Re: [gentoo-dev] renaming gentoo-oldnet

2013-08-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 06/08/2013 00:09, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > I'm replying the start of this thread, rather than picking a single > person to respond to. I DO want more brainstorming on ideas for the > naming of the package, and I think people need to cast a wider net for > naming ideas. > > I'm most certainly n

Re: [gentoo-dev] renaming gentoo-oldnet

2013-08-05 Thread Michael Weber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/06/2013 12:09 AM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > Various proposed names (in no specific order): names, *sigh* It's rather a interface setup utility than a networking thing. Networkin happens - most cases - when you have paths and entities and such

Re: [gentoo-dev] renaming gentoo-oldnet

2013-08-05 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 08/05/2013 09:45 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 08/05/2013 06:09 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: >> - netrc (conflicts) > > Would naming it net-rc alleviate the perceived conflict? > Or, duh, networkrc.

Re: [gentoo-dev] renaming gentoo-oldnet

2013-08-05 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 08/05/2013 06:09 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > - netrc (conflicts) Would naming it net-rc alleviate the perceived conflict?

Re: [gentoo-dev] renaming gentoo-oldnet

2013-08-05 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 10:09:54PM +, Robin H. Johnson wrote > Naming goals: > - Should describe what it does > - Does NOT have a name conflict as verified by Google. > - Does NOT imply OpenRC. > - Implying Gentoo is fine, as it's where the package comes from. > - Should drop 'old' Some sug

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-05 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 19:13:06 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > and > > > it's not clear such a concept makes sense as-is. We haven't worked > > > out what happens in a || ( a b !c ) case where a, b and c are all > > > installed, for example. > > > > subslot = concatenation of the subslots of all

Re: [gentoo-dev] renaming gentoo-oldnet

2013-08-05 Thread Manuel Rüger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 08/06/2013 12:09 AM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > I'm replying the start of this thread, rather than picking a > single person to respond to. I DO want more brainstorming on ideas > for the naming of the package, and I think people need to cast a > w

Re: [gentoo-dev] renaming gentoo-oldnet

2013-08-05 Thread Patrick McLean
On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 22:09:54 + "Robin H. Johnson" wrote: > > Naming goals: > - Should describe what it does > - Does NOT have a name conflict as verified by Google. > - Does NOT imply OpenRC. > - Implying Gentoo is fine, as it's where the package comes from. > - Should drop 'old' > > I think

Re: [gentoo-dev] renaming gentoo-oldnet

2013-08-05 Thread Robin H. Johnson
I'm replying the start of this thread, rather than picking a single person to respond to. I DO want more brainstorming on ideas for the naming of the package, and I think people need to cast a wider net for naming ideas. I'm most certainly not planning to get rid of the package whatsoever, many of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-05 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > > okay, maybe this plan sucks as some have suggested in later posts in this > thread. > however the main point from first post stands, don't at least do > virtual/jpeg:= deps, use at least virtual/jpeg:0 or virtual/jpeg:0= whatever > ++ Th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 13:58:49 -0400 Alexis Ballier wrote: > > Unfortunately things that "don't seem" to be complicated sometimes > > are complicated. We haven't established whether that's the case > > here. In particular, we don't have any notion of "providers" > > currently, > > s/currently/anymor

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-05 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 05/08/13 18:06, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 05/08/13 18:00, Michael Palimaka wrote: On 5/08/2013 21:58, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 05/08/13 13:56, Michael Palimaka wrote: On 5/08/2013 19:33, Samuli Suominen wrote: This is a friendly reminder. I've found the tree again to have dependencies li

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-05 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 18:28:54 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 12:51:48 -0400 > Alexis Ballier wrote: > > > Not really. There's a tradeoff between dependencies that are > > > occasionally too strict, and dependencies that are horribly > > > complicated (see "subslot dictionaries")

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 12:51:48 -0400 Alexis Ballier wrote: > > Not really. There's a tradeoff between dependencies that are > > occasionally too strict, and dependencies that are horribly > > complicated (see "subslot dictionaries"). > > having a way to express 'my subslot is the one of my provider'

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-05 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 18:10:46 +0200 > Michał Górny wrote: >> We can simply have multiple virtual versions, each depending >> on the proper jpeg & jpeg-turbo versions. > > you can do it that way, yes. > > what will you do when jpeg 10 is out o

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-05 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 18:37:29 +0200 "Andreas K. Huettel" wrote: > Am Montag, 5. August 2013, 18:22:32 schrieb Alexis Ballier: > > > > 'horrible breakage' is mitigated by preserve-libs and running > > @preserved-rebuild as soon as possible has the same end result > > avoiding useless rebuilds. > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-05 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 17:36:49 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 12:22:32 -0400 > Alexis Ballier wrote: > > On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 17:13:49 +0100 > > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > On Tue, 06 Aug 2013 02:03:28 +1000 > > > Michael Palimaka wrote: > > > > > How often does this situation e

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-05 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Montag, 5. August 2013, 18:22:32 schrieb Alexis Ballier: > > 'horrible breakage' is mitigated by preserve-libs and running > @preserved-rebuild as soon as possible has the same end result avoiding > useless rebuilds. No it is not and does not. [Providing roughly the same information depth in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 12:22:32 -0400 Alexis Ballier wrote: > On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 17:13:49 +0100 > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Tue, 06 Aug 2013 02:03:28 +1000 > > Michael Palimaka wrote: > > > > How often does this situation even come up? If 9/10 times the > > > > libraries are set up as maintaine

[gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-05 Thread Michael Palimaka
On 6/08/2013 02:13, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Tue, 06 Aug 2013 02:03:28 +1000 Michael Palimaka wrote: How often does this situation even come up? If 9/10 times the libraries are set up as maintainers expect them to be, it is probably better to deal with the odd unnecessary rebuild until somebo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-05 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 17:13:49 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 06 Aug 2013 02:03:28 +1000 > Michael Palimaka wrote: > > > How often does this situation even come up? If 9/10 times the > > > libraries are set up as maintainers expect them to be, it is > > > probably better to deal with the o

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-05 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 18:10:46 +0200 Michał Górny wrote: > Dnia 2013-08-05, o godz. 11:50:38 > Alexis Ballier napisał(a): > > > On Mon, 05 Aug 2013 18:06:33 +0300 > > Samuli Suominen wrote: > > > The plan is to change SLOT of virtual/jpeg from "0" to eg. "0/1" > > > after next SONAME change in th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 06 Aug 2013 02:03:28 +1000 Michael Palimaka wrote: > > How often does this situation even come up? If 9/10 times the > > libraries are set up as maintainers expect them to be, it is > > probably better to deal with the odd unnecessary rebuild until > > somebody spots it, rather than going

Re: [gentoo-dev] Unused global USE flags

2013-08-05 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Montag, 5. August 2013, 15:39:48 schrieb Ulrich Mueller: > No package has the following flags in IUSE, so I'll remove them in a > few days from now: > >kdeprefix - Makes a KDE prefixed install into /usr/kde/${SLOT} if > enabled or into /usr (FHS compatible) otherwise kdeprefix is long gon

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-05 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2013-08-05, o godz. 11:50:38 Alexis Ballier napisał(a): > On Mon, 05 Aug 2013 18:06:33 +0300 > Samuli Suominen wrote: > > The plan is to change SLOT of virtual/jpeg from "0" to eg. "0/1" > > after next SONAME change in the default of the virtual, so it's > > useful to have everything depend

[gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-05 Thread Michael Palimaka
On 6/08/2013 01:07, Rich Freeman wrote: I suspect most maintainers would rather upgrade their package once to EAPI5 and not keep checking back every month to see if there is a new opportunity to add another slot operator dep. If maintainers don't add them up-front even with the deps don't suppor

Re: [gentoo-dev] renaming gentoo-oldnet

2013-08-05 Thread viv...@gmail.com
[snip] > :p I'm actually thinking netrc if Robin is ok with it. William replaying to a random message in the tree Not going to suggest a name but if has to be something for general consumption, it should avoid the "gentoo" inside the name just my 0.2¢

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-05 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Mon, 05 Aug 2013 18:06:33 +0300 Samuli Suominen wrote: > The plan is to change SLOT of virtual/jpeg from "0" to eg. "0/1" > after next SONAME change in the default of the virtual, so it's > useful to have everything depend on virtual/jpeg:0= ready, to get the > benefits of the subslot. last I

[gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-05 Thread Michael Palimaka
On 6/08/2013 01:06, Samuli Suominen wrote: The plan is to change SLOT of virtual/jpeg from "0" to eg. "0/1" after next SONAME change in the default of the virtual, so it's useful to have everything depend on virtual/jpeg:0= ready, to get the benefits of the subslot. Does that mean that anyone t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-05 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 05/08/13 18:00, Michael Palimaka wrote: On 5/08/2013 21:58, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 05/08/13 13:56, Michael Palimaka wrote: On 5/08/2013 19:33, Samuli Suominen wrote: This is a friendly reminder. I've found the tree again to have dependencies like: dev-libs/openssl:= virtual/jpeg:= Is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-05 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Michael Palimaka wrote: > Even though the subslot is implicit, is that any reason to still use the > operator? We don't know what the maintainer's future intentions for the > subslot will be. > For example, we caused many useless rebuilds with poppler because depen

[gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-05 Thread Michael Palimaka
On 5/08/2013 21:58, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 05/08/13 13:56, Michael Palimaka wrote: On 5/08/2013 19:33, Samuli Suominen wrote: This is a friendly reminder. I've found the tree again to have dependencies like: dev-libs/openssl:= virtual/jpeg:= Is there any reason for the subslot operator b

[gentoo-dev] Unused global USE flags

2013-08-05 Thread Ulrich Mueller
No package has the following flags in IUSE, so I'll remove them in a few days from now: kdeprefix - Makes a KDE prefixed install into /usr/kde/${SLOT} if enabled or into /usr (FHS compatible) otherwise nocxx - Old flag -- USE=cxx from now on Ulrich

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-05 Thread Douglas Freed
On Aug 5, 2013 8:06 AM, "Ulrich Mueller" wrote: > > > On Mon, 05 Aug 2013, Samuli Suominen wrote: > > > You don't need to see it, because portage sets implicit subslot /0 > > in EAPI="5" so it's there, even if you don't see it. > > Shouldn't the implicit sub-slot be equal to the regular slot?

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-05 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Mon, 05 Aug 2013, Samuli Suominen wrote: > You don't need to see it, because portage sets implicit subslot /0 > in EAPI="5" so it's there, even if you don't see it. Shouldn't the implicit sub-slot be equal to the regular slot? Ulrich

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-05 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 05/08/13 13:56, Michael Palimaka wrote: On 5/08/2013 19:33, Samuli Suominen wrote: This is a friendly reminder. I've found the tree again to have dependencies like: dev-libs/openssl:= virtual/jpeg:= Is there any reason for the subslot operator being specified at all? I don't see those pac

[gentoo-dev] USE flag descriptions

2013-08-05 Thread Ulrich Mueller
Currently, USE flag descriptions are a mix of imperative ("Enable") and indicative ("Enables") forms, the former occuring more often: Enable : Enables = 2143 : 408 Add : Adds = 525 : 341 Build : Builds = 833 : 27 Use : Uses = 619 : 11 Install : Installs =

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Global USE flag: git

2013-08-05 Thread hasufell
On 08/05/2013 01:10 PM, Michael Weber wrote: > On 08/05/2013 01:01 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> It isn't a bad idea to still post on -dev. Maintainers should be >> removing the local definitions, and just because a decision seems like >> the obviously-correct one doesn't mean that it is. > Follow-up

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Global USE flag: git

2013-08-05 Thread Michael Weber
On 08/05/2013 01:01 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > It isn't a bad idea to still post on -dev. Maintainers should be > removing the local definitions, and just because a decision seems like > the obviously-correct one doesn't mean that it is. Follow-up question: Should _I_ remove the identical local def

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Global USE flag: git

2013-08-05 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 6:56 AM, Ryan Hill wrote: > On Sat, 03 Aug 2013 16:19:16 +0200 > hasufell wrote: > >> I find it a bit silly to require discussing global useflags on dev-ML. > > The purpose of the discussion is to come up with a description that is general > enough to apply to most ebuilds

[gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-05 Thread Michael Palimaka
On 5/08/2013 19:33, Samuli Suominen wrote: This is a friendly reminder. I've found the tree again to have dependencies like: dev-libs/openssl:= virtual/jpeg:= Is there any reason for the subslot operator being specified at all? I don't see those packages defining any subslots.

[gentoo-dev] Re: Global USE flag: git

2013-08-05 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sat, 03 Aug 2013 16:19:16 +0200 hasufell wrote: > I find it a bit silly to require discussing global useflags on dev-ML. The purpose of the discussion is to come up with a description that is general enough to apply to most ebuilds that use that flag. It's a throwback to when global and loca

Re: [gentoo-dev] Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-05 Thread hasufell
On 08/05/2013 11:49 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > Dnia 2013-08-05, o godz. 12:33:45 > Samuli Suominen napisał(a): > >> This is a friendly reminder. >> >> I've found the tree again to have dependencies like: >> >> dev-libs/openssl:= >> virtual/jpeg:= >> >> Neither of which are correct, since dev-libs/

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Dropping static libs support from cryptsetup and lvm2

2013-08-05 Thread Samuli Suominen
Picked random mail from this thread. So, I've seen many people raising intrest in keeping IUSE="static" in cryptsetup and lvm2 but I haven't really seen anyone working on it yet, except _AxS_ committed one patch but that isn't enough. Take eg. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472692#c4

Re: [gentoo-dev] Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-05 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2013-08-05, o godz. 12:33:45 Samuli Suominen napisał(a): > This is a friendly reminder. > > I've found the tree again to have dependencies like: > > dev-libs/openssl:= > virtual/jpeg:= > > Neither of which are correct, since dev-libs/openssl has SLOT="0" and > SLOT="0.9.8" and virtual/jp

[gentoo-dev] Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-05 Thread Samuli Suominen
This is a friendly reminder. I've found the tree again to have dependencies like: dev-libs/openssl:= virtual/jpeg:= Neither of which are correct, since dev-libs/openssl has SLOT="0" and SLOT="0.9.8" and virtual/jpeg has SLOT="0" and SLOT="62". Need to pull in the SLOT that installs headers:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: renaming gentoo-oldnet

2013-08-05 Thread Kent Fredric
On 5 August 2013 17:33, Christopher Head wrote: > Probably not a big deal, but there is a “~/.netrc” file which holds > usernames and password for various services (some FTP clients use it, > maybe others). If you want a suggestion that imbues all the things we want to imbue, and isn't a recogni

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: renaming gentoo-oldnet

2013-08-05 Thread Kent Fredric
> > Probably not a big deal, but there is a “~/.netrc” file which holds > usernames and password for various services (some FTP clients use it, > maybe others). > > Chris https://github.com/kr/netrc https://metacpan.org/module/Net::Netrc ^ too much evidence of prior work And worse, Net::Netrc i

[gentoo-dev] Re: check-reqs* vs CFLAGS=-g

2013-08-05 Thread Ryan Hill
On Thu, 1 Aug 2013 13:33:48 +0200 Michał Górny wrote: > What can we do to improve this? I'm not really happy to have LLVM > ebuild analyze CFLAGS to set proper space constraints. Maybe we should > make check-reqs-r1 automatically bump the constraints by some > statistical multiplier when it detec

[gentoo-dev] Re: check-reqs* vs CFLAGS=-g

2013-08-05 Thread Ryan Hill
On Fri, 2 Aug 2013 13:47:10 +0100 Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Andreas K. Huettel > wrote: > > > I thought -O0 was generally discouraged, even for debugging?! > > > As Michał said, it all depends on what you want to debug. I would say that > for 90% of issues you