Re: [gentoo-dev] Random items I'd like to discuss

2007-12-29 Thread Luca Barbato
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > You can't sensibly have backwards compatibility across new deps if all > the requested options are implemented anyway -- there's no exact > mapping between the current three vars and all the new ones. New deps > has to be an EAPI change, and it has to be an ebuild change.

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: x11-themes/openbox-themes

2007-12-29 Thread David Shakaryan
# David Shakaryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (30 Dec 2007) # Masked pending removal 30 Jan 2008. # Extremely old themes not exhibiting Openbox's newer theming options. # Openbox will be moving to an XML-based theming engine in the future. x11-themes/openbox-themes -- David Shakaryan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI) [2]

2007-12-29 Thread Roy Marples
On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 23:20 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:16:22 +0100 > Federico Ferri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > sorry if this has already suggested. > > It has. It solves nothing. > If it solves nothing you should at least post a link to the post you made explaini

Re: [gentoo-dev] Asterisk 1.4 in Portage

2007-12-29 Thread Wolfram Schlich
* Doug Klima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-26 19:19]: > Howdy all, Hey Doug! > As some people might have noticed, I've wanted to bring Asterisk 1.4 to > the tree proper. ++ on that from me :) > The big holdup is the zaptel ebuild, which needs to be > revamped and brought in as well for the 1.4.x

[gentoo-dev] Re: sys-apps/diffutils dependency on >=sys-apps/man-pages-2.46

2007-12-29 Thread Duncan
Stefan Hellermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 29 Dec 2007 21:45:45 +0100: > why has sys-apps/diffutils a dependency on >=sys-apps/man-pages-2.46? > > I'm using a embedded uclibc system There are people here who work with embedded and ulibc. I'm not on

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI) [2]

2007-12-29 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:16:22 +0100 Federico Ferri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sorry if this has already suggested. It has. It solves nothing. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI) [2]

2007-12-29 Thread Federico Ferri
Ciaran McCreesh ha scritto: > On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:03:27 + > Roy Marples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Using your analogy you should then recognise that there is a strong >> dislike for pink and should seek a new colour that allows the building >> of said extensions. >> > > And what

Re: [gentoo-dev] Random items I'd like to discuss

2007-12-29 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 22:47:50 +0100 Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Have a look at the labels bug (201499). > > Similar idea, but I don't like the labels that much, > > having separate vars can make backward compatibility easy You can't sensibly have backwards compatibility across new

Re: [gentoo-dev] Random items I'd like to discuss

2007-12-29 Thread Luca Barbato
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 22:12:11 +0100 > Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Some items I have in wishlist >> >> - LRDEPEND link runtime dep (I need to link against that in order to >> run) >> - BDEPEND build dep (I need those tools in order to build) >> >> - arch/ctarge

Re: [gentoo-dev] Random items I'd like to discuss

2007-12-29 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 22:12:11 +0100 Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some items I have in wishlist > > - LRDEPEND link runtime dep (I need to link against that in order to > run) > - BDEPEND build dep (I need those tools in order to build) > > - arch/ctarget support in deps (same way you

[gentoo-dev] Random items I'd like to discuss

2007-12-29 Thread Luca Barbato
Some items I have in wishlist - LRDEPEND link runtime dep (I need to link against that in order to run) - BDEPEND build dep (I need those tools in order to build) - arch/ctarget support in deps (same way you have use deps) - explicit ctarget support in the package manager emerge --cross=target s

[gentoo-dev] sys-apps/diffutils dependency on >=sys-apps/man-pages-2.46

2007-12-29 Thread Stefan Hellermann
Hello, why has sys-apps/diffutils a dependency on >=sys-apps/man-pages-2.46? I'm using a embedded uclibc system, and in uclibc man, man-pages and groff are removed from the system target to not require c++. But diffutils depends on man-pages for no obvious reason, and pulls in man and groff wi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Eclasses (Was: Re: Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI) [2])

2007-12-29 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 09:48:33 + Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The package manager knows the value; so does bash. Why on earth does, > say, make need to know it? Don't think 'make'. Think 'emake'. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Eclasses (Was: Re: Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI) [2])

2007-12-29 Thread Steve Long
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 05:21:06 + > Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Whatever. EAPI="2" works fine with current software. Could you tell >> me why you're so hot on export'ing EAPI? I thought it was only >> relevant, environment-wise, to the ebuild and subshells. W