Markus Nigbur wrote:
Hi gang,
I just (again) noticed I'm currently the only active developer of the
desktop-misc herd, which is going to change as soon as the recruitment
process is reopened again.
About 80% of all bugs assigned to desktop-misc are new ebuild
submissions for software which
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 05:33:01 -0400
Luis F. Araujo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I like this idea.
I actually proposed a similar idea time ago in #-dev , but
instead of doing it from bugzilla, to do it from the web site, (i like
yours better)
the main idea is to have a list of unmantained packages
* On Sun Jun-12-2005 at 01:33:02 PM -0700, Zac Medico said:
Athul Acharya wrote:
[...]
I mean lets face it, a distro that's largely DIY is hardly a good
first Linux, but an excellent second Linux and indeed thats the very
reason why I use Gentoo. Let Redhat/Fedora/Mandrake do the initial
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Greetings,
eselect (formerly known as eclectic (formerly known as eselect)) is now in the
tree as app-admin/eselect. Along with the new name comes a new version, 0.9.4.
Changes in this release include:
Bug Fixes:
- fixed call to lapack
Hi all!
We just had a short discussion over in #gentoo-portage and the idea of
an use.force file for profiles came up. It allows us to force some USE
flags to be turned on for a profile. It's not possible to disable this
flag by make.conf, the environment or package.use. But we would not be
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 04:35:27AM +0200, Markus Nigbur wrote:
Therefor I suggest introducing a new keyword to bugzilla's resolution
list, called NEEDMAINTAINER.
With this new keyword everyone could compile a list of currently
unmaintained packages and just take the ones he likes. Additionally
Just a thought, but how about making use.mask lock flags instead of
forcing them off? Meaning, if use.mask contains ncurses, and
make.defaults contains USE=ncurses, this would have the same effect as
what ncurses in use.force would do. IMO, this would keep things a bit
simpler. But again, just a
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 18:36:09 +0200
Maurice van der Pot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I definitely would like to see this. Just a few days ago I was
considering adding a comment along the lines of we need a maintainer
for this package, that's why nothing is happening to some bug reports.
Markus Nigbur wrote:
Anyway, as I've already said I'm the _currently_ the only active herd
member and simply cannot take the responsibility of about 100 new
packages.
Therefor I suggest introducing a new keyword to bugzilla's resolution
list, called NEEDMAINTAINER.
With this new keyword
The bug hit me while working with GLI last night, and now I really do
need a solution for it. Looking at the dep tree to see why perl pulls
in openssl, the critical parts of the tree are this:
(Trimmed to make things shorter)
[ebuild N] dev-lang/perl-5.8.6-r4 +berkdb
[ebuild N]
On Monday 13 June 2005 12:14 pm, Danny van Dyk wrote:
Hi Mike,
Mike Frysinger schrieb:
eselect (formerly known as eclectic (formerly known as eselect)) is now
in the tree as app-admin/eselect.
why not the app-portage category ?
eclectic was in the tree as app-admin/eclectic. Anything
Hi all,
the last global status update was in January when most top-level
projects posted a short overview of their progress and their rough
roadmap to the -dev mailinglist. I'd like to ask all top-level projects
(and all subprojects that want to) to present a short overview of what
happened since
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On 06/13/2005 09:22 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
why not the app-portage category ?
Since it has scope to work beyond Portage?
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On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 06:17:12PM +0100, Daniel Drake wrote:
I like the concept but I think that a previous suggestion that was discussed
here was better. The suggestion was to create a [EMAIL PROTECTED]
alias which bugs could be assigned to. The discussion was a while ago but I
don't recall
We/me perl folks are working on it as quickly as we/i can. I'm slated to leave
for vacation this weekend and would hate to drop a change like minimal
support into the tree and then disappear for a week. that said, i plan on
testing the new ebuilds tomorrow if nothing interrupts me. part of the
Maurice van der Pot wrote:
Do you have a date or thread subject or something like that? I can't
find it in the archives. I would like to see some reasons why one or the
other is better.
I can't remember and I can't see it in the archives. Maybe I was dreaming...
I think it logically fits
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 06:47:30PM +0200, Harald van D??k wrote:
Just a thought, but how about making use.mask lock flags instead of
forcing them off? Meaning, if use.mask contains ncurses, and
make.defaults contains USE=ncurses, this would have the same effect as
what ncurses in use.force
Sven Wegener wrote:
We just had a short discussion over in #gentoo-portage and the idea of
an use.force file for profiles came up. It allows us to force some USE
flags to be turned on for a profile. It's not possible to disable this
flag by make.conf, the environment or package.use. But we
Am Montag 13 Juni 2005 20:15 schrieb Daniel Drake:
Maurice van der Pot wrote:
Do you have a date or thread subject or something like that? I can't
find it in the archives. I would like to see some reasons why one or the
other is better.
I can't remember and I can't see it in the archives.
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 02:04:42PM -0500, Lance Albertson wrote:
I like the concept but I think that a previous suggestion that was discussed
here was better. The suggestion was to create a [EMAIL PROTECTED]
alias which bugs could be assigned to. The discussion was a while ago but I
don't
Stefan Schweizer wrote:
I think its better to leave the package on the right alias, because its
easier
to find all pkges without maintainer for a certain herd then.
Most of the people will want to start with only one herd to get ebuilds
added,
so it imo makes really sense to leave them
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 03:56:49PM -0400, Dan Meltzer wrote:
Seems like use.force might be a bad name. when I first read the
email, and saw use.force, the first thing that came to mind was
gentoo forcing something? and even after reading the email, I
wouldn't expect to be able to override
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 03:40:34PM -0500, Kito wrote:
what about just a use.env?
I find that a little bit misleading. Sounds like use this environment
or so.
Sven
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On Monday 13 June 2005 23:08, Alec Warner wrote:
How is this not just a consequence of USE=-*...that is what this does;
turns off ALL use flags. How is use.force ( or the concept thereof )
not breaking the 'easy' interpretation of USE=-* because now things
aren't -*, they are -* + use.force
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 05:08:09PM -0400, Alec Warner wrote:
Sven Wegener wrote:
use.force might not be the best name, but it's what we do with it for
most of our users. Being able to -flag in /etc/portage/profile/use.force
is just because /etc/portage/profile gets added to the cascaded
On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 20:49 +0100, Daniel Drake wrote:
Stefan Schweizer wrote:
I think its better to leave the package on the right alias, because its
easier
to find all pkges without maintainer for a certain herd then.
Most of the people will want to start with only one herd to get
On Monday 13 June 2005 23:58, Lance Albertson wrote:
Hrm, this is making me wonder if a combined alias for new ebuilds and
ebuilds that need maintainers could be used. The current alias as
new-ebuilds probably wouldn't fit this as well. If seemant is up for it,
we could just use something like
On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 16:40 +0200, Sven Wegener wrote:
Hi all!
We just had a short discussion over in #gentoo-portage and the idea of
an use.force file for profiles came up. It allows us to force some USE
flags to be turned on for a profile. It's not possible to disable this
flag by
On Monday 13 June 2005 06:56 pm, Ned Ludd wrote:
Would you mind calling it package.autouse,
package.use.auto or are you set on .force?
the 'auto' and 'use' gets confusing with use.defaults (the so called 'auto-USE
flags')
-mike
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Lars Weiler schrieb:
* Robin H. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05/06/13 10:18 -0700]:
3. split java support out of db.
During stage-building we have USE=-java, but still there
is a perl/openssl dependency, which I can't track. x86
seems to build a
Hey all-
Introducing our newest victim^H^H^H^H^H^Hdev, Johnathan Smith.
smithj(as he's known to his friends) hails from North Carolina, here in
the US. He's going to be helping out with desktop-misc items as well as
hopefully helping with the GDP.
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Here's the nitty gritty:
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BACKGROUND
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kde-look.org is a site that hosts various kde themes to change the look and
feel of the kde desktop.
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REASONING
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An eclass such as this would be benificial to users that want to create custom
ebuilds for various kde
Sami Näätänen wrote:
On Monday 13 June 2005 23:54, Sven Wegener wrote:
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 03:40:34PM -0500, Kito wrote:
what about just a use.env?
I find that a little bit misleading. Sounds like use this
environment or so.
How about use.lock, which would lock the listed use flags
On Jun 14, 2005, at 12:33 PM, Chris White wrote:
kde-look.org is a site that hosts various kde themes to change the
look and feel of the kde desktop.
Well actually some of the things I've done as an external was
maintaining a series of ebuilds for themes, splashscreens and stuff
like
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Mike Frysinger wrote:
On Monday 13 June 2005 09:42 am, Aaron Walker wrote:
eselect (formerly known as eclectic (formerly known as eselect)) is now in
the tree as app-admin/eselect.
why not the app-portage category ?
-mike
My reason for
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Introducing our newest victim^H^H^H^H^H^Hdev, Johnathan Smith. smithj
(as he's known to his friends) hails from North Carolina, here in
the US. He's going to be helping out with desktop-misc items as well
as hopefully
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 16:40:48 +0200
Sven Wegener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We just had a short discussion over in #gentoo-portage and the idea of
an use.force file for profiles came up.
One feature that would be more useful (in my honest on Tuesdays
opinion) for us arch folks is the ability to
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On 06/14/2005 06:29 AM, Mike Doty wrote:
Introducing our newest victim^H^H^H^H^H^Hdev, Johnathan Smith.
smithj(as he's known to his friends) hails from North Carolina, here in
the US. He's going to be helping out with desktop-misc items as well
Dear all,
We have preliminary results from the metastructure vote, and we'll
publish a more thorough accounting tomorrow.
*** Finished ranking candidates ***
Final ranked list:
Oldschool-small-with-slacker-boot
Oldschool-small
Oldschool-large
Alternative
FOSDEM
Following up as an election official... The results Grant posted are
the same as I got.
Regards,
Aron
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Gentoo Linux Developer
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On 06/14/2005 04:03 PM, Chris White wrote:
1) get the general skeletal eclass file going
2) work with multilib
3) integrating with kde eclasses
Would it be easier for you chaps to write up something like gnome-art?
That way, the user can preview,
On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 00:17 -0400, Olivier Crête wrote:
From the preliminary raw data, I count 100 votes out of 381 eligible
voters .. giving us only a 26.24% of participation... I guess the rest
just didn't care.
Considering the amount of information we had to go through and parse,
plus the
Michael Tindal wrote:
Hello,
So a long time ago solar wrote a bashrc for portage, and posted it on
this mailing list for everyone to see. I took it, and started extending
it with various things of my own design, and some contributions from
others. I've since updated it with the things solar's
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