Re: [arch-general] Google Summer of Code 2017

2016-12-19 Thread Neven Sajko via arch-general
If you want to hack the kernel, you should probably go directly to kernel.org (also, search for Eudyptula).

Re: [arch-general] Google Summer of Code 2017

2016-12-19 Thread Martin Kühne via arch-general
I read about past failed attempts of arch trying to make something out of gsoc, and that LDAP layer supposed to connect the different websites' logins stil is not a thing. Go ahead, I'd say. On that same note, do we have more pressing issues? cheers! mar77i

[arch-general] Google Summer of Code 2017

2016-12-19 Thread Jonas Verschueren via arch-general
Hi everyone, I am currently thinking about applying for the 2017 run of Google Summer of Code. Because I am an avid Arch user and general Linux enthusiast I thought it would be nice to work on Arch and make my contribution back to the community. This discussion seems to come up most years and I

Re: [arch-general] Why was wpa_supplicant.conf renamed wpa_supplicant.conf.pacsav??

2016-12-19 Thread Bennett Piater
> Other than that, I don't like gentoo's way of dealing with this > problems other than the fact they ship tooling to actually deal with > the 3-way merge pacman expects from the user. I'd welcome suggestions > on this and actually was not smart enough up to now to somehow have a > script dig up

Re: [arch-general] Why was wpa_supplicant.conf renamed wpa_supplicant.conf.pacsav??

2016-12-19 Thread Martin Kühne via arch-general
Please, never ever seriously consider making pacman surprising in any way resembling to what has been unsuccessfully proposed. Does the pacman wiki suggest running the following line after updates yet? find /etc /opt /usr /var -regextype egrep -regex '\*.pac(new|save)' A section describing the