xsel works great to “manipulate the
X selection”. Last week I stepped up as proxied maintainer to help bring
already merged improvements to Gentoo users despite lack of new releases since
2008.
Thanks to support from soap during
the past week, upstream has merged all ebuild patches, tagged
1.2.1, and Gentoo already
ships the latest version — among the first distros, according to
repology.
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Vale describes itself as a “syntax-aware linter for prose
built with speed and extensibility in mind”. My
overlay has the latest v2.24.4
release available for
fellow Gentoo users.
I recommend previous users to continue reading about ebuild changes.
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People who create Gentoo ebuilds for software written in Go probably noticed
deprecation notices and discussion About
EGO_SUM,
and also about a Proposal to undeprecate
EGO_SUM.
While the mailing lists and IRC channels provide plenty of opportunity to
discuss how to supply dependencies for Go software, here I share a way to use
GitHub releases to host dependency tarballs as an external Gentoo contributor,
like proxied maintainer, GURU contributor, or overlay maintainer.
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Auto Adjust Photo, or aaphoto in short, is a cool little tool for automatic color correction and resizing of photos. I cooked an ebuild for it a long time ago which was waiting to be rediscovered in a forgotten corner of my drive. After a quick refurbishing and some minor/trivial upstream cleanup with the extremely friendly author, it is now available in the main portage tree of Gentoo.
Thanks goes to:
- András Horváth for creating aaphoto
- the always helpful Gentoo developers (in this particular case TomWij, mrueg and Pinkbyte) for their review via Bugzilla and #gentoo-dev-help, and for accepting me as a proxied maintainer for the package
Final Term is an interesting and promising terminal emulator with advanced interactive features like semantic text menus, smart command completion, GUI terminal controls, reflow support and more.
I contributed an initial Hungarian translation for the project just to soon find myself hacking on an ebuild, and on minor features. All in all, as of 2013-07-11, Final Term is now available in Gentoo’s Sunrise overlay. You can find usage instructions here.
Thanks to:
- Philipp Emanuel Weidmann for creating Final Term and blogging about it
- GitHub user Richard-W for letting me know that I’m not the only one who would like to use Final Term on Gentoo
- Julian Ospald (hasufell) for reviewing my ebuilds, suggesting a modification to the build system, and finally merging the ebuild into Sunrise
- the always helpful people on #gentoo-dev-help and #gentoo-sunrise