Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Kenneth Vestergaard Schmidt <charon@×××××××××××××××.dk>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Bug-submittal guide?
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 09:23:11
Message-Id: 20020131162241.GB22808@silence
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Bug-submittal guide? by gentoo-user@devrieze.net
1 On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 04:17:59PM +0100, gentoo-user@××××××××.net wrote:
2 > On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Kenneth Vestergaard Schmidt wrote:
3 >
4 > > Mjello.
5 > >
6 > > Is there any official or unofficial guide about how to submit bugs? I have a
7 > > few, but I'm not quite sure what component would be the correct.
8 > >
9 > > Examples:
10 > >
11 > > * app-cdr/cdrecord won't emerge, and app-cdr/cdrutils has also superceded it.
12 > > Is this 'Ebuilds'?
13 >
14 > cdrecord is deprecated, this is not a bug, but cdrecord is masked.
15
16 'masked'?
17
18 > > * evolution depends on libgdkpixbuf, but also depends on it being compiled
19 > > with png-support. However, if libpng is not installed when compiling
20 > > libgdkpixbuf, evolution will crash at startup. Is this 'Applications' or
21 > > 'Ebuilds'? Shouldn't PNG really have a USE-flag? But that would make
22 > > evolution having to depend on PNG, which I'm not sure is possible ("not
23 > > sure" in the sense that I haven't looked at the possibility of it)
24 >
25 > This issue is known, although a lot of people have problems with it
26 > (at least three people put it up this week)
27
28 Sorry, should have read the archives..
29
30 > > * dev-lang/jdk and dev-java/blackdown-jdk seems to be alike, except the
31 > > latter has a newer timestamp. 'Ebuilds'?
32 >
33 > jdk is Sun's jdk, blackdown-jdk is Blackdown's version. Use the one you
34 > like, they do the same (more or less, there are compatibility issues with
35 > each of them).
36
37 Okay.. I thought the blackdown-one was the same as what Sun had to offer.
38 Still, shouldn't dev-lang/jdk be moved to dev-java/sun-jdk ?
39
40 /Kenneth