Re: [gentoo-dev] The future of ebuild

2008-02-21 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 22:40 +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote: The core of a distribution is the packaging system, and the core of the packaging system is the building system, which has no reason not to be distribution agnostic, and actually, packaging system agnostic. Why not create a new

Re: [gentoo-dev] iptables and libiptc

2008-02-21 Thread Mike Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Jo, It appears that bug 177978 answers your question. Apparently libiptc wasn't meant to be a public interface and is intended to be removed from the iptables pacakge[2]. Hope this helps answer your question. Please do have a good hunt

[gentoo-dev] iptables and libiptc

2008-02-21 Thread Joachim Stahl
Hi list, i'm currently developing a C-program that needs to use libiptc to modify netfilter tables. Unfortunately this library isn't included in the iptables package as it should be. Is this a reasonable behavior or just a simple bug? I really need this library and would like to make use of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Keyword amd64 - x86_64

2008-02-21 Thread Marius Mauch
On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:40:23 +0100 Fabian Groffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20-02-2008 19:23:26 +0100, Marius Mauch wrote: On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:59:11 -0500 William L. Thomson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please excuse my ignorance if this is a naive comment or has been brought

[gentoo-dev] Re: Keyword amd64 - x86_64

2008-02-21 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - x64 is IMO the worst name for the architecture (originally a MS marketing term later adopted by Sun, looks too similar to x86, name doesn't make any sense really if you compare it to x86) Marius said all I wanted to say on that name. Beside, does it

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: media-video/konverter

2008-02-21 Thread Wulf C. Krueger
# Wulf C. Krueger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (21 Jul 2007) # Broken by upstream. cf. bug 173972. =media-video/konverter-0.93 This has been p.masked for quite some time now for instability and lots of bugs. It's been abandoned for about two years now. It won't even compile anymore now (bug 211002). As

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Keyword amd64 - x86_64

2008-02-21 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 07:40:43PM +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: Beside, does it really changes stuff for anybody beside Intel fanboys? I guess there may be some confusion for people installing their first amd64 on a Intel box. However, i think this sort of confusion is solved more

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Keyword amd64 - x86_64

2008-02-21 Thread Josh Saddler
Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: Beside, does it really changes stuff for anybody beside Intel fanboys? In fairness, not just for Intel fanboys. Drop by the forums some time and just try to count up all the threads asking are the amd64 stages/media appropriate for my computer? i have a core

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Keyword amd64 - x86_64

2008-02-21 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 13:37 -0800, Josh Saddler wrote: Technically, x86-64 is still correct, but as Marius mentioned earlier, there would have to be a heckuva lot of documentation changes, which wouldn't make the GDP happpy. Doubt the amd64 team, and infra would be happy either. Since likely