From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HjSAI-00054k-8t for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 03 May 2007 03:39:34 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l433cZZw008120; Thu, 3 May 2007 03:38:35 GMT Received: from spunkymail-a17.g.dreamhost.com (sd-green-bigip-119.dreamhost.com [208.97.132.119]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l433atQd006063 for ; Thu, 3 May 2007 03:36:56 GMT Received: from [192.168.2.124] (c-67-180-39-52.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.180.39.52]) by spunkymail-a17.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F67073D89 for ; Wed, 2 May 2007 20:36:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <463958E0.9040101@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 20:37:04 -0700 From: Alec Warner Organization: Gentoo Linux User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070411) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 news items References: <20070502181301.703b3f38@maya> In-Reply-To: <20070502181301.703b3f38@maya> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1dc675de-7496-4499-9291-18b37819f1cc X-Archives-Hash: 76a609ffdb091792b3d7456c691407d3 Stephen Bennett wrote: > Anyone have a reason why we can't start to put them in the tree? > Portage support is, I'm told, coming in a month or so, and other > package managers have supported glep42 for a while now. The format is > well specified by the GLEP, so compatibility shouldn't be an issue. > > The one thing I can see needing to be decided first is an open question > in the glep: do we want to put the news items straight into gentoo-x86, > or a seperate repository that will be merged into the tree during the > cvs->rsync process? Uh, the glep says a separate repo, there is an svn news repo I had created months ago when portage support was merged into trunk. -Alec -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list