Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available

2012-04-25 Thread Zac Medico
On 04/25/2012 11:18 PM, Duncan wrote: > IOW, let's quit letting the perfect be the enemy of the good, and just > get on with it, already. If that means settling on something that's fragile and prone to lots of bug reports, then it's not really practical, because it wastes peoples time (and time i

[gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available

2012-04-25 Thread Duncan
Ryan Hill posted on Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:44:33 -0600 as excerpted: > On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 22:41:39 +0100 David Leverton > wrote: > >> The point I was trying to get at was that it seems a bit heavyweight to >> rely on a whole eclass for a minor use-case, as well as a bit >> error-prone to expect pe

[gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available

2012-04-25 Thread Ryan Hill
On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:03:18 -0700 Zac Medico wrote: > On 04/25/2012 09:44 PM, Ryan Hill wrote: > > Yeah the whole idea here was to make user patches available without ebuild > > modifications or eclass dependence. > Using the "apply_user_patches_here" approach [1] that Ciaran suggested, > the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: epatch_user usage

2012-04-25 Thread Zac Medico
On 04/25/2012 09:45 PM, Ryan Hill wrote: > Could we detect user patches touching autoconf files somehow, maybe by > hashing them beforehand There's an implementation of that inside autotools-utils_src_prepare. -- Thanks, Zac

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available

2012-04-25 Thread Zac Medico
On 04/25/2012 09:44 PM, Ryan Hill wrote: > On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 22:41:39 +0100 > David Leverton wrote: > >> The point I was trying to get at was that it seems a bit heavyweight to >> rely on a whole eclass for a minor use-case, as well as a bit >> error-prone to expect people to remember it ever

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in www-plugins/adobe-flash: metadata.xml adobe-flash-11.2.202.228.ebuild ChangeLog

2012-04-25 Thread Ryan Hill
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:12:46 + (UTC) "Jim Ramsay (lack)" wrote: 24 Apr 2012; Jim Ramsay adobe-flash-11.2.202.228.ebuild, metadata.xml: On darkside's suggestion, providing a USE flag (IUSE=+sse2check) that can be turned off to allow binpkg users to override this check (or at least red

[gentoo-dev] Re: epatch_user usage

2012-04-25 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:45:36 -0500 Doug Goldstein wrote: > So I've just had one reservation when using epatch_user for allowing > users to apply patches. And that's figuring out when to run > eautoreconf. I don't necessarily want to run it unconditionally but > sometimes users have patches which

[gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available

2012-04-25 Thread Ryan Hill
On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 22:41:39 +0100 David Leverton wrote: > The point I was trying to get at was that it seems a bit heavyweight to > rely on a whole eclass for a minor use-case, as well as a bit > error-prone to expect people to remember it every time, but maybe that's > the least bad option a

[gentoo-dev] new vdr-plugin-2.eclass needs review

2012-04-25 Thread Joerg Bornkessel
Hallo Gentoo-dev ML, some major changes in media-video/vdr-1.7.27:overlay vdr-devel needs some rewrite in the vdr-plugin.eclass History: - =vdr-1.5.7 has convertet to gettext for language handling, i18n handling still available, but marked as deprecated - >=vdr-1.7.27 only gettext handling, i18

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New third party mirrors

2012-04-25 Thread Michał Górny
On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 09:16:05 +0200 Corentin Chary wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Michał Górny > wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:19:11 + > > "Robin H. Johnson" wrote: > > > >> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 04:50:49PM +0200, Corentin Chary wrote: > >> > >> $ ./mirrors.py --all --count

Re: [gentoo-dev] unsafe use of gtk-query-immodules

2012-04-25 Thread Fabio Erculiani
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > isn't this what bugzilla is for ?  reporting bugs ? > -mike Tracker Bug 413529 already filed. -- Fabio Erculiani

Re: [gentoo-dev] unsafe use of gtk-query-immodules

2012-04-25 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 25 April 2012 05:27:10 Fabio Erculiani wrote: > Like it happened with gtk-pixbuf-query-loaders, gtk-query-immodules is > used in an unsafe way as well. > There are several reasons that could make gtk-query-immodules fail at > runtime (SIG*, missing sonames, etc). > > Using it this way

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Proposal to move use.local.desc somewhere in /var

2012-04-25 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 25 April 2012 02:26:19 Steven J Long wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > Paul Varner wrote: > >> Robin H. Johnson wrote: > >> > Why are we keeping it? I move that we remove it. It's been replaced > >> > by USE flags in metadata.xml for several years now. > >> > >> euse from gentoolkit

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Adding ParaType Free Font License to tree

2012-04-25 Thread Maxim Koltsov
25 апреля 2012 г. 15:47 пользователь Ulrich Mueller написал: >> On Wed, 25 Apr 2012, Maxim Koltsov wrote: > So the question is: can Paratype FreeFont license be added to tree as /usr/portage/licenses/paratype? >>> >>> I don't see any reason why it couldn't. >>> >>> It looks like a si

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Adding ParaType Free Font License to tree

2012-04-25 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2012, Maxim Koltsov wrote: >>> So the question is: can Paratype FreeFont license be added to tree >>> as /usr/portage/licenses/paratype? >> >> I don't see any reason why it couldn't. >> >> It looks like a simplified version of the OFL license, so it could >> even be included

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Adding ParaType Free Font License to tree

2012-04-25 Thread Maxim Koltsov
25 апреля 2012 г. 9:53 пользователь Ulrich Mueller написал: >> On Tue, 24 Apr 2012, Maxim Koltsov wrote: > >> We had Paratype fonts in tree for some time (media-fonts/paratype) >> with OFL license. Recently they added bold font variant to PTMono font >> with their own license [1], but OFL font

[gentoo-dev] unsafe use of gtk-query-immodules

2012-04-25 Thread Fabio Erculiani
Like it happened with gtk-pixbuf-query-loaders, gtk-query-immodules is used in an unsafe way as well. There are several reasons that could make gtk-query-immodules fail at runtime (SIG*, missing sonames, etc). Using it this way is really wrong (and you know why ;-) ): gtk-query-immodules > "${ROOT

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New third party mirrors

2012-04-25 Thread Corentin Chary
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:19:11 + > "Robin H. Johnson" wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 04:50:49PM +0200, Corentin Chary wrote: >> > >> $ ./mirrors.py --all --count >> > >> 297 ?? ?? http://pear.php.net >> > >> 297 ?? ?? http://pear.php.n