Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Gentoo GPG key policies

2013-03-21 Thread grozin
Sorry to bother you again, but I still cannot do signed commits. I don't know what else to try. On Thu, 14 Mar 2013, Robin H. Johnson wrote: On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:50:00AM +0700, gro...@gentoo.org wrote: But my first attempt to do a signed commit has failed: Your GPG agent is broken/missi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Make inotify a global USE flag?

2013-03-21 Thread Michał Górny
On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 12:32:31 +0200 Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 21/03/13 12:29, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > These packages have inotify as local USE flag: > > > > app-editors/emacs-vcs > > app-misc/recoll > > app-misc/strigi > > dev-libs/ecore > > dev-vcs/git-annex > > media-

Re: [gentoo-dev] Make inotify a global USE flag?

2013-03-21 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 21/03/13 15:14, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > Most of the time USE="foo" will enable some "foo" feature. Most of the time is not all of the time, but I see your point. Maybe "Enable inotify to notice filesystem changes". Or one of your suggestions, both

Re: [gentoo-dev] Make inotify a global USE flag?

2013-03-21 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 14:33:50 +0100 Peter Stuge wrote: > ..using the mailing list as bugtracker? No. In this context we are using the mailing list to discuss a patch to a bug; this is completely normal use of the mailing list, you can also see this behavior on other mailing lists, eg. the Linux k

Re: [gentoo-dev] Make inotify a global USE flag?

2013-03-21 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Thu, 21 Mar 2013, Alexander Berntsen wrote: >> BTW, half of the local flag descriptions are "Enable inotify >> support". Imagine that! ;-) > Why not just make it "Enable inotify support", and write more > detailed local flags? The point is that this so-called description adds no useful

Re: [gentoo-dev] Make inotify a global USE flag?

2013-03-21 Thread Peter Stuge
Samuli Suominen wrote: >>> i'm referring to the mistakes done by maintainers by adding >>> unnecessarily the flag >> >> That was not at all clear, but that's great! Then you could fix those >> ebuilds. > > Yes, I could, or I could just let other maintainers know about it, like > on the ML, wait...

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-libs/dv{acm4,net,ssl,thread,util}

2013-03-21 Thread Tiziano Müller
# Tiziano Müller (21 Mar 2013) # Masked for removal in 30 days (bug #462590). Open bugs: # #310217, #339477, #343807, #439110 # Recent test failures in dvutil show bugs in timezone handling. # No new release since >3 years, upstream is not responding. # Not recommended for new development. Use C++

[gentoo-dev] Add HEXCHAT_PLUGINS to USE_EXPAND

2013-03-21 Thread Denis M.
Hello, I'd want to ask if it's possible and a good idea to add HEXCHAT_PLUGINS to the global USE_EXPAND var. HEXCHAT_PLUGINS has been created as a user (and maintainer) request in bug 461972 [1] to handle easily the net-irc/hexchat plugins that this package offers, which are: checksum, doat, fishl

Re: [gentoo-dev] Make inotify a global USE flag?

2013-03-21 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 21/03/13 14:10, Peter Stuge wrote: Samuli Suominen wrote: Samuli Suominen wrote: it should always be enabled with 'kernel_linux' and let the application itself do a runtime check if inotify is available or not I think it's great if you are working on such patches for upstreams! no, i'm t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Make inotify a global USE flag?

2013-03-21 Thread Sergey Popov
21.03.2013 16:10, Peter Stuge wrote: > That was not at all clear, but that's great! Then you could fix those > ebuilds. Except there's that rule to not fix bugs in others' ebuilds, > so even though you've found a bug you're not allowed to fix it.. :\ To be honest - last statement is not correct, b

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2013-03-21 Thread Ole Markus With
Hi, The PHP herd currently contains a few packages that were added for historical reasons, but do not belong in the herd. dev-db/cdb dev-db/libiodbc dev-db/odbtp dev-libs/libxdiff cdb and odbtp will be dropped to maintainer-needed. libiodbc and libxdiff I can take on myself if no one else wants

Re: [gentoo-dev] Make inotify a global USE flag?

2013-03-21 Thread Peter Stuge
Samuli Suominen wrote: >> Samuli Suominen wrote: >>> it should always be enabled with 'kernel_linux' and let the >>> application itself do a runtime check if inotify is available or not >> >> I think it's great if you are working on such patches for upstreams! > > no, i'm talking from experience --

Re: [gentoo-dev] Make inotify a global USE flag?

2013-03-21 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 21/03/13 13:43, Peter Stuge wrote: Ulrich Mueller wrote: Should we make it a global flag? Sure. What description is better: inotify - Enable inotify filesystem monitoring support inotify - Enable inotify file change notification support The former is more correct, because inoti

Re: [gentoo-dev] Make inotify a global USE flag?

2013-03-21 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 21/03/13 11:29, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > Should we make it a global flag? Sure. > What description is better: > > inotify - Enable inotify filesystem monitoring support inotify - > Enable inotify file change notification support > > BTW, half o

Re: [gentoo-dev] Make inotify a global USE flag?

2013-03-21 Thread Peter Stuge
Ulrich Mueller wrote: > Should we make it a global flag? Sure. > What description is better: > >inotify - Enable inotify filesystem monitoring support >inotify - Enable inotify file change notification support The former is more correct, because inotify provides notifications for more t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Make inotify a global USE flag?

2013-03-21 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 21/03/13 12:29, Ulrich Mueller wrote: These packages have inotify as local USE flag: app-editors/emacs-vcs app-misc/recoll app-misc/strigi dev-libs/ecore dev-vcs/git-annex media-sound/mpd net-im/ekg2 net-misc/mediatomb sys-fs/aufs2 sys-fs/aufs3 sys-

[gentoo-dev] Make inotify a global USE flag?

2013-03-21 Thread Ulrich Mueller
These packages have inotify as local USE flag: app-editors/emacs-vcs app-misc/recoll app-misc/strigi dev-libs/ecore dev-vcs/git-annex media-sound/mpd net-im/ekg2 net-misc/mediatomb sys-fs/aufs2 sys-fs/aufs3 sys-process/cronie Should we make it a global flag? What