Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: debug/release builds extensions/clarification proposal

2008-12-02 Thread Marius Mauch
On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 08:19:18 +0100 Maciej Mrozowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, and I'm afraid I cannot provide any single evidence that users > actually need features like: > - per package cflags/ldflags/features > - per category use flags, accept_keywords, cflags > - or tag clouds instead of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: debug/release builds extensions/clarification proposal

2008-12-02 Thread Maciej Mrozowski
On Tuesday 02 of December 2008 10:40:19 Alec Warner wrote: > > You asked, so the counter proposal is to *do nothing*. > > Ideas (even good ones) don't always get implemented. > > Sometimes that just isn't the direction the maintainers want to take > the project. > Sometimes it is harder to imple

Re: [gentoo-dev] Looking for help with kernel maintenance

2008-12-02 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 12:59:51PM +0800, Cheng Renquan wrote: > 1. I have written several patches for vanilla kernel since 2.6.21, > mostly very simple, > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=search;st=author;[EMAIL > PROTECTED] I would like to go further in the L

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Moving HOMEPAGE out of ebuilds for the future

2008-12-02 Thread Marius Mauch
On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:05:31 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò) wrote: > metadata.xml already contains data that eix and other software should > be able to search in (like longdescriptions), and having each package > in kde-base report http://www.kde.org/ as its homepage is kinda

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving HOMEPAGE out of ebuilds for the future

2008-12-02 Thread Robin H. Johnson
While the KDE eclass doesn't set specific homepages per packages, a number of other eclasses do: eclass/horde.eclass:HOMEPAGE="http://www.horde.org/${HORDE_PN}"; eclass/java-pkg-2.eclass: HOMEPAGE="http://commons.apache.org/${PN#commons-}/"; eclass/kernel-2.eclass:HOMEPAGE="http://www.kerne

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Moving HOMEPAGE out of ebuilds for the future

2008-12-02 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:00:33 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò) wrote: > "Alec Warner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > That being said I still don't see the usefulness here. > > > > You seem to think that using the existing APIs for this data is > > wrong, and I think the oppos

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Moving HOMEPAGE out of ebuilds for the future

2008-12-02 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
James Cloos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Searching is an important reason for every package to specify its homepage. And? metadata.xml already contains data that eix and other software should be able to search in (like longdescriptions), and having each package in kde-base report http://www.kde

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Moving HOMEPAGE out of ebuilds for the future

2008-12-02 Thread James Cloos
> "Diego" == Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> But also the need to replicate http://www.kde.org/ to metadata.xml of >> all KDE split ebuilds -- right now, this is set by an eclass. Diego> The usefulness of this is IMHO debatable; why not just writing it one Diego> pack

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Moving HOMEPAGE out of ebuilds for the future

2008-12-02 Thread James Cloos
> "Jan" == Jan Kundrát <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> - less data in metadata cache; Jan> Isn't it in the cache for some reason? Really, I'm just asking. If for nothing else, so that update-eix can get it to allow searching on homepage. And, yes, that is an important feature. And, no, open

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: debug/release builds extensions/clarification proposal

2008-12-02 Thread Alec Warner
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Maciej Mrozowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 01 of December 2008 22:51:57 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > >> Experience, manpower, the ability to try out potential enhancements >> rapidly, a long track record of getting it right and the growing >> recognition tha