Re: [gentoo-dev] Dirt: To shove under the rug or not shove under the rug? (aka another round of USE_EXPAND)

2005-09-28 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason Stubbs wrote: | On Wednesday 28 September 2005 13:19, Donnie Berkholz wrote: | IUSE=baz bop | iuse_expand VIDEO_CARDS foo bar This has the ring of hack to me, if it's something to be used in ebuilds. |In addition, it saves IUSE from having

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dirt: To shove under the rug or not shove under the rug? (aka another round of USE_EXPAND)

2005-09-28 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 15:23, Donnie Berkholz wrote: Jason Stubbs wrote: | On Wednesday 28 September 2005 13:19, Donnie Berkholz wrote: | IUSE=baz bop | iuse_expand VIDEO_CARDS foo bar This has the ring of hack to me, if it's something to be used in ebuilds. USE_EXPAND was a hack to

[gentoo-dev] deprecation of SANDBOX_DISABLED

2005-09-28 Thread Brian Harring
Hola. Subject says it all; SANDBOX_DISABLED functions as (essentially) RESTRICT=sandbox, except sandbox is left on for pkg_setup . This is pretty much redundant, considering it's usage. People stick it in the global scope; if you _must_ turn off the sandbox for a specific phase, use

Re: [gentoo-dev] default logger

2005-09-28 Thread Luca Barbato
Chris Gianelloni wrote: Agreed. It should be syslog-ng. If nobody objects, I'll change it in base/virtuals. I'd keep metalog as default OR fix the syslog-ng default configuration. lu -- Luca Barbato Gentoo/linux Developer Gentoo/PPC Operational Leader

Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] default logger

2005-09-28 Thread Jakub Moc
28.9.2005, 2:50:20, Alec Warner wrote: I think syslog-ng is a better logger, except the default configuration is pretty icky. I would shoot for something better, even if it's in /usr/share. I heard hardened's config is quite nice :) At least provide an example of a config that sorts

[gentoo-dev] Re: default logger

2005-09-28 Thread Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Luca Barbato wrote: I'd keep metalog as default OR fix the syslog-ng default configuration. There's nothing wrong with the default configuration. I have intentionally made it simple so that it is easy to understand and works well for a desktop system. There are several

[gentoo-dev] Restarting kde-programms of a normal users-session from a root account

2005-09-28 Thread wOmbad
Hi, to completely apply the portrait screen orientation to my tff display i usually run a little script (attached) as standart user. Yesterday i build a hardware display orientation sensor connected via parallel port. I wrote a little c program for polling the state. This has to be run as

Re: [gentoo-dev] default logger

2005-09-28 Thread Sven Vermeulen
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 11:57:26AM -0500, Brian Harring wrote: Agreed. It should be syslog-ng. If nobody objects, I'll change it in base/virtuals. Objecting, obviously ;) [...] I'd rather see reasons listed as to why syslog-ng is a superior default for users who (most likely) don't

Re: [gentoo-dev] Restarting kde-programms of a normal users-session from a root account

2005-09-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 19:34:22 +0200 wOmbad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | to completely apply the portrait screen orientation to my tff display | i usually run a little script (attached) as standart user. Yesterday | i build a hardware display orientation sensor connected via parallel | port. I wrote a

[gentoo-dev] maintainer-wanted ebuilds which are tagged REVIEWED on 20050928

2005-09-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
This is a summary of maintainer-wanted packages which are tagged as REVIEWED. Please take a few moments to glance over this list and see if there are any packages which your herd would like. The REVIEWED tag is used for ebuilds which have been checked for basic syntax and style issues. It does

[gentoo-dev] UK Expo rota and opening times

2005-09-28 Thread Rob Holland
boo. So, the devs who have confirmed that they are going are: Definitely both days: tigger, lcars, slarti, cryos, tomk (Possibly) Wednesday only: strerror, herbs If you aren't on that list and should be tell me. I've made a lame rota thing for manning the booth, I've been as fair as I could.

[gentoo-dev] How to create SRC_URI from messed-up URL?

2005-09-28 Thread Dave Nebinger
Hey, folks. I'm trying to write an ebuild, not my first, but definitely something that is relatively new to me. Anyways, I've got the following URL that pulls down the source package: http://www.fpdf.org/en/dl.php?v=153?f=tgz The file that gets downloaded is fpdf153.tgz. Well, that messed

Re: [gentoo-dev] How to create SRC_URI from messed-up URL?

2005-09-28 Thread Brian Harring
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 12:46:36AM -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: Hey, folks. I'm trying to write an ebuild, not my first, but definitely something that is relatively new to me. Anyways, I've got the following URL that pulls down the source package:

shish/dietlibc WAS: Re: [gentoo-dev] maintainer-wanted ebuilds which are tagged REVIEWED on 20050928

2005-09-28 Thread Benedikt Boehm
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 20:23, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: This is a summary of maintainer-wanted packages which are tagged as REVIEWED. Please take a few moments to glance over this list and see if there are any packages which your herd would like. The REVIEWED tag is used for ebuilds