Re: [gentoo-dev] Does the scm ebuild masking policy make sense for git?

2014-09-11 Thread hasufell
Tom Wijsman: > On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 15:09:38 + > hasufell wrote: > >> Tom Wijsman: It improves usability by providing additional information. >>> >>> Usability is not to be found in information that is subject to >>> change. >> >> Please also set DEPEND, RDEPEND, EGIT_REPO_URI, DESCRIPTIO

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Deprecating and killing the concept of herds

2014-09-11 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/11/2014 07:30 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 21:21:24 +0100 Markos Chandras > wrote: > >> On 09/10/2014 03:01 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: >>> >>> +1; to summarize my thoughts: Herds misrepresent manpower. >>> >> true and false. >

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Deprecating and killing the concept of herds

2014-09-11 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 21:21:24 +0100 Markos Chandras wrote: > On 09/10/2014 03:01 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > > > > +1; to summarize my thoughts: Herds misrepresent manpower. > > > true and false. More true than false. > undertakers often remove dead herds. How often? What is considered dead? How

Re: [gentoo-dev] Does the scm ebuild masking policy make sense for git?

2014-09-11 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 15:09:38 + hasufell wrote: > Tom Wijsman: > >> It improves usability by providing additional information. > > > > Usability is not to be found in information that is subject to > > change. > > Please also set DEPEND, RDEPEND, EGIT_REPO_URI, DESCRIPTION and the > rest of

[gentoo-dev] dev-db/firebird

2014-09-11 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
[to the list since we have to sort this out somehow] Hi Pacho, why did you remove the firebird masks without removing the ebuilds? http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/profiles/package.mask?r1=1.16019&r2=1.16020 Are the issues fixed? (The sec bug is still open.) Now firebir

Re: [gentoo-dev] Early idea: install_qa_check() refactor and 'public API'

2014-09-11 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2014-09-11, o godz. 00:20:21 Michał Górny napisał(a): > 4. Checks can inherit eclasses. This goes opposite the generic rule > but allows us to save some code duplication. For example, we can get > paths from eclasses instead of reinventing them. It's also relatively > safe since we're in a s

[gentoo-dev] fixing software that sources /etc/init.d/functions.sh

2014-09-11 Thread William Hubbs
All, there are still several open bugs on the tracker for this issue [1],. This is the only thing that is preventing us from removing the direct reference to sys-apps/openrc from @system. As shown in the bug, the fix is to have the package depend on sys-apps/gentoo-functions and source /lib/gento