Re: [gentoo-dev] Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-15 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 23:39:34 +0100 Michał Górny wrote: > Dnia 2013-11-15, o godz. 14:53:00 > Ben de Groot napisał(a): > > > As I see it now, with respect to multilib, we have three competing > > solutions, but not a clear direction which way we want to go as a > > distro: > > > > 1: emul-* pac

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-15 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 23:26:57 +0100 Peter Stuge wrote: > Tom Wijsman wrote: > > > portage should say, with as similar wording as possible: > > > > > > "If you want to emerge libXt with those USE flags then you'll also > > > have to set those same USE flags for libYt and libZt because libXt > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-15 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2013-11-15, o godz. 14:53:00 Ben de Groot napisał(a): > As I see it now, with respect to multilib, we have three competing > solutions, but not a clear direction which way we want to go as a > distro: > > 1: emul-* packages > 2: multilib-portage > 3: multilib.eclass > > I would like to vot

Re: [gentoo-dev] How to obsolete this python-exec news & fix the issue automatically for users

2013-11-15 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 11:27:33PM +0100, Tom Wijsman wrote: > > If there are no objections, I'd like to do this to the affected > > ebuilds in a few hours. > It is an improvement and it has been tested on a few systems; I don't > think this is something that would hurt or be irreversible, it rever

Re: [gentoo-dev] How to obsolete this python-exec news & fix the issue automatically for users

2013-11-15 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 22:06:45 + "Robin H. Johnson" wrote: > On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 04:12:47PM +0100, Michał Górny wrote: > > Please review the following news item. I would prefer committing it > > as soon as I get an ACK from all the relevant parties since the > > issue is hitting users prett

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-15 Thread Peter Stuge
Tom Wijsman wrote: > > portage should say, with as similar wording as possible: > > > > "If you want to emerge libXt with those USE flags then you'll also > > have to set those same USE flags for libYt and libZt because libXt > > DEPENDs on them." > > > > Bonus points: > > > > "Would you like me

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-15 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 22:57:06 +0100 Peter Stuge wrote: > Tom Wijsman wrote: > > I'm not sure if making broken (or experimental) things more easily > > available or a suggestion would be a good idea; people already have > > enough trouble as it is, adding more doesn't seem to be the right > > way.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-15 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 13:45:29 -0800 Matt Turner wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Tom Wijsman > wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 13:21:53 -0800 > > Matt Turner wrote: > > > >> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Tom Wijsman > >> wrote: > >> > On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 12:25:47 -0800 > >> > Matt T

[gentoo-dev] How to obsolete this python-exec news & fix the issue automatically for users

2013-11-15 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 04:12:47PM +0100, Michał Górny wrote: > Please review the following news item. I would prefer committing it > as soon as I get an ACK from all the relevant parties since the issue > is hitting users pretty hard. I don't know why nobody looked at a better automatic solution

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-15 Thread Peter Stuge
Tom Wijsman wrote: > I'm not sure if making broken (or experimental) things more easily > available or a suggestion would be a good idea; people already have > enough trouble as it is, adding more doesn't seem to be the right way. It's not about broken/experimental, it's about the logical conseque

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-15 Thread Matt Turner
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 13:21:53 -0800 > Matt Turner wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Tom Wijsman >> wrote: >> > On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 12:25:47 -0800 >> > Matt Turner wrote: >> > >> >> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Tom Wijsman >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-15 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 13:21:53 -0800 Matt Turner wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Tom Wijsman > wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 12:25:47 -0800 > > Matt Turner wrote: > > > >> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Tom Wijsman > >> wrote: > >> Imagine I had simply forgotten to unmask the abi_

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-15 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 22:09:04 +0100 Peter Stuge wrote: > Tom Wijsman wrote: > > Does replacing this "explicit behavior" by "implicit behavior" make > > sense for the users in general? > > Please don't warp the words. Maybe I misunderstand, but it seems like > that's what you're doing. > > I'll t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-15 Thread Matt Turner
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 12:25:47 -0800 > Matt Turner wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Tom Wijsman >> wrote: >> Imagine I had simply forgotten to unmask the abi_x86_32 USE flag for >> kbproto but was attempting to emerge unstable (or

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-15 Thread Peter Stuge
Tom Wijsman wrote: > Does replacing this "explicit behavior" by "implicit behavior" make > sense for the users in general? Please don't warp the words. Maybe I misunderstand, but it seems like that's what you're doing. I'll try to clarify: With explicit I was refering to allowing manual setting

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-15 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 12:25:47 -0800 Matt Turner wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Tom Wijsman > wrote: > Imagine I had simply forgotten to unmask the abi_x86_32 USE flag for > kbproto but was attempting to emerge unstable (or unmasked abi_x86_32) > libXt. In fact, if I un-unmask kbproto

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-15 Thread Matt Turner
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Thu, 14 Nov 2013 20:56:32 -0800 > Matt Turner wrote: > >> There's a single problem. It can't enable abi_x86_32. Why didn't it >> just say that? > > As per the full output, it does: > > !!! Enabling --newuse and --update might solve this co

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-15 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 21:10:41 +0100 Peter Stuge wrote: > Tom Wijsman wrote: > > !!! Enabling --newuse and --update might solve this conflict. > > !!! If not, it might help emerge to give a more specific suggestion. > > > > That together with ABI_X86="(64) (-32*) (-x32)" from the package > > line

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-15 Thread Peter Stuge
Martin Vaeth wrote: > Probably a lot of the confusion could be avoided if > /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords would not implicitly > unmask useflags. I think so too. Anything that happens implicitly where explicit knobs exist is really counter-intuitive. //Peter

[gentoo-dev] Re: Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-15 Thread Martin Vaeth
Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > On 15/11/13 10:54 AM, Peter Stuge wrote: >> .. >>> I think most of the confusion is caused by the necessity to put >>> a *stable* package atom into package.keywords to unmask a *USE* >>> flag. >> >> A lot can be learned just from the filenames: >> [...] >> The latter indi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-15 Thread Peter Stuge
Tom Wijsman wrote: > !!! Enabling --newuse and --update might solve this conflict. > !!! If not, it might help emerge to give a more specific suggestion. > > That together with ABI_X86="(64) (-32*) (-x32)" from the package line > makes it clear that it is trying to change that USE flag. I disagre

Re: [gentoo-dev] Local Gentoo User Group community support

2013-11-15 Thread Alex Legler
On 15.11.2013 20:12, yac wrote: > Hi > > What does Gentoo Linux provide for $SUBJ? > > I know there are mailing lists like gentoo-user-. Is there > anything else? -project is where you wanted to post this > > --- > Jan Matějka| Gentoo Developer > https://gentoo.org | Gentoo Linux > GPG

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-15 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Thu, 14 Nov 2013 20:56:32 -0800 Matt Turner wrote: > There's a single problem. It can't enable abi_x86_32. Why didn't it > just say that? As per the full output, it does: !!! Enabling --newuse and --update might solve this conflict. !!! If not, it might help emerge to give a more specific su

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-15 Thread Matt Turner
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Thu, 14 Nov 2013 20:56:32 -0800 > Matt Turner wrote: > >> Attempting to merge =x11-proto/kbproto-1.0.6-r1 >> results in: >> >> x11-proto/kbproto:0 >> >> (x11-proto/kbproto-1.0.6-r1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) >> pulled in by (no

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item about Gnome 3.8

2013-11-15 Thread Pacho Ramos
El jue, 14-11-2013 a las 22:22 +0100, Pacho Ramos escribió: > New try: > > Title: Upgrade to GNOME 3.8 > Author: Pacho Ramos > Content-Type: text/plain > Posted: 2013-11-14 > Revision: 1 > News-Item-Format: 1.0 > Display-If-Installed: Display-If-Installed: Display-If-Installed: > We are pleas

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-15 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 15/11/13 02:24 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Thu, 14 Nov 2013 20:56:32 -0800 Matt Turner > wrote: > >> Attempting to merge =x11-proto/kbproto-1.0.6-r1 results in: >> >> x11-proto/kbproto:0 >> >> (x11-proto/kbproto-1.0.6-r1::gentoo, ebuild schedu

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-15 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Thu, 14 Nov 2013 20:56:32 -0800 Matt Turner wrote: > Attempting to merge =x11-proto/kbproto-1.0.6-r1 > results in: > > x11-proto/kbproto:0 > > (x11-proto/kbproto-1.0.6-r1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) > pulled in by (no parents that aren't satisfied by other packages in > this slot)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-15 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Thu, 14 Nov 2013 20:56:32 -0800 Matt Turner wrote: > Attempting to merge =x11-proto/kbproto-1.0.6-r1 > results in: > > x11-proto/kbproto:0 > > (x11-proto/kbproto-1.0.6-r1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) > pulled in by (no parents that aren't satisfied by other packages in > this slot)

[gentoo-dev] Local Gentoo User Group community support

2013-11-15 Thread yac
Hi What does Gentoo Linux provide for $SUBJ? I know there are mailing lists like gentoo-user-. Is there anything else? --- Jan Matějka| Gentoo Developer https://gentoo.org | Gentoo Linux GPG: A33E F5BC A9F6 DAFD 2021 6FB6 3EBF D45B EEB6 CA8B signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-15 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 15/11/13 10:54 AM, Peter Stuge wrote: > Matt Turner wrote: >> I think in large part recently it's because of use.stable.mask >> and package.use.stable.mask. These really are a nightmare for >> users. > .. >> I think most of the confusion is caused

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: keep a gen 2013 snapshot on mirrors

2013-11-15 Thread Peter Stuge
Duncan wrote: > 3a) Accompany binaries/object code with complete source-code. .. > What that means is this: Every time and place gentoo distributes > binaries, we must make available sources as well. "accompany" !== "make available" > If we're giving away install-CDs at a conference, we better

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-15 Thread Peter Stuge
Matt Turner wrote: > I think in large part recently it's because of use.stable.mask and > package.use.stable.mask. These really are a nightmare for users. .. > I think most of the confusion is caused by the necessity to put a > *stable* package atom into package.keywords to unmask a *USE* flag. A

[gentoo-dev] Re: Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-15 Thread Duncan
Ian Stakenvicius posted on Fri, 15 Nov 2013 09:30:56 -0500 as excerpted: > On 15/11/13 06:08 AM, Duncan wrote: >> [2] 32-bit for amd64, but could be the reverse, 64-bit for x86, or >> either one for x86-32, or some other combination for other archs. > > Well, not really -- an x86 toolchain can't

[gentoo-dev] Re: keep a gen 2013 snapshot on mirrors

2013-11-15 Thread Duncan
Rich Freeman posted on Fri, 15 Nov 2013 08:38:20 -0500 as excerpted: > That's what I'm getting at. The actual changes themselves aren't a > derivative work - it is the result of applying them that is. I can (cautiously) agree with that, tho I'm sure there are those who would take an opposing po

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-15 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 15/11/13 06:08 AM, Duncan wrote: > [2] 32-bit for amd64, but could be the reverse, 64-bit for x86, or > either one for x86-32, or some other combination for other archs. Well, not really -- an x86 toolchain can't build for amd64 or x32 , you need

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-15 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 15/11/13 02:13 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> On Fri, 15 Nov 2013, Ben de Groot wrote: > >> As I see it now, with respect to multilib, we have three >> competing solutions, but not a clear direction which way we want >> to go as a distro: > >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: keep a gen 2013 snapshot on mirrors

2013-11-15 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 8:17 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > To the extent patches are larger than the rather blurry "trivial" level, > I believe there's no question that they ARE derivative. In the case of > literal patches, literally and provably so, due to the context-diff which > li

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-15 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 1:53 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: > > I don't really want to bring up this episode again, but it is a > telling example, which you asked for. I appreciate that. I did ask for an example. I'll also limit my comments just to things that I think are more helpful moving forward.

[gentoo-dev] Re: keep a gen 2013 snapshot on mirrors

2013-11-15 Thread Duncan
Rich Freeman posted on Wed, 13 Nov 2013 16:18:51 -0500 as excerpted: > On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Roy Bamford > wrote: >> The GPL obliges us to keep such patches around for three years, iirc. >> Don't we do that ? > > Why? We own the copyright on the patches (to whatever degree that > the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-15 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 11/15/2013 03:13 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> On Fri, 15 Nov 2013, Ben de Groot wrote: > >> As I see it now, with respect to multilib, we have three competing >> solutions, but not a clear direction which way we want to go as a >> distro: > >> 1: emul-* packages >> 2: multilib-portage >> 3

[gentoo-dev] Re: Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-15 Thread Duncan
Ulrich Mueller posted on Fri, 15 Nov 2013 08:13:47 +0100 as excerpted: >> On Fri, 15 Nov 2013, Ben de Groot wrote: > >> As I see it now, with respect to multilib, we have three competing >> solutions, but not a clear direction which way we want to go as a >> distro: > >> 1: emul-* packages 2

[gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH] libtool.eclass: Have elibtoolize explicitly apply configure patches

2013-11-15 Thread Michael Haubenwallner
On 11/13/2013 10:14 AM, Michael Haubenwallner wrote: > Hi all, > > as you might or might not be aware of, elibtoolize() originally was for > applying > patches to ltmain.sh, but now also applies patches to configure scripts. > Attached patch drops that wild guesses, explicitly applying configure