Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-22 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Thu, 23 May 2013 05:30:25 + (UTC) Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > That's the point. It *IS* possible to use INSTALL_MASK sanely, > without something breaking. Nobody said it isn't, I agree hacks can be used without breaking things; the point is that that doesn't make it a good idea

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-22 Thread Michał Górny
On Wed, 22 May 2013 16:39:25 -0500 Daniel Campbell wrote: > I'm curious as to why you consider users who want to save disk space > (openrc or systemd, or other packages, it doesn't matter) as > fundamentalists. I'd call them using other words but I didn't want to be that inpolite. Seriously, the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-22 Thread Michał Górny
On Wed, 22 May 2013 17:21:40 +0200 Luca Barbato wrote: > On 05/21/2013 09:03 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On 21/05/2013 05:03, Daniel Campbell wrote: > >> That's missing the point. If you don't run systemd, having unit files is > >> pointless. Thankfully there's INSTALL_MASK and whatnot, but that

[gentoo-dev] Re: robo-stable bugs

2013-05-22 Thread Duncan
Jeroen Roovers posted on Wed, 22 May 2013 17:21:46 +0200 as excerpted: > On Tue, 21 May 2013 00:46:22 + (UTC) > Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: >> As a user, I've understood: >> >> * Severity is something the user/filer can use. > > So when Chromium doesn't compile on your machine, you

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 22/05/2013 23:39, Daniel Campbell wrote: > I do not consider Gentoo to be only about my own choices, but as a user, > who else's choices am I going to consider when I administer my system? > I'm happy for any new choices as long as they don't step on mine. I > think that's fair. Your choices ar

[gentoo-dev] Re: Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-22 Thread Duncan
Ciaran McCreesh posted on Wed, 22 May 2013 16:24:05 +0100 as excerpted: > On Tue, 21 May 2013 21:37:25 + (UTC) > Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: >> Ciaran McCreesh posted on Tue, 21 May 2013 14:50:04 +0100 as >> excerpted: >> > On Tue, 21 May 2013 04:45:12 + (UTC) >> > Duncan <1i5t5.d

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-22 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 11:42:08AM -0700, Zac Medico wrote > It will require portage to be able to predict where the units are > installed, and also be able to avoid accidentally wiping out anything > else that may be installed nearby. The prediction issue also comes up in > this bug which requ

Re: [gentoo-dev] robo-stable bugs

2013-05-22 Thread Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/22/2013 09:11 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > On 21/05/13 11:46 PM, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: > >> I do, however, completely agree that there should be some way to >> leave the bug open and state that it will be stabled later. Would >> a co

Re: Re: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-22 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 9:39 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote: > On 05/20/2013 10:34 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 3:03 AM, Daniel Campbell wrote: >>> On 05/19/2013 01:05 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Peter Stuge wrote: > J. Roeleve

Re: Re: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-22 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 05/20/2013 10:34 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 3:03 AM, Daniel Campbell wrote: >> On 05/19/2013 01:05 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >>> On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Peter Stuge wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: > I don't see how this will avoid the issue of a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-22 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Zac Medico wrote: > On 05/22/2013 08:21 AM, Luca Barbato wrote: >> >> check the FEATURES variable and be surprise =) (from man make.conf) >> >>nodoc Do not install doc files (/usr/share/doc). >> >>noinfo Do not install info pages. >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-22 Thread Zac Medico
On 05/22/2013 08:21 AM, Luca Barbato wrote: check the FEATURES variable and be surprise =) (from man make.conf) nodoc Do not install doc files (/usr/share/doc). noinfo Do not install info pages. noman Do not install manpages. Adding a nounits nor

Re: [gentoo-dev] robo-stable bugs

2013-05-22 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 22 May 2013 17:03:21 +0200 Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Mon, 20 May 2013 17:29:43 +0200 > Tom Wijsman wrote: > > > Also, your script does not set the STABLEREQ keyword. People are > > > having to hunt down your robo-stabilisation requests and add it > > > themselves. You should just do it

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: robo-stable bugs

2013-05-22 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Wed, 22 May 2013 19:18:41 +1000 Michael Palimaka wrote: > A newer version of a package is usually considered to be better in > some way, hence it is an enhancement. Unless it's a Blocker, of course. :) > According to the bug-wrangler's own docs[1]: "A stabilisation request > should be handl

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: robo-stable bugs

2013-05-22 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Tue, 21 May 2013 18:57:20 -0600 Ryan Hill wrote: > Huh? The severity of the bug is it's an enhancement. The point I was making is we could improve things by a fair margin. If all stabilisation bugs had a Severity that actually reflected the severity, then I'd pay attention to it. Right now o

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-22 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 21 May 2013 21:37:25 + (UTC) Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh posted on Tue, 21 May 2013 14:50:04 +0100 as > excerpted: > > On Tue, 21 May 2013 04:45:12 + (UTC) > > Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > >> But the point you're missing is that INSTALL_MASK is N

Re: [gentoo-dev] robo-stable bugs

2013-05-22 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 22/05/13 11:14 AM, Michael Mol wrote: > On 05/22/2013 11:00 AM, Jeroen Roovers wrote: >> On Wed, 22 May 2013 08:53:06 -0400 Ian Stakenvicius >> wrote: >> >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 >>> >>> On 21/05/13 07:43 PM, Thomas S

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: robo-stable bugs

2013-05-22 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Tue, 21 May 2013 00:46:22 + (UTC) Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > As a user, I've understood: > > * Severity is something the user/filer can use. So when Chromium doesn't compile on your machine, you set it as a Blocker, and then it gets reverted to Normal because it works fine for

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-22 Thread Luca Barbato
On 05/21/2013 09:03 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 21/05/2013 05:03, Daniel Campbell wrote: >> That's missing the point. If you don't run systemd, having unit files is >> pointless. Thankfully there's INSTALL_MASK and whatnot, but that seems >> like a hack instead of something more robust. Why inclu

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-22 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 4:46 AM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > The amount of users misusing a knife or hammer is much lower than the > amount of users misusing INSTALL_MASK. Agreed. A typical user would almost never need to use INSTALL_MASK. If they're using it, they're probably doing something wrong. I

Re: [gentoo-dev] robo-stable bugs

2013-05-22 Thread Michael Mol
On 05/22/2013 11:00 AM, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Wed, 22 May 2013 08:53:06 -0400 > Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA256 >> >> On 21/05/13 07:43 PM, Thomas Sachau wrote: >>> [ Snip reasons for why opt-out is bad ] >> So why don't we add something to pack

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: robo-stable bugs

2013-05-22 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 22/05/13 10:51 AM, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Wed, 22 May 2013 09:03:43 -0400 Ian Stakenvicius > wrote: > >>> And the circle is closed since we started with the correlation >>> "no answer to stable bug in 30 days" => "package unmantained" >>> ;-

Re: [gentoo-dev] robo-stable bugs

2013-05-22 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Mon, 20 May 2013 17:29:43 +0200 Tom Wijsman wrote: > > Also, your script does not set the STABLEREQ keyword. People are > > having to hunt down your robo-stabilisation requests and add it > > themselves. You should just do it yourself or turn your script off. > > Maintainer(s) and arch team me

Re: [gentoo-dev] robo-stable bugs

2013-05-22 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Wed, 22 May 2013 08:53:06 -0400 Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 21/05/13 07:43 PM, Thomas Sachau wrote: > > [ Snip reasons for why opt-out is bad ] > > So why don't we add something to package metadata, to indicate that a > package is OK to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: robo-stable bugs

2013-05-22 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 22 May 2013 19:18:41 +1000 Michael Palimaka wrote: > > Yet the base system lead went and apply it to any stabilization > > bug; as both him and Jer (the bug wrangling lead) do it this way, > > I'll be doing it as well. Let's not be inconsistent with our leads > > unless there is a wide de

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: robo-stable bugs

2013-05-22 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Wed, 22 May 2013 09:03:43 -0400 Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > > And the circle is closed since we started with the correlation "no > > answer to stable bug in 30 days" => "package unmantained" ;-) > > > > This could actually work Then we'd get the Ubuntu/Launchpad situation, where several

Re: [gentoo-dev] robo-stable bugs

2013-05-22 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Tue, 21 May 2013 15:32:25 +0200 Thomas Sachau wrote: > Automagic stabilization is a bad idea. I agree. "Maintainer timeout" is not a valid reason to go ahead with stabilisation. If you really want to push forward, you should be required to do more research as bug reporter. > And just because

Re: [gentoo-dev] robo-stable bugs

2013-05-22 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 5:22 AM, viv...@gmail.com wrote: > On 05/21/13 23:38, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: >> Am Dienstag, 21. Mai 2013, 15:38:44 schrieb Thomas Sachau: >>> And if a maintainer is not responding within 30 days, you can ping him >>> or, without a response, try to get a different mainta

Re: [gentoo-dev] robo-stable bugs

2013-05-22 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 21/05/13 11:46 PM, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: > > I do, however, completely agree that there should be some way to > leave the bug open and state that it will be stabled later. Would > a comment trigger this in the script? That seems semi-

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: robo-stable bugs

2013-05-22 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 22/05/13 07:16 AM, viv...@gmail.com wrote: > On 05/22/13 13:06, Michael Palimaka wrote: >> On 22/05/2013 20:41, Thomas Sachau wrote: >>> Michael Palimaka schrieb: On 22/05/2013 20:07, viv...@gmail.com wrote: > On 05/22/13 11:43, Michael P

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: robo-stable bugs

2013-05-22 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 22/05/13 06:07 AM, viv...@gmail.com wrote: > On 05/22/13 11:43, Michael Palimaka wrote: >> On 22/05/2013 19:22, viv...@gmail.com wrote: >>> On 05/21/13 23:38, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: Am Dienstag, 21. Mai 2013, 15:38:44 schrieb Thomas Sachau

Re: [gentoo-dev] robo-stable bugs

2013-05-22 Thread Michael Mol
On 05/22/2013 08:53 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > On 21/05/13 07:43 PM, Thomas Sachau wrote: > > [ Snip reasons for why opt-out is bad ] > > So why don't we add something to package metadata, to indicate that a > package is OK to be considered for auto-stabilization?? It lets > everyone opt-in, an

Re: [gentoo-dev] robo-stable bugs

2013-05-22 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 21/05/13 07:43 PM, Thomas Sachau wrote: > [ Snip reasons for why opt-out is bad ] So why don't we add something to package metadata, to indicate that a package is OK to be considered for auto-stabilization?? It lets everyone opt-in, and we still

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: robo-stable bugs

2013-05-22 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 22 May 2013 21:07:45 +1000 Michael Palimaka wrote: > Is a stabilisation an enhancement per se? If all stabilisations > are enhancements, then why isn't Severity set to Normal instead? > (What is an enhanced severity to begin with, Mozilla?) > >> > >>> Why are they enhanceme

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: robo-stable bugs

2013-05-22 Thread viv...@gmail.com
On 05/22/13 13:06, Michael Palimaka wrote: > On 22/05/2013 20:41, Thomas Sachau wrote: >> Michael Palimaka schrieb: >>> On 22/05/2013 20:07, viv...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/22/13 11:43, Michael Palimaka wrote: > On 22/05/2013 19:22, viv...@gmail.com wrote: >> On 05/21/13 23:38, Andreas K

[gentoo-dev] Re: robo-stable bugs

2013-05-22 Thread Michael Palimaka
On 22/05/2013 21:00, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Wed, 22 May 2013 11:07:26 +0200 Ulrich Mueller wrote: Is a stabilisation an enhancement per se? If all stabilisations are enhancements, then why isn't Severity set to Normal instead? (What is an enhanced severity to begin with, Mozilla?) Why are th

[gentoo-dev] Re: robo-stable bugs

2013-05-22 Thread Michael Palimaka
On 22/05/2013 20:41, Thomas Sachau wrote: Michael Palimaka schrieb: On 22/05/2013 20:07, viv...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/22/13 11:43, Michael Palimaka wrote: On 22/05/2013 19:22, viv...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/21/13 23:38, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: Am Dienstag, 21. Mai 2013, 15:38:44 schrieb Th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: robo-stable bugs

2013-05-22 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 22 May 2013 11:07:26 +0200 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > > Is a stabilisation an enhancement per se? If all stabilisations > > > are enhancements, then why isn't Severity set to Normal instead? > > > (What is an enhanced severity to begin with, Mozilla?) > > > Why are they enhancements? The

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: robo-stable bugs

2013-05-22 Thread Thomas Sachau
Michael Palimaka schrieb: > On 22/05/2013 20:07, viv...@gmail.com wrote: >> On 05/22/13 11:43, Michael Palimaka wrote: >>> On 22/05/2013 19:22, viv...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/21/13 23:38, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Am Dienstag, 21. Mai 2013, 15:38:44 schrieb Thomas Sachau: >> And if a

[gentoo-dev] Re: robo-stable bugs

2013-05-22 Thread Michael Palimaka
On 22/05/2013 20:07, viv...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/22/13 11:43, Michael Palimaka wrote: On 22/05/2013 19:22, viv...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/21/13 23:38, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: Am Dienstag, 21. Mai 2013, 15:38:44 schrieb Thomas Sachau: And if a maintainer is not responding within 30 days, yo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: robo-stable bugs

2013-05-22 Thread viv...@gmail.com
On 05/22/13 11:43, Michael Palimaka wrote: > On 22/05/2013 19:22, viv...@gmail.com wrote: >> On 05/21/13 23:38, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: >>> Am Dienstag, 21. Mai 2013, 15:38:44 schrieb Thomas Sachau: And if a maintainer is not responding within 30 days, you can ping him or, without a res

[gentoo-dev] Re: robo-stable bugs

2013-05-22 Thread Michael Palimaka
On 22/05/2013 19:22, viv...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/21/13 23:38, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: Am Dienstag, 21. Mai 2013, 15:38:44 schrieb Thomas Sachau: And if a maintainer is not responding within 30 days, you can ping him or, without a response, try to get a different maintainer. Just assuming th

Re: [gentoo-dev] robo-stable bugs

2013-05-22 Thread viv...@gmail.com
On 05/21/13 23:38, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Am Dienstag, 21. Mai 2013, 15:38:44 schrieb Thomas Sachau: >> And if a maintainer is not responding within 30 days, you can ping him >> or, without a response, try to get a different maintainer. Just assuming >> that a stable request is ok without a ma

[gentoo-dev] Re: robo-stable bugs

2013-05-22 Thread Michael Palimaka
On 22/05/2013 18:58, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Tue, 21 May 2013 18:57:20 -0600 Ryan Hill wrote: Huh? The severity of the bug is it's an enhancement. Yes stabilizations are enhancements. Always have been. Why are they enhancements? Them having been this way is not a reason not to change the pr

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: robo-stable bugs

2013-05-22 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Wed, 22 May 2013, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Tue, 21 May 2013 18:57:20 -0600 > Ryan Hill wrote: >> Huh? The severity of the bug is it's an enhancement. >> >> Yes stabilizations are enhancements. Always have been. > Why are they enhancements? Them having been this way is not a reason >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: robo-stable bugs

2013-05-22 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Tue, 21 May 2013 18:57:20 -0600 Ryan Hill wrote: > Huh? The severity of the bug is it's an enhancement. > > Yes stabilizations are enhancements. Always have been. Why are they enhancements? Them having been this way is not a reason not to change the priority and severity fields to make mor

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-22 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 22 May 2013 03:06:05 + (UTC) Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > And a knife or hammer can be used to murder or commit suicide as > well; that doesn't mean they're bad tools, it means the user is > misusing them. The amount of users misusing a knife or hammer is much lower than the