[gentoo-dev] media-gfx/imagemagick vs. media-gfx/graphicsmagick[imagemagick] issue

2016-12-05 Thread Pacho Ramos
Hello This is an old issue, how to allow the usage of either imagemagick or graphicsmagick[imagemagick]: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=314431 But most of the packages are not handling them at all, and some are relying on || ( ) constructs... that then prevent us from relying on subslots

Re: [gentoo-dev] (OT) Accounting systems: Ledger-CLI vs GNUcash

2016-12-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 4 Dec 2016 18:47:48 -0800 Daniel Campbell wrote: > Compliance with what? If others desire Quickbook support, they can > make a tool to convert from ledger. There's no good reason for a > non-profit, libre software organization to use and depend on > proprietary software. Did nobody learn a

[gentoo-dev] tinfo flag

2016-12-05 Thread konsolebox
Hi, Please consider promoting the use of tinfo flag in packages that depend on sys-libs/ncurses so that they would synchronize properly with sys-libs/ncurses[tinfo]. It could be as simple as: IUSE="tinfo" RDEPEND="sys-libs/ncurses[tinfo=]" pkg_setup() { use tinfo && export LDFLAGS="-ltinfo

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Proposal for addition of distribution variables

2016-12-05 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 11:24 PM, A. Wilcox wrote: > > The original intention wasn't to guess, but I see how PMS is more for > things that are determined at run-time by the package manager rather > than static variables. > To be clear, PMS is more about package manager behavior, and what you're de

Re: [gentoo-dev] (OT) Accounting systems: Ledger-CLI vs GNUcash

2016-12-05 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
> On Dec 5, 2016, at 5:01 AM, Ciaran McCreesh > wrote: > > On Sun, 4 Dec 2016 18:47:48 -0800 > Daniel Campbell wrote: >> Compliance with what? If others desire Quickbook support, they can >> make a tool to convert from ledger. There's no good reason for a >> non-profit, libre software organiza

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: media-gfx/kiconedit

2016-12-05 Thread Johannes Huber
# Johannes Huber (05 Dec 2016) # Masked for removal in 30 days. Dead upstream. # Relies on deprecated dev-qt/qt3support. # Superseded by kde-apps/kolourpaint. media-gfx/kiconedit signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Review request: Ruby 2.0 removal news item

2016-12-05 Thread Hans de Graaff
On Sun, 2016-12-04 at 00:21 -0800, Daniel Campbell wrote: >  > 1. Do users need to know about MRI? I had to search the Web to figure > out that it's referring to Matz's Ruby Interpreter (or CRuby), which > is > the reference implementation. This information (if important) may be > useful to include

Re: [gentoo-dev] Review request: Ruby 2.0 removal news item

2016-12-05 Thread Hans de Graaff
On Sun, 2016-12-04 at 09:40 +0100, Matthias Hanft wrote: > Hans de Graaff wrote: > > > > > > Ruby MRI 2.0 has been retired by upstream in February 2016.[1] > > We remove Ruby MRI 2.0 support from the tree now. Ruby MRI 2.1 > > remains > > activated in base profile's RUBY_TARGETS variable by defau

Re: [gentoo-dev] (OT) Accounting systems: Ledger-CLI vs GNUcash

2016-12-05 Thread james
On 12/04/2016 10:10 PM, M. J. Everitt wrote: On 05/12/16 03:06, james wrote: On 12/04/2016 06:49 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: On Sun, Dec 04, 2016 at 11:07:59PM +, M. J. Everitt wrote: I gather both Quickbooks and Sage have a more modular approach to "proper" accounting software applicable

[gentoo-dev] Adelie Linux disambiguation request: not the same Adelie Linux from 2003.

2016-12-05 Thread Robin H. Johnson
Hi, I'm wondering if your Adelie Linux is related at all to the older Gentoo derivative from 2003-2008, from Montreal: https://web.archive.org/web/20070221042454/http://www.adelielinux.ca/ I know that they rebranded to "Calcul Linux" somewhat, but then it dropped off. (Also NOT the same as the Ru

Re: [gentoo-dev] Adelie Linux disambiguation request: not the same Adelie Linux from 2003.

2016-12-05 Thread A. Wilcox
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/12/16 15:38, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > Hi, > > I'm wondering if your Adelie Linux is related at all to the older > Gentoo derivative from 2003-2008, from Montreal: > https://web.archive.org/web/20070221042454/http://www.adelielinux.ca/ > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Proposal for addition of distribution variables

2016-12-05 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 12/05/2016 03:49 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > Here is a separate thought. Would it make sense in any way to try to > have a more established way to communicate with our downstream distros > about stuff like this, like a gentoo-derivatives mailing list or such? > I wouldn't restrict access or anyt

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tinderboxing efforts in Gentoo

2016-12-05 Thread Alec Warner
What a lazy guy that Alec is. Maybe the OSL will get a holiday gift ;) -A On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Dec 04, 2016 at 10:26:11PM +, M. J. Everitt wrote: > > Is it worth the Foundation dropping a few $ for that hardware to *get* > > transported to its r