Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-14 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 14 January 2014 18:11, William Hubbs wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 05:43:57PM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > On 01/14/2014 05:33 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 04:57:30PM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > >> On 01/14/2014 04:37 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > > >>> >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Recommend cronie instead of vixie-cron in handbook?

2013-12-10 Thread Jeff Horelick
I'm a nobody, but +1 from me. On 10 December 2013 16:33, Lars Wendler wrote: > Am Tue, 10 Dec 2013 21:55:05 +0100 > schrieb Pacho Ramos : > > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197625#c14 > > > > This has reminded me that maybe we should switch to cronie from > > vixie-cron as default an

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-kernel] Proper distribution integration of kernel *-sources, patches and configuration.

2013-07-01 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 1 July 2013 10:41, Tom Wijsman wrote: > Hello > > > Please reply to gentoo-dev in case ML daemon changes Reply-To. > > > ### TL; DR ### > > By introducing feature patches which menu options are disabled by > default to genpatches, we can deduplicate *-sources maintainers as well > as large grou

Re: [gentoo-dev] Evaluating a new malloc()

2013-02-26 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 26 February 2013 16:37, Maciej Mrozowski wrote: > On Tuesday 26 of February 2013 11:44:31 Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Alec Warner > wrote: > > > I see a *HUGE* reason. glibc ships with ptmalloc. If you think they > > > should use jemalloc, talk to them. Don't jus

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] RFC: Graveyard project

2013-02-14 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 14 February 2013 16:55, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/14/2013 04:31 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: > > Hi guys and girls, > > > > We hereby announce the formation of the Graveyard project [1]. It aims > > to provide users with an overlay fo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs for dagger lack of time

2013-02-05 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 5 February 2013 12:57, Pacho Ramos wrote: > sys-apps/paludis I'll take this one (paludis) (currently at work, can't edit metadata for ~7 hours)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Switching order of packages in virtual/pkgconfig

2013-01-02 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 1 January 2013 16:46, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > On 01/01/2013 22:29, Tony "Chainsaw" Vroon wrote: >> That sounds like a clear win. If it has survived the tinderboxing there >> likely isn't much to hold you back. As non-contentious topics sometimes >> end up with no replies at all... consider

[gentoo-dev] Switching order of packages in virtual/pkgconfig

2013-01-01 Thread Jeff Horelick
I would like to propose a switch of the order of DEPENDs in virtual/pkgconfig to make dev-util/pkgconf[pkg-config] the default choice for new installations. dev-util/pkgconf has less external dependencies, is lighter and is faster than dev-util/pkgconfig while being now 100% compatible This switc

Re: [gentoo-dev] What did we achieve in 2012? What are our resolutions for 2013?

2012-12-31 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 31 December 2012 09:17, Ben de Groot wrote: > Happy New Year to all of you! > > Looking back at 2012, I wonder what we consider our achievements for > this past year. What is the state of Gentoo? How have we brought it > forward and improved it this past year? > > And what do we want to see in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2012-12-20 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 20 December 2012 16:52, Pacho Ramos wrote: > Due araujo no longer taking care of them: > dev-lang/pike I've got this one :)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Cleaning tree of outdated packages

2012-12-13 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 13 December 2012 17:57, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Jory A. Pratt wrote: >> >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 12/13/2012 12:48 PM, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: >>> >>> But there is one big ass but. We have some packages that were >>> stabilised las

Re: [gentoo-dev] libxul.so in gentoo

2012-10-21 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 21 October 2012 18:14, Jauhien Piatlicki wrote: > Hi, > May be a stupid question, but > Both firefox and thunderbird have xul library. Before there was a > separate package xulrunner in the tree, but as Mozilla does not provide > it as a separate package now (as far as I remember) both firefox

Re: [gentoo-dev] CIA replacement

2012-10-01 Thread Jeff Horelick
Well nenolod has written a CIA -> Irker proxy that (I believe) takes commit messages designed to go to CIA and makes irker read them and such, but i haven't looked into it: https://github.com/nenolod/irker-cia-proxy On 1 October 2012 11:21, Rafael Goncalves Martins wrote: > Hi Ben, > > On Mon, O

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: prune_libtool_files() and pkg-config dependency

2012-08-31 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 31 August 2012 11:05, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 31/08/12 10:56 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: >> Michał Górny wrote: >>> >>> I believe that the more important direction here is to make >>> development *easier*, not harder. Adding the same DEP

Re: [gentoo-dev] Any official position from Gentoo about systemd, mdev and udev-static ?

2012-08-28 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 28 August 2012 12:59, Matthew Thode wrote: > On 08/28/2012 10:35 AM, Sylvain Alain wrote: >> Hi everyone, I don't want to start a flamewar on that subject, but I would >> like to know if there's any official position about the current situation. >> >> I saw on the forum this thread : >> https:/

Re: [gentoo-dev] Opinion against /usr merge

2012-07-17 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 17 July 2012 21:17, Richard Yao wrote: > On 07/17/2012 08:46 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> If we don't do anything, then lots of stuff moves to /usr. I think >> that is what you're missing. The /usr move basically starts happening >> on its own automatically if we DON'T do much. This is because

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Manifest Hashes

2012-07-04 Thread Jeff Horelick
The change has been made. Please remember to cvs up metadata/layout.conf and update portage (if necessary) before committing. Thanks

[gentoo-dev] New Manifest Hashes

2012-07-01 Thread Jeff Horelick
As of Wednesday, July 4, 2012 at approximately 10:00 UTC, the manifest hashes used on the gentoo-x86 tree will change to "SHA256 SHA512 WHIRLPOOL". To facilitate this change, developers MUST be using at least portage-2.1.10.49 (or portage-2.2_alpha89), or, if your dev-lang/python is built with USE=

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due volkmar being unable to maintain them because of lack of time

2012-06-16 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 16 June 2012 03:52, Pacho Ramos wrote: > The following packages are now orphan: > app-emulation/playonlinux > app-emulation/vboxgtk > dev-libs/xmlrpc-epi > dev-util/bam > media-libs/pnglite > media-video/miro > net-misc/plowshare > > Feel free to get them > > Thanks > > media-video/miro taken

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Enable FEATURES="userpriv usersandbox" by default?

2012-05-29 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 29 May 2012 12:27, hasufell wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05/29/2012 05:23 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 10:57 AM, hasufell >> wrote: >>> I am against too many defaults. It's documented and people can >>> activate it. I'm already annoyed b

Re: [gentoo-dev] news item: Portage's config-protect-if-modified feature is enabled by default

2012-05-17 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 17 May 2012 23:56, Michał Górny wrote: > On Thu, 17 May 2012 14:44:42 -0700 > Zac Medico wrote: > >> I'd like to commit this news item on 2012-05-21. See previous >> discussion here: >> >> http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_7fe557809defad4faca2ee5c6e52d134.xml > > Hmm, I think your shou

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-05-05 Thread Jeff Horelick
I didn't mention this last night (probably because I was EXTREMELY tired), but the entire gentoo-x86 tree has been converted to the virtual (Y!!! *kermitflail*). As long as you don't use any overlays, you should now be able to switch your pkgconfig implementation to pkgconf[pkg-config] or p

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-05-04 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 2 May 2012 12:06, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Sunday 29 April 2012 18:11:58 Mike Frysinger wrote: >> the canonical pkg-config is getting fat.  it requires glib-2.  it runs pkg- >> we've got an implementation in perl (i'm not interested in), but there is >> also "pkg-config-lite" and "pkgconf".  

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-30 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 30 April 2012 14:27, Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 04/30/2012 01:11 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> >> the canonical pkg-config is getting fat.  it requires glib-2.  it runs >> pkg- >> config when building.  glib-2 requires pkg-config.  whee. >> >> for our normal systems, this isn't a big deal.  but

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-29 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 30 April 2012 02:16, Michał Górny wrote: > On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:08:34 -0400 > Mike Frysinger wrote: > >> On Sunday 29 April 2012 18:40:00 Jeff Horelick wrote: >> > On 29 April 2012 18:11, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> > > the canonical pkg-config is g

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-29 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 30 April 2012 00:08, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Sunday 29 April 2012 18:40:00 Jeff Horelick wrote: >> On 29 April 2012 18:11, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> > the canonical pkg-config is getting fat.  it requires glib-2.  it runs >> > pkg- config when building.  glib-2

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-29 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 29 April 2012 18:11, Mike Frysinger wrote: > the canonical pkg-config is getting fat.  it requires glib-2.  it runs pkg- > config when building.  glib-2 requires pkg-config.  whee. > > for our normal systems, this isn't a big deal.  but we'd like to enable a > lighter alternative for embedded/a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Unstabling a package

2012-02-23 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 19 February 2012 21:46, Doug Goldstein wrote: > Any specific procedure to unstable a package? Specifically MythTV. > While there's a lot of user interest in the package, there's just not > enough dev help with the package to really keep it up to snuff to what > could be considered stable. Its w