[gentoo-dev] Re: /etc/udev/rules.d nightmare - orphaned files in /etc

2006-11-26 Thread Wiktor Wandachowicz
Sven Köhler upb.de> writes: > > Hi, > > i had some orphaned files in /etc/udev/rules.d. Namely 40-fuse.rules and > 60-fuse.rules. > > The files were never removed, since they are protected - aren't they? > > So that is _very_, _very_ unpractical, because the older your gentoo > gets, the mor

[gentoo-dev] Re: The Age of the Universe

2006-09-03 Thread Wiktor Wandachowicz
g and QA teams, who should poke developers to decrease number of similar problems. I maintain a bunch of Debian/sparc, Debian/i386, Gentoo/amd64, Gentoo/x86, Solaris/sparc, Ubuntu/i686 boxes and mind you, out-of-box experience at install time means A LOT. More respect to the users => more respect

[gentoo-dev] Re: Democracy: No silver bullet

2006-09-03 Thread Wiktor Wandachowicz
contain one list of features and be stable, while Edgy (advertised as developers' dream) can be somewhat rough but most probably will contain another list of new and exciting features. Example [1]. > Or could project status reports (as discussed here recently) fit the > same bill? Thanks for

[gentoo-dev] Re: Democracy: No silver bullet

2006-09-02 Thread Wiktor Wandachowicz
Maybe I should raise such concerns to the User Representatives first, but the overall flow of ideas was IMO rather worth to be sent to the mailing list in a complete form. If you feel otherwise, I apologize. With best regards, Wiktor Wandachowicz [1] NetBSD: Founder Fears End Of Project http://kerneltrap.org/node/7061 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: GPL and Source code providing

2006-06-28 Thread Wiktor Wandachowicz
ense to provide a full source code as well. But in the case of Gentoo offshot which intends to use existing Gentoo infrastucture (mirrors, sources, etc.) I'd suggest to consult the original copyright (copyleft?) holders, that means Gentoo officials. Just in case. Cheers, Wiktor Wandachowicz

[gentoo-dev] Re: GPL and Source code providing

2006-06-28 Thread Wiktor Wandachowicz
if you haven't done so before: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html Cheers, Wiktor Wandachowicz (SirYes) PS. Sorry for the noise, but I thought this issue needed clarification. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: GWN Comments

2006-06-20 Thread Wiktor Wandachowicz
both sent via e-mail and posted to the forums right now). I'm positively sure that it wouldn't be that much work, with the obvious benefit for the users. More forum posters would definitely read GWN this way, because, frankly, not every Gentoo user is subscribed to the GWN newsletter. B

[gentoo-dev] UTF-8 encoding and file format of manuals

2006-06-01 Thread Wiktor Wandachowicz
t course to take. Summing up: * UTF-8 manuals: good or bad? * how to handle mixed encodings of manuals? * should man and/or groff handle UTF-8 better? * should an eclass function be created to aid in correcting the encoding of manual pages while installing them? Any constructive comments are more t

[gentoo-dev] Re: et_EE locale and language of error messages

2006-05-22 Thread Wiktor Wandachowicz
build.sh: if [ -f "${PORTAGE_BASHRC}" ]; then source "${PORTAGE_BASHRC}" fi So, if the documentation is updated (and possibly advertized in next GWN), no change (even small) is necessary. And while I can voice my (user's) opinion, I *really* like the idea of

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo theming during bootup

2006-04-09 Thread Wiktor Wandachowicz
> Having a Gentoo theme here helps to associate the > theme with the distribution. Nobody forced me to do this. I just like it :) In his blog (http://www.livingwithpenguins.blogspot.com/), Steven O. writes in the "Fresh WORKING install of Gentoo": > One of the coolest things about the Fluxbox gui

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo theming during bootup

2006-04-08 Thread Wiktor Wandachowicz
Carsten Lohrke gentoo.org> writes: > How do you want not to enforce it? Have you actually read the proposal? It's quite sensible and is entitled: "Proposal: Integrated boot themes on LiveCDs and installations" I suppose that the themes would be defaulted to on the LiveCDs and optional for regu