07 Thread Simon Stelling
hen decide whether the breakage affects you or not and depending on that unmask it locally or remove your bugzilla installation. If there is a bugzilla-ebuild which works with downgraded too, leaving you with a working bugzilla. I can't quite see the massive problem. -- Kind Regards, S

Re: [gentoo-dev] SearchSecurity.com: "Linux patch problems: Your distro may vary"

2006-08-07 Thread Simon Stelling
don't see how the security team could do much about this; except maybe giving them a yearly budget to travel around the world and slap people who seem to ignore security bugs. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk1 vs. gtk2

2006-08-07 Thread Simon Stelling
e sense, as - you've pointed it out so many times - the API is incompatible. So, I'm asking you one last time: Do you have any actual good reasons to not package things the way upstream does it? [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143063 -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Ge

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk1 vs. gtk2

2006-08-07 Thread Simon Stelling
in this thread agreed with you. It won't get anywhere, because you're the only one pushing for that change. I can assure you that every single bug for every package you file will get marked as DUPLICATION of the first bug, which was closed as INVALID. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelli

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk1 vs. gtk2

2006-08-07 Thread Simon Stelling
ckages. They have the same name. Different versions. That's how it is upstream and how it should be. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] use.force as a complement to use.mask in profiles

2006-08-08 Thread Simon Stelling
7;. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.portage.devel/2316 -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for advanced useflag-syntax

2006-08-08 Thread Simon Stelling
Enrico Weigelt wrote: foo/bar gui=gtk blah/blubb gui=qt2 bleh/enrico gui=qt4 SCNR -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] client+server packages - build which one?

2006-08-08 Thread Simon Stelling
quot;? Documentation is there to be read! That being said, server/client flags are nice, but not really applicable until we have per-package default USE flags, which is soon I hope. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Masking practics

2006-08-08 Thread Simon Stelling
as 'update' instead of 'upgrade'. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: AT emerge info cruft > attachments to [STABLE] bugs

2006-08-12 Thread Simon Stelling
Regarding the inline vs. attachment issue, I'd vote for inline too. Just my 0.05 CHF, -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: AT emerge info cruft > attachments on bugs.g.o

2006-08-12 Thread Simon Stelling
work if there are multiple packages with the same name in different categories, but if a package maintainer doesn't specify the category in such a case, he should be hit anyway ;P -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] User support system [WAS: Sunrise contemplations]

2006-08-16 Thread Simon Stelling
ready are on bugzilla. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo-Status

2006-08-22 Thread Simon Stelling
something that should be applied unconditionally, in my opinion. The "you don't so I won't" attitude gets us nowhere. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo-Status

2006-08-22 Thread Simon Stelling
Lance Albertson wrote: > I generally try to do that, but after the 10th time the person doesn't > respect you and demands things from you, its kind of hard to keep that > mentality. Well, one out of >300. Simply do it for someone else then ;) -- Kind Regards, Simon Stel

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Sets

2006-08-29 Thread Simon Stelling
WhiteLemon > WhiteApple > WhiteBlanket > WhiteEnergy > WhiteWhite > go shorten your sig ChrisWhite head -n4 $(<~/.sig) > ~/.sig -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 39 compliance

2006-08-30 Thread Simon Stelling
tely unimportant whether you did the quizzes or not. IMO, at least. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion: Globalness of some USE flags

2006-08-31 Thread Simon Stelling
ackage that doesn't share the effect: sys-apps/pcmciautils:udev - Install as an udev helper instead of a hotplug helper Which is different from the other 5 "Enable udev rules file installation". -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The Age of the Universe

2006-09-02 Thread Simon Stelling
or GTK 2.x =x11-libs/gtk+-2* doc # disable mysql support for QT x11-libs/qt -mysql Know your tools, man. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The Age of the Universe

2006-09-02 Thread Simon Stelling
Edgar Hucek wrote: > I know my tools but not necessarly the normal user who wanna use gentoo > and is ending frustrated. If the users are too lazy to read the documentation, why should we care about them? -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org m

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The Age of the Universe

2006-09-03 Thread Simon Stelling
d to get and b) sucks. I'd rather have other people think Gentoo is a bad distro but be happy with it myself. Yes, I am a selfish pig. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

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