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

2005-10-08 Thread Duncan
R Hill posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Fri, 07 Oct 2005 21:28:58 -0600: > Dan Meltzer wrote: >> >> 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 fair

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

2005-10-08 Thread Jan Kundrát
On Saturday 08 of October 2005 03:21 Dan Meltzer wrote: > Okay, so that worked, but then I got to thinking, why not do these > fairly regularly? I do not profess to know enough to hold them about > a large amount of topics, but I think this could surely supplant the > current documentation process

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

2005-10-08 Thread Simon Stelling
Hi, Your idea has its points, but I'm not sure if classes aren't just a work-around for lacking documentation in general. Of course, IRC is a lot more interactive than a tutorial, but reading IRC logs is really not the best method to lern something about a certain topic, so documentation would

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

2005-10-08 Thread Simon Stelling
Simon Stelling wrote: > So basically, the documentation shouldn't be the primary location to get information. s/shouldn't/should I really shouldn't write emails before waking up :/ -- Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] bin/dojar from portage is deprecated

2005-10-08 Thread Thomas Matthijs
Portage guys wanted me to mail this to -dev to let everyone know dojar should/will be removed from portage in one of the next releases You should use java-pkg_dojar from the java-pkg.eclass I corrected the last 2 ebuilds in the tree using dojar (Which i have todo every few months, so it'll be a g

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

2005-10-08 Thread Tres Melton
On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 11:34 +0200, Simon Stelling wrote: > Hi, > > Your idea has its points, but I'm not sure if classes aren't just a > work-around > for lacking documentation in general. Of course, IRC is a lot more > interactive > than a tutorial, but reading IRC logs is really not the best

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python setuptools/eggs

2005-10-08 Thread Rob Cakebread
Anders Bruun Olsen wrote: It seems that alot of python projects are starting to use setuptools/easy_install/eggs, and granted, it is quite neat, but there needs to figured out a way to handle installing these things through Portage, or alot of new versions are going to be a pain to have installe