[gentoo-dev] net-www category

2009-04-03 Thread Ulrich Mueller
Long time ago [1] it was decided that category net-www should be retired, since the www-* categories exist for these packages. However, if I look at the category, then most packages in it were created in 2006 or later. In my understanding, at least no new packages should be created in net-www. An

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-www category

2009-04-03 Thread Jim Ramsay
Ulrich Mueller wrote: > Another question is if the existing ones should still be moved to > some www-* category? Should? I have no idea. Where exactly would we move these packages? The quasi-more-usefully-named www-misc? Though I seriously have no objection to either keeping things where they

[gentoo-dev] RFC: best way to introduce USE=prefix

2009-04-03 Thread Jeremy Olexa
Hello all, In the Gentoo Prefix project we have a special USE flag: 'prefix', kind of like $ARCH USE flags. I am writing here to ask of the best way to introduce a global implicit USE flag to gentoo-x86. There has been some interest from other devs to kill diffs in ebuilds between gentoo-x86 and pr

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-www category

2009-04-03 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Jim Ramsay wrote: >> Another question is if the existing ones should still be moved to >> some www-* category? > Should? I have no idea. Where exactly would we move these packages? > The quasi-more-usefully-named www-misc? Yes, if none of the other www-* categories fi

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: best way to introduce USE=prefix

2009-04-03 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeremy Olexa wrote: > So, my recommendation is to: > 1) mask the prefix USE flag in base/use.mask because no one except the > prefix profiles should use this flag. > 2) unmask and force the USE flag in prefix profile. > 3) add entry to use.desc. > adde

[gentoo-dev] News item review: X.org server upgrade

2009-04-03 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, please see attached news item for review. V-Li -- Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode http://gentoo.faulhammer.org/> Title: Migration to X.org Server 1.5 Author: Remi Cardona Author: Christian Faulhammer Content-Type: t

[gentoo-dev] Re: News item review: X.org server upgrade

2009-04-03 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 04/04/2009 00:01, Christian Faulhammer a écrit : please see attached news item for review. The wording is fine. Signed-off-by: Rémi Cardona Thanks

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-text/tetex

2009-04-03 Thread Gokdeniz Karadag
Ulrich Mueller demis ki:: > # Ulrich Mueller (2 Apr 2009) > # De-supported by upstream since three years, see http://tug.org/teTeX/ > # Please use app-text/texlive as a replacement. A migration guide is at > # http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/tex/texlive-migration-guide.xml > # Package has open secur

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: EAPI cheat sheet for your desktop

2009-04-03 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, Ferris McCormick : > On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 19:21 +0200, Christian Faulhammer wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > with EAPI 3 confusion about what is in which EAPI may increase, > > although appendix E of the PMS is quite helpful here. Anyway, > > something handy to put on your desk is my little

[gentoo-dev] News item for review: teTeX deprecation

2009-04-03 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, please review attached news item. V-Li -- Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode http://gentoo.faulhammer.org/> Title: Migration to X.org Server 1.5 Author: Christian Faulhammer Author: Ulrich Müller Author: Alexis Ballie

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: app-text/tetex

2009-04-03 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, Gokdeniz Karadag : > Ulrich Mueller demis ki:: > > # Ulrich Mueller (2 Apr 2009) > > # De-supported by upstream since three years, see > > http://tug.org/teTeX/ # Please use app-text/texlive as a > > replacement. A migration guide is at # > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/tex/texlive-migrati

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item for review: teTeX deprecation

2009-04-03 Thread Josh Sled
Christian Faulhammer writes: > please review attached news item. > Title: Migration to X.org Server 1.5 Clearly wrong. > Posted: 2009-04-06 Given that I'm currently dealing with the repercussions of not having seen the migration guide until it failed mid-way through the emerge, and portage seem

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item for review: teTeX deprecation

2009-04-03 Thread Gokdeniz Karadag
Hi First there is a typo; obseleted->obsoleted Also, upgrade process is a bit more than simple unmerging; "All users who still have teTeX installed should upgrade to TeXLive following the upgrade guide on..." -- Gokdeniz Karadag

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item for review: teTeX deprecation

2009-04-03 Thread Heath N. Caldwell
On 2009-04-04 00:57, Christian Faulhammer wrote: > Hi, > > please review attached news item. > > V-Li > > -- > Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode > > http://gentoo.faulhammer.org/> > Title: Migration to X.org Server 1.5

[gentoo-dev] Re: News item for review: teTeX deprecation

2009-04-03 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, Josh Sled : > Christian Faulhammer writes: > > please review attached news item. > > Title: Migration to X.org Server 1.5 > > Clearly wrong. Fixed. Gokdeniz Karadag : > First there is a typo; > obseleted->obsoleted Fixed. > Also, upgrade process is a bit more than simple unmerging; > "

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item for review: teTeX deprecation

2009-04-03 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Heath N Caldwell wrote: > On 2009-04-04 00:57, Christian Faulhammer wrote: >> please review attached news item. Well, I'd thought that last rites plus the message in package.mask were enough (it also mentions the URL of the migration guide). But of course it cannot harm

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item for review: teTeX deprecation

2009-04-03 Thread Josh Sled
Ulrich Mueller writes: > Well, I'd thought that last rites plus the message in package.mask > were enough (it also mentions the URL of the migration guide). > But of course it cannot harm to have a news item in addition. Users don't follow gentoo-dev to see last-rites. For whatever reason, I did

[gentoo-dev] Re: News item review: X.org server upgrade

2009-04-03 Thread Duncan
Christian Faulhammer posted 20090404000139.2ea5a...@terra.solaris, excerpted below, on Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:01:39 +0200: > [0] > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.5-upgrade- guide.xml BTW, as I'm on ~arch I had upgraded some time ago, but had been using the legacy keyboa