Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: ACCEPT_LICENSE default value (GLEP 23)

2009-05-30 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Richard Freeman wrote: Mounir Lamouri wrote: It looks like some licenses need acceptance. I prefer the wording: some software vendors claim that their licenses must be accepted to use the software. I'm not aware of any law which requires a license to use software - at least not inside the

Re: [gentoo-dev] New app-eselect category?

2009-05-30 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tiziano Müller wrote: Am Dienstag, den 26.05.2009, 17:00 -0700 schrieb Josh Saddler: AllenJB wrote: I'd favor tags over increasing the category levels, tho I'm not convinced either is necessary at the current time (tho tags might make searching

Re: [gentoo-dev] How not to discuss

2009-05-30 Thread Joe Peterson
Alec Warner wrote: Lets agree to disagree on the definition of technical then and instead agree that putting EAPI in the filename is a bad design decision (technicalness aside) and then have a beer! Wow. That's a *great* idea! ;) -Cheers, Joe

[gentoo-dev] Re: How not to discuss

2009-05-30 Thread Ryan Hill
On Fri, 29 May 2009 23:49:26 +0200 Patrick Lauer patr...@gentoo.org wrote: On Friday 29 May 2009 04:12:04 Ryan Hill wrote: Patrick Lauer patr...@gentoo.org wrote: but ever consider that the reason people keep repeating things to you is that you continually misunderstand what they're

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: ACCEPT_LICENSE default value (GLEP 23)

2009-05-30 Thread Richard Freeman
Disclaimer - I too am not a lawyer. Mounir Lamouri wrote: I'm not a lawyer so I can't say for sure some software _need_ explicit license acceptance to be used. However, I'm quite sure using a software means accept the license. Someone experienced in this area is welcome for clarifications.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: How not to discuss

2009-05-30 Thread Richard Freeman
Ryan Hill wrote: I'm tired of playing, as I'm sure you are. So please, let's be quiet now, and let the big people talk. This is a public list designed to facilitate discussion of gentoo software development. Anybody with something constructive to say is more than welcome to speak up -

[gentoo-dev] Patch to remove JAVA_PKG_VNEED support from java-utils-2.eclass

2009-05-30 Thread Alistair Bush
This patch removes the functionality within java-utils-2.eclass to record and pass to java-config old style virtuals. This functionality is not utilized within any repo that I know about and is _most probably_ horribly broken anyway. _ALL_ ebuilds that are using this functionality (aka 0) should

[gentoo-portage-dev] Re: Conflicting RDEPENDS

2009-05-30 Thread Duncan
Patrick Börjesson psychoti...@lavabit.com posted 20090530115251.gc11...@nexon.nexus, excerpted below, on Sat, 30 May 2009 13:52:52 +0200: It's a weigh-off between having an easy time pruning your system and having emerge calculate a correct dependency graph for your entire system. As far as