[gentoo-dev] Last rites: media-video/mplayer-resume

# Steve Dibb (22 Feb 2018) # Very old project of mine, hasn't worked in years, no plans to # support, and media-video/mpv can provide resume playback by default. # Masked for removal in 30 days. Bug #648568 media-video/mplayer-resume

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: media-libs/libdvdplay

# Steve Dibb (22 Feb 2018) # Dead upstream, never really used, libdvdread and libdvdnav provide # DVD access. # Masked for removal in 30 days. Bug #648566 media-libs/libdvdplay

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: media-video/aacskeys

# Steve Dibb (22 Feb 2018) # Dead upstream, long since replaced by libaacs for functionality. # Masked for removal in 30 days. Bug #648560 media-video/aacskeys

[gentoo-dev] new global use flag: opus

It's time to give opus its own global USE flag. 15 ebuilds use it locally for the same thing, and I've got another ebuild in the works to add it. Current usage: local:opus:media-libs/mediastreamer: Enable opus codec support local:opus:media-plugins/gst-plugins-meta: Enable Opus audio codec s

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: split up media-sound/ category

On 06/21/2011 08:40 AM, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: 2011/6/21 Michał Górny: Hello, As we discussed for a while, the media-sound/ category has grown very large and it may be a good idea to split it. Right now, it contains audio players, editing software, converters, sound systems and a lot

Re: [gentoo-dev] Improve devaway system

On 08/30/10 08:20, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 16:14, Markos Chandras wrote: >> It seems to me that people paying less and less attention to devaway >> system[1]. As you may see yourselves, few of the entries are 2-3 year old. >> This >> either means that these devs are inact

Re: [gentoo-dev] New global use flag: vpx or vp8

On 07/31/2010 12:51 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Saturday, July 31, 2010 14:27:14 Jacob Godserv wrote: Honestly not sure what convention is for naming, but I found this recently, and thought I might throw it out there: ~ $ euse -i lame [+ C ] lame - Prefer using LAME libraries for MP3 e

Re: [gentoo-dev] New global use flag: vpx or vp8

On 07/31/2010 05:37 AM, Hanno Böck wrote: vpx for supporting googles vp8 codec used in webm. At the moment this is only mplayer and ffmpeg, but it's pretty obvious that apps supporting vp8 will start popping up everywhere (currently working on arista ebuild which will support it). Though we mig

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: amateur radio applications should not be in media-radio

On 07/14/2010 05:27 PM, Paul Arthur wrote: On 2010-07-14, William Hubbs wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 08:48:25PM +0200, Thomas Beierlein wrote: On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:27:47 -0500 William Hubbs wrote: =20 All, =20 I have recently noticed that our amateur radio applications are in the cat

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE=doc for .pdf's ? (WAS: Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in sci-astronomy/kapteyn: metadata.xml ChangeLog kapteyn-1.9.2.ebuild)

On 07/13/2010 01:32 PM, Jeremy Olexa wrote: On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:25:51 + (UTC), "Kacper Kowalik (xarthisius)" wrote: if use doc; then insinto /usr/share/doc/${PF} doins doc/*.pdf || die An open question to all: Should we be hiding pdf'

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tone in Gentoo

On 06/16/2010 04:47 PM, Sebastian Pipping wrote: Pawel, On 06/16/10 18:39, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: I have searched a few places for rules on tone, I believe one can't solve this problem by using rules. any ideas what could help? Well, I'm all about practical ideas,

Re: [gentoo-dev] FTR: media-opti...@g.o has no developers

On 06/03/2010 08:12 AM, Steve Dibb wrote: On 06/03/2010 04:36 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: For the record, media-optical herd is currently without any devs and also the mail alias in d.g.o is empty so nobody is really reading the bugmail. In case you want to join it... Added myself back

Re: [gentoo-dev] FTR: media-opti...@g.o has no developers

On 06/03/2010 04:36 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: For the record, media-optical herd is currently without any devs and also the mail alias in d.g.o is empty so nobody is really reading the bugmail. In case you want to join it... Added myself back. Steve

[gentoo-dev] Changes to php-pear-r1.eclass

I'm trying to fix some dependency issues that I introduced into the PHP PEAR packages when I changed them around with PEAR-PEAR-1.8.1 and above. If you want the history lesson, basically what happened is that PEAR-PEAR had been acting as the virtual to install the base PEAR system, even though

[gentoo-dev] last rites: media-video/realplayer

# Steve Dibb (5 Nov 2008) # Mask realplayer, real codecs for security, upstream issues, bug 245662 # http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-713051.html media-video/realplayer

[gentoo-dev] New metadata fields

I had an idea for some new fields to go in metadata.xml. Not sure if we would need a GLEP for this or not? Anyway, what do you guys think: Two things I can think of adding that would be useful: - ChangeLog URL - Bug Tracker I know I hate hunting down the two of them, and both of them could b

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: media-video/mplayer-bin

# Samuli Suominen (3 Aug 2008) # Unmaintained. Masked for removal wrt #233394. # Open security bugs #208566, #215006 and #231836. media-video/mplayer-bin Steve

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Issues regarding glep-55 (Was: [gentoo-council] Re: Preliminary Meeting-Topics for 12 February 2009)

Richard Freeman wrote: I still don't see why we need to be encoding metadata in filenames. PERL doesn't care what a file extension is, python doesn't care, bzip2 doesn't care, tar doesn't care, gzip doesn't care, and even ld-linux.so doesn't care. I'm sure that in at least some of these cases

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving HOMEPAGE out of ebuilds for the future

Peter Volkov wrote: В В�к, 30/11/2008 в 14:50 +0100, Tobias Scherbaum пишет: In most (nearly all?) cases a HOMEPAGE change does also affect older versions. Does someone have an example where older versions stay at an old homepage and newer versions moved to a new homepage? Yes. This

[gentoo-dev] best way to use profiles and package.use.mask?

Okay, this is something that I've wondered about for a while, but need to ask -- what is the best way (do we even have a policy) for using package.use.mask in profiles? A couple of specific questions: If I need to mask a use flag because of use flag dependencies that won't work on a particula

Re: [gentoo-dev] MP4 global use flag

Josh Saddler wrote: Steve Dibb wrote: Any objections to moving MP4 from a local to a global USE flag. For the record, MP4 is a multimedia container to store multiple audio/video formats in. Currently we have 4 ebuilds using it, all for the same description. 4 doesn't sound quite wort

[gentoo-dev] MP4 global use flag

Any objections to moving MP4 from a local to a global USE flag. For the record, MP4 is a multimedia container to store multiple audio/video formats in. Currently we have 4 ebuilds using it, all for the same description. Steve -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP56] USE flag descriptions in metadata

Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:42:24 -0400 Doug Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here's a GLEP for the addition of USE flag descriptions to package metadata. It does not address any future ideas that others may have had or suggested. It merely gives developers the necessary "t

[gentoo-dev] alsa-driver: unsupported, unloved, unkeyworded

@arches and anyone else who wants to listen in, I'm dropping stable keywords on alsa-driver 1.0.14 for a couple of reasons. One, since I'm maintaining it, I'm offering only limited support, and there are no plans to stable any of the other versions. Secondly, ALSA herd doesn't support it, an

[gentoo-dev] webmin maintainership

I've taken over maintainership of webmin, usermin, and already assigned the bugs to me. Thanks to armin76 for recent security bumps. That's all. Steve -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree

Fabio Erculiani wrote: media-libs/x264-svn -> dev-lang/yasm dev-libs/lzo -> dev-lang/nasm sys-apps/attr -> sys-devel/autoconf *snip* Some of those aren't broken, and I just fixed a few media ones in the tree, but that list is similiar to what I was asking for earlier, and a good way to contr

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

Christian Faulhammer wrote: What we propose is proper testing and keywording by anyone around...not just team members. I agree... our main problem is manpower -- people actually working on the stable bugs. I've tried to do it myself a few times, but each time it just burns me out to the po

[gentoo-dev] media-sound/jmax removal

punted from tree, media-sound/jmax see bug 73490 -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new sword-module eclass

Steve Dibb wrote: Okay, this is my first attempt at writing an eclass, so comments are welcome. Okay, haven't heard anything back on this, everyone I've talked to personally seems to think it's good to go. I've been busy with work which is why I haven't pursue

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2008 Google Summer of Code

Steve Dibb wrote: Who's going to help? *volunteers* Er, that was meant as an action, not a noun. :) Steve -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2008 Google Summer of Code

Grant Goodyear wrote: Google has been hinting not-so-subtlely that there's going to be a 2008 Google Summer of Code. I expect that if we want to participate, we're going to have to have our ducks in a row by March, if not earlier. So, does Gentoo want to participate this year? Yes If so, who

[gentoo-dev] RFC: new sword-module eclass

Okay, this is my first attempt at writing an eclass, so comments are welcome. First of all, here's the background. Sword modules are currently lumped together in one general package (sword-modules), when it would be simpler and easier to track them by having them as individual packages, each

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-client/planet

Dawid Węgliński wrote: Dnia 09-10-2007, wto o godzinie 20:56 -0600, Steve Dibb napisał(a): # Steve Dibb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (11 Aug 2007) # Old, unmaintained, pending removal www-client/planet punted Anything to use instead? Well, anyone can ressurect the ebuild if they want. Beside

Re: [gentoo-dev] lame use flag, local to global

Mart Raudsepp wrote: On T, 2007-10-09 at 21:03 -0600, Steve Dibb wrote: The little lame use flag has started showing up more in local use flags, and all for the same purpose, MP3 support using LAME libraries. I vote we move it into a global use flag. Any objections, let me know. $ quse -D

[gentoo-dev] lame use flag, local to global

The little lame use flag has started showing up more in local use flags, and all for the same purpose, MP3 support using LAME libraries. I vote we move it into a global use flag. Any objections, let me know. $ quse -D lame local:lame:media-libs/libquicktime: Support LAME mp3 encoding local:

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-client/planet

# Steve Dibb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (11 Aug 2007) # Old, unmaintained, pending removal www-client/planet punted -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Guys, I need your assistance here

Arturo Garcia wrote: And, I won't give up. I am very patient and packages.gentoo.org WILL come back to life one way or another. Even if it has to be rewritten. Personally, I don't see the problem of someone else picking up the pieces, rewriting it, and going to town with it. The source cod

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages of for grabs

Christian Heim wrote: Here's the first bunch of packages sadly up for grabs, due to maintainers retiring .. desktop-wm: - x11-wm/icewm (bcowan) I've had this one for awhile. Steve -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-dev] media-sound/DBMix removed from tree

# Steve Dibb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (8 Mar 2007) # dead upstream, requires xmms to build # p.masking for treecleaners media-sound/DBMix punted -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] invalid in metadata.xml

Thilo Bangert wrote: Doug Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Thilo Bangert wrote: All packages with maintainer-needed will be moved to no-herd. maintainer-needed is different from no-herd. no-herd is valid when a dev is maintaining a pkg outside of a herd. no-herd is not valid for when the pa

Re: [gentoo-dev] invalid in metadata.xml

> Hi everybody, > > the following list of packages uses a invalid tag in its > metadata.xml. Invalid in the sense of 'could-not-be-found-in-herds.xml' FWIW, I've been providing similar results on a daily basis for some time now at GPNL (Gentoo Packages that Need Lovin) website: http://spaceparan

[gentoo-dev] sqlite maintainership

Apparently, sqlite needs a maintainer (see bug 176942). If no one objects, I'll take care of it... anything I should know before hand? Thanks guys Steve -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: new herd: theology

Dominique Michel wrote: I fully agree, theology is the worst possible name if the herd will include both religious and scientific softwares. No worries, app-misc/gramps was dropped from the theology herd, and is herdless once again. Steve -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] new herd: theology

Josh Sled wrote: 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

[gentoo-dev] new herd: theology

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 religion, genealogy and humanities in general. Anyone is of cour

Re: [gentoo-dev] New project: Gentoo Artwork

Dawid Węgliński wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there As a fresh developer i would like to introduce you all new subproject I have just started. It is Gentoo Artwork Project. Its official webpage is under [1]. Project consists of two members so far, so this is why we enli

Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANN] Multiple version suffixes illegal in gentoo-x86

> Hi all, > > [CC'ing [EMAIL PROTECTED] as requested by GLEP amendment from March 8th, 2007] > > A subset of council members decided today that multiple version suffixes > are illegal in the tree pending further notice. This decission can be > appealed at the next Council meeting. If there is suffi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: File collisions

> On 20/04/07, Joshua Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Rob C wrote: >> > >> > >> > On 19/04/07, *Christian Faulhammer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > wrote: >> > >> > Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > >: >> > >> > > On the issue of

[gentoo-dev] planet / universe updated

I've been putting this of for a long time, but the planet software was finally upgraded. Lemme know if you have any problems with feeds or what not. http://planet.gentoo.org/ http://planet.gentoo.org/universe/ Thanks, Steve -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] gs use flag local -> global

Michael Krelin wrote: If you're feeling ambitious, it might be more appropriate to change that use flag to ``ps: Add support for postscript'' so that it describes the functionality rather than the package providing that functionality. Isn't less ambiguous 'postscript' even better? I was think

[gentoo-dev] gs use flag local -> global

Any objections to globalizing the 'gs' use flag on support for ghostscript? $ euse -i gs global use flags (searching: gs) no matching entries found local use flags (searching: gs) ***

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: media-sound/DBMix

# Steve Dibb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (8 Mar 2006) # dead upstream, requires xmms to build # p.masking for treecleaners media-sound/DBMix -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] keywording wordpress

Wordpress has had a few security issues lately, so I'm dropping all stable keywords on affected arches (amd64, hppa, ppc, sparc, x86). See security bugs 163817, 168449, 168529. Sorry for the inconvenience. Feel free to add it to your package.keywords file in /etc/portage if you want to keep u

[gentoo-dev] new herd suggestion: religion

@devs, I'd like to propose a new herd: religion. The herd would take care of the Bible and religious software along with any genealogy programs in the tree, which there actually are a few of. Sword, gnomesword, sword modules, bibletime, gramps would all fall under the responsibilty of the

[gentoo-dev] [treecleaner] package removals

media-video/dxr2-driver has been removed from the tree See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153365 Steve -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

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

Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 14:36 -0800, Chris White wrote: Scale5X announcement just hit my inbox, so away we go. Scale 5X will be taking place at: http://www.starwoodhotels.com/westin/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=1005 The Westin Los Angeles Airport from Feb.

[gentoo-dev] [treecleaner] removals

games-server/hlstats - removed per games herd request media-libs/jpeg-mmx - masked by vapier -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] [treecleaner] removals

# Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (23 Oct 2006) # Masked pending removal on Nov 23. Use games-fps/tremulous instead. games-fps/quake3-tremulous # Doug Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (25 Oct 2006) # Masked pending removal on 25 Nov 2006. See bug #134621 net-www/netscape-plugger # Donnie Berkh

[gentoo-dev] [treecleaner] media-video/xmovie, media-gfx/alg removals

media-video/xmovie bug 100848 (masked for almost a year) media-gfx/alg 156623 (upstream request to remove) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] [treecleaner] removals: media-video/toxine

# Diego Pettenò <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > (18 August 2005) # Toxine needs to be verified with upstream for a few issues. media-video/toxine Se ha ido. Chau. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] [treecleaner] Last rites: media-libs/jpeg-mmx

# Upstream wants it dead, we want it dead, it's time to die. # Pending removal Dec 26 2006, bug 156373 media-libs/jpeg-mmx -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] [treecleaner] package removals

# Christian Heim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (14 Oct 2006) # masking media-radio/xastir for treecleaners, bug(s) 109695 # Pending removal 14th November 2006 media-radio/xastir # Christian Heim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (14 Oct 2006) # masking media-libs/gltt for treecleaners, bug(s) 145969 # Pending removal 14

[gentoo-dev] [treecleaner] Last rites: net-p2p/gtkhx

# Deprecated: upstream dead, unsupported, doesn't compile anymore. # Pending removal Dec 26 # See #146571 net-p2p/gtkhx -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] missing metadata.xml

Hi guys, There are more than a few packages with missing metadata.xml in the portage tree. I've setup my funky little QA website to report on which ones fall in that category, and here is the list right here: http://spaceparanoids.org/gentoo/gpnl/qa.php?q=metadata I've spent the morning fix

Re: [gentoo-dev] local use flag cleanup

Robin H. Johnson wrote: On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 08:53:10PM -0700, Steve Dibb wrote: dba - Enables dbm-compatible layers dio - Adds direct i/o support ingres - Adds support for Ingres database msession - Adds support for msession daemon These are still in use! See the php eclasses! Alright

Re: [gentoo-dev] local use flag cleanup

In cleaning up the USE flags, I've found some global ones that have been orphaned. dba - Enables dbm-compatible layers dio - Adds direct i/o support gb - Adds support for Gnome Basic to gnumeric ingres - Adds support for Ingres database msession - Adds support for msession daemon If no one obj

Re: [gentoo-dev] libao / ao USE flag

arfrever wrote: I suggest changing name of "libao" USE flag back to "ao". This flag was recently (Yesterday 22:08:44 UTC - 22:12:08 UTC) globalized and its name was changed, but ebuilds still use older name. Whoops, that was a slip on my part. Fixed in CVS. Steve -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] local use flag cleanup

With my new little database, I ran a query to get the count of local use flags that are being used, to see which ones can be candidates for moving to a global USE flag instead. Here's the query results: http://wonkabar.org/~steve/gentoo/use_local_count.txt I've gone through some of them and h

[gentoo-dev] local use flag cleanup

Okay, doing some QA work with my new scripts, found a few ebuilds with local USE flags that do not have an entry in use.local.desc. Bad, bad! For some of the missing use flags (net, avahi, libnotify), I recommend moving them into global USE flags, and will unless someone objects. multislot a

[gentoo-dev] treecleaner removal

# Steve Dibb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (4 Oct 2006) # masking media-video/jahshaka for treecleaners, bug(s) 150116 # Pending removal Nov 4th media-video/jahshaka Gone from the tree. Steve -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Only you can prevent broken portage trees

Alec Warner wrote: On the topic of old ebuilds; situations may arise where a particular maintainer is trying to clean out a version of a package but finds that $arch doesn't have anything newer stable and thus can't do any sort of cleanup for fear of breaking $arch. You will probably again st

Re: [gentoo-dev] Only you can prevent broken portage trees

Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:33:26 +0100 Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh napsal(a): | > | What on earth are you talking about here? And why almost 6 months | > | is not enough for someone to respond on a bug with a simple | > | "we'll only support newer ver

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-java/bluej-bin

I forgot to send out an email yesterday, this has been p.masked for treecleaner removal. See bug 65923 for all the gory details. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65923 To quote jakub, "It either doesn't emerge, or doesn't work, has no maintainer, this bug has been sitting here for ages,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is there a tool to manage USE flags? (use-config?)

m h wrote: use-config --add --component sys-devel/gcc --flag fortran (adds the fortran USE flag to package.use for gcc) A --remove would remove the fortran USE flag, and --unset would put "-fortran" instead. A --global would update make.conf instead of package.use. Add to make.conf: flagedit

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is there a tool to manage USE flags? (use-config?)

Donnie Berkholz wrote: m h wrote: Other than a text editor? I'd like to have a tool that can add USE flags on a per package or global level. (I'm doing this in some build scripts and would prefer just to have a tool, rather than sed or some other shell hackery). Probably enhancing uf

[gentoo-dev] mplayer global use flag

If no one objects, I'd like to add an mplayer global USE flag to replace all the local ones. 5 ebuilds use it right now for all the same purpose, and I'm going to need one on mythvideo as well. Steve -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

Donnie Berkholz wrote: Tim Yamin wrote: Lately however, the "fun" and the motivation just hasn't been there for the reasons I've outlined above; it's finally taken its toll, and I believe the time to move onto new projects and ventures has finally come for me. I would like to wish all of you t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Proxy maintainers

Natanael Copa wrote: That leaves me with the conclution that its best to just continue to run my own local portage tree and submit bugreports once in a while and hope for the best, just like I have always been doing. No matter what community you decide to participate in (Gentoo, local, church, w

[gentoo-dev] treecleaner masking

Was previously masked anyway, now flagged for removal # Steve Dibb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (4 Oct 2006) # masking media-video/jahshaka for treecleaners, bug(s) 150116 # Pending removal Nov 4th media-video/jahshaka -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] treecleaner removals

# Steve Dibb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (04 Sep 2006) # lve and klvemkdvd are unmaintained, see bug #145200 # masked before being punted (treecleaner) media-video/lve media-video/klvemkdvd Punted -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Last rites for $package ...

Enrico Weigelt wrote: An solution could be an database of packages scheduled for removal. But this database has to be maintained. And it doesn't seem that there's someone who's interested in doing this extra work. Well, there is bugzilla. Just track any bugs with [EMAIL PROTECTED] in there

Re: [gentoo-dev] New project: Gentoo Seeds

Stuart Herbert wrote: Besides, I'm sure we'll delay our own progress whilst we figure out how to make seeds work well ;-) I think folks are getting carried away here! Let's get stuff working first, eh? I think its also worth mentioning that the whole thing is also currently in *planning* sta

[gentoo-dev] planet gentoo upgrade

Planet Gentoo's backend got upgraded today, so if anyone notices any weird funkies, please let me know. Thanks for beta-testing. :) Steve -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] treecleaner: package.mask cleanup

I just removed these no longer valid entries from package.mask since the packages have been removed from the tree: =net-dns/dnsmasq-2.21 =app-editors/vim-core-7.0_alpha* =app-editors/vim-7.0_alpha* =app-editors/gvim-7.0_alpha* Steve -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] hackergotchis + rss feeds

I finally got off my butt and added a small tweak to the feeds for Planet Gentoo, and now you get to see the hackergotchis in your RSS reader as well. Which brings me to my next point -- hardly anyone on planet has one. Send one in! It doesn't have to be a headshot either, an avatar will do

Re: [gentoo-dev] (Not so) New Developer - The Paya

John Mylchreest wrote: Hi Guys, I've been very slack about announcing some of our new guys recently, and not least Javier Villavicencio. Javier, known on IRC as The_Paya, joined us to work on all aspects Gentoo/FreeBSD plus anything else he can throw his skills at! Coming from Argentina he has

[gentoo-dev] treecleaner maskings

I've just package.masked media-video/lve and media-video/klvemkdvd which will be removed in 30 days unless someone offers to maintain them. See bug #145200 for more info. Steve -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion: Globalness of some USE flags

Chris White wrote: On Thursday 31 August 2006 07:24, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: I think that cairo, logrotate, openexr, udev and vnc USE flags should be global. These are now local USE flags. Gotta say why along with that. Local use flags: cairo: 15 logrotate: 8 open

Re: [gentoo-dev] Xmms needs to die.

So, I'm curious -- did anyone ever come to a decision what to do on the matter? The list traffic seems to be dying down. Maybe I just missed the final decision email. Not that it really matters, but here's my 2 cents: If its a pita to maintain, hard mask everything and just say "sorry, no b

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Masking practics

Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Steve Dibb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: [ebuild UD] sys-apps/coreutils-5.2.1-r7 [5.94-r1] USE="-acl -build -nls -static" 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB See the little "D"? It's not big, it's not fat, but it's w

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk1 vs. gtk2

Enrico Weigelt wrote: BTW: how do you enforce an minimum gtk1 version ? You know, a lot of these questions of yours could be answered clearly if you look at the ebuild documentation and developer manuals. http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ is a good start. :) Steve -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org maili

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Masking practics

Enrico Weigelt wrote: Why can't emerge just print out an fat warning if its going to downgrade ? Would save people from much, much trouble. # emerge -pv =coreutils-5.2.1-r7 These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild UD] sys-apps/core

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: aging ebuilds with unstable keywords - how can we help?

Chris Gianelloni wrote: I'd say no bugs, 30 days, passes internal tests, being run by users => stablise, for the majority of packages (obviously, there may be some exceptions...). Luckily, you're not making the call. ;] The "majority" of packages are also the ones that need more extensiv

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making dobin, doexe, doins, doman, dodoc die by default

Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 11:11:01PM +0200, Jakub Moc wrote: Uh... Sorry but it's pretty hard to imagine something more annoying than an ebuild that dies after a couple of hours compile just because upstream decided to rename Changelog.txt to ChangeLog.txt and noone

[gentoo-dev] Off with your heads!

@devs, If your blog is being aggregated on Planet Gentoo / Universe, it's time to send us a copy of your smiling face. I'm putting out a request for some hackergotchis. Really, you don't want just a few of us to have all the fun, do you? Basically, I want to get some bobble heads up on the

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Useflags: qt, qt3, qt4?

Marius Mauch wrote: I don't mind the qt3/qt4 flags for packages that support both, but could we also have a qt flag that selects the "preferred" version (or for packages that only support one)? Many people simply don't care about the version but also don't need support for both in every package,

[gentoo-dev] Planet Gentoo cleanup

Hi all, Just a quick little note to let you know -- I'm going to be cleaning up the planet gentoo config files for the next couple of days. There's more than a few blogs that are listed that are missing in action, so I'll be sending out e-mails to get updated blog RSS feeds or just ping you f