Re: [gentoo-dev] x86 toolchain changes heads up

2007-07-19 Thread Peter Gordon
On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 01:53 -0700, Peter Gordon wrote: > Does this mean that any user-set "-march" flag is overridden for these > cases? Just curious. Thanks for the explanations given, Mike, Ioannis, Ryan, and Andre! I'm much clearer on the isue now. :] -- Peter Gordon

Re: [gentoo-dev] x86 toolchain changes heads up

2007-07-18 Thread Peter Gordon
h" flag is overridden for these cases? Just curious. Thanks. -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) Gentoo Forums Global Moderator GnuPG Public Key ID: 0xFFC19479 / Fingerprint: DD68 A414 56BD 6368 D957 9666 4268 CB7A FFC1 9479 My Blog: http://thecodergeek.com/blog/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] ML changes

2007-07-12 Thread Peter Gordon
On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 23:41 -0700, Peter Gordon wrote: > For far too long the mailing lists, IRC channels, and other media of > developer communication have been ridden with belligerent, > inconsiderate, and often-accusatory postings. However, instead of > removing the few who cause

Re: [gentoo-dev] ML changes

2007-07-12 Thread Peter Gordon
w many, including myself, have a strong mutual dislike with one or more developers from this and other distributions though we may refrain from admittance thereto. It's part of our human psyche and is a normal aspect of anyone's emotions with regards to social interactions. -- Peter Gordo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Inotify and (f)crontabs

2007-07-07 Thread Peter Gordon
pretty much never > fire. the run-crons implementation however has a pretty good guarantee that > the periodic crons will get fired at the next uptime opportunity. Isn't this perfectly what anacron is intended for? -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) Gentoo Forums Global Moderator GnuPG Pu

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: ion license

2007-05-12 Thread Peter Gordon
rs that they cannot expect any level of QA for those > packages. Could we not simply rename it, as has been suggested many times thus far? Then we could mask ion3 and let people know why and what it was renamed to, et al. -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) / FSF & EFF Member Gentoo Forums Global Mod

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: ion license

2007-05-12 Thread Peter Gordon
, we'd have no cdrecord. ;) -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) / FSF & EFF Member Gentoo Forums Global Moderator GnuPG Public Key ID: 0xFFC19479 / Fingerprint: DD68 A414 56BD 6368 D957 9666 4268 CB7A FFC1 9479 My Blog: http://thecodergeek.com/blog/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo: static/dynamic linking libraries

2007-04-30 Thread Peter Gordon
lar functionality in modern Portage? [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#StaticLibraries -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) / FSF & EFF Member Gentoo Forums Global Moderator GnuPG Public Key ID: 0xFFC19479 / Fingerprint: DD68 A414 56BD 6368 D957 9666 4268 CB7A FFC1 9479 My Blog

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing Daniel Robbins (drobbins)

2007-02-27 Thread Peter Gordon
Welcome back, Daniel! :] -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) / FSF Associate Member #5015 Gentoo Forums Global Moderator GnuPG Public Key ID: 0xFFC19479 / Fingerprint: DD68 A414 56BD 6368 D957 9666 4268 CB7A FFC1 9479 My Blog: http://thecodergeek.com/blog/ signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: [gentoo-dev] The long story behind our new developer: Peter Weller (welp)

2006-12-19 Thread Peter Gordon
On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 14:59 +0100, Markus Ullmann wrote: > Now you know the story behind our new amd64/bugday/xfce dev from UK. I > think he deserves the usual happy welcome :) /bin/bash -c 'echo Wel{come,p}.' :] -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) Gentoo Forums Global Moderator Gnu

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for November

2006-11-05 Thread Peter Gordon
On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 04:57 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > i dont see anyone talking to infra about it so why dont you start there > -mike Will do. Thanks, Mike. -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) Gentoo Forums Global Moderator GnuPG Public Key ID: 0xFFC19479 / Fingerprint: DD68 A414 56BD 636

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for November

2006-11-05 Thread Peter Gordon
his header, or remove it from the other mailing lists. Thanks. -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) Gentoo Forums Global Moderator GnuPG Public Key ID: 0xFFC19479 / Fingerprint: DD68 A414 56BD 6368 D957 9666 4268 CB7A FFC1 9479 My Blog: http://thecodergeek.com/blog/ signature.asc Description: Th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Call For Interest: Scale5x

2006-10-31 Thread Peter Gordon
On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 16:41 -0800, David Shakaryan wrote: > Although I'm not completely sure yet, I am assuming that I should be > able to attend, as I live only ~25 miles away from LAX. Looking forward > to it. :) Lunch at BURGER KING. Awesome. :D -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Call For Interest: Scale5x

2006-10-31 Thread Peter Gordon
I'm in the northern part of Orange County, so this is a rather small trip for me to get there. Assuming all is well, I may (hopefully) be able to attend at least one of the days! Woo! -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) Gentoo Forums Global Moderator GnuPG Public Key ID: 0xFFC19479 / Finger

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Devrel Subproject: Gentoo Devmatch

2006-10-22 Thread Peter Gordon
David Shakaryan wrote: > Alec Warner wrote: >> Developers volunteer to dual off against other developers (including >> retired developers!) in the ring. > > Good luck, Ciaran! :) I move that spb be his opponent on this duel. *runs away* -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Developer retirement

2006-10-16 Thread Peter Gordon
Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Why don't you use Reply All or Reply to List, like everyone else? Well, if the mailing list sent a proper Reply-To header in its messages, we wouldn't really be having this thread, right? :) -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) Gentoo Forums Global Moderator GnuPG

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: David Shakaryan (omp)

2006-10-14 Thread Peter Gordon
Christian Heim wrote: > [..] > So please welcome David as a new fellow developer among us! Welcome aboard, ompy. Now we can discuss openbox-related packaging tips together. ^_^ -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) Gentoo Forums Global Moderator GnuPG Public Key ID: 0xFFC19479 / Fingerprint:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: tuxracer/tuxracer-demo

2006-09-30 Thread Peter Gordon
Chris Gianelloni wrote: > games-arcade/tuxracer - the last open source version of the game > games-arcade/tuxracer-demo - the demo for the closed-source version > Good riddance, I say. ppracer for the win! :) -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) Gentoo Forums Global Moderator GnuPG Publ

Re: [gentoo-dev] New libcaca license

2006-09-12 Thread Peter Gordon
THE FUCK YOU WANT" license is apparently a perfectly valid (though amusing) Free software license, according to an old post [1] on the debian-legal list. Thus, I see no reason for no qualms against its terms. []1 http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/09/msg00032.html -- Peter Gordon (c

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer - Vlastimil Babka

2006-09-09 Thread Peter Gordon
Welcome, Vlastimil! :) -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) Gentoo Forums Global Moderator GnuPG Public Key ID: 0xFFC19479 / Fingerprint: DD68 A414 56BD 6368 D957 9666 4268 CB7A FFC1 9479 My Blog: http://thecodergeek.com/blog/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] cdrtools license issues

2006-09-01 Thread Peter Gordon
ecause they are distributing a built binary, > same as Debian. We don't do that, so there is no issue for us[1]. See > my other response in this thread for details. > > [1] As long as we take the binary off the live cd and the install image. Thanks for the clarification, Greg. :

Re: [gentoo-dev] cdrtools license issues

2006-09-01 Thread Peter Gordon
ools. [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-August/msg00644.html [2] http://www.arklinux.org/projects/dvdrtools [3] http://icculus.org/burn/ -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) Gentoo Forums Global Moderator GnuPG Public Key ID: 0xFFC19479 / Fingerprint: DD68 A414 56BD 6368 D957 9666

Re: [gentoo-dev] council voting reminder

2006-08-28 Thread Peter Gordon
Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Monday 28 August 2006 14:50, Tuan Van wrote: >> where do I get "I voted" sticker? > > http://www.cafepress.com/spankgentoo.13531918 > -mike BWHAHAHAHAHAHWHHWAHHAHHAHA That's so great! :D -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) Gentoo Forums Glo

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Forums Staff : jmbsvicetto

2006-08-19 Thread Peter Gordon
Shyam Mani wrote: [...] > So, throw up the usual parties, say hello when you meet him and make him > feel at home :) So it's official now? Yay! Welcome aboard, Jorge! :D -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) Gentoo Forums Global Moderator GnuPG Public Key ID: 0xFFC19479 / Fingerprint: DD6

Re: [gentoo-dev] use.force as a complement to use.mask in profiles

2006-08-08 Thread Peter Gordon
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 07 Aug 2006 21:39:46 -0700 Peter Gordon > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | If they were so "extremely important" then they would not be optional, > | and hence not even be USE flags at all, no? Or am I missing something? > > You

Re: [gentoo-dev] use.force as a complement to use.mask in profiles

2006-08-07 Thread Peter Gordon
Or am I missing something? -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) Gentoo Forums Global Moderator GnuPG Public Key ID: 0xFFC19479 / Fingerprint: DD68 A414 56BD 6368 D957 9666 4268 CB7A FFC1 9479 My Blog: http://thecodergeek.com/blog/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] New(-ish) developer - Elfyn McBratney

2006-08-07 Thread Peter Gordon
Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: > I of course am thrilled, not only did we (re-)gain another UK based dev, > but a UK based dev with a great taste in music, a sick and twisted mind > and the ability to put up with me singing. Welcome back, Elfyn! Awesome. Welcome aboard, Elfyn! -- Pet

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo's Social Contract & Bugzilla

2006-08-05 Thread Peter Gordon
s and is one of the primary methods of communication between the user and developer camps. Regards. -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) Gentoo Forums Global Moderator GnuPG Public Key ID: 0xFFC19479 / Fingerprint: DD68 A414 56BD 6368 D957 9666 4268 CB7A FFC1 9479 My Blog: http://thecodergeek.com/blog/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo's Social Contract & Bugzilla

2006-08-04 Thread Peter Gordon
gh as an aside, I'd like to mention that it'd still be a bad idea to do so. :P) -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) Gentoo Forums Global Moderator GnuPG Public Key ID: 0xFFC19479 / Fingerprint: DD68 A414 56BD 6368 D957 9666 4268 CB7A FFC1 9479 My Blog: http://thecodergeek.com/blog/ signa

Gentoo's Social Contract & Bugzilla (was: "Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for August")

2006-08-04 Thread Peter Gordon
or some other license approved by the Open Source Initiative (OSI)." Isn't this one of the driving reasons why our forums run phpBB instead of something like vBulletin, for example? :) [1] http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/contract.xml -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) Gentoo For

Re: [gentoo-dev] I'm "frilled" to present to you, a new Gentoo developer

2006-07-28 Thread Peter Gordon
Sven Vermeulen wrote: [...] You get a good 'old welcome from me, Wolf. Welcome. From me as well. Welcome aboard, Wolf! :D -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) Gentoo Forums Global Moderator GnuPG Public Key ID: 0xFFC19479 / Fingerprint: DD68 A414 56BD 6368 D957 9666 4268 CB7A FFC1 9479 My

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: joslwah

2006-07-22 Thread Peter Gordon
Bryan Østergaard wrote: Joshua Ross (joslway) joined the Gentoo/PPC64 team a couple weeks ago. He'll be helping with release engineering among other things. [...] Welcome aboard, Joshua! :D -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) Gentoo Forums Global Moderator GnuPG Public Key ID: 0xFFC

Re: [gentoo-dev] Yet Another Victim

2006-07-16 Thread Peter Gordon
Welcome, Yuval! :D -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) Gentoo Forums Global Moderator GnuPG Public Key ID: 0xFFC19479 / Fingerprint: DD68 A414 56BD 6368 D957 9666 4268 CB7A FFC1 9479 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Future developer

2006-07-15 Thread Peter Gordon
George Prowse wrote: I forgot to say that you could call your daughter Jennifer because you could name her "Jen two". George ...and a rimshot is heard fading in the distance. Congrats, Paul! ^_^ -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) Gentoo Forums Global Moderator GnuPG Public Key ID:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for some CD/DVD-recording applications

2006-07-08 Thread Peter Gordon
Philip Webb wrote: Peter Gordon wrote: It depends on cdrecord-prodvd Not on my system (which I just eix-synced): I have a working Xcdroast, but have never had Cdrecord-prodvd; no, I don't have a DVD writer (yet). Mea culpa. I didn't realize that it had been changed from th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for some CD/DVD-recording applications

2006-07-08 Thread Peter Gordon
and supported with a proper upstream. My $0.02... -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) Gentoo Forums Global Moderator GnuPG Public Key ID: 0xFFC19479 / Fingerprint: DD68 A414 56BD 6368 D957 9666 4268 CB7A FFC1 9479 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Staffer: Christel Dahlskjaer

2006-03-13 Thread Peter Gordon
Awesome! Welcome aboard, Christel! :-) -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) Gentoo Forums Global Moderator GnuPG Public Key: 0xDA3634D7; Fingerprint: 0629 F604 3C14 937E F088 E5E9 B3CB 48EC DA36 34D7 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Gentoo doc developer: Josh Saddler (nightmorph)

2006-03-08 Thread Peter Gordon
Another Southern Californian, it would seem. Excellent. If you're ever in the Anaheim/Orange County Area give me a jingle. We could go for some Starbucks and head to Fry's or something. :P Welcome aboard, Josh! -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) Gentoo Forums Global Moderator GnuPG

Re: [gentoo-dev] New forums staffer: kernelsensei (Boris Fersing)

2006-02-22 Thread Peter Gordon
-German border. I study Computational Linguistics at the > University of Saarland (Germany). My hobbies are Psychology, japanese > culture, martial arts (like Iaido), beer and of course Gentoo ;) Welcome to the team, Boris! :-] -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) Gentoo Forums Global Moderator

Re: [gentoo-dev] In Southern Cali Area

2006-02-03 Thread Peter Gordon
ay and I've got work on Monday. Oh well. Another time, it must seem, Chris. =) -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) GnuPG Public Key: 0xDA3634D7 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: codergeek42

2005-12-27 Thread Peter Gordon
On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 14:25 -0500, Curtis Napier wrote: > Welcome codergeek! I'm his mentor so everyone wish him *lots* of luck, > he's gonna need it. LOL Jeez thanks for the wonderful encouragement, Curtis. Ha ha. :-P -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) GnuPG Public Key: 0xDA3634D7

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Linux preinstalled

2005-10-17 Thread Peter Gordon
le for Linux? Fedora has something called firstboot[1]. Perhaps, with some alterations and tweaking, that it could help you? [1] http://tinyurl.com/b898t -- ~ Peter Gordon ~ GnuPG Public Key ID: 0x87C59026 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part