Re: [gentoo-dev] What are || ( ) dependencies?

2010-12-18 Thread Zac Medico
On 12/17/2010 06:13 PM, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 15:25 Fri 17 Dec , Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> Things get messier when you've got || ( a >b-2.1 ) and b-2.0 is >> installed and a is not. Should b be upgraded to 2.1, or should a be >> selected? > > It depends ... see later. > >> What about if

[gentoo-dev] Lastrite: hal-cups-utils

2010-12-18 Thread Samuli Suominen
# Samuli Suominen (19 Dec 2010) # Orphaned package, still using deprecated HAL # Removal in 30 days, bug 344313 app-misc/hal-cups-utils

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: What are || ( ) dependencies?

2010-12-18 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18-12-2010 18:35, Ryan Hill wrote: > On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:25:04 + > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > >> So would anyone be especially opposed to making "best leftmost" an >> explicit requirement, enforced by repoman where possible (at least for >>

[gentoo-dev] Lastrite: gnome-device-manager, devtray

2010-12-18 Thread Samuli Suominen
# Samuli Suominen (19 Dec 2010) # Graphical interface for sys-apps/hal. Removal in 30 days. gnome-extra/gnome-device-manager # Samuli Suominen (19 Dec 2010) # Replaced by rox-base/rox-media, bug 313431, Comment #2 # Still using obsolete sys-apps/hal and gnome-base/gnome-mount, # bug 349012, Co

Re: [gentoo-dev] Summary of suggested new features in EAPI="4"

2010-12-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:48:26 -0600 Donnie Berkholz wrote: > I don't know of anyone who's actually done this, but setting IUSE > based on ACCEPT_KEYWORDS being ~arch should be possible. There may be > better or easier solutions. Uhm... IUSE has to be metadata-invariant. -- Ciaran McCreesh sign

[gentoo-dev] Re: What are || ( ) dependencies?

2010-12-18 Thread Ryan Hill
On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:25:04 + Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > So would anyone be especially opposed to making "best leftmost" an > explicit requirement, enforced by repoman where possible (at least for > the >= / < case)? I already thought that was the case, so +1 from me. -- fonts, gcc-porting

Re: [gentoo-dev] What are || ( ) dependencies?

2010-12-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:13:55 -0600 Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > What about if you decide upon a early on, and then later on > > something hard-depends upon b? > > Then you're collapsing the graph too early. =) > (speaking as an utter novice) Yeah, but unfortunately, there's no way to figure out wh

Re: [gentoo-dev] Summary of suggested new features in EAPI="4"

2010-12-18 Thread Zac Medico
On 12/18/2010 01:57 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote: > On 18-12-2010 02:45:06 +0100, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: >> >> Problem #1: USE flags cannot contain "." characters. >> >> The following solutions have been suggested: >> - Add support for "." characters in USE flags in EAPI="4". > > L

Re: [gentoo-dev] Summary of suggested new features in EAPI="4"

2010-12-18 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 18-12-2010 02:45:06 +0100, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: > > Problem #1: USE flags cannot contain "." characters. > > The following solutions have been suggested: > - Add support for "." characters in USE flags in EAPI="4". Like Donnie said, this feels like a purely cosmetic chan