Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage team, Zac's development break and stepping down as lead

2014-01-06 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 08:53 +0100, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Brian Dolbec wrote: > > We have several non-developer contributors helping out, but it will be > > very hard to match the productivity Zac has made over these past years. > > I must have missed something.

[gentoo-dev] Python project is looking for a new PyPy maintainer/hacker

2014-01-06 Thread Michał Górny
Hello, all. We've been slacking for some time and we're two versions of PyPy behind already. Therefore, I've opened a staffing need [1] for a new PyPy package maintainer and hacker. We specifically need someone who knows the basics of Python ecosystem and is able to hack on PyPy's code. The work

[gentoo-dev] testing trying to fix mail issues

2014-01-06 Thread William Hubbs
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Re: [gentoo-dev] libtool lt_dlopenext vs. gen_ld_script: breakages at runtime

2014-01-06 Thread William Hubbs
The reason that gen_usr_ldscript exists is that we do not install static libraries in /. I think the argument for this is that they aren't needed at boot time. I would agree that they are not, but, given all of the issues we have had in the past with gen_usr_ldscript, and that issues keep coming u

Re: [gentoo-dev] libtool lt_dlopenext vs. gen_ld_script: breakages at runtime

2014-01-06 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 01:23:53PM -0600, William Hubbs wrote: > The reason that gen_usr_ldscript exists is that we do not install > static libraries in /. I think the argument for this is that they > aren't needed at boot time. I would agree that they are not, but, given > all of the issues we ha

[gentoo-dev] Portage Feature Request: making thirdpartymirrors easier to manage

2014-01-06 Thread Robin H. Johnson
This is a small feature request, but it will require a modification to PMS, so I describe it here. The present thirdpartymirrors file is unwieldy, and difficult to manage due to it's format with very long lines. It also doesn't permit easy comments. Presently commits to it look very ugly, because

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Feature Request: making thirdpartymirrors easier to manage

2014-01-06 Thread Alex Xu
On 06/01/14 03:20 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > This is a small feature request, but it will require a modification to > PMS, so I describe it here. > > The present thirdpartymirrors file is unwieldy, and difficult to manage > due to it's format with very long lines. It also doesn't permit easy >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python project is looking for a new PyPy maintainer/hacker

2014-01-06 Thread Alice Ferrazzi
I'm interested in helping out, I usually use PyPy and im good at python coding. I'm not sure about PyPy code but i will check as fast as i can. On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 3:36 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > Hello, all. > > We've been slacking for some time and we're two versions of PyPy behind > already.