Re: [gentoo-dev] killsoft - Resignation

2005-10-07 Thread Jochen Maes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robb Romans wrote: | Hi, | | Thank you for the opportunity to contribute to Gentoo for the time | I have been here. | | Other tasks have recently prevented me from devoting adequate time | to Gentoo. Rather than do a poor job, I feel it would be

Re: [gentoo-dev] Scratching of GLEP22

2005-10-07 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 00:03 +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: For this reason I'd like to ask the retirement by scratch of GLEP22.. hope you'll let me do that without having to write a GLEP that removes a GLEP (it's recursive...) Wouldn't it make more sense to get with the GLEP authors

Re: [gentoo-dev] aging ebuilds with unstable keywords

2005-10-07 Thread Rajiv Aaron Manglani
hi. any way to change the form on this page to handle GET instead of POST ? that way we could bookmark searches. thanks. On Oct 2, 2005, at 11:47 PM, Daniel Ahlberg wrote: Hi, This is an automatically created email message. http://gentoo.tamperd.net/stable has just been updated with 12916

[gentoo-dev] CFP, FOSS.IN/2005

2005-10-07 Thread Shyam Mani
Hey Everyone, This is like a bit too late, but I thought I'd post it anyway. My sincere apologies for the delayed post. Since the year 2001, the Linux Bangalore[1] conference, held every year in Bangalore, India, has been the most anticipated Free Open Source Software (FOSS) event of

[gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-tv/xawdecode

2005-10-07 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
As the subject says, another package that's flying away. media-tv/xawdecode was superseded by media-tv/xdtv (same code, different name, upstream renamed it). Two weeks from now I'll remove media-tv/xawdecode from tree, if nobody is going to disagree, I'm masking it now for this. Every user of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-tv/xawdecode

2005-10-07 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 20:29 +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: media-tv/xawdecode was superseded by media-tv/xdtv (same code, different name, upstream renamed it). Just curious, but why didn't you just use a package move? -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-tv/xawdecode

2005-10-07 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 15:42 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Friday 07 October 2005 03:30 pm, Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 20:29 +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: media-tv/xawdecode was superseded by media-tv/xdtv (same code, different name, upstream renamed it).

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-tv/xawdecode

2005-10-07 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Friday 07 October 2005 22:00, Chris Gianelloni wrote: I meant when they changed the name, why not just do a package move to the new name? Nevermind. I must be being dense again. Because it got into portage as a completely new package, as it was a new major version, and I avoided porting

Re: [gentoo-dev] default logger

2005-10-07 Thread Jan Kundrát
On Tuesday 27 of September 2005 10:31 Jan Kundrát wrote: What should be changed, Handbook or profiles? Any progress on this subject? Cheers, -jkt -- cd /local/pub more beer /dev/mouth pgpiunsPox2Er.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] Re: Improved ebuild information

2005-10-07 Thread R Hill
Martin Schlemmer wrote: On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 21:22 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: We've discussed adding this to metadata.xml a few times in the past, but every time there was opposition from a vocal minority of one who claimed that USE flags should always do exactly the same thing for every

[gentoo-dev] Python setuptools/eggs

2005-10-07 Thread Anders Bruun Olsen
Hi, I wanted to try out the new and fabled TurboGears and found that it uses the new python software distribution tool setuptools and is distributed as python eggs. I can easily install it with setuptools/easy_setup, but I wanted to make an ebuild for TurboGears, which is not just so with

[gentoo-dev] Gentoo Classes, a possible new method of spreading information

2005-10-07 Thread Dan Meltzer
Hello, I am a frequenter of #gentoo-*, as many of you know :) Tonight, hanging out in #gentoo, I observed a huge amount of incorrect information once again.. tonight about profiles, cascading and all that jazz, which to be honest is fairly undocumented. I decided to give a miniclass on how it

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Classes, a possible new method of spreading information

2005-10-07 Thread R Hill
Dan Meltzer wrote: Hello, I am a frequenter of #gentoo-*, as many of you know :) Tonight, hanging out in #gentoo, I observed a huge amount of incorrect information once again.. tonight about profiles, cascading and all that jazz, which to be honest is fairly undocumented. I decided to give a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Classes, a possible new method of spreading information

2005-10-07 Thread Alec Warner
R Hill wrote: Dan Meltzer wrote: Hello, I am a frequenter of #gentoo-*, as many of you know :) Tonight, hanging out in #gentoo, I observed a huge amount of incorrect information once again.. tonight about profiles, cascading and all that jazz, which to be honest is fairly undocumented.

[gentoo-portage-dev] ECONF_EXTRA handling: bug 38618

2005-10-07 Thread Brian Harring
Anyone got a good reason bug 38618 shouldn't go in? Essentially it's ./configure ... -${EXTRA_ECONF} $@ +$@ ${EXTRA_ECONF} It allows for users to override ebuild defined configure options, potentially shooting themselves in the foot, but in the same token they can already shoot themselves in

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] ECONF_EXTRA handling: bug 38618

2005-10-07 Thread Paul Varner
On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 16:03 -0500, Brian Harring wrote: It allows for users to override ebuild defined configure options, potentially shooting themselves in the foot, but in the same token they can already shoot themselves in the foot via EXTRA_ECONF... Since EXTRA_ECONF is all about letting