[gentoo-dev] January 2014 QA Policy Updates

2014-01-29 Thread Chris Reffett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, The new QA team has completed its first meeting, and so I would like to announce policy changes agreed upon during the meeting which are relevant to the developer community. In the future, when a meeting results in changed or amended policy,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Catalyst news item

2014-01-29 Thread Matt Turner
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: > my plan was to show this to anyone using catalyst. I believe this news item > is relevant and interesting for anyone using catalyst, but if others > disagree, I can restrict it to only those using catalyst-. The new is that

[gentoo-dev] New eclass: xdg-basedir

2014-01-29 Thread Mike Gilbert
Here's a simple eclass that pretty much just extracts the XDG stuff from the gnome2_environment_reset function. One difference: it creates 3 of the 4 directories under ${HOME} instead of ${T}, just to mimic the default behavior in the XDG basedir spec a bit more closely. Please give a look. # Cop

Re: [gentoo-dev] Catalyst news item

2014-01-29 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
On Wed, 29 Jan 2014, Matt Turner wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: +Display-If-Installed: dev-util/catalyst Display-If-Installed: >=dev-util/catalyst- Matt, my plan was to show this to anyone using catalyst. I believe this news item is relevant

Re: [gentoo-dev] Catalyst news item

2014-01-29 Thread Matt Turner
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: > +Display-If-Installed: dev-util/catalyst Display-If-Installed: >=dev-util/catalyst-

Re: [gentoo-dev] Catalyst news item

2014-01-29 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
On Wed, 29 Jan 2014, W. Trevor King wrote: On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 02:14:53AM -0100, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: +After many years of stalled development, the catalyst repository is +going to have major changes introduced to master in the next few days. ?the next few days? sounds a litt

Re: [gentoo-dev] Catalyst news item

2014-01-29 Thread W. Trevor King
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 02:14:53AM -0100, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: > +After many years of stalled development, the catalyst repository is > +going to have major changes introduced to master in the next few days. “the next few days” sounds a little optimistic to me ;). “next few months”,

[gentoo-dev] Catalyst news item

2014-01-29 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
Hi. I would like to commit the following news item in the next few days. diff --git a/2014/2014-01-31-catalyst-head-changes/2014-01-31-catalyst-head-changes.en.txt b/2014/2014-01-31-catalyst-head-changes/2014-01-31-catalyst-head-changes.en.txt new file mode 100644 index 000..7c5736e --- /de

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Dealing with XDG directories in ebuild environment

2014-01-29 Thread Gilles Dartiguelongue
Le mardi 28 janvier 2014 à 13:11 +, Steven J. Long a écrit : > Alec Warner wrote: > > Sorry, I work on Portage. What I'm saying is that We are free to change the > > behavior of *portage* now; rather than waiting for a new EAPI. If an ebuild > > needs to define EAPI=eapi-next to 'correctly' use

[gentoo-dev] [gentoo-project] New developer: Alexander Berntsen (bernalex)

2014-01-29 Thread justin
Hello everyone, please join me in giving Alexander (bernalex) a very warm welcome. When asking for his reason to be become a member of the dev team, he said among other things "I would be proud to be a Gentoo dev". I like it very much, that one can still be proud to be part of this team and commu

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dealing with XDG directories in ebuild environment

2014-01-29 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 1:37 AM, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote: > [Replying again since my mailer messed up my original message.] > > On Tue, 2014-01-28 at 12:03 -0500, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> Option 3: Unset the variables >> >> This should cause applications to default to locations under ${HOME}. >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dealing with XDG directories in ebuild environment

2014-01-29 Thread Alexandre Rostovtsev
On Wed, 2014-01-29 at 09:58 +0100, Jan Matejka wrote: > What's the point of having nonempty XDG_ variables in ebuilds? One big reason is FEATURES=test. Test suites for freedesktop-compliant programs that actually run the program are likely to fail if XDG_* directories are resolved as something unw

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dealing with XDG directories in ebuild environment

2014-01-29 Thread Jan Matejka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 What's the point of having nonempty XDG_ variables in ebuilds? Use of these variables is scoped to user applications that use these in runtime, therefore I see no business for them in package (de)installation and it should be ok for portage to unset