[gentoo-dev] bash version in ebuilds/eclasses...non-compliance and what to do?

2008-12-16 Thread Jeremy Olexa
Exhibit A: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/eclass/python.eclass?r1=1.48&r2=1.49 This causes me pain on my hosts that don't have >=bash-3.1[0] for /bin/bash. Because I can't install portage with an old bash until I get a new python installed which uses python.eclass which isn't supp

Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: gzip-dict

2008-12-16 Thread Peter Volkov
В Втр, 16/12/2008 в 19:27 +, Ciaran McCreesh пишет: > What's the point of having this as an option at all? Is it really > something that affects the end user in any way? The reason is that this feature requires additional dependency on app-text/dictd package (to compress dictionary data dictzi

Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: gzip-dict

2008-12-16 Thread Doug Goldstein
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:21:16 +0300 Peter Volkov wrote: Some time ago I've modified stardict.eclass and added optional possibility based on 'gzip' USE flag to compress index and dict data files. But I realized too late that I need to document this USE flag somewhere, an

Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: gzip-dict

2008-12-16 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:21:16 +0300 Peter Volkov wrote: > Some time ago I've modified stardict.eclass and added optional > possibility based on 'gzip' USE flag to compress index and dict data > files. But I realized too late that I need to document this USE flag > somewhere, and since it'll do simi

[gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: gzip-dict

2008-12-16 Thread Peter Volkov
Hello. Some time ago I've modified stardict.eclass and added optional possibility based on 'gzip' USE flag to compress index and dict data files. But I realized too late that I need to document this USE flag somewhere, and since it'll do similar things for all stardict-* dictionaries (heh, more th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last Rites: app-portage/udept

2008-12-16 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2008/12/16 Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net>: > > FWIW, that's why I originally merged udept. However, by that time I had > gotten used to using a set of (local) stub scripts that added in all the > appropriate switches, including --oneshot, so once I used udept to clean > up the mess I had created be

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last Rites: app-portage/udept

2008-12-16 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2008/12/16 Robert R. Russell : > > Does anyone have a substitute for udept's clean word file and > clean /etc/portage options? > With clean world file you mean "dep -w" or "dep --pruneworld" and this is what we are already discussing here. eix-test-obsolete is quite usable as replacement for find

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last Rites: app-portage/udept

2008-12-16 Thread Robert R. Russell
On Monday 15 December 2008 05:47:47 pm Duncan wrote: > Paul Varner posted > 1229371818.21630.7.ca...@txslpc1d36.wkst.vzwnet.com, excerpted below, on > > Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:10:17 -0600: > > # Paul Varner (14 Dec 2008) # Dead upstream, > > masked for removal in ~30 to 60 days. app-portage/udept >