[gentoo-dev] Re: Fwd: Heads up for Qt5

2012-07-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 28/07/12 08:22, Ben de Groot wrote: In preparation for that, we want to ask maintainers of all ebuilds in the tree with dependencies on Qt4, to make sure that they have the proper slot. Otherwise your package may pull in Qt5 while it may not in fact support it. This can be trouble if the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Fwd: Heads up for Qt5

2012-07-28 Thread Ben de Groot
On 28 July 2012 13:59, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 28/07/12 08:22, Ben de Groot wrote: In preparation for that, we want to ask maintainers of all ebuilds in the tree with dependencies on Qt4, to make sure that they have the proper slot. Otherwise your package may pull in Qt5

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Fwd: Heads up for Qt5

2012-07-28 Thread Davide Pesavento
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:27 PM, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: On 28 July 2012 13:59, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 28/07/12 08:22, Ben de Groot wrote: In preparation for that, we want to ask maintainers of all ebuilds in the tree with dependencies on Qt4, to make sure

[gentoo-dev] Re: Fwd: Heads up for Qt5

2012-07-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 28/07/12 09:46, Davide Pesavento wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:27 PM, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: On 28 July 2012 13:59, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: [...] So what would be the methodology of making sure a package has the proper slot? Obviously you would need

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Fwd: Heads up for Qt5

2012-07-28 Thread Davide Pesavento
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:56 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 28/07/12 09:46, Davide Pesavento wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:27 PM, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: On 28 July 2012 13:59, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: [...] So what would be the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Fwd: Heads up for Qt5

2012-07-28 Thread Ralph Sennhauser
On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 14:27:49 +0800 Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: On 28 July 2012 13:59, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 28/07/12 08:22, Ben de Groot wrote: In preparation for that, we want to ask maintainers of all ebuilds in the tree with dependencies on Qt4, to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Fwd: Heads up for Qt5

2012-07-28 Thread Ben de Groot
On 28 July 2012 15:43, Ralph Sennhauser s...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 14:27:49 +0800 Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: On 28 July 2012 13:59, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 28/07/12 08:22, Ben de Groot wrote: In preparation for that, we want to ask

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Fwd: Heads up for Qt5

2012-07-28 Thread Ralph Sennhauser
On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 15:54:07 +0800 Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: We do not have (nor want to support) a qt useflag. We have opted for qt4 and qt5 useflags as the most straightforward and least confusing. Indeed, the flag qt has almost disappeared from the tree. Good to know.

[gentoo-dev] Re: Fwd: Heads up for Qt5

2012-07-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 28/07/12 12:27, Ralph Sennhauser wrote: On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 15:54:07 +0800 Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: We do not have (nor want to support) a qt useflag. We have opted for qt4 and qt5 useflags as the most straightforward and least confusing. Indeed, the flag qt has almost

[gentoo-dev] Re: Fwd: Heads up for Qt5

2012-07-28 Thread Duncan
Nikos Chantziaras posted on Sat, 28 Jul 2012 13:07:08 +0300 as excerpted: On 28/07/12 12:27, Ralph Sennhauser wrote: On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 15:54:07 +0800 Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: We do not have (nor want to support) a qt useflag. We have opted for qt4 and qt5 useflags as the most

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: virtual/libudev

2012-07-28 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2012.07.27 03:37, Duncan wrote: [snip] Not that such promises hold much credibility anyway... see the kde promise (from Aaron S when he was president of KDE e.v. so as credible a spokesperson as it gets) continued kde3 support as long as there were users. (AFAIK, at least gnome

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fraunhofer FDK license

2012-07-28 Thread Luca Barbato
On 07/26/2012 12:45 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: On Thu, 26 Jul 2012, Luca Barbato wrote: I'd add it, it is a gpl incompatible opensource license. No problem to add it. But IMHO the usage restriction in section 3 makes it non-free: You may use this FDK AAC Codec software or modifications

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fraunhofer FDK license

2012-07-28 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Sat, 28 Jul 2012, Luca Barbato wrote: On 07/26/2012 12:45 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: Indeed, and this opens another can of worms since (as far as I can see) there are no specific license clauses in the AAC patent license for applications that may be distributed without cost. I.e.,

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: virtual/libudev

2012-07-28 Thread Duncan
Roy Bamford posted on Sat, 28 Jul 2012 17:51:47 +0100 as excerpted: You don't want to listen to Presidents too much. Look at other real life examples. Would you claim that the President of the Gentoo Foundation speaks for Gentoo? If he were making claims of that nature, yes, barring

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: virtual/libudev

2012-07-28 Thread Peter Stuge
Duncan wrote: the responsibility of whatever organization to either follow thru or repudiate, as it's the reputation and credibility of that organization on the line if they don't. I think it's unreasonable to expect any third party to accept responsibility for a receiver which is