[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.

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-www category

2009-04-03 Thread Jim Ramsay
Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org 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

[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

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 fits.

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. addendum)

[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 URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode URL:http://gentoo.faulhammer.org/ Title: Migration to X.org Server 1.5 Author: Remi Cardona r...@gentoo.org Author: Christian

[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 r...@gentoo.org Thanks

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

2009-04-03 Thread Gokdeniz Karadag
Ulrich Mueller demis ki:: # Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org (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

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

2009-04-03 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, Ferris McCormick fmc...@gentoo.org: 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

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

2009-04-03 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, Gokdeniz Karadag gokde...@ceng.metu.edu.tr: Ulrich Mueller demis ki:: # Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org (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 #

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

2009-04-03 Thread Josh Sled
Christian Faulhammer fa...@gentoo.org 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,

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 Josh Sled
Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org 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