Re: [gentoo-dev] Can't the Portage be an efficient guy?

2010-11-25 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 4:10 AM, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > On 11/22/10 02:59, Zac Medico wrote: >> In portage-2.1.9 there's a new --autounmask option. If you like it you >> can use EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS to enable it by default in make.conf. > > Nice.  in case I'm not the only one hearing of the --a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Can't the Portage be an efficient guy?

2010-11-25 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 11/22/10 02:59, Zac Medico wrote: > In portage-2.1.9 there's a new --autounmask option. If you like it you > can use EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS to enable it by default in make.conf. Nice. in case I'm not the only one hearing of the --autounmask parameter the first time, that may indicate it could use

[gentoo-dev] Re: Change policy about live ebuilds

2010-11-25 Thread Duncan
Maciej Mrozowski posted on Thu, 25 Nov 2010 18:38:59 +0100 as excerpted: > On Thursday 25 of November 2010 16:07:45 Alexis Ballier wrote: >> On Thursday 25 November 2010 11:22:39 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: >> > >> > Could you explain more how the live ebuilds make >> > version bumps easier and less

Re: [gentoo-dev] Change policy about live ebuilds

2010-11-25 Thread Maciej Mrozowski
On Thursday 25 of November 2010 16:07:45 Alexis Ballier wrote: > On Thursday 25 November 2010 11:22:39 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: > > On 11/25/10 2:59 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > > > I fail to understand why you claim that live ebuilds are a QA > > > nightmare, you may want to have a look at how I pl

Re: [gentoo-dev] Change policy about live ebuilds

2010-11-25 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Thursday 25 November 2010 11:22:39 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: > On 11/25/10 2:59 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > > I fail to understand why you claim that live ebuilds are a QA nightmare, > > you may want to have a look at how I play with, eg, ffmpeg or vlc and > > their live ebuilds: they make versio

Re: [gentoo-dev] Change policy about live ebuilds

2010-11-25 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 11/25/10 2:59 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > I fail to understand why you claim that live ebuilds are a QA nightmare, you > may want to have a look at how I play with, eg, ffmpeg or vlc and their live > ebuilds: they make version bumps much easier and far less error prone. I'm just curious. Coul

Re: [gentoo-dev] Change policy about live ebuilds

2010-11-25 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Thursday 25 November 2010 00:12:03 Dane Smith wrote: > On 11/23/2010 08:30 PM, Mark Loeser wrote: [...] > > I'm personally against such a change and would infact like to see all > > live packages nuked from the tree and moved to some experimental tree. > > If you move them there, I don't care wh