[gentoo-dev] Re: [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Steven J. Long
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 19:27:36 +0100 > Tom Wijsman wrote: > > > Not an API. APIs are bad. What we should have is a good set of > > > lightweight Unix-friendly command line tools. See, for example, the > > > "Scripting Commands" section of "man cave". >

[gentoo-dev] pkgcore EAPI-6 (Was: OT: pkgcore bikeshed)

2014-01-13 Thread Steven J. Long
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014, Alexander Berntsen wrote: > > Updating both in parallel isn't hard: once pkgcore is up to EAPI-5, > > EAPI-6 isn't that much work (mostly bash afair.) > If it is trivial: show us the code. Ah that old canard. Tell you what: I hereby undertake to deliver everything currently

Re: [gentoo-dev] Default USE changes for fortran and mudflap?

2014-01-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 12 January 2014 02:53:47 Ryan Hill wrote: > While I'm adding USE defaults to toolchain.eclass and moving them out of > the profiles, I thought now would be a good time to review a couple > default flag settings. > > mudflap: > This is currently enabled by default but I'd like to disable

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 07:22:25 +0800 Patrick Lauer wrote: > On 01/13/2014 10:58 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 10:31:56 +0100 > > Fabio Erculiani wrote: > > > >> Portage can still take *minutes* to calculate the merge queue of a > >> pkg with all its deps satisfied. > > > > Half

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 01/13/2014 10:58 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 10:31:56 +0100 > Fabio Erculiani wrote: > >> Portage can still take *minutes* to calculate the merge queue of a >> pkg with all its deps satisfied. > > Half a minute if you disable backtracking which you don't need. :) Or if you d

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: storing predefined INSTALL_MASK directory lists in repos

2014-01-13 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 19:59 Sat 11 Jan , Peter Stuge wrote: > Duncan wrote: > > >> Michał Górny wrote: > > >> INSTALL_MASK="systemd bash-completion" > > >> > > >> What are your thoughts? > > > > > > It seems like this will generally duplicate all -USE flags. > > > > > > Would it make sense to instead have a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Default USE changes for fortran and mudflap?

2014-01-13 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 01:53 Sun 12 Jan , Ryan Hill wrote: > fortran: > Do we want to keep enabling fortran by default? The majority of users > will never get the urge to install a fortran package, and the fortran > eclass handles those that do. I think it should be treated as all the > other optional languag

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [OT] pkgcore bikeshed

2014-01-13 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 11:02 Mon 13 Jan , Steven J. Long wrote: > On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 04:15:37PM +0700, "C. Bergström" wrote: > > > Realistically, we have to keep updating them both in parallel. > > > pkgcore needs to be brought up to portage-level functionality, > > Yeah but it already outshines under the h

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 19:27:36 +0100 Tom Wijsman wrote: > > Not an API. APIs are bad. What we should have is a good set of > > lightweight Unix-friendly command line tools. See, for example, the > > "Scripting Commands" section of "man cave". > > It still is an API that way, just expressed differen

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 18:21:58 + Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 19:16:45 +0100 > Tom Wijsman wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 08:49:17 -0800 > > Alec Warner wrote: > > > The caching may not be of use, depending on your configuration. > > > (For example, if you use a gentoo-x86 che

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 18:07:39 + Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 15:46:59 +0100 > Tom Wijsman wrote: > > > On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:15:37 +0700 > > "C. Bergström" wrote: > > > > > Long term the API to pkgcore could be beneficial, but > > > again I'm not sure it's a game changer

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 19:16:45 +0100 Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 08:49:17 -0800 > Alec Warner wrote: > > The caching may not be of use, depending on your configuration. (For > > example, if you use a gentoo-x86 checkout as your main repo, you > > will probably want to run generate cach

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 18:05:21 + Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:46:08 +0100 > Tom Wijsman wrote: > > Rebuilds don't cause a different solution in the graph afaik; so, I > > wouldn't see how that would form a big problem. I also think this > > would still be covered by preserve

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 08:49:17 -0800 Alec Warner wrote: > The caching may not be of use, depending on your configuration. (For > example, if you use a gentoo-x86 checkout as your main repo, you will > probably want to run generate cache entries whenever you cvs up.) It > is there to cache ebuild me

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 18:03:31 +0100 Luis Ressel wrote: > No, the problem wasn't that rebuilds weren't done (btw: this is not > about @preserved-rebuilds, but about subslot dependencies), but that > updates which would trigger such rebuilds are silently ignored. This > happened to me yesterday whil

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 15:46:59 +0100 Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:15:37 +0700 > "C. Bergström" wrote: > > > Long term the API to pkgcore could be beneficial, but > > again I'm not sure it's a game changer for users. > > Long term, we should have an independent API backend that to

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 15:46 +0100, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:15:37 +0700 > "C. Bergström" wrote: > > > Long term the API to pkgcore could be beneficial, but > > again I'm not sure it's a game changer for users. > > Long term, we should have an independent API backend that tool

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:46:08 +0100 Tom Wijsman wrote: > Rebuilds don't cause a different solution in the graph afaik; so, I > wouldn't see how that would form a big problem. I also think this > would still be covered by preserved-rebuild and/or revdep-rebuild > afterwards. There used to be a "fea

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 12:42:00AM +0700, "C. Bergström" wrote: > On 01/14/14 12:37 AM, Greg KH wrote: > >On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 04:15:37PM +0700, "C. Bergström" wrote: > >>At the end of the day we have one codebase which is "engineered" and > >>another which has "evolved". > >I'll take an "evolve

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed

2014-01-13 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Mon, 13 Jan 2014, Tom Wijsman wrote: >> I've started collecting things already some months ago: >> http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Future_EAPI/EAPI_6_tentative_features > Just for reference: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174380 > According to [1] there are besides the tracker a 78

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 04:15:37PM +0700, "C. Bergström" wrote: > At the end of the day we have one codebase which is "engineered" and > another which has "evolved". I'll take an "evolved" codebase over "engineered" anyday. You do realize that is exactly why Linux has succeeded, right? The kerne

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread C. Bergström
On 01/14/14 12:37 AM, Greg KH wrote: On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 04:15:37PM +0700, "C. Bergström" wrote: At the end of the day we have one codebase which is "engineered" and another which has "evolved". I'll take an "evolved" codebase over "engineered" anyday. You do realize that is exactly why Li

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Fabio Erculiani
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Alec Warner wrote: [...] > > This is not meant to imply that portage is always fast; there are plenty of > other modules (such as the aforementioned backtracking) that can take a long > time to find solutions. That is partially why you see Tomwij turning off > that

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Luis Ressel
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:46:08 +0100 Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:38:59 +0100 > Luis Ressel wrote: > > > On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 15:58:13 +0100 > > Tom Wijsman wrote: > > > > > Half a minute if you disable backtracking which you don't need. :) > > > > Which sadly also means that som

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Alec Warner
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 7:38 AM, Luis Ressel wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 15:58:13 +0100 > Tom Wijsman wrote: > > > On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 10:31:56 +0100 > > Fabio Erculiani wrote: > > > > > Portage can still take *minutes* to calculate the merge queue of a > > > pkg with all its deps satisfied. >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage team, Zac's development break and stepping down as lead

2014-01-13 Thread Alec Warner
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 7:38 AM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 15:46:12 +0100 > Peter Stuge wrote: > > > Tom Wijsman wrote: > > > So, yes, we need more people on pkgcore; no, we can't just leave > > > Portage behind, as it still is the beating heart of Gentoo for now. > > > > I guess

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:38:59 +0100 Luis Ressel wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 15:58:13 +0100 > Tom Wijsman wrote: > > > Half a minute if you disable backtracking which you don't need. :) > > Which sadly also means that some updates get skipped silently. (Those > which would trigger rebuilds of o

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Luis Ressel
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 15:58:13 +0100 Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 10:31:56 +0100 > Fabio Erculiani wrote: > > > Portage can still take *minutes* to calculate the merge queue of a > > pkg with all its deps satisfied. > > Half a minute if you disable backtracking which you don't need.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage team, Zac's development break and stepping down as lead

2014-01-13 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 15:46:12 +0100 Peter Stuge wrote: > Tom Wijsman wrote: > > So, yes, we need more people on pkgcore; no, we can't just leave > > Portage behind, as it still is the beating heart of Gentoo for now. > > I guess the point is that it might continue beating long enough mostly > on

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Tom Wijsman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 09:56:13 -0500 Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 13/01/14 09:46 AM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:15:37 +0700 "C. Bergström" > > wrote: > > > >> Long term the API

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [OT] pkgcore bikeshed

2014-01-13 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 14:50:44 +0100 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Jan 2014, Andreas K Huettel wrote: > > > So far, I dont know of any work on the exact EAPI-6 feature set yet. > > We should maybe open a new thread on that, *if* there is already > > something. > > I've started collecti

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [OT] pkgcore bikeshed

2014-01-13 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 11:02:10 + "Steven J. Long" wrote: > Yeah but it already outshines under the hood: all you're talking > about is EAPI and radhermit is working on it; pkgcore's response to EAPI 6 is something to hold your breath for. > I'm sure he and dol-sen would be happy for more help

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 10:31:56 +0100 Fabio Erculiani wrote: > Portage can still take *minutes* to calculate the merge queue of a > pkg with all its deps satisfied. Half a minute if you disable backtracking which you don't need. :) > Ironically, launching the same emerge command twice, will take m

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 13/01/14 09:46 AM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:15:37 +0700 "C. Bergström" > wrote: > >> Long term the API to pkgcore could be beneficial, but again I'm >> not sure it's a game changer for users. > > Long term, we should have an

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:15:37 +0700 "C. Bergström" wrote: > At the end of the day we have one codebase which is > "engineered" and another which has "evolved". Too broad generalization, too much assumption; both can be held as meaning nothing compared to what "engineered" and "evolved" could real

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage team, Zac's development break and stepping down as lead

2014-01-13 Thread Peter Stuge
Tom Wijsman wrote: > So, yes, we need more people on pkgcore; no, we can't just leave > Portage behind, as it still is the beating heart of Gentoo for now. I guess the point is that it might continue beating long enough mostly on its own. //Peter pgp_E4oOCUrAm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:15:37 +0700 "C. Bergström" wrote: > Long term the API to pkgcore could be beneficial, but > again I'm not sure it's a game changer for users. Long term, we should have an independent API backend that tools can query; not rewrite our tools every time users want to use them

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage team, Zac's development break and stepping down as lead

2014-01-13 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 15:39:17 +0700 C. Bergström wrote: > Drive-by trolling comment but I wish the effort to keep porkage alive > would have instead been directed towards pkgcore. If we still have users left by the time pkgcore is finished... Moving the work efforts from one PM to another and ex

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [OT] pkgcore bikeshed

2014-01-13 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Mon, 13 Jan 2014, Andreas K Huettel wrote: > So far, I dont know of any work on the exact EAPI-6 feature set yet. > We should maybe open a new thread on that, *if* there is already > something. I've started collecting things already some months ago: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Future_EAP

Re: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [OT] pkgcore bikeshed

2014-01-13 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Montag 13 Januar 2014, 13:28:13 schrieb Alexander Berntsen: > > Updating both in parallel isn't hard: once pkgcore is up to EAPI-5, > > EAPI-6 isn't that much work (mostly bash afair.) So far, I dont know of any work on the exact EAPI-6 feature set yet. We should maybe open a new thread on t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [OT] pkgcore bikeshed

2014-01-13 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 13/01/14 12:02, Steven J. Long wrote: > Yeah but it already outshines under the hood: all you're talking > about is EAPI and radhermit is working on it; I'm sure he and > dol-sen would be happy for more help as well, so long as it's > supportiv

[gentoo-dev] Re: [OT] pkgcore bikeshed

2014-01-13 Thread Steven J. Long
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 04:15:37PM +0700, "C. Bergström" wrote: > On 01/13/14 03:43 PM, Alexander Berntsen wrote: > > Realistically, we have to keep updating them both in parallel. pkgcore > > needs to be brought up to portage-level functionality, Yeah but it already outshines under the hood: all

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread C. Bergström
On 01/13/14 04:31 PM, Fabio Erculiani wrote: On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 10:15 AM, "C. Bergström" wrote: On 01/13/14 03:43 PM, Alexander Berntsen wrote: Where I work uses pkgcore[1], but not the areas which are generally beneficial to the whole community. (We use it as part of a web application to

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Fabio Erculiani
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 10:15 AM, "C. Bergström" wrote: > On 01/13/14 03:43 PM, Alexander Berntsen wrote: > Where I work uses pkgcore[1], but not the areas which are generally > beneficial to the whole community. (We use it as part of a web application > to handle testsuites which have build depen

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread C. Bergström
On 01/13/14 03:43 PM, Alexander Berntsen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 13/01/14 09:39, C. Bergström wrote: Drive-by trolling comment but I wish the effort to keep porkage alive would have instead been directed towards pkgcore. Realistically, we have to keep updating

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage team, Zac's development break and stepping down as lead

2014-01-13 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:39 AM, C. Bergström wrote: > Drive-by trolling comment but I wish the effort to keep porkage alive would > have instead been directed towards pkgcore. If you know your email is going to be drive-by trolling, maybe just hold it in next time?

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage team, Zac's development break and stepping down as lead

2014-01-13 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 13/01/14 09:39, C. Bergström wrote: > Drive-by trolling comment but I wish the effort to keep porkage > alive would have instead been directed towards pkgcore. Realistically, we have to keep updating them both in parallel. pkgcore needs to be bro

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage team, Zac's development break and stepping down as lead

2014-01-13 Thread C . Bergström
Drive-by trolling comment but I wish the effort to keep porkage alive would have instead been directed towards pkgcore.