Looks like I was nominated for the council this year. It is quite tough decision for me wether to run for council again or not. Well to cut this summary short in the end I should have enough time if nothing special happens during the year and decided to try…. Continue reading
Last month was quite stuffed on updates. We managed to get out branch 3.6 for libreoffice, which is currently in non-buildable state due to bug in the gnumake handling which means no beta ebuilds in main tree until it is resolved. David Tardon is notified about the breakage and he… Continue reading
As summary says in Gentoo you can finally decide which implementation of libav you want, good old ffmpeg named flavor or the new and shiny libav one. 14 months after I introduced it to main tree we finally got it stable almost everywhere (just ppc missing yet as usual :P)…. Continue reading
As from today we have new app-officeext category that will be holding various office extensions. You all for sure know that when I say office I mean libreoffice/openoffice extensions. This means that we can now easily add new and shiny ones if you desire so. Please open bugs for your… Continue reading
If you speak some fancy language other than english, then this post is exactly for you. While I was working on updating some of the lingua packages in the cvs based on euscan reports I checked their websites to ensure the euscan reports to be correct (in some cases it… Continue reading
Time has come to admit that 3.4 was not a great release as whole while the 3.5 series provies much much better experience wrt building and having runtime features working.
Lately people complain that there is no cups useflag on libreoffice. This in theory changed on 3.5 series where the useflag is present but only as pseudo-optional for runtime because build still requires cups.h. On runtime side it is always optional as it tries to load the lib and just… Continue reading
As you probably know I am using Gentoo hardened on stable flavor. Lately it led me to kind of thinking that in the main tree we have lots and lots of packages in testing only and people spam their /etc/portage/package.keywords* with various packages they need for their stable life. I… Continue reading
First of all let me just say huge thanks for everyone who donated. Here is list of people which I am aware of their identity: David Abbott Chris Fox Olaf Freyer Barrie Backhurst N Wright UPDATE One more person contributed after I wrote the post: Patrick Nagel Together you guys… Continue reading
Sitrep I’ve been quiet lately due to the stream of changes around me. So shortly I am no longer only user of my desktop nor the major user of it. Thanks to that and issues that Gentoo showed while used by others I simply was unable to afford doing 24/7… Continue reading