Re: [Mageia-dev] cleaning old architecutres in glibc and elsewhere

2011-02-24 Thread Dexter Morgan
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Tux99 tux99-...@uridium.org wrote: What is to be gained by removing the support for these architectures? I would say if it doesn't have any practical advantage (apart from 'code cleanliness') then I would keep them, even if nobody wants to support those

Re: [Mageia-dev] freedesktop spec and categories

2011-02-24 Thread Anssi Hannula
On 24.02.2011 11:06, Samuel Verschelde wrote: Le jeudi 24 février 2011 08:27:36, Oliver Burger a écrit : Am Donnerstag 24 Februar 2011, 08:20:41 schrieb Tux99: I have always hated that apps 'disappear' in the Other folders, can we not completely get rid of the Other folders, they don't make

Re: [Mageia-dev] cleaning old architecutres in glibc and elsewhere

2011-02-24 Thread andre999
Dexter Morgan a écrit : On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Tux99tux99-...@uridium.org wrote: What is to be gained by removing the support for these architectures? I would say if it doesn't have any practical advantage (apart from 'code cleanliness') then I would keep them, even if nobody

Re: [Mageia-dev] freedesktop spec and categories

2011-02-24 Thread andre999
Samuel Verschelde a écrit : Le jeudi 24 février 2011 08:27:36, Oliver Burger a écrit : Am Donnerstag 24 Februar 2011, 08:20:41 schrieb Tux99: I have always hated that apps 'disappear' in the Other folders, can we not completely get rid of the Other folders, they don't make any sense (at

Re: [Mageia-dev] cleaning old architecutres in glibc and elsewhere

2011-02-24 Thread Thierry Vignaud
On 24 February 2011 08:14, Tux99 tux99-...@uridium.org wrote: What is to be gained by removing the support for these architectures? I would say if it doesn't have any practical advantage (apart from 'code cleanliness') then I would keep them, even if nobody wants to support those archs now,

Re: [Mageia-dev] time to switch from raw partitions to lvm?

2011-02-24 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
Ok, seems I will have to learn a new way of working after getting along for many years with many Linux flavors very well. Say, with a new laptop which has a 360 Go harddisk with Windows preinstalled - which is one of the top most user cases: 1. I start windows, move everything from D:\ to C:\

Re: [Mageia-dev] freedesktop spec and categories

2011-02-24 Thread Jérôme Hénin
Hi everyone, On 24 February 2011 13:27, Michael Scherer m...@zarb.org wrote: This is not the number of click, but the fact that it take a longer time to scan the whole menu. Like reading a article with and without carriage return. The number of word to read are the same, but it is easier with

Re: [Mageia-dev] time to switch from raw partitions to lvm?

2011-02-24 Thread Frank Griffin
Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Now with LVM, what do I do? Pretty much exactly the same, if that's what you want. LVM is just a layer of indirection that you place on top of *only* those partitions you want LVM to control. It lets you create multiple virtual partitions each of which includes one

[Mageia-dev] noarch subpackages

2011-02-24 Thread Pascal Terjan
Hi packagers, I have just tested and our build system supports having a noarch subpackage together with arch specific ones. So please, have noarch data/doc packages (expecially for games or other stuff with huge data), this will allow them to not be duplicated on mirrors

Re: [Mageia-dev] noarch subpackages

2011-02-24 Thread Thierry Vignaud
On 24 February 2011 14:52, Pascal Terjan pter...@gmail.com wrote: Hi packagers, I have just tested and our build system supports having a noarch subpackage together with arch specific ones. So please, have noarch data/doc packages (expecially for games or other stuff with huge data), this

Re: [Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms)

2011-02-24 Thread Thierry Vignaud
On 24 February 2011 07:13, andre999 and...@laposte.net wrote: And if you discussed the issue and your POV wasn't adapted, what's the point re-emerging it now given that changing the new isn't easy now that the infra- is already in place. In 4+ months, a lot will be changed/corrected. In my

Re: [Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms)

2011-02-24 Thread Anne nicolas
2011/2/24 Thierry Vignaud thierry.vign...@gmail.com: On 24 February 2011 07:13, andre999 and...@laposte.net wrote: And if you discussed the issue and your POV wasn't adapted, what's the point re-emerging it now given that changing the new isn't easy now that the infra- is already in place.

Re: [Mageia-dev] We must port Mageia to ARM and PowerPC!

2011-02-24 Thread Rtp
Maarten Vanraes maarten.vanr...@gmail.com writes: Op dinsdag 22 februari 2011 23:53:01 schreef André Machado: I was watching now and I realized that both mageia and Mandriva have ports for both i586 and x64 architetures. When Mageia is released, she will compete directly with Mandriva, even

Re: [Mageia-dev] noarch subpackages

2011-02-24 Thread Rtp
Pascal Terjan pter...@gmail.com writes: Hi packagers, I have just tested and our build system supports having a noarch subpackage together with arch specific ones. So please, have noarch data/doc packages (expecially for games or other stuff with huge data), this will allow them to not be

Re: [Mageia-dev] freedesktop spec and categories

2011-02-24 Thread Michael Scherer
Le jeudi 24 février 2011 à 13:53 +0100, Jérôme Hénin a écrit : Hi everyone, On 24 February 2011 13:27, Michael Scherer m...@zarb.org wrote: This is not the number of click, but the fact that it take a longer time to scan the whole menu. Like reading a article with and without carriage

Re: [Mageia-dev] freedesktop spec and categories

2011-02-24 Thread Tux99
Quote: Michael Scherer wrote on Thu, 24 February 2011 13:27 Le jeudi 24 février 2011 à 10:06 +0100, Samuel Verschelde a écrit : I don't think so. Several Mandriva releases ago, there was no such More entry, but real sub-categories in the menu. Then it changed for what we have

Re: [Mageia-dev] freedesktop spec and categories

2011-02-24 Thread Anssi Hannula
On 24.02.2011 18:57, Tux99 wrote: Quote: Michael Scherer wrote on Thu, 24 February 2011 13:27 Le jeudi 24 février 2011 à 10:06 +0100, Samuel Verschelde a écrit : I don't think so. Several Mandriva releases ago, there was no such More entry, but real sub-categories in the menu. Then it

Re: [Mageia-dev] freedesktop spec and categories

2011-02-24 Thread Michael Scherer
Le jeudi 24 février 2011 à 20:30 +0200, Anssi Hannula a écrit : On 24.02.2011 18:57, Tux99 wrote: Quote: Michael Scherer wrote on Thu, 24 February 2011 13:27 Le jeudi 24 février 2011 à 10:06 +0100, Samuel Verschelde a écrit : I don't think so. Several Mandriva releases ago, there

Re: [Mageia-dev] freedesktop spec and categories

2011-02-24 Thread Angelo Naselli
nice thread :) I prefer a 2-level menu tree. If people find that it makes too much clicks, This is not the number of click, but the fact that it take a longer time to scan the whole menu. Like reading a article with and without carriage return. The number of word to read are the same,

Re: [Mageia-dev] freedesktop spec and categories

2011-02-24 Thread Michael Scherer
Le vendredi 25 février 2011 à 00:09 +0200, Anssi Hannula a écrit : On 24.02.2011 21:15, Michael Scherer wrote: Le jeudi 24 février 2011 à 20:30 +0200, Anssi Hannula a écrit : I have about 15-30 entries in everyone of Internet, Office, Audio/Video, Tools, Tools-System submenus. By

Re: [Mageia-dev] freedesktop spec and categories

2011-02-24 Thread Anssi Hannula
On 25.02.2011 02:12, Michael Scherer wrote: Le vendredi 25 février 2011 à 00:09 +0200, Anssi Hannula a écrit : On 24.02.2011 21:15, Michael Scherer wrote: Le jeudi 24 février 2011 à 20:30 +0200, Anssi Hannula a écrit : With a two-level system it would be considerably less and closer to the ~7