[gentoo-dev] Lastrite: sys-apps/slocate

2010-11-14 Thread Samuli Suominen
# Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org (14 Nov 2010) # No longer developed and replaced by sys-apps/mlocate # Bug 338380 # Removal in 30 days sys-apps/slocate

[gentoo-dev] Disabling auto-bumping of active Python version

2010-11-14 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Hello, thanks for your interest. This thread is not about Python 3.x in particular, in case you wonder. In this mail - Typical GCC update (for comparison) - Python 2.7 update simulation (and how it fails) - The scenario - What happens - How it happens - Conclusion

[gentoo-dev] Re: Disabling auto-bumping of active Python version

2010-11-14 Thread Jesus Rivero (Neurogeek)
+1 I totally agree with the conclusion. I believe that choice, select the active version of Python, should not be implied by us, but taken by the user even if he explicitly asked for a new version to be installed. I've been in this situation before, and just because I wanted to try some new cool

Re: [gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 111 bugs

2010-11-14 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Sunday 14 November 2010 09:45:04 Alex Alexander wrote: On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 01:10:26PM +0100, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: On 11/14/10 1:00 PM, Alex Alexander wrote: If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. I have another great idea for you. People are lazy, so

[gentoo-dev] News item: Dropping Java support on ia64

2010-11-14 Thread Petteri Räty
Any improvements to the text are welcome. Regards, Petteri Title: Pending Removal of Java support in ia64 Author: Petteri Räty betelge...@gentoo.org Author: IA64 Arch Team i...@gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain Posted: 2010-11-14 Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 1.0 Display-If-Keyword: ia64

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: Dropping Java support on ia64

2010-11-14 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 11/14/10 8:36 PM, Petteri Räty wrote: The IA64 arch team does not have the resources to maintain Java support so we agreed that support will be dropped unless more man power becomes available. Could you also add the info to http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/staffing-needs/ ? Moreover,

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: Dropping Java support on ia64

2010-11-14 Thread Alistair Bush
Any improvements to the text are welcome. I think the following could be written clearer. Reading it made me have to go off and check what week 50 was. If there is no interest the removal of Java support well be done during week 50 of year 2010. why not say 'If there is no interest the

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: Dropping Java support on ia64

2010-11-14 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 1:16 AM, Alistair Bush ali_b...@gentoo.org wrote: Any improvements to the text are welcome. I think the following could be written clearer.   Reading it made me have to go off and check what week 50 was. 52 weeks in a year, so, effectively last two weeks of the year.

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-tex/ha-prosper

2010-11-14 Thread Alexis Ballier
# Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org (14 Nov 2010) # Last rites: dev-tex/ha-prosper # Old standalone ebuild, provided by dev-texlive/texlive-latexextra these days # Removal on 14 Dec 2010 dev-tex/ha-prosper

[gentoo-dev] fat binaries

2010-11-14 Thread Thomas Kahle
Hi, I have a package (sci-libs/mpir) whose configure supports building of fat binaries with both x86 and amd64 assembler in the binary. While I personally think it is not useful to gentoo users, one might still want to give the choice to build the fat binary. -) Are there other packages that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Disabling auto-bumping of active Python version

2010-11-14 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 14.11.2010 17:28, schrieb Sebastian Pipping: With Python, when you install a newer version if gets activated, leaving your system in broken state. An update of Python always involves running python-updater. If the user/admin has to run that anyway, why should we take the call to eselect

Re: [gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 111 bugs

2010-11-14 Thread Alex Alexander
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 03:20:05PM -0300, Alexis Ballier wrote: On Sunday 14 November 2010 09:45:04 Alex Alexander wrote: On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 01:10:26PM +0100, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: On 11/14/10 1:00 PM, Alex Alexander wrote: If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a

[gentoo-dev] Re: fat binaries

2010-11-14 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
Il giorno dom, 14/11/2010 alle 22.03 +0100, Thomas Kahle ha scritto: I have a package (sci-libs/mpir) whose configure supports building of fat binaries with both x86 and amd64 assembler in the binary. Oh the heck are they implemented? If they are FatELF, no they shouldn't be used, ever, full

[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2010-11-14 23h59 UTC

2010-11-14 Thread Robin H. Johnson
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2010-11-14 23h59 UTC. Removals: net-wireless/libeap 2010-11-08 17:42:50 alexxy dev-python/IcePy2010-11-08 19:13:48 arfrever Additions: dev-tex/floatflt

[gentoo-dev] Re: fat binaries

2010-11-14 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/15/2010 01:30 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: Il giorno dom, 14/11/2010 alle 22.03 +0100, Thomas Kahle ha scritto: I have a package (sci-libs/mpir) whose configure supports building of fat binaries with both x86 and amd64 assembler in the binary. Oh the heck are they implemented? If they

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: fat binaries

2010-11-14 Thread Thomas Kahle
On 00:30 Mon 15 Nov , Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: Il giorno dom, 14/11/2010 alle 22.03 +0100, Thomas Kahle ha scritto: I have a package (sci-libs/mpir) whose configure supports building of fat binaries with both x86 and amd64 assembler in the binary. Oh the heck are they implemented? If

Re: [gentoo-dev] Restabilizing MIPS

2010-11-14 Thread Jeremy Olexa
On 11/11/2010 05:00 PM, Matt Turner wrote: Hi, I'd like to begin stabilizing packages on MIPS. I've gotten acks from Redhatter, leio, and r0bertz, and Kumba doesn't really care. What's the best method to go about doing this? Stabilize the system packages, then remove ~mips from ACCEPT_KEYWORDS

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: fat binaries

2010-11-14 Thread Jeremy Olexa
On 11/14/2010 05:41 PM, Thomas Kahle wrote: On 00:30 Mon 15 Nov , Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: Il giorno dom, 14/11/2010 alle 22.03 +0100, Thomas Kahle ha scritto: I have a package (sci-libs/mpir) whose configure supports building of fat binaries with both x86 and amd64 assembler in the