Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] scm package version suffix

2007-12-09 Thread Josh Sled
Piotr Jaroszyński <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Current html version available here: > http://dev.gentoo.org/~peper/glep-0054.html Until reading the abstract, I thought this was Scheme related. I'd suggest "-vc" (version controlled) or "-vcs" instead. (...not that it matters much, of course.) -

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] global useflags

2009-02-23 Thread Josh Sled
Markus Meier writes: > semantic-desktop: Semantic desktop allows for storage of digital > information and its metadata to allow the user to express his personal > mental models, making all in formation become intuitively accessible I find this description pretty content-free and hand-wavy. I usu

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item for review: teTeX deprecation

2009-04-03 Thread Josh Sled
Christian Faulhammer writes: > please review attached news item. > Title: Migration to X.org Server 1.5 Clearly wrong. > Posted: 2009-04-06 Given that I'm currently dealing with the repercussions of not having seen the migration guide until it failed mid-way through the emerge, and portage seem

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item for review: teTeX deprecation

2009-04-03 Thread Josh Sled
Ulrich Mueller writes: > Well, I'd thought that last rites plus the message in package.mask > were enough (it also mentions the URL of the migration guide). > But of course it cannot harm to have a news item in addition. Users don't follow gentoo-dev to see last-rites. For whatever reason, I did

Re: [gentoo-dev] News Item: Emacs 23 upgrade

2009-07-30 Thread Josh Sled
Christian Faulhammer writes: > see attached test, please review. Why not just an elog during install of the emacs-23 package itself? -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo $...@${b} pgpcNJYSyZsfW.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: News Item: Emacs 23 upgrade

2009-07-30 Thread Josh Sled
Christian Faulhammer writes: > Josh Sled : >> Christian Faulhammer writes: >> > see attached test, please review. >> >> Why not just an elog during install of the emacs-23 package itself? > > Because nobody reads them If one doesn't read elog, which i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: News Item: Emacs 23 upgrade

2009-07-31 Thread Josh Sled
Christian Faulhammer writes: > Fewer people know about the elogging functionality than about their > display of "You have 1 unread news item". Where do you expect them to see the unread news item message? Honestly curious … I don't believe portage shows them, and – looking at the Handbook – new

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: jpeg upgrade news item

2009-09-22 Thread Josh Sled
Samuli Suominen writes: > I've been asked to write a news item for jpeg upgrade by few developers. > Personally I don't see it's required, it's a default library upgrade, > but here's my attempt: […] > to libjpeg.so.7. This will break temporarily a lot of packages, > including environments like Gn

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Splitting desktop profile to KDE and GNOME

2009-10-26 Thread Josh Sled
Maciej Mrozowski writes: > And I fail to see *any* point in forcing users to learn Gentoo internals > (sic! > like USE flags). What else? Ebuild syntax so that they're able to get to know > what particular global USE flag is responsible for, when someone forgot (or > decided not to) describe i

Re: [gentoo-dev] new herd: theology

2007-04-26 Thread Josh Sled
On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 20:03 -0600, Steve Dibb wrote: > The idea came up a few months ago about creating a 'religion' herd. I > finally > got around to following through, and with robbat2's help, created the > 'theology' > herd. > > The basic description is to take care of packages relating to

Re: [gentoo-dev] tests

2007-05-01 Thread Josh Sled
On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 15:08 +0200, Piotr Jaroszyński wrote: > Firstly each test can be(not all categories are mutually exclusive): [...] > - necessary Could you qualify, please? Is this "necessary for the (non-test) build artifact"? If so, I'd not call it a test, just part of the build that's in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages with same name was -> Conversion of Emacs virtual packages

2007-05-17 Thread Josh Sled
On Thu, May 17, 2007 12:53 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > 'Twas added to the tree at user request. Given that Java's basically a > dead language and only being used for legacy applications now, it's I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how you justify calling Java a dead language. -- ...jsl

Re: [gentoo-dev] Living in a bubble [gentoo-proctor] Warning^2

2007-06-06 Thread Josh Sled
Grant Goodyear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > got out of hand. Perhaps the goal was laudable, but the methods were > not? (As an aside, I didn't realize that Roy's e-mail was supposed to > be a proctor directive.) Or are people really looking for the proctors > to get involved only when behavior

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA issue: No stable skype in Tree

2007-06-15 Thread Josh Sled
Gustavo Felisberto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Any alternatives? Ask Skype/upstream to change their behavior? For either the installer mirroring or historical-version removal date. If they're going through the trouble of producing a linux version, they probably understand how distros work, a

Re: [gentoo-dev] ML changes

2007-07-12 Thread Josh Sled
Mike Doty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > devs can post, but any dev could moderate a non-dev post. devs who moderate > in > bad posts will be subject to moderation themselves. in addition the What's the definition of "bad"? -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; e

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in sys-fs/ncdu: ChangeLog ncdu-1.3.ebuild

2007-10-03 Thread Josh Sled
Wolfram Schlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-03 19:12]: >> On 12:43 Wed 03 Oct , Wolfram Schlich wrote: >> > And *please*, don't send such mails to this >> > list *and* to my address in addition. >> >> You can add a procmail rule to detect duplic