Re: Why lastrite when it works? (Was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due to retirement)

2017-01-03 Thread Damien LEVAC
On 01/03/2017 09:57 AM, Michael Mol wrote: On Tuesday, January 3, 2017 9:24:19 AM EST Damien LEVAC wrote: On 01/03/2017 09:14 AM, Michael Mol wrote: On Tuesday, January 3, 2017 12:05:10 PM EST Michał Górny wrote: On Tue, 3 Jan 2017 16:00:52 +0700 (+07) gro...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, 2

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due to retirement

2017-01-03 Thread Damien LEVAC
On 01/03/2017 09:31 AM, M. J. Everitt wrote: On 03/01/17 11:05, Michał Górny wrote: On Tue, 3 Jan 2017 16:00:52 +0700 (+07) gro...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, 2 Jan 2017, Brian Evans wrote: IMO, this one should be given last-rites as upstream is dead and it heavily depends on wireless-tools a

Re: Why lastrite when it works? (Was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due to retirement)

2017-01-03 Thread Damien LEVAC
On 01/03/2017 09:14 AM, Michael Mol wrote: On Tuesday, January 3, 2017 12:05:10 PM EST Michał Górny wrote: On Tue, 3 Jan 2017 16:00:52 +0700 (+07) gro...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, 2 Jan 2017, Brian Evans wrote: IMO, this one should be given last-rites as upstream is dead and it heavily depe

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Global USE=gui

2016-06-03 Thread Damien Levac
On 2016-06-02 05:27 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote: On 06/02/2016 12:57 PM, Damien Levac wrote: On 2016-06-02 03:42 PM, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 09:31:11AM -0400, Damien Levac wrote IMHO, you see this in reverse. the 'gui' useflag would be useful for users

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Global USE=gui

2016-06-02 Thread Damien Levac
On 2016-06-02 03:42 PM, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 09:31:11AM -0400, Damien Levac wrote IMHO, you see this in reverse. the 'gui' useflag would be useful for users who don't want to care about X/wayland/mir and do not want to care about gtk/qt, they ju

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Global USE=gui

2016-06-02 Thread Damien Levac
On 2016-06-01 10:13 PM, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 07:56:41PM +0200, Micha?? Górny wrote waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: I see this as at least a redundancy, if not a problem. First, let's look at the general case. An optional "UI" (User Interface) is also select

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Global USE=gui

2016-06-01 Thread Damien Levac
On 2016-06-01 11:19 AM, NP-Hardass wrote: On 06/01/2016 10:29 AM, Mart Raudsepp wrote: Hello, So here's something more simple wrt GUI USE flags. Global USE=gui for gui - enable an optional graphics user interface or extra GUI tool Essentially, if it's an optional GUI, it'd be behind a USE=gu

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: ALLARCHES

2016-05-04 Thread Damien LEVAC
On 05/04/2016 11:41 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: On 04/05/16 02:01 AM, Kent Fredric wrote: On 4 May 2016 at 16:46, Matt Turner wrote: Having built many stages for an "unstable" arch (mips) has taught me one thing: it's awful being unstable-only. There's no end to the compilation failures and

Re: [gentoo-dev] usr merge

2016-04-08 Thread Damien Levac
> Seriously... how many people run Bluetooth keyboards on Gentoo >anyways? That you ask such a question is concerning to me. Are we discriminating against normal desktop users now? -- Damien Levac

Re: [gentoo-dev] usr merge

2016-04-08 Thread Damien Levac
7;t already successful with it without the merge though. -- Damien Levac

Re: [gentoo-dev] usr merge

2016-04-07 Thread Damien Levac
sense of the OS .. /usr/sbin still exists in a merged usr, so I don't get that point... >*hides in his bike-shed, awaiting the flaming torches* Don't worry: no troll here. -- Damien Levac

Re: [gentoo-dev] usr merge

2016-04-07 Thread Damien Levac
t merging things into /usr is a major policy >> decision that is likely to contravene upstream installation >> locations. I wouldn't do it lightly, if at all. -- Damien Levac

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC GLEP 1005: Package Tags

2014-03-24 Thread Damien Levac
On 14-03-24 12:28 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 10:55:38 -0400 Damien Levac wrote: A lot of people already replied to this question: package search. Sure, but can you point to prior examples of this kind of stuff actually working? I have no example for package searching

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC GLEP 1005: Package Tags

2014-03-24 Thread Damien Levac
On 14-03-24 10:25 AM, Jeroen Roovers wrote: On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 12:36:19 +0100 Jan Matejka wrote: Categories are essentially tags, only less powerful as they can express relationship of 1:N while tags are can express M:N No, categories are essentially directories. I was asking about tags, no

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: New Project: Bug Cleaners

2013-11-16 Thread Damien Levac
+1 I was an user very interested by the bug day event, but the timing was never right. A permanent effort where everyone can help whenever they can seems more interesting. The only thing needed then is documentation on exactly what can be done by users with varying skills. Damien On 11/16/2013 0

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Damien Levac
Just a user point of view: When a user decide to restrict the packages on his system to "stable", I think the user expect stability in the sense works properly under most (if not all) situations. Therefore, for a user, if real stability demand a lot of restriction, it is a price to pay. I think it

Re: [gentoo-dev] new category: games-adventure/

2013-07-14 Thread Damien Levac
As a user, I have always wondered what was the rational for the current game categories and thought it should splitted in a more standard way. What immediately comes to mind as a "decent" way to split games is the wikipedia page for video game genres: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_genres

Re: [gentoo-dev] Attracting developers (Re: Packages up for grabs...)

2012-12-16 Thread Damien Levac
This is funny, because after replying to the list, I actually wrote myself a script to extract that manual from the website into pdf. I should start reading soon... after my other book... xD Damien On 12/16/12 17:34, Pacho Ramos wrote: > El dom, 16-12-2012 a las 12:49 -0500, Damien Le

Re: [gentoo-dev] Attracting developers (Re: Packages up for grabs...)

2012-12-16 Thread Damien Levac
I completely agree, myself, I want to become a developer, but since the information looks so scattered, I decided to wait until summer to have all the required time to find/read all relevant documentation and foillow up with the recruitment process (which seems to be somehow 'non-trivial'). As an