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

2006-07-18 Thread Simon Stelling
Hi all, I just noticed that the USE flag 'firefox' is a local one. I think it should be global, though: $ grep :firefox use.local.desc app-office/openoffice:firefox - Add Firefox support dev-haskell/gtk2hs:firefox - Build the Mozilla Embeded Component against firefox rather than mozilla

[gentoo-dev] New category: net-voip

2006-07-18 Thread Stefan Schweizer
Hi, the herd of voip packages is constantly growing and according to herdstat -p voip we already have 60 packages in the voip herd. Those are currently in the categories net-misc, net-im, net-libs, dev-libs and media-libs. Most of them would fit perfectly into a new net-voip category. Those are

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

2006-07-18 Thread Stefan Schweizer
Simon Stelling wrote: I just noticed that the USE flag 'firefox' is a local one. I think it should be global, though: Good plan. I think it should also be a default use flag on supported architectures in desktop profiles. Can we make it default at the same time? Regards, Stefan --

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

2006-07-18 Thread Ned Ludd
On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 14:53 +0200, Stefan Schweizer wrote: Hi, the herd of voip packages is constantly growing and according to herdstat -p voip we already have 60 packages in the voip herd. Those are currently in the categories net-misc, net-im, net-libs, dev-libs and media-libs. Most of

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

2006-07-18 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 14:58 +0200, Stefan Schweizer wrote: Simon Stelling wrote: I just noticed that the USE flag 'firefox' is a local one. I think it should be global, though: Good plan. I think it should also be a default use flag on supported architectures in desktop profiles. Can we

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

2006-07-18 Thread Alec Warner
Simon Stelling wrote: Hi all, I just noticed that the USE flag 'firefox' is a local one. I think it should be global, though: $ grep :firefox use.local.desc app-office/openoffice:firefox - Add Firefox support dev-haskell/gtk2hs:firefox - Build the Mozilla Embeded Component against

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

2006-07-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 09:34:37 -0400 Ned Ludd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Creation of a new categories is fine. pkg moves are bad. | See the countless other posting on this subject of why pkg | moves are bad. Uh, as far as I recall, you've yet to come up with any technical explanation other than

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

2006-07-18 Thread Simon Stelling
Alec Warner wrote: Except these aren't doing the same thing. add firefox support I have yet to find out what this does. use firefox's NSS/NSPR This is a stale entry, no eds ebuild has a firefox flag anymore as it was removed some time ago. use firefox's Gecko Engine This is actually

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

2006-07-18 Thread Stefan Schweizer
Ned Ludd wrote: Creation of a new categories is fine. pkg moves are bad. See the countless other posting on this subject of why pkg moves are bad. yeah new packages is my primary concern. Any objections, problems with the plan, comments? Sure I'll step up and say I object to the part of

[gentoo-dev] Removal: net-im/gnomemeeting

2006-07-18 Thread Stefan Schweizer
Hi, net-im/gnomemeeting is obsoleted by net-im/ekiga and if no objections come up I will remove the old gnomemeeting in 30 days. I package.masked the package for now. see bug 136615 [1] for the removal request. alpha and pcc64 are asked to add their keywords to ekiga. Also the ppc64 keyword is

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

2006-07-18 Thread Simon Stelling
Alec Warner wrote: In an attempt to receive more comments and to request comments on the virtual/config-manager, I have forwarded this mail here. Please comment + point out weird things wrong. I'd prefer to make either dispatch-conf or cfg-update the default for the virtual, but I am

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

2006-07-18 Thread Ned Ludd
On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 15:15 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 09:34:37 -0400 Ned Ludd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Creation of a new categories is fine. pkg moves are bad. | See the countless other posting on this subject of why pkg | moves are bad. Uh, as far as I recall,

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

2006-07-18 Thread Ned Ludd
On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 15:51 +0200, Stefan Schweizer wrote: Ned Ludd wrote: Creation of a new categories is fine. pkg moves are bad. See the countless other posting on this subject of why pkg moves are bad. yeah new packages is my primary concern. Any objections, problems with the plan,

[gentoo-dev] Re: Making dobin, doexe, doins, doman, dodoc die by default

2006-07-18 Thread Sven Köhler
This came up in Bug 138792 [dobin etc. should automatically die on failure] It needs more discussion on the mailing lists. Some excerpts from the bug: The proposal from Paul Bredbury: Hi, I propose that the following ebuild commands themselves *die* on failure, because the vast majority of

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

2006-07-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:17:30 -0400 Ned Ludd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Uh, as far as I recall, you've yet to come up with any technical | explanation other than it breaks one of my pet projects... The | gains of consistency and manageability far outweigh the minor | inconvenience. | | There

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making dobin, doexe, doins, doman, dodoc die by default

2006-07-18 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 20:49 +0200, Sven Köhler wrote: Well, but some people here claim, that the ebuilds are not tested that much, before they go into portage. Well, that's another decision: what should gentoo's quality be like? Actually, it was more a discussion of older ebuilds. If I put an

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

2006-07-18 Thread Hanno Böck
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 by default and seamonkey by seamonkey useflag, I don't think this makes