Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New developer : Markus Duft (mduft)

2008-05-01 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:22:21PM -0600, Ryan Hill wrote: > INSANITY! > > > You'll fit right in. Welcome. The voices in my head tell my to say "Welcome Markus" :-] cheers, Wernfried -- Wernfried Haas (amne) - amne (at) gentoo.org Gentoo Forums - http://forums.gentoo.org forum-mods (

[gentoo-dev] Hackontest

2008-05-01 Thread Anant Narayanan
Hi, I added the Gentoo project to Hackontest (for more information, visit http://hackontest.org/) . Developers and users are invited to add feature requests for Gentoo (preferably with links to bugzilla :-)). Hopefully, some of us developers can get together and implement them at the Hackont

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: media-fonts/sharefonts

2008-05-01 Thread Ryan Hill
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:27:18 -0600 Ryan Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In bug #218288, it was brought to our attention that > media-fonts/sharefonts, which has been in our tree under a > public-domain LICENSE, is anything but. Each of the fonts in this > collection is released under a variety

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer : Markus Duft (mduft)

2008-05-01 Thread Heath N. Caldwell
On 2008-05-01 03:20, Duft Markus wrote: > Hi! > > Just read the mail-archive and (i'm not at work), and felt that I have > to say something about the binary packages on windows ;) (so sorry for > what the outlook web-access thingy does to emails and threads :)) Have you seen this?: http://home.in

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: language bindings as separate packages

2008-05-01 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2272 According to this bug, portage still can't handle use-deps, there's just a standard way for breaking the build on missing useflags. Exactly what I already suspected. cu -- ---

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: language bindings as separate packages

2008-05-01 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 1 May 2008 18:23:28 +0200 Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But that discussion can come after Portage gets use dependencies... > > Which, as I understand it, won't be for at least another eighteen > > months because three more people have just asked for them. > > I'm a bit con

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: language bindings as separate packages

2008-05-01 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Not really. For packages that support it, it just means adding a way > for that package to be told to do a partial rebuild for the addition of > a use flag. Ugh, partial rebuilds are alway tricky and tend to make things even more complicated and er

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: language bindings as separate packages

2008-05-01 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 01 May 2008 19:05:35 +0300 Mart Raudsepp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It still means a rebuild of the binding providing library, which > involves unnecessary recompilation of the (typically) C or C++ > library, which in some cases can be a huge time sink - that in the > case that the librar

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: language bindings as separate packages

2008-05-01 Thread Mart Raudsepp
On N, 2008-05-01 at 17:52 +0200, Santiago M. Mola wrote: > On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi folks, > > > > while building yum, I again ran into trouble because one > > dependency has to be rebuilt with an specific useflag first > > (in this ca

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: language bindings as separate packages

2008-05-01 Thread Santiago M. Mola
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > while building yum, I again ran into trouble because one > dependency has to be rebuilt with an specific useflag first > (in this case it was libxml2 + python useflag). Actually, > there are *lots* of t

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: language bindings as separate packages

2008-05-01 Thread Łukasz P. Michalik
Ever heard of use dependencies? Way you are proposing this is just more work and no solutions to real problems. On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > while building yum, I again ran into trouble because one > dependency has to be rebuilt wit

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nazi symbols on Gentoo (and other offending content)

2008-05-01 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Santiago M. Mola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: This is totally offtopic here. The issue has been discussed excessively on the forum (10 pages!). And this issue is *only* relevant to the f.g.o platform, not the Gentoo project at all, especially NOT the technically development. BTW: if I was fo

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

2008-05-01 Thread Mart Raudsepp
On N, 2008-05-01 at 05:30 +, Mike Frysinger wrote: > This is your monthly friendly reminder ! Same bat time (typically > the 2nd Thursday at 2000 UTC / 1600 EST), same bat channel > (#gentoo-council @ irc.freenode.net) ! > > If you have something you'd wish for us to chat about, maybe even >

[gentoo-dev] RFC: language bindings as separate packages

2008-05-01 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, while building yum, I again ran into trouble because one dependency has to be rebuilt with an specific useflag first (in this case it was libxml2 + python useflag). Actually, there are *lots* of these cases and (AFAIK) portage has no way for properly handling this - it's up to the

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

2008-05-01 Thread Ferris McCormick
(I'll Try again, from correct email address) On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 05:30 +, Mike Frysinger wrote: > This is your monthly friendly reminder ! Same bat time (typically > the 2nd Thursday at 2000 UTC / 1600 EST), same bat channel > (#gentoo-council @ irc.freenode.net) ! > > If you have somethin

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Prioritising contact information in metadata.xml

2008-05-01 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 07:34:51AM +0200, Tiziano M?ller wrote: > Jeroen Roovers wrote: > > All in all I guess we need to make the rules up as we go and decide > > policy later. I suggest the first herd/address in the list should be > > the primary contact. If you don't agree with that, please cons

[gentoo-dev] Re: Automagic dependencies in gegl

2008-05-01 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
Hanno Böck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Beside, I'm asking myself how to handle this situation. Hard-enable them all > as long as there are no patches? Let the automagic go in the tree? Opinions > welcome. Automagic has _not_ to come to the tree, so hard-enable them all is the way. Have you lo

AW: [gentoo-dev] New developer : Markus Duft (mduft)

2008-05-01 Thread Duft Markus
Hi! Just read the mail-archive and (i’m not at work), and felt that I have to say something about the binary packages on windows ;) (so sorry for what the outlook web-access thingy does to emails and threads :)) Right now we start using Gentoo Prefix as the primary development environment at o

[gentoo-dev] Automagic dependencies in gegl

2008-05-01 Thread Hanno Böck
Hi, Recently, GIMP got it's first development version based on gegl. Now, gegl has 13 optional dependencies that could be use-flagged. The pity is, it has no configure-option for most of them, they are autodetected. (It's about gtk, ruby, lua, cairo, pango, libpng, openexr, rsvg, sdl, asciidoc,

[gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for May

2008-05-01 Thread Mike Frysinger
This is your monthly friendly reminder ! Same bat time (typically the 2nd Thursday at 2000 UTC / 1600 EST), same bat channel (#gentoo-council @ irc.freenode.net) ! If you have something you'd wish for us to chat about, maybe even vote on, let us know ! Simply reply to this e-mail for the whole G

[gentoo-dev] Re: Prioritising contact information in metadata.xml

2008-05-01 Thread Tiziano Müller
Jeroen Roovers wrote: > All in all I guess we need to make the rules up as we go and decide > policy later. I suggest the first herd/address in the list should be > the primary contact. If you don't agree with that, please consult > metadata.xml for the package or reassign to bug-wranglers with an