Re: [gentoo-dev] About testing applications

2007-03-18 Thread Simon Stelling
clutter up the home unnecessarily :) -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-14 Thread Simon Stelling
just great. I don't see why we have to dissect every word, especially since it makes it so easy to not to see the wood for the trees. The goal of the CoC is fairly vague ('getting along well'), so why is there a need to specify the way ulta-explicit? -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Simon Stelling
always have a | consensus for whatever decision we reach. Who is we in this? I assume it's devrel, but I think it should be written out. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-04 Thread Simon Stelling
! | | Code listing 1.6: Usage of plurality | email: Stop wasting our time! [1] http://dev.gentoo.org/~chriswhite/docs/flame.html -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] more up to date minimal install cd

2007-03-03 Thread Simon Stelling
Daniel Robbins wrote: And it should be one (web) page. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1 -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Simon Stelling
, which is why it is policy. Except that in many European countries you can't even re-assign your copyright. Oops. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Simon Stelling
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: I find it amusing that no-one complaining about this has actually asked to see it. I think ferringb did, just not very successfully. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Simon Stelling
say putting together version 2 of a spec before version 1 was writte is sane. So we need the EAPI=0 spec. Makes it pretty easy to figure out why this spec is fairly important. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: Copyright, non-US devs and Gentoo Foundation vs Gentoo (Was: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting)

2007-03-03 Thread Simon Stelling
. ^ It's still Europe :P --' -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] multilib-strict

2007-02-24 Thread Simon Stelling
William Hubbs wrote: Where do I find information on how to fix the package? If you don't have a box using a multilib profile (I guess the user who filed the bug was using an AMD64 box), you won't be able to reproduce it. Just reassign the bug to [EMAIL PROTECTED], we'll fix it :) Regards,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reliance upon || ( use? ( ) ) behaviour

2007-02-22 Thread Simon Stelling
Simon Stelling wrote: [snip crap] Actually, ignore me, there's a fundamental flaw in my thinking. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] New emul-libs.eclass

2007-02-19 Thread Simon Stelling
, -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer # Copyright 1999-2007 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Header: $ # # Original Author: Simon Stelling [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Purpose: Providing a template for the app-emulation/emul-linux

Re: [gentoo-dev] New emul-libs.eclass

2007-02-19 Thread Simon Stelling
, which is both stupid and confusing. cp -a ${S}/* ${D}/ || die copying files failed! For future *BSD compatibility (yes i want to use the linux bsd emulation for flash, opera, etc) it's better to use rsync -a imho I'll use cp -pPr. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64

Re: [gentoo-dev] New emul-libs.eclass

2007-02-19 Thread Simon Stelling
Simon Stelling wrote: I'll use cp -pPr. Actually -dpPR, which is what -a is an alias for. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] New emul-libs.eclass

2007-02-19 Thread Simon Stelling
, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] New emul-libs.eclass

2007-02-19 Thread Simon Stelling
really installs files with a newline character in its name, well, then that package is just not worth including in emul-packages. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] New emul-libs.eclass

2007-02-19 Thread Simon Stelling
Mike Frysinger wrote: replace that with: xargs -d $'\n' aye, that looks way better. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google Summer of Code 2007

2007-02-17 Thread Simon Stelling
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: * devmanual. Not converting it over to a new shiny XML thing or whatever, but just extending and reworking the parts that need it. Last year's SoC FAQ said that the actual work would have to be coding, not writing documentation. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] New preserve-libs feature

2007-02-17 Thread Simon Stelling
the transitional phase until all apps are built against the new ABI, but how would you find these vulnerable apps currently? revdep-rebuild wouldn't rebuild them since they are still functional. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-08 Thread Simon Stelling
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Which is all very well, but not sufficient reason to screw up a project that is developed and used by a lot of people. As if we were all gonna die without bash arrays in our config files. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] Another council topic for Feb

2007-02-03 Thread Simon Stelling
Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] New USE_EXPAND - CAMERAS

2007-01-21 Thread Simon Stelling
Hi, This was discussed before, and noone was against it as it seems: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/44932/match=cameras+use+expand -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Some sync control

2007-01-11 Thread Simon Stelling
Piotr Jaroszyński wrote: What do you think? I think it would be much nicer to have a VCS with support for atomic commits. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Ideas for projects...

2007-01-11 Thread Simon Stelling
I like the idea. Something really useful I could think of is *drums* the implementation of GLEP 42. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] deprecating /etc/make.profile

2007-01-10 Thread Simon Stelling
://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148388 -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Through the looking glass: Reflections on Gentoo

2007-01-08 Thread Simon Stelling
. I doubt so, to be honest. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Wrong dependencies to postgresql

2006-12-25 Thread Simon Stelling
on such things. Thank you, and have a merry Christmas. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] CAMERAS as USE_EXPAND

2006-12-23 Thread Simon Stelling
USE_EXPAND. For any objections, suggestions for a better name, etc. please also see bug 139884: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139884 -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] --config-root command-line option

2006-11-16 Thread Simon Stelling
at its root: /etc/sudoers has the following: # Reset environment by default Defaultsenv_reset Commenting that out reverts this annoying behaviour and fixes all kinds of bugs. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Ignoring/overwriting IUSE from an eclass

2006-10-30 Thread Simon Stelling
Piotr Jaroszyński wrote: Just for fun(=I wouldn't use it in ebuild/eclass): Sorry, but this mailing list is not really the best place for just for fun bash foo. I suggest you take it somewhere else. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: license group file format

2006-10-26 Thread Simon Stelling
Uhm, what kind of metadata are we talking about here? Descriptions can just be placed in comments above the group specification line, no? -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: license group file format

2006-10-26 Thread Simon Stelling
Uhoh, forgive me for not reading the other replies before writing a completely redundant one. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing the metastructure

2006-10-25 Thread Simon Stelling
Mike Frysinger wrote: (how do you measure the degree of a change ?) By the number of inflammatory mails it causes within the timeframe of two weekdays. Quite obvious, isn't it? ;) -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing the metastructure (was: [Council] Summary of the last meeting)

2006-10-25 Thread Simon Stelling
. I don't mind the council touching the metastructure, as long as they do it right ;) If they don't, I will surely state so and ask for a referendum. If it turns out that like 60% of the devs don't share the council's opinion I'm sure they will re-think their decision. -- Kind Regards, Simon

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Gentoo Commitfests

2006-10-23 Thread Simon Stelling
Alec Warner wrote: Haha, there are times when you need to realize that it's just joking around, versus an actual flamefest ;) This makes Gentoo look very unprofessional. It even makes us look like we're having fun. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev

Re: [gentoo-dev] implicit vs explicit dependencies

2006-10-23 Thread Simon Stelling
DEPEND, for which this is true: gtk was installed with a binpkg and those don't pull in their DEPENDs because the package is already built. For RDEPEND you can savely rely on implicit dependencies, in most cases at least. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev

[gentoo-dev] New Developer: Matti 'mabi' Bickel

2006-10-22 Thread Simon Stelling
him a warm welcome! -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] amd64 and ia64 keywords

2006-10-21 Thread Simon Stelling
. (and if we did everything right, they would be completely identical) Now, if you said o32, n32, and n64 [x] You just made a fool of yourself. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: Recommended -march settings [was: Re: [gentoo-dev] CFLAGS paragraph submission for the GWN]

2006-10-14 Thread Simon Stelling
a list based on their input. Check out these packages [1] before doing that, they will probably supply all you need. [1] http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=cpuinfo -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: per-package default USE flags

2006-10-13 Thread Simon Stelling
then. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: per-package default USE flags

2006-10-13 Thread Simon Stelling
layer that seems just redundant. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] *plop*

2006-10-13 Thread Simon Stelling
Good luck with all the things you will be doing in future... You will be missed. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] GLEP 14?

2006-10-11 Thread Simon Stelling
for that. [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144480 -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-10 Thread Simon Stelling
and AMD k6 based systems. I'm sure I'm not the only one who is using a pentium mmx as a router, so you better think twice about it :P -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-09 Thread Simon Stelling
and convenient, so what exactly is the problem? It's not like you can't get Gentoo running without a network connection anymore. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

2006-10-04 Thread Simon Stelling
we need is more people who do actual testing. If you're forced to be in an arch team you're just a dev tag in a project page, not more. This is not going to help at all, in fact it will only hide the problems even more. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

2006-10-04 Thread Simon Stelling
into portage. Sometimes it's simply better to start all over again. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] CFLAGS paragraph for the GWN

2006-10-03 Thread Simon Stelling
, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New Developer: Jim Ramsay (lack)

2006-09-27 Thread Simon Stelling
First time I'm happy we're having the developer lack ;) Welcome Jim! -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] New dev: dev-zero

2006-09-27 Thread Simon Stelling
not working, I'm playing the violin or watching movies. With this addition, the Swiss conspiracy soon will be powerful enough to bribe everybody else with chocolate, so you better watch out. Everybody please give Tiziano a warm welcome! -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org

[gentoo-dev] New Developer: Tristan Heaven (nyhm)

2006-09-26 Thread Simon Stelling
. In his free time he is mostly busy playing^W_testing_ games, so we can all be assured that any stablization requests filed by him have gone through a careful inquiry. Welcome Tristan! -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] New project: Gentoo Seeds

2006-09-22 Thread Simon Stelling
, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Delay in approval of new developers

2006-09-22 Thread Simon Stelling
Peter wrote: We can disagree on that point. All distros are businesses. Users are customers. No users, no distro. I haven't received a single paycheck in two years. What a shitty business. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC about another *DEPEND variable

2006-09-21 Thread Simon Stelling
multiple abis. It's all about multilib and has (except for the unfortunate name) nothing to do with this issue. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] seeds, GLEPs, and projects

2006-09-21 Thread Simon Stelling
Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] seeds, GLEPs, and projects

2006-09-21 Thread Simon Stelling
is far more important IMO, and it's pretty hard to get the motivation together to test 60 packages instead of tinkering around with a new idea. At least for me it often is. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] GLEP 52 - GLEP 23 revisited

2006-09-20 Thread Simon Stelling
Hello all, I would like you to share your comments on the attached GLEP with me. Thanks in advance! -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer GLEP: 52 Title: License Managment in Portage Version: $Revision: $ Last-Modified: $Date: $ Author: Simon Stelling [EMAIL PROTECTED] Status

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 52 - GLEP 23 revisited

2006-09-20 Thread Simon Stelling
Steev Klimaszewski wrote: I think it is over engineering of a non-issue. Which non-issue in particular? -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 52 - GLEP 23 revisited

2006-09-20 Thread Simon Stelling
Krzysiek Pawlik wrote: # Simon Stelling [EMAIL PROTECTED] (20 Sep 2006) # This license needs to be agreed on explicitly to be considered # legally binding. # By unmasking and installing the package you agree with its terms. txt-licenses/wierd-license Why not make

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sunrise trusted committers with bugzilla access

2006-09-14 Thread Simon Stelling
the difference in the name. Huh, I hope they will do testing :P -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Package Manager Specification: configuration protection

2006-09-12 Thread Simon Stelling
.. or did I misunderstand something here? I don't know whether that is the current behaviour of portage, but IMO it certainly shouldn't be. It should rather be /etc/foo (file) or, if /etc/foo is a dir: /etc/foo/* -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-dev] colon separated variables in /etc/env.d/

2006-09-11 Thread Simon Stelling
screwed just because PORTDIR doesn't point at my portage tree for the moment. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: packages going into the tree with non-gentoo maintainers

2006-09-07 Thread Simon Stelling
developer-specific behavioral problems should be brought directly to Developer Relations via [EMAIL PROTECTED] These should be dealt with on a case-by-case basis by Developer Relations and may require disciplinary action. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: packages going into the tree with non-gentoo maintainers

2006-09-07 Thread Simon Stelling
/hunspell, (same as =app-text/hunspell-1.0, just retarded) repoman would complain loudly. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: packages going into the tree with non-gentoo maintainers

2006-09-07 Thread Simon Stelling
, because this is not a hey everybody, look, $dev did something stupid! list. It doesn't matter whether $dev is genstef or carlo or anybody else. The bitching ain't gonna stop if you just give back. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Moving ebuild-related where they belong

2006-09-07 Thread Simon Stelling
the ebuild devs wouldn't like it at all :-/ -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Moving ebuild-related where they belong

2006-09-07 Thread Simon Stelling
adding another eclass to the inherit line for ~15'000 ebuilds. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Moving ebuild-related where they belong

2006-09-07 Thread Simon Stelling
isn't good. I agree here. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: [GLEP] Bugzilla access for contributors

2006-09-04 Thread Simon Stelling
Stefan Schweizer wrote: it is meant to be as non-concrete as possible to allow usage in as many cases as possible. Which makes it pretty pointless. Really, this GLEP says almost nothing, it's simply too vague to express any intend. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer

[gentoo-portage-dev] Moving ebuild-related where they belong

2006-09-03 Thread Simon Stelling
, comments, alternative approaches, flames, all are welcome. [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121317 [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136792 -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer # Copyright 1999-2006 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU

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

2006-09-02 Thread Simon Stelling
-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 mailing

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

2006-08-31 Thread Simon Stelling
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] GLEP 39 compliance

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

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Sets

2006-08-29 Thread Simon Stelling
shorten your sig ChrisWhite head -n4 $(~/.sig) ~/.sig -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Refactoring ebuild.sh

2006-08-27 Thread Simon Stelling
be solved with a different env handling, tbh. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo-Status

2006-08-22 Thread Simon Stelling
so I won't attitude gets us nowhere. -- 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
are on bugzilla. -- 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
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] use.force as a complement to use.mask in profiles

2006-08-08 Thread Simon Stelling
/gmane.linux.gentoo.portage.devel/2316 -- 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
! 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
' instead of 'upgrade'. -- 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
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
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
. 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
. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

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
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 Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk1 vs. gtk2

2006-08-07 Thread Simon Stelling
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 Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk1 vs. gtk2

2006-08-07 Thread Simon Stelling
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-portage-dev] [PATCH] use.force and package.use.force (bug #142853)

2006-08-07 Thread Simon Stelling
because a build breaks with USE=-foo. Other than that, I'm for it. It will make my job easier :) -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] has_version and built_with_use ignore package.provided

2006-08-06 Thread Simon Stelling
Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

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

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

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] per-package use.mask (bug 96368)

2006-08-04 Thread Simon Stelling
Zac Medico wrote: Shall we go ahead with the package.use.mask implementation or not? Yes, please! -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2006-08-03 Thread Simon Stelling
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-dev@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: Atom matching behavior

2006-08-02 Thread Simon Stelling
)* implicitly, you open up potential issues like above. Nonissue, really. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-portage-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 Stelling Gentoo/AMD64

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

2006-07-30 Thread Simon Stelling
, 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] New category: net-voip

2006-07-22 Thread Simon Stelling
. At least here you do. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

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