Re: Nothing Doing (longish).

2005-10-08 Thread Archaic
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 08:28:38PM +0100, Richard A Downing wrote: > > If no-one minds me being an occasional editor though, maybe I'll just > stay like that. That's all I am. I get to it when I find time (which is rare). Every little bit helps. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security

Re: Nothing Doing (longish).

2005-10-05 Thread silverspurg
I don't do much, either, except go to work and write an installer that no one uses. :) I'd like to translate it to C... Steven -- -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Remove GTK+-1? (was - Re: Nothing Doing (longish).)

2005-10-05 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Dan Nicholson wrote: On 10/5/05, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrew Benton wrote these words on 10/05/05 12:54 CST: It seems to me that there is some dead wood that should be pruned from BLFS. glib-1.2 hasn't been able to compile unpatched since gcc-3.3. I'd drop it as unmai

Re: Remove GTK+-1? (was - Re: Nothing Doing (longish).)

2005-10-05 Thread Andrew Benton
Randy McMurchy wrote: I'll disagree here. There are many useful GTK+-1 applications out there. XMMS being one of them. Noted on the XMMS home page: "For the fifth year in a row XMMS has been voted Favourite Audio Tool by the readers of LinuxJournal." Not that their self-advertising is worth a w

Re: Nothing Doing (longish).

2005-10-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Richard A Downing wrote: > Guys, > > You might have noticed that I have not committed anything recently. [deleted] > > To put it simply, I just don't enjoy being an editor - and I'm > embarrased that I have not felt able to do more. Maybe I'm missing > something, so please help me make up my

Re: Remove GTK+-1? (was - Re: Nothing Doing (longish).)

2005-10-05 Thread Richard A Downing
Randy McMurchy wrote: I hate it when people do that to a perfectly innocent thread. Start your own! By Hijacker. R. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Nothing Doing (longish).

2005-10-05 Thread sash
My daughter called while I was typing this... I knew I shouldn't have sent it while on the telephone with her sash wrote: All I do for the project is keep order, common courtesy and consideration on IRC and occasionally offer a grammar suggestion or find a typo in the book<.> However, Gerard

Re: Nothing Doing (longish).

2005-10-05 Thread Richard A Downing
sash wrote: > All I do for the project is keep order, common courtesy and > consideration on IRC and occasionally offer a grammar suggestion or find > a typo in the book However, Gerard values my contribution even though it > seems meager me. I value everyone's contributions and enjoy learning > fr

Re: Remove GTK+-1? (was - Re: Nothing Doing (longish).)

2005-10-05 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 10/5/05, Tushar Teredesai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is a gtk2 fork of xmms, beep media player. Just make the > following symlinks for compatibility: >ln -sf beep-config /usr/bin/xmms-config >ln -sf libbeep.so /usr/lib/libxmms.so Yeah, I use this, but it's sometimes still buggy.

Nothing Doing (longish).

2005-10-05 Thread sash
All I do for the project is keep order, common courtesy and consideration on IRC and occasionally offer a grammar suggestion or find a typo in the book However, Gerard values my contribution even though it seems meager me. I value everyone's contributions and enjoy learning from all of you. We'

Re: Remove GTK+-1? (was - Re: Nothing Doing (longish).)

2005-10-05 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 10/5/05, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Second that. For XMMS alone, it's worth keeping glib-1, gtk+-1. I > personally will err on the side of gtk-2 every time, but inevitably > something forces me to install gtk-1. As for gnome-1, I'm not sure > why anyone would be using that.

Re: Remove GTK+-1? (was - Re: Nothing Doing (longish).)

2005-10-05 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 10/5/05, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Benton wrote these words on 10/05/05 12:54 CST: > > > It seems to me that there is some dead wood that should be > > pruned from BLFS. glib-1.2 hasn't been able to compile unpatched since > > gcc-3.3. I'd drop it as unmaintained, alo

Remove GTK+-1? (was - Re: Nothing Doing (longish).)

2005-10-05 Thread Randy McMurchy
Andrew Benton wrote these words on 10/05/05 12:54 CST: > It seems to me that there is some dead wood that should be pruned > from BLFS. glib-1.2 hasn't been able to compile unpatched since gcc-3.3. I'd > drop it as unmaintained, along with all the gtk1 applications. Gnome-1, > Xmms, bin the lo

Re: Nothing Doing (longish).

2005-10-05 Thread Andrew Benton
Richard A Downing wrote: my experience is that others on the team quite often (and usually rightly) criticise my decisions - this makes me unwilling to make the attempt unless it's a very simple case. I'm not sure that there are many simple cases anymore, at least not with Xorg going modular and

Re: Nothing Doing (longish).

2005-10-05 Thread David Jensen
Richard A Downing wrote: Guys, You might have noticed that I have not committed anything recently. Same here! The bugs needing attention, I plain don't use. Worse, for now I'm stuck with *dial-up* and a dog of a computer. I wont resign yet. -- David Jensen -- http://linuxfromscra

Re: Nothing Doing (longish).

2005-10-05 Thread Randy McMurchy
Richard A Downing wrote these words on 10/05/05 11:12 CST: > You might have noticed that I have not committed anything recently. So what, neither has Igor. I did notice you updated Bluefish not too long ago. Any contribution helps. You don't need to feel obligated to make commits. Just do what yo

Nothing Doing (longish).

2005-10-05 Thread Richard A Downing
Guys, You might have noticed that I have not committed anything recently. I'm considering leaving the team (note: not going away in a huff or to spend more time with my wife :-) - but thought I would air this first and get your reaction. On my normal system I don't build LFS in a standard way.