Re: [gentoo-dev] Defining TZ in the base system profile?

2023-01-18 Thread Ionen Wolkens
On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 08:48:56PM -0500, Joshua Kinard wrote: > > So this article[1] from 2017 popped up again on the tech radar via > hackernews[2] and a few other sites[3]. It > annotates how if the envvar TZ is undefined on a Linux system, it causes > glibc to generate a number of > addit

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defining TZ in the base system profile?

2023-01-18 Thread Michał Górny
On Wed, 2023-01-18 at 20:48 -0500, Joshua Kinard wrote: > So this article[1] from 2017 popped up again on the tech radar via > hackernews[2] and a few other sites[3]. It > annotates how if the envvar TZ is undefined on a Linux system, it causes > glibc to generate a number of > additional sysc

[gentoo-dev] Defining TZ in the base system profile?

2023-01-18 Thread Joshua Kinard
So this article[1] from 2017 popped up again on the tech radar via hackernews[2] and a few other sites[3]. It annotates how if the envvar TZ is undefined on a Linux system, it causes glibc to generate a number of additional syscalls, mainly stat-related calls (in my tests, newfstatat()). If

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: app-dicts/myspell-en, app-dicts/myspell-large-en, dev-python/aiohttp-cors, x11-misc/copyq

2023-01-18 Thread Viorel Munteanu
The following packages are up for grabs due to the retirement of their proxied maintainer: app-dicts/myspell-en app-dicts/myspell-large-en dev-python/aiohttp-cors x11-misc/copyq Thank you, Viorel

Re: [gentoo-dev] Deprecating virtual/opengl in favor of media-libs/libglvnd

2023-01-18 Thread Ionen Wolkens
On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 05:37:03AM -0800, orbea wrote: > I think this is a mistake, libglvnd has a documented performance hit > and should be optional. Optional glvnd was a complete mess and this isn't happening. Also, performance impact is only relevant if cpu-bound which is rather rare for norm

Re: [gentoo-dev] Deprecating virtual/opengl in favor of media-libs/libglvnd

2023-01-18 Thread orbea
I think this is a mistake, libglvnd has a documented performance hit and should be optional. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/glvnd/libglvnd/-/issues/222 On Wed, 18 Jan 2023 14:23:22 +0200 Cedric Sodhi wrote: > Hello everyone, > > as by our discussion on #gentoo-desktop, we would like to sort ou

[gentoo-dev] Deprecating virtual/opengl in favor of media-libs/libglvnd

2023-01-18 Thread Cedric Sodhi
Hello everyone, as by our discussion on #gentoo-desktop, we would like to sort out the historical artefact "virtual/opengl" which dates back to before Wayland and has become somewhat inappropriate (a misnomer, not sufficiently configurable, or redundant depending on one's perspective). A quick