Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] GLEP 74: Full-tree verification using Manifest files

2017-10-27 Thread Dean Stephens
On 10/27/17 02:22, Michał Górny wrote: > Yes. We can't technically distinguish intentional package removal by user > from malicious third party stripping them. This is something that a package > manager extension might handle but it doesn't belong in the spec. > "Implementations may provide mech

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] GLEP 74: Full-tree verification using Manifest files

2017-10-27 Thread Dean Stephens
On 10/27/17 17:48, Hanno Böck wrote: > Should a package manager reject a sync if it is too old? or not install > packages if a sync hasn't happened for some time? What is considered > "outdated"? I think that should be clarified how exactly it's supposed > to work. > If such a rejection is to be t

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reinstating old-school GLEPs masterplan

2017-09-11 Thread Dean Stephens
On 09/11/17 13:08, Michał Górny wrote: > Any comments? > Instead of spreading documentation back out across multiple sites and changing workflow for a subset of it yet again, why not migrate the wiki to e.g. gollum [1]? Given that it supports markdown, ReStructuredText, and mediawiki markup and us

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC pre-GLEP] Gentoo Git Workflow

2017-09-10 Thread Dean Stephens
On 09/10/17 18:13, Daniel Campbell wrote: > I'm not looking for political propaganda. What would I gain from it? I > don't really have any strong connections here. In fact I'm probably > ticking a few people off. I'm calling your practices out for what they > are, since nobody else appears willing

Re: [gentoo-dev] Appropriate location to publish experimental stages for Alt

2017-09-10 Thread Dean Stephens
On 09/09/17 12:23, R0b0t1 wrote: > On Saturday, September 9, 2017, Johnson Steward wrote: >> Hello, >> I've been messing with Gentoo FreeBSD these days and, finally, got to the > current latest version available. As upgrading is really a tiring process > (lots and lots and lots of bootstrapping th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Update skel.ebuild for EAPI 6

2016-01-29 Thread Dean Stephens
On 01/25/16 14:18, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > See patch included below. I have kept the changes at the bare minimum > necessary to update this for EAPI 6. A major rewrite of the file may > be considered later. > > Ulrich > > > From 599ad94e1a2f2961e5ef0175bea01cd1b2eb96f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] latex-package.eclass: Support EAPI 6.

2016-01-29 Thread Dean Stephens
On 01/27/16 14:59, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > -# @FUNCTION: latex-package_has_tetex3 -# @RETURN: true if at > least one of (>=tetex-3 or >=ptex-3.1.8 or >=texlive-core-2007) is > installed, else false -# @DESCRIPTION: -# It is often used to know > if the current TeX installation supports gentoo's -#

Re: [gentoo-dev] Mirroring Gentoo project/team members on GitHub

2015-08-14 Thread Dean Stephens
On 08/14/15 07:15, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 2:01 AM, Michał Górny wrote: >> >> Don't ask me. I was against keeping the official listings in MediaWiki, >> I already complained that we can't list developers who are refusing to >> create a Wiki account and that we lack any proper

Re: [gentoo-dev] Mirroring Gentoo project/team members on GitHub

2015-08-13 Thread Dean Stephens
On 08/13/15 02:15, Michał Górny wrote: > Dnia 2015-08-12, o godz. 22:43:24 Dean Stephens > napisał(a): > >> On 08/11/15 10:32, Michał Górny wrote: >>> Hello, everyone. >>> >>> Now that we're officially on git and can officially use pull >>&g

Re: [gentoo-dev] Mirroring Gentoo project/team members on GitHub

2015-08-12 Thread Dean Stephens
On 08/11/15 10:32, Michał Górny wrote: > Hello, everyone. > > Now that we're officially on git and can officially use pull > requests to provide rapid community interaction, it'd be convenient > to have a little better framework for pinging package maintainers. > > With the unofficial mirror/pull

Re: [gentoo-dev] new eclass: go-live.eclass for handling go live ebuilds

2015-06-10 Thread Dean Stephens
On 06/10/15 11:08, William Hubbs wrote: > On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 11:34:34PM -0400, Dean Stephens wrote: >> On 06/08/15 15:38, William Hubbs wrote: >>> All, >>> >>> here is the latest version of this eclass, which I will commit >>> an hour from now

Re: [gentoo-dev] new eclass: go-live.eclass for handling go live ebuilds

2015-06-09 Thread Dean Stephens
On 06/08/15 15:38, William Hubbs wrote: > All, > > here is the latest version of this eclass, which I will commit an > hour from now if no one has any objections. > > Thanks, > > William > Not an objection to the eclass as posted, but to the one hour timeout for feedback on a mailing list. Whil

Re: [gentoo-dev] Should Gentoo do https by default?

2015-03-30 Thread Dean Stephens
On 03/27/15 15:29, Hanno Böck wrote: > These days pretty much all big players use https only (google, > facebook, twitter, github, ...). You can't really use the > mainstream internet if your firewall blocks https. > Can we please stop making stuff up[1] just to make an argument seem stronger to t

[gentoo-dev] Moving the forums.

2009-07-31 Thread Dean Stephens
At approximately 0400 GMT forums.gentoo.org will be moving from dove.gentoo.org at OSUOSL to a cluster at Gossamer Threads Inc. in Vancouver. The move is expected to take on the order of two to three hours during which time the forums will be closed. Sending this mail for robbat2, since his email

Re: [gentoo-dev] gpe-games: new category

2009-07-14 Thread Dean Stephens
Angelo Arrifano wrote: > Moving each game to the games- category would be another solution > but that would pretty much hide the relation with the GPE Palm Environment. > The gpe- prefix on, most of, the package names should provide a subtle clue, it could be added to those that lack it. Unles