[gentoo-dev] About time to unify cdda and cdaudio USE flags and make the remaining one global?

2009-07-04 Thread Lars Wendler
Hi list, while finally doing some bug-wrangling again, I stumbled about [1] where a user requested to unify cdda and cdaudio USE flags. After leaving a request for further opinions about this in #-bugs I only got one reply: 14:11:28 +Poly-C_atwork Any idea what to do about bug #274818? Is

Re: [gentoo-dev] [gsoc-status] portage backend for PackageKit

2009-07-04 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 5:05 AM, Steve Dommettst...@st4vs.net wrote: I'm no Python programmer,  and I haven't even read the code involved,  but in the interests of minimising duplication of effort,  I thought you'd be interested to know that Sabayon,  a Gentoo based binary distro,  look like

Re: [gentoo-dev] Manifesto archive

2009-07-04 Thread Denis Dupeyron
2009/7/3 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto jmbsvice...@gentoo.org: Yes, that is another thing I was planning to do. The only reason I haven't done it yet, is that older manifestos were stored as txt files and this year the candidates mostly opted for html/xml files. I'll probably just go ahead,

[gentoo-dev] mirrorselect: request for extraction of class MirrorParser

2009-07-04 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Hello! app-portage/mirrorselect is a single file Python program. It contains a class MirrorParser that parses mirrors.xml from the Gentoo website. I would like to use that code (unmodified) for my GSoC project. My request is to extract an extra file for that class from mirrorselect so the

Re: [gentoo-dev] About time to unify cdda and cdaudio USE flags and make the remaining one global?

2009-07-04 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Lars Wendler wrote: So what do you think? Should we convert the bug into a tracker and open bugs for any package using the USE-flag that should be converted into the other one? +1 from me, sounds reasonable. Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-dev] rsync mirrorstats page (generation and parsing)

2009-07-04 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 02:44:07AM +0200, Sebastian Pipping wrote: When collecting information on the SYNC variable for my Summer of Code gentoo stats project I'd like to check if the URL in SYNC is publically known or some private/secret rsync mirror. The page behind

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] [EAPI=3] Add approprietly prefixed values of IUSE_* variables to IUSE

2009-07-04 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
I would like to suggest that values of IUSE_* variables (whose names end with values of USE_EXPAND variable), after prefixing with lower-cased names of appropriate variables included in USE_EXPAND, should be automatically added to IUSE variable. Example: IUSE=abc IUSE_LINGUAS=en fr +la pl ru