[gentoo-dev] License group proposal: @BINARY-REDISTRIBUTABLE

2009-10-21 Thread Robin H. Johnson
As an extension of the October trustees meeting, the Ten team enquired about license usage for including firmware and binary-source material on the media they were producing. The items they wanted were fine, but I realize that it's a more general issue, that is solved well by GLEP23. I'd like to

[gentoo-dev] Re: KDE Team Meeting - October 2009

2009-10-21 Thread Duncan
Maciej Mrozowski posted on Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:59:56 +0200 as excerpted: > 1. Proposition to split desktop profile to: KDE, Gnome, (and maybe some > others). > That being said active presence of some Gnome guys would be most > appreciated. With that under discussion, what about a kde (or full des

Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE Team Meeting - October 2009

2009-10-21 Thread Maciej Mrozowski
On Wednesday 21 of October 2009 22:34:18 Denis Dupeyron wrote: > 2009/10/21 Maciej Mrozowski : > > 1. Proposition to split desktop profile to: KDE, Gnome, (and maybe some > > others). > > How about making a desktop profile with everything common and being > the parent of Gnome, KDE, XFCE, etc... s

Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE Team Meeting - October 2009

2009-10-21 Thread Denis Dupeyron
2009/10/21 Maciej Mrozowski : > 1. Proposition to split desktop profile to: KDE, Gnome, (and maybe some > others). How about making a desktop profile with everything common and being the parent of Gnome, KDE, XFCE, etc... sub-profiles with the specific stuff? Denis.

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: News item for default-linux removal (bug #287976)

2009-10-21 Thread Duncan
Samuli Suominen posted on Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:00:43 +0300 as excerpted: > If a machine is not migrated to a new valid profile then emerge will > have very limited functionality. If a machine is not migrated to a new valid profile before the deprecated profiles are removed, emerge will have very

Re: [gentoo-dev] The KDE overlay moves forward

2009-10-21 Thread Wulf C. Krueger
Hello! > As you might know, the Gentoo KDE project provides an overlay with KDE4 > live ebuilds ("kde" in layman) and some of their dependencies. It's been about 1,5 years ago when I announced the availability of the re- designed KDE overlay which has since been our playground/testing ground for

Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE Team Meeting - October 2009

2009-10-21 Thread Maciej Mrozowski
On Tuesday 20 of October 2009 20:33:12 Alex Alexander wrote: > Greetings, > > The KDE Team will have its usual monthly meeting this Thursday. > > Date: Thursday, 2009/10/22 > Time: 1900 UTC > Channel: #gentoo-meetings I'd like to suggest following agenda items: 1. Proposition to split desktop

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: News item for default-linux removal (bug #287976)

2009-10-21 Thread Samuli Suominen
Alec Warner wrote: > I'm trying to avoid using 'you' in the announcement which is why all > the rewording. Thanks, looks better. Title: Using default-linux profile is now obsolete Author: Samuli Suominen Content-Type: text/plain Posted: 2009-10-21 Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 1.0 Display-If-Pro

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: News item for default-linux removal (bug #287976)

2009-10-21 Thread Alec Warner
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > Samuli Suominen wrote: >> For http://bugs.gentoo.org/287976, A news item: >> Would this work? > > -- cut -- > > Title: Usage of default-linux as profile is obsolete > Author: Samuli Suominen > Content-Type: text/plain > Posted: 2009-10-21

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New ebuild metadata to mark how robust the package is?

2009-10-21 Thread William Hubbs
Afaik, you can already do this. Make a file in /etc/portage/sets/critical, or whatever you want to call it, and in there list the packages you are concerned about. Then you can do: emerge -NDup @critical to see the packages in that set that need to be upgraded or you can use @critical in any ot

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: News item for default-linux removal (bug #287976)

2009-10-21 Thread Petteri Räty
Samuli Suominen wrote: > Samuli Suominen wrote: >> For http://bugs.gentoo.org/287976, A news item: >> Would this work? > Does this mean that you haven't tested it? If it's tested with the oldest Portage version that people are expected to be using, then fine by me. I don't think this bug comes to

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: News item for default-linux removal (bug #287976)

2009-10-21 Thread Samuli Suominen
Samuli Suominen wrote: > For http://bugs.gentoo.org/287976, A news item: > Would this work? -- cut -- Title: Usage of default-linux as profile is obsolete Author: Samuli Suominen Content-Type: text/plain Posted: 2009-10-21 Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 1.0 Display-If-Profile: default-linux The

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New ebuild metadata to mark how robust the package is?

2009-10-21 Thread Ladislav Laska
Of course, by "safe" I meant "unsafe" or "needs-additional-care" or whatever,... My bad. Regards Ladislav Laska S pozdravem Ladislav Laska --- xmpp/jabber: ladislav.la...@jabber.cz On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Ladislav Laska wrote: > Hi, > > One can see some similarity to a thread around

[gentoo-dev] RFC: News item for default-linux removal (bug #287976)

2009-10-21 Thread Samuli Suominen
For http://bugs.gentoo.org/287976, A news item: -- cut -- Title: Usage of default-linux as profile is obsolete Author: Samuli Suominen Content-Type: text/plain Posted: 2009-10-21 Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 1.0 Display-If-Profile: default-linux The profiles in default-linux/ have been depreca

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New ebuild metadata to mark how robust the package is?

2009-10-21 Thread Ladislav Laska
Hi, One can see some similarity to a thread around week or two old (about critical packages). I would imagine, that a simple and straightforward solution would be to make a new set of packages. Since we already have world and system sets, it wouldn't hurt to have a third, "safe" list which would b

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: multilib and the compatibility to singlelib

2009-10-21 Thread Michael Haubenwallner
Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Tuesday 20 October 2009 09:06:29 Michael Haubenwallner wrote: >> As I'm building the toolchain myself too, I configure it with the >> 32bit host triplet on each platform, usually disabling multilib. > > this doesnt make any sense to me What exactly doesn't make sense t