[gentoo-dev] Last rites: media-sound/lastfmplayer

2018-02-10 Thread Michael Palimaka
# Michael Palimamka (11 Feb 2018 # Fails to build (bug #538400). Requires dead Qt 4 (bug #637014). # Dead upstream. Masked for removal in 30 days. media-sound/lastfmplayer

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: newsitem: baselayout 2.5 changes

2018-02-10 Thread William Hubbs
On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 12:15:43PM -0600, William Hubbs wrote: > On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 03:34:51PM +, Duncan wrote: > > William Hubbs posted on Thu, 08 Feb 2018 13:52:56 -0600 as excerpted: > > *snip* > > > > The second change is that baselayout is taking ownership of most of the > > > direc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: newsitem: baselayout 2.5 changes

2018-02-10 Thread William Hubbs
On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 03:34:51PM +, Duncan wrote: > William Hubbs posted on Thu, 08 Feb 2018 13:52:56 -0600 as excerpted: *snip* > > The second change is that baselayout is taking ownership of most of the > > directories it creates. This includes all directories in / and /usr > > excluding

Re: [gentoo-dev] SAT-based dependency solver: request for test cases

2018-02-10 Thread Paweł Hajdan , Jr .
On 10/02/2018 09:20, Michał Górny wrote: > To be honest, I don't think this is the right approach to the problem. Feel free to suggest a better one. > Truth is, dependencies in Gentoo are seriously broken, and most of > the developers aren't even aware of that because of layers upon layers > of h

[gentoo-dev] Re: newsitem: baselayout 2.5 changes

2018-02-10 Thread Duncan
William Hubbs posted on Thu, 08 Feb 2018 13:52:56 -0600 as excerpted: > here is a proposed newsitem for baselayout 2.5. > There are three significant changes in baselayout-2.5. > > The first change is that ROOTPATH is no longer set. This means all of > the *sbin directories will be added to the

Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: baselayout 2.5 changes

2018-02-10 Thread Michał Górny
W dniu sob, 10.02.2018 o godzinie 10∶49 +, użytkownik Mike Auty napisał: > On 08/02/18 20:55, Mike Gilbert wrote: > > However, there are plenty of examples of commands that normal users > > may run from sbin. > > Hiya, > > I'm not really for or against the idea, but whenever the justification

Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: baselayout 2.5 changes

2018-02-10 Thread Mike Auty
On 08/02/18 20:55, Mike Gilbert wrote: > However, there are plenty of examples of commands that normal users > may run from sbin. Hiya, I'm not really for or against the idea, but whenever the justification for something is "there are plenty of examples" it's really helpful to have a number of the

Re: [gentoo-dev] SAT-based dependency solver: request for test cases

2018-02-10 Thread Michał Górny
W dniu sob, 10.02.2018 o godzinie 11∶20 +0100, użytkownik Ulrich Mueller napisał: > > > > > > On Sat, 10 Feb 2018, Michał Górny wrote: > > Example: many packages have impossible circular dependencies. > > However, Portage conditionally pretends they don't exist, preferring > > some random install-t

Re: [gentoo-dev] SAT-based dependency solver: request for test cases

2018-02-10 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Sat, 10 Feb 2018, Michał Górny wrote: > Example: many packages have impossible circular dependencies. > However, Portage conditionally pretends they don't exist, preferring > some random install-time breakage over fixing the packages in > question. Isn't that what the PMS allows, though?

Re: [gentoo-dev] SAT-based dependency solver: request for test cases

2018-02-10 Thread Michał Górny
W dniu wto, 06.02.2018 o godzinie 11∶52 +0100, użytkownik Michael Lienhardt napisał: > Dear all, > > With the help of some friends and colleagues, I am working on an SAT-based > dependency solver for portage. > We need your help to test it and possibly improve in the long run the already > great