[gentoo-dev] herds for category metadata?

2005-07-04 Thread Robin H. Johnson
I was just finally shuffling packages into the app-backup category (originally discussed in March, but not implementing due to epkgmove status at the time), and I wanted to put the herd into the category metadata, but I found that we don't allow it presently. Could the metadata.dtd please be

Re: [gentoo-dev] new category+herd proposal: app-backup

2005-07-04 Thread Robin H. Johnson
Ok, so it took me a bit longer than planned to create this, but now thanks to epkgmove, I have got the new category together. If there is other stuff that has been added to the tree since this list was put together, please drop me a note on it, and i'll move it. There is also a request for new

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: qt.eclass

2005-07-04 Thread Gregorio Guidi
On Saturday 02 July 2005 22:54, Caleb Tennis wrote: While your proposal works okay for the qt4 scenario, I'm more concerned with the existing qt3 at the moment. As is, I stil l don't see a way around what has been proposed for those ebuilds. Until portage has the ability to handle deps, I

[gentoo-dev] libphp4.so installed twice in dev-php/mod_php

2005-07-04 Thread Nico Rittner
Hi, why is the exactly same file installed twice ? /var/db/pkg/dev-php/mod_php-4.3.11/CONTENTS : .. dir /usr/lib dir /usr/lib/php dir /usr/lib/apache obj /usr/lib/apache/libphp4.so 788d1b4d2166ab82fee1dfb5c96b175e 1120486898 dir /usr/lib/apache-extramodules obj

[gentoo-dev] eBook manage script

2005-07-04 Thread José Alberto Suárez López
I yet wat to remove all the app-doc/ebook-* ebuilds so made a script to manage all the ebooks in lidn. To install just emerge ebookmerge *example of use : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ebookmerge.sh -s python * Results for python : python-2.2.1.tgz [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ebookmerge.sh -e python-2.2.1.tgz

Re: [gentoo-dev] Package moves as repocopies

2005-07-04 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 04 July 2005 06:41 pm, Robin H. Johnson wrote: On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 02:59:49PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: umm, that is until someone thinks it's a good idea to delete old stuff case in point, wtf is app-games in gentoo-x86 ? we split all the games packages into games-*

[gentoo-dev] Software patents

2005-07-04 Thread twofourtysix
I applaud all those people on the Planet who are posting anti-software-patent banners in their blogs. It's good to see yet another major software project taking a stance. Are these people prepared to back up their views by removing from the tree all those ebuilds for software made by companies

Re: [gentoo-dev] Software patents

2005-07-04 Thread Alec Warner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I don't really see removing software from the tree because it's made by a company that uses software patents as a choice that improves the user experience with Gentoo. It doesn't make Gentoo more useful for anyone. Just as software thats not open

Re: [gentoo-dev] Software patents

2005-07-04 Thread Brian Jackson
If someone removes something that belongs to me, software patents or not, I'll be asking for removal of (at the very least) their cvs access. If not, I'll be asking for their total removal from the project. You can have all the views you want on the world. I do. This is a technical project, not

Re: [gentoo-dev] Software patents

2005-07-04 Thread Anthony Gorecki
On Monday, July 04, 2005 9:15 pm, Brian Jackson wrote: If someone removes something that belongs to me, software patents or not, I'll be asking for removal of (at the very least) their cvs access. I believe that the original poster's intent was to post a request for comments, although it was

Re: [gentoo-dev] Software patents

2005-07-04 Thread Robert Paskowitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Are you personally prepared to practice what you preach? You had better start by uninstalling the linux kernel... twofourtysix wrote: On 05/07/05, Anthony Gorecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday, July 04, 2005 9:15 pm, Brian Jackson wrote: If

Re: [gentoo-dev] Software patents

2005-07-04 Thread Anthony Gorecki
On Monday, July 04, 2005 10:14 pm, Stuart Longland wrote: Why stop there? Why not extend it to hardware manufacturers that make heavy use of patents? Good luck finding a decent video card for that lovely desktop of yours. :-) I'm still holding out hope that the open sourced video card

Re: [gentoo-dev] Software patents

2005-07-04 Thread Robert Paskowitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I personally am not going around encouraging people to take a stance upon an issue whilst simultaneously helping out the very people against whom one is supposed to be standing. You have encouraged gentoo to remove patent-encoumbered software

Re: [gentoo-dev] Software patents

2005-07-04 Thread Alec Warner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 not being privvy to -core ( where I hear this was started and subsequently moved to -dev ) I can only assume you didn't find what you wanted on -core and are trolling for a decent response here. I am certain there are people who agree with you on a