[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: [RFC] Some sync control

2007-01-16 Thread Steve Long
Thanks for the info; git does seem to have issues, going by the `GLEP'. bzr looks nice, but I don't know enough about it. From what i've read on the ml and the website it will reach 1.0 in ~March, but has issues eg with cross-platform development and diff/ commit. svn seems the most mature of the

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] XDG_DATA_DIRS in /etc/env.d

2007-01-16 Thread Mart Raudsepp
On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 23:16 -0500, Doug Goldstein wrote: > Howdy all, Hey, > Diego (Flameeyes) brings about a good point from bug #95867 [1]. An > issue that's actually affected me at work with something I'm working on, > so I was the perfect person to ask to press this forward. > > > Basical

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] XDG_DATA_DIRS in /etc/env.d

2007-01-16 Thread Doug Goldstein
Howdy all, Diego (Flameeyes) brings about a good point from bug #95867 [1]. An issue that's actually affected me at work with something I'm working on, so I was the perfect person to ask to press this forward. Basically XDG_DATA_DIRS is where FreeDesktop has standardized the location of ico

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Some sync control

2007-01-16 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Greg KH wrote: On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 01:53:12AM +0100, Markus Ullmann wrote: I've talked to a friend of mine recently. He's a FreeBSD dev and he said they tried git for their ports tree (which is basically the same what we're talking about) and it was more or less a big pain for multiple rea

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Some sync control

2007-01-16 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 01:53:12AM +0100, Markus Ullmann wrote: > I've talked to a friend of mine recently. He's a FreeBSD dev and he said > they tried git for their ports tree (which is basically the same what > we're talking about) and it was more or less a big pain for multiple > reasons. > H

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: profile changelogs

2007-01-16 Thread Robert Buchholz
Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 09:22 -0700, Steve Dibb wrote: >> Would that Changelog in profiles/ need to be updated for stuff >> recursively as well? I made some changes to default-linux/amd64/ stuff, >> but I added the changes to the ChangeLog for that directory. > > That wo

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Some sync control

2007-01-16 Thread Markus Ullmann
Steve Long schrieb: I'm looking for a distributed SCM atm, and have come down to git, bzr, svn or arch. svn is centralized ;) I'm leaning to git simply because it's used for the kernel, which seems > like a project that would really stretch a VCS. Well the kernel is quite large but doesn't

[gentoo-dev] erlang-pkg eclass and dev-erlang category

2007-01-16 Thread Christopher Covington
I wanted to write an ebuild for erlyweb because I think it's cool and thought it would be proper gentoo-style to split of the dependencies into different packages. I saw that there was a bit of duplicated code and since AFAIK there's not much erlang stuff in portage I thought I'd try to help out a

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Some sync control

2007-01-16 Thread Steve Long
Robin H. Johnson wrote: > My personal view (not infra) on it, is that I'm mostly negative about > changing VCS at all - I would prefer not to change, because the status > quo works very well as it is. If a change is going to be made, it should > be taken as a chance to resolve as many different iss

Re: [gentoo-dev] Abusing RESTRICT={no,}userpriv (was [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT)

2007-01-16 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Sunday 14 January 2007 18:46, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 22:46 +, Stephen Bennett wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 19:36:06 + > > > > Tristan Heaven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 00:53 +0900, Georgi Georgiev wrote: > > > They have to be able to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Abusing RESTRICT={no,}userpriv (was [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT)

2007-01-16 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Friday 12 January 2007 22:35, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > It has nothing to do with the sandbox. It's because /usr/games/lib > isn't readable to people outside the "games" group. Isn't that a rather silly restriction. What is there in /usr/games/lib that may not be seen by people outside the gr

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT

2007-01-16 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Saturday 13 January 2007 05:17, Georgi Georgiev wrote: > > Something similar could be done about userpriv. Another red letter > indicating that a package will compile as root (and the user is free to > go ahead or abort as they see fit). The letter can be green if userpriv > is not in FEATURES.