Re: [gentoo-dev] List of User projects

2010-03-29 Thread Alistair Bush
diffball (the basis of y'alls delta compression for tarball snapshots, progenitor of tarsync used by emerge-*webrsync, etc). Thank you Brian for that pkg, its appreciated. My apologies if the rest is a little less kind. ps. I would like the packages to be specifically for gentoo, but

Re: [gentoo-dev] List of User projects

2010-03-29 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 08:31:32PM +1300, Alistair Bush wrote: I'm quite happy to consider the corner cases, and will probably include a vast majority of them. Initially I don't even believe I will have a fully complete list of all the projects the fit nicely into my criteria. Thats why

Re: [gentoo-dev] List of User projects

2010-03-29 Thread Brian Harring
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 08:31:32PM +1300, Alistair Bush wrote: ps. I would like the packages to be specifically for gentoo, but there are exceptions to this. as an example openrc (and even paludis to a degree). If you think that there is a package not specifically targetting gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] List of User projects

2010-03-29 Thread Ben de Groot
On 29 March 2010 09:31, Alistair Bush ali_b...@gentoo.org wrote: ps. I must say that its a little sad that so far there has been much more effort put into nitpicking than actually populating the list (working towards the goal). The problem is that it isn't very clear what exactly the goal is,

Re: [gentoo-dev] List of User projects

2010-03-29 Thread Luis Francisco Araujo
René 'Necoro' Neumann wrote: Am 28.03.2010 10:30, schrieb Luis Francisco Araujo: himerge Hey :P - you are a gentoo dev :P I think probably most of the app-portage category falls in here (as portage is the only gentoo-specific thing one can develop stuff for): eix, etc-proposals,

Re: [gentoo-dev] List of User projects

2010-03-28 Thread René 'Necoro' Neumann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 28.03.2010 10:30, schrieb Luis Francisco Araujo: himerge Hey :P - you are a gentoo dev :P I think probably most of the app-portage category falls in here (as portage is the only gentoo-specific thing one can develop stuff for): eix,

Re: [gentoo-dev] List of User projects

2010-03-28 Thread Brian Harring
Skip to the end for a counterproposal... On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 05:13:14PM +1300, Alistair Bush wrote: I was just thinking how nice it could be if we acknowledged some of the projects that contribute to gentoo but are actually developed primarily outside of gentoo's dev community. How

Re: [gentoo-dev] List of User projects

2010-03-28 Thread René 'Necoro' Neumann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 28.03.2010 21:04, schrieb Brian Harring: Instead, if the purpose is a thanks, why not every once in a while put up a news item discussing the tools in question? Such an approach allows folk to focus in on whatever is useful/interesting

Re: [gentoo-dev] List of User projects

2010-03-28 Thread Brian Harring
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 10:07:52PM +0200, Rennn 'Necoro' Neumann wrote: Am 28.03.2010 21:04, schrieb Brian Harring: Instead, if the purpose is a thanks, why not every once in a while put up a news item discussing the tools in question? Such an approach allows folk to focus in on whatever

Re: [gentoo-dev] List of User projects

2010-03-28 Thread Joshua Saddler
On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 13:09:07 -0700 Brian Harring ferri...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 10:07:52PM +0200, Rennn 'Necoro' Neumann wrote: Am 28.03.2010 21:04, schrieb Brian Harring: Instead, if the purpose is a thanks, why not every once in a while put up a news item discussing