Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-23 Thread Ben de Groot
On 17 December 2012 18:55, Tomáš Chvátal tomas.chva...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/12/17 Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org: Please don't. For most users this is a waste of resources. On first look it seems like waste of resources. On second hand it makes stuff easy wrt bugreports provided by users.

Re: [gentoo-dev] About using a CONFIGURATION (or SETUP) file under /usr/share/doc for configuration information

2012-12-23 Thread Markos Chandras
On 23 December 2012 09:57, Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: El sáb, 22-12-2012 a las 13:53 -0800, Zac Medico escribió: On 12/22/2012 01:46 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: On 22 December 2012 09:26, Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: Hello After seeing:

Re: [gentoo-dev] About using a CONFIGURATION (or SETUP) file under /usr/share/doc for configuration information

2012-12-23 Thread Alexandre Rostovtsev
On Sun, 2012-12-23 at 12:20 +, Markos Chandras wrote: But like I said, elog messages are already saved in /var/log/portage/elog/$cat/$pf so people can read these. Isn't this the same with what you suggest? Is that by default? And when was that default added? I certainly do not have

Re: [gentoo-dev] About using a CONFIGURATION (or SETUP) file under /usr/share/doc for configuration information

2012-12-23 Thread Markos Chandras
On 23 December 2012 13:58, Alexandre Rostovtsev tetrom...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, 2012-12-23 at 12:20 +, Markos Chandras wrote: But like I said, elog messages are already saved in /var/log/portage/elog/$cat/$pf so people can read these. Isn't this the same with what you suggest? Is

Re: [gentoo-dev] About using a CONFIGURATION (or SETUP) file under /usr/share/doc for configuration information

2012-12-23 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Sun, 2012-12-23 at 08:58 -0500, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote: On Sun, 2012-12-23 at 12:20 +, Markos Chandras wrote: But like I said, elog messages are already saved in /var/log/portage/elog/$cat/$pf so people can read these. Isn't this the same with what you suggest? Is that by

[gentoo-dev] Proposed removal of service: torrents.gentoo.org

2012-12-23 Thread Robin H. Johnson
torrents.gentoo.org has been down for a few months now, and there have been very few comments about it. Up until a few years ago, it was still quite useful, but I believe that we have sufficient bandwidth and mirror-coverage around the world that it's become a moot point. If you have any

Re: [gentoo-dev] About using a CONFIGURATION (or SETUP) file under /usr/share/doc for configuration information

2012-12-23 Thread Zac Medico
On 12/23/2012 08:35 AM, Brian Dolbec wrote: On Sun, 2012-12-23 at 08:58 -0500, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote: On Sun, 2012-12-23 at 12:20 +, Markos Chandras wrote: But like I said, elog messages are already saved in /var/log/portage/elog/$cat/$pf so people can read these. Isn't this the same

Re: [gentoo-dev] About using a CONFIGURATION (or SETUP) file under /usr/share/doc for configuration information

2012-12-23 Thread Pacho Ramos
El dom, 23-12-2012 a las 13:36 -0800, Zac Medico escribió: On 12/23/2012 08:35 AM, Brian Dolbec wrote: On Sun, 2012-12-23 at 08:58 -0500, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote: On Sun, 2012-12-23 at 12:20 +, Markos Chandras wrote: But like I said, elog messages are already saved in

Re: [gentoo-dev] About using a CONFIGURATION (or SETUP) file under /usr/share/doc for configuration information

2012-12-23 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 23/12/2012 23:54, Pacho Ramos wrote: The idea would be to make it to be only shown at first message and, later, rely on people reading /usr/share/doc/e4rat-xxx/CONFIGURATION file if they want to remember that tip So you want in the main documentation a request to read the package

Re: [gentoo-dev] About using a CONFIGURATION (or SETUP) file under /usr/share/doc for configuration information

2012-12-23 Thread Pacho Ramos
El lun, 24-12-2012 a las 00:17 +0100, Diego Elio Pettenò escribió: On 23/12/2012 23:54, Pacho Ramos wrote: The idea would be to make it to be only shown at first message and, later, rely on people reading /usr/share/doc/e4rat-xxx/CONFIGURATION file if they want to remember that tip So

[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2012-12-23 23h59 UTC

2012-12-23 Thread Robin H. Johnson
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2012-12-23 23h59 UTC. Removals: media-sound/leechcraft-muziczombie 2012-12-18 17:31:53 maksbotan media-sound/leechcraft-muziczombie 2012-12-18 18:05:32 maksbotan

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is /var/cache the right place for repositories?

2012-12-23 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 20.12.2012 19:14, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: The tree is a database. It belongs in /var/db/. I don't see /var/db in the latest release of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#THEVARHIERARCHY I would prefer something that blends with FHS. Best,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is /var/cache the right place for repositories?

2012-12-23 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 20.12.2012 18:27, Ulrich Mueller wrote: Now I wonder: After removal of e.g. the Portage tree from a system, it is generally not possible to restore it. (It can be refetched, but not to its previous state.) Same is true for distfiles, at least to some degree. They may have vanished