Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: app-misc/gfontview

2007-04-07 Thread Philip Webb
070407 Stefan Schweizer wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: >> 070407 Stefan Schweizer wrote: >>> # masked for removal: no release since 2001, build broken, bug 154671 >>> app-misc/gfontview >> If you want to remove this package, please provide a better explanation. > right you are. The bug is invalid: he

Re: [gentoo-dev] *DEVELOPMENT* mail list, right?

2007-04-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sunday 08 April 2007 03:16:12 Steev Klimaszewski wrote: > Odd that dbus would crash/restart - hald uses dbus, not the other way > around Yeah, I was wondering too, why this happened. > however, dbus should be restarted to read the new (possibly) > hald.conf - the real fix would be for the apps

Re: [gentoo-dev] *DEVELOPMENT* mail list, right?

2007-04-07 Thread Steev Klimaszewski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *daemons/applications that crashed: dbus powersaved -> KPowersave Networkmanager -> KNetworkmanager Also, the new hald didn't want to start, because dbus had crashed because of the auto-hald-reload. So we need to prevent this before it goes stable: a) print out a big

Re: [gentoo-dev] *DEVELOPMENT* mail list, right?

2007-04-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Am Freitag, 6. April 2007 20:54:28 schrieb Doug Goldstein: > Michael Cummings wrote: > steev got hal 0.5.9 into the tree (it's masked) and we've both been > solidly kicking it to behave how we need it. Anyone interested in > testing it out would be very helpful. > > I can promise it won't come to y

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April

2007-04-07 Thread Steve Long
Paul de Vrieze wrote: > It might be an idea if the QA team would post a QA issue of the week. It > is my opinion that many QA issues come about because the developers just > don't know it is wrong. The same mistakes get repeated again and again. > To (anonymized) publish a QA issue of the week migh

[gentoo-dev] Re: Tears of unfathomable sorrow

2007-04-07 Thread Steve Long
Oh man.. the one dev who truly understood that users matter. And one of the nicest people i've had the fortune to talk to on irc. Many thanks for all you have done for gentoo. I wish you'd reconsider, but I wish you much luck and happiness with your future. *Gutted*. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org m

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: app-misc/gfontview

2007-04-07 Thread Stefan Schweizer
Philip Webb wrote: > 070407 Stefan Schweizer wrote: >> # masked for removal: no release since 2001, build broken, bug 154671 >> app-misc/gfontview > > I have added a comment to the bug. > If you want to remove this package, please provide a better explanation. > right you are. The bug is invali

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: app-misc/gfontview

2007-04-07 Thread »Q«
In , Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 070407 Stefan Schweizer wrote: > > # masked for removal: no release since 2001, build broken, bug > > 154671 app-misc/gfontview > > I have added a comment to the bug. > If you want to remove this package, please provide a bet

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Tears of unfathomable sorrow

2007-04-07 Thread Vlastimil Babka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alec Warner wrote: > Much to the joy of many I am now retiring from Gentoo. This sucks. - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozde

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-misc/gfontview

2007-04-07 Thread Philip Webb
070407 Stefan Schweizer wrote: > # masked for removal: no release since 2001, build broken, bug 154671 > app-misc/gfontview I have added a comment to the bug. If you want to remove this package, please provide a better explanation. -- ,,===

Re: [gentoo-core] Re: [gentoo-dev] Tears of unfathomable sorrow

2007-04-07 Thread Denis Dupeyron
"Tears of unfathomable sorrow" Sad news, indeed. I only hope you'll take some time off and eventually come back. On 4/7/07, Seemant Kulleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You suck for leaving before me. No sir, you're not leaving. End of discussion. Denis. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tears of unfathomable sorrow

2007-04-07 Thread George Prowse
Alec Warner wrote: Much to the joy of many I am now retiring from Gentoo... It is a pity to see you go, many users like me will be sad to see you leave. George -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] *DEVELOPMENT* mail list, right?

2007-04-07 Thread George Prowse
Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 09:45 -0700, Ned Ludd wrote: Here is what I'm doing these days.. Let's see. I'm currently leading the 2007.0 release, which includes building LiveDVD releases for amd64/x86, LiveCD for alpha/ppc, and doing the entire PPC release, since Pyl

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-misc/gfontview

2007-04-07 Thread Stefan Schweizer
# Stefan Schweizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (07 Apr 2007) # masked for removal: no release since 2001, build broken, bug 154671 app-misc/gfontview -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] app-misc/klive removal

2007-04-07 Thread Petteri Räty
Daniel Drake kirjoitti: > klive isn't that useful and I don't have enough time to maintain it. > There are several bugs kicking about. > > If nobody takes over, I'll package.mask it on April 14th and remove it > on April 28th. > > Daniel The usual time in package.mask is still a month... Regard

[gentoo-dev] punting sys-libs/pwdb from system

2007-04-07 Thread Mike Frysinger
i havent found anything that uses pwdb to justify it being in our default-linux system ... so unless someone can point out why it's needed anymore, i'm going to punt it from profiles/default-linux/packages -mike pgp8YxUC1lwkZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] app-misc/klive removal

2007-04-07 Thread Daniel Drake
klive isn't that useful and I don't have enough time to maintain it. There are several bugs kicking about. If nobody takes over, I'll package.mask it on April 14th and remove it on April 28th. Daniel -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tears of unfathomable sorrow

2007-04-07 Thread Seemant Kulleen
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[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Tears of unfathomable sorrow

2007-04-07 Thread Ferris McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Alec Warner wrote: Much to the joy of many I am now retiring from Gentoo. I've already done most of the work (sorry to burden you kloeri I think just the tree-bits are left). Many will wonder why; but this has been a while in c

Re: [gentoo-dev] do not rely on internal variables used by portage functions

2007-04-07 Thread Petteri Räty
Mike Frysinger kirjoitti: > On Saturday 31 March 2007, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> we've noticed that many things in the tree abuse the fact that the portage >> helpers utilize environment variables to communicate ... for example, >> people setting DOCDESTTREE by hand rather than using `docinto` >> >>

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Tears of unfathomable sorrow

2007-04-07 Thread Charlie Shepherd
On 07/04/07, Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Much to the joy of many I am now retiring from Gentoo. This isn't a surprise, but none the less I'm sad to see you go. Back when I was still struggling to find my feet in Gentoo you were a great help. Good luck in whatever you do next, I'll mi