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As of today I will not maintain this ebuild anymore. Please have a look at this post for more details. I would like to take the chance to thank you all for the positive feedback you have always given me.

Current version: amarok-svn-1.4-r9

Here you can find the latest ebuild for amarok-svn. This ebuild will get the latest amaroK source code from subversion and build amaroK.

amaroK is a music player for Linux and Unix with an intuitive interface. amaroK makes playing the music you love easier than ever before - and looks good doing it.

Change list:

• 1.4-r9 I haven’t had a lot of time to work on anything except for my paid job lateley… But thanks to radfoj there is now a version that supports the updated build process.
• 1.4-r7 thanks to captain obvious and all the others who provided me with feedback (mainly during my holidays) I can now present you a new version with the following new features and or changes:
  - in sync (again) with the official amarok ebuild
  - rename of the moodbar use flag, it is now called exscalibar
  - as with the original release this build depends on xine
  - removed use flags for arts and gstreamer
  - included a use flag for gstreamer010, let me know if you have problems with it
  - included a use flag for ifp, which adds iriver support
  - included a use flag for aac
  - tunepimp now correctly depends on the musicbrainz use flag (minor bug)
• 1.4-r6 now depends on ruby, since the lyric scripts need it
• 1.4-r5 now fixes the checkout bug in portage. This bug caused a full checkout of subversion every time you emerged amaroK. For others (see the comments) it caused a complete non-working ebuild. Thanks go out to Anli for pointing it out and helping with the bug fixing with the Gentoo developers.
  For this to work you will need a very recent version of portage and probably a testing Gentoo environment as well (ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=”~????” in your /etc/make.conf).
• Works with the latest changes in the amaroK subversion repository. Versions before 1.4-r2 will not work with the current structure in subversion.
• Supports libgpod (ipod library) with the ‘ipod’ use-flag. You will need to have libgpod as well. Please check here to find out how to get this library.
• Supports exscalibar (or moodbar) with the ‘moodbar’ use-flag. You will need the exscalibar ebuild as well
• Now makes sure you can’t install it together with the ‘normal’ amaroK
• It now comes as a package you have to unpack into your portage overlay directory (no more ebuild amarok-svn-1.4-rx.ebuild digest).

To use:

• Download the package
• Check your /etc/make.conf and see what the value of your PORTDIR_OVERLAY variable is
• Change to one of your ‘overlay’ directories and execute:
  tar zxvf /path/to/amarok-svn.tar.gz
• Execute:
  emerge amarok-svn

Filed as Gentoo bug nr: 121717. This ebuild will never be in portage.

The MiamiHerald has a good article about the wrongheaded approach the Bush government has taken after 911. The article does a good job in describing my feelings about that situation during the last four years. I even posted a comment on slashdot once, stating “Fear is the reason why people accept this”. This brought down my karma by 1 point (the slashdot readers will know what I’m talking about).
From the article:

One wonders if Osama bin Laden didn’t win after all. He ruined the America that existed on 9/11. But he had help.

If, back in 2001, anyone had told me that four years after bin Laden’s attack our president would admit that he broke U.S. law against domestic spying and ignored the Constitution — and then expect the American people to congratulate him for it — I would have presumed the girders of our very Republic had crumbled.

Had anyone said our president would invade a country and kill 30,000 of its people claiming a threat that never, in fact, existed, then admit he would have invaded even if he had known there was no threat — and expect America to be pleased by this — I would have thought our nation’s sensibilities and honor had been eviscerated.

Link (via boingboing).

Current version: smartdj-1.0.

Here you can find the dependencies for Smart DJ, an amaroK script. With all these dependencies installed you can go ahead and install Smart DJ.

Smart DJ lets you find tracks based on how similar they sound to each other. It can also automatically add new tracks to your playlist based on how similar they are to what you’ve been listening to.

To use it:

• Download the package
• Check your /etc/make.conf and see what the value of your PORTDIR_OVERLAY variable is
• Change to one of your ‘overlay’ directories and execute:
  tar zxvf /path/to/smartdj.tar.gz
• Emerge all the ebuilds that are part of the package (there are no dependencies yet between the packages)
• You can now download and install the Smart DJ script with amaroK

Just found this nice Barbie and Ken photoshoot. The two are really ‘loving plastic’.

Link.