Re: [gentoo-dev] making USE=upnp a global flag

2012-10-01 Thread Olivier Crête
gt; Do I understand correctly? > > No, TV makers and others advertise UPnP as DLNA (digital living network > appliance) but that actually refers to both port forwarding (eg. used in > consoles) and to media streaming (eg. PC to TV). DLNA is actually a subset of UPnP with some

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: netplugd and ifplugd support in OpenRc

2012-09-11 Thread Olivier Crête
On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 20:01 +0200, Luca Barbato wrote: > On 9/10/12 11:05 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 04:26:10PM -0400, Olivier Crête wrote: > >> On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 09:48 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: > >>> In researching this program, I

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: netplugd and ifplugd support in OpenRc

2012-09-10 Thread Olivier Crête
thoughts about whether we should keep OpenRC > support for one or both of these? The ifplugd author recommends you use NetworkManager for dynamic networking scenarios. -- Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo.org Gentoo Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: multilib-strict no longer in FEATURES of targets/developer/make.defaults (pending on bug 424423)

2012-08-13 Thread Olivier Crête
where cpu and > platform are determined by use flags. > > Should we drop the get_libdir and put them in /usr/lib/grub instead? > Should I even worry about it? There really have no reason to be in $(get_libdir) as they're not compiled for the platform implied by $(get_libdir) ! -- Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo.org Gentoo Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

2012-08-09 Thread Olivier Crête
it, don't put OpenRC in the > > dependency list of baselayout, otherwise it gets pulled in (and > > sysvinit with it) for all systemd users even if we don't use it at > > all. > > Good idea. While we're at it, please also let's not make > systemd/u

Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

2012-08-09 Thread Olivier Crête
On Thu, 2012-08-09 at 13:31 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: > On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 11:12:46AM -0700, Olivier Crête wrote: > > > Most ideas behind systemd are interesting, their current implementation > > > is sometimes completely wrong and given the experience with pulseaudio &

Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

2012-08-09 Thread Olivier Crête
On Thu, 2012-08-09 at 10:42 +0200, Luca Barbato wrote: > On 08/07/2012 09:00 PM, Olivier Crête wrote: > > I expect that in the not so long term, systemd will become an essential > > user-space component of desktop Linux, just like crond, syslog, dbus, > > udev or glibc. S

Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

2012-08-07 Thread Olivier Crête
but that doesn't gain you anything. Refs: [1] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/hostnamed [2] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/timedated [3] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/localed [4] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/logind --

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] systemd.eclass: Patch for new function systemd_get_udevdir()

2012-08-06 Thread Olivier Crête
On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 20:28 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote: > On 06-08-2012 11:16:52 -0700, Olivier Crête wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 13:56 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote: > > > While OpenRC is likely perfectly capable of starting/stopping daemons as > > > a normal user (

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] systemd.eclass: Patch for new function systemd_get_udevdir()

2012-08-06 Thread Olivier Crête
27;s well published plan for world domination is to use systemd as a session manager, so it would replace gnome-session, etc. Lennart & friends are currently pushing kernel patches to make it fully recursive (such as being able to re-parent orphaned processes to the session's systemd instead

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

2012-07-18 Thread Olivier Crête
s were based on. Btrfs > might change our expectations. I'm assuming that btrfs will be the > standard production fs in a few years. The big thing that btrfs brings is snapshots and subvolumes... So it makes it possible to do atomic upgrades and such. Also, you can have "apps" be subvolumes and also handled atomically. -- Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo.org Gentoo Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

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

2012-07-17 Thread Olivier Crête
, we have dependencies on udev for certain features. -- Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo.org Gentoo Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

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

2012-07-17 Thread Olivier Crête
On Tue, 2012-07-17 at 23:54 -0400, Richard Yao wrote: > On 07/17/2012 07:07 PM, Olivier Crête wrote: > > On Tue, 2012-07-17 at 18:41 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > >> If somebody really is pushing for an all-out /usr move by all means > >> speak up, but I think that

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

2012-07-17 Thread Olivier Crête
On Tue, 2012-07-17 at 20:37 -0400, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > On 2012-07-17, at 7:07 PM, Olivier Crête wrote: > > > I'm sure most people can't > > even explain the difference between them. > > > > /sbin is for bins that only root should be able to run. e

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

2012-07-17 Thread Olivier Crête
On Tue, 2012-07-17 at 20:37 -0400, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > On 2012-07-17, at 7:07 PM, Olivier Crête wrote: > > > I'm sure most people can't > > even explain the difference between them. > > > > /sbin is for bins that only root should be able to run.

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

2012-07-17 Thread Olivier Crête
n the difference between them. -- Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo.org Gentoo Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: udev <-> mdev

2012-07-13 Thread Olivier Crête
ode, and was designed to be a good fit for embedded devices. -- Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo.org Gentoo Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stability of /sys api

2012-05-14 Thread Olivier Crête
ple. For the people who don't want to easily use USB sticks or digital cameras or gsm dongles or really any modern hardware, I'm sure mdev is fine. A static /dev is even fine for you probably. -- Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo.org Gentoo Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stability of /sys api

2012-05-14 Thread Olivier Crête
and udev are condemned to reinvent it, poorly". -- Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo.org Gentoo Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tightly-coupled core distro [was: Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012]

2012-05-10 Thread Olivier Crête
n PA allows for lower power usage or how modern audio hardware is designed to use a userspace sound server, etc. -- Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo.org Gentoo Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Chromium bundled code

2012-05-07 Thread Olivier Crête
USED TO BE*, namely a simple devicei > manager. Maybe Greg understands how udev was and how it should be better than you do, since he wrote it. -- Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo.org Gentoo Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: news item for changed polkit default group

2012-01-30 Thread Olivier Crête
On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 14:22 +0200, Samuli Suominen wrote: > The default value of AdminIdentities changed to group wheel by > upstream since version 0.103. You never mention what the old value was.. useful to figure out if it will cause problems. -- Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-06 Thread Olivier Crête
r/w nfsroot (containing /etc, /var, /tmp, etc, etc), and then share /usr among all the machines in your cluster or machine room or your many user desktops. With the current system, you either have to maintain in sync the /bin, /sbin, /usr, etc separately, making life harder for everyone. But cl

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-05 Thread Olivier Crête
On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 08:44 +0800, Patrick Lauer wrote: > On 01/06/12 05:26, Olivier Crête wrote: > [snip] > > The only thing I see them sacrificing is loose coupling, they provide > > more functionality than any other init system, more correctness > > (seriously, did

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: news item for sys-apps/systemd -> /usr migration

2012-01-05 Thread Olivier Crête
uld suggest not removing the symlink unless there is a technical > reason why its presence is undesirable. Doing aggressive migrations like that should really be avoided.. But we know that the real long term solution is to have a /bin -> /usr/bin symlink. -- Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-05 Thread Olivier Crête
On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 21:09 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:02:09 -0500 > Olivier Crête wrote: > > On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 20:08 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > On Thu, 5 Jan 2012 13:30:24 -0600 > > > William Hubbs wrote: > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-05 Thread Olivier Crête
e you to > put /etc inside your initrd (since / can't be mounted without it). > Obviously, you'd have to reboot if you made any changes to your config > files, but that's OK since you can't safely restart daemons anyway. Dude, the systemd people are not crazy. You shou

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-05 Thread Olivier Crête
mount the rootfs, fire a getty and shell. Obviously, you can do init=/bin/sh, that's doesn't help you much. I think we're all speaking of a minimally useful system here. -- Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo.org Gentoo Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-05 Thread Olivier Crête
mount the rootfs, fire a getty and shell. Obviously, you can do init=/bin/sh, that's doesn't help you much. I think we're all speaking of a minimually useful system here. -- Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo.org Gentoo Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-04 Thread Olivier Crête
bedded systems running Linux. Probably more devices are sold running Linux in a single day than the total number of servers in the world... But well, this isn't a number's game. D-Bus is the system bus and bluetooth is just one example of a system level component that uses it. -- Olivier

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-04 Thread Olivier Crête
On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 19:30 +0100, Marc Schiffbauer wrote: > * Olivier Crête schrieb am 04.01.12 um 18:40 Uhr: > > On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 15:54 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 16:51:12 +0100 > > > Michał Górny wrote: > > > > /bin/s

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-04 Thread Olivier Crête
ust to > mount other things on? Just to store /etc ? > > Or will /etc move to /usr too? > > /usr/etc somewhat horrifies me. No no no, the idea is that once all binaries are in /usr, you can easily share /usr between different systems and do updates in a sane way.. You can also mount

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-04 Thread Olivier Crête
be > called "a horrible mess of tight coupling"... You clearly have failed to realize that d-bus is a now the bus for system messaging and is as much part of the system as syslog or bash. Probably even more so, for example, in Fedora 17, you'll be able to boot without sys

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-04 Thread Olivier Crête
wiki/Features/UsrMove Here is a list of packages on your system that will break if you start udev without /usr mounted: egrep 'usb-db|pci-db|FROM_DATABASE|/usr' /*/udev/rules.d/* |cut -f 1 -d : | sort -u | xargs qfile -e -- Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo.org Gentoo Developer

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-03 Thread Olivier Crête
On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 22:47 +, Sven Vermeulen wrote: > On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 03:21:47PM -0500, Olivier Crête wrote: > > > I use a separate /usr with LVM on all my systems. My root partition uses > > > RAID1. And I never had the need for an initramfs of any kind. Also,

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-03 Thread Olivier Crête
On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 14:35 -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: > 2012/1/3 Olivier Crête : > > A couple years ago, Gentoo was the forward looking distribution, ready > > to try radical changes that break existing assumption, like our init > > scripts with dependencies or our early us

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-03 Thread Olivier Crête
On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 13:02 -0600, William Hubbs wrote: > On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 01:50:25PM -0500, Olivier Crête wrote: > > I don't see what breakage would be caused by a big-bang update (move > > everything in /sbin,/bin/,usr/sbin to usr/bin and add symlinks. I really > &

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-03 Thread Olivier Crête
gt; > This is an interesting question. I haven't heard one way or the other > what is happening with /lib/modules. I doubt the kernel will move its install location, they're a very conservative bunch. But I heard that kmod will start looking for modules in /usr/lib/modules ... -- Oliv

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-03 Thread Olivier Crête
Hi, On Mon, 2012-01-02 at 10:41 +0200, Eray Aslan wrote: > On 2012-01-01 11:50 PM, Olivier Crête wrote: > > systemd/dracut/etc handles /usr on its own filesystem just fine. What is > > required is that /usr must be mounted before the pivot_root away from > > the initramfs.

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-01 Thread Olivier Crête
On Sun, 2012-01-01 at 20:23 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 15:21:24 -0500 > Olivier Crête wrote: > > Honestly, so many things just work on MacOS and just need hours of > > tweaking for us.. > > The problem with "just works" is that when i

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-01 Thread Olivier Crête
On Sun, 2012-01-01 at 14:51 -0600, Dale wrote: > Olivier Crête wrote: > > On Sun, 2012-01-01 at 01:33 -0600, Matthew Thode wrote: > >> On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 02:12:22 -0500 > >> Olivier Crête wrote: > >> All of my systems currently have a seperate /usr that is mo

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-01 Thread Olivier Crête
really want to focus on initramfs, I'd appreciate some > documentation help on it. Not only on how to create one, but also why it is > necessary, how to manage initramfs'es, the concepts underlying, etc. Short version: use dracut. -- Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo.org Gentoo Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-01 Thread Olivier Crête
On Sun, 2012-01-01 at 15:33 +0800, Patrick Lauer wrote: > On 01/01/12 15:12, Olivier Crête wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Sat, 2011-12-31 at 19:59 -0600, William Hubbs wrote: > >> I have been working with robbat2 on solutions to the separate /usr issue > >> (That

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-01 Thread Olivier Crête
e, it's the way Fedora is going to do it. -- Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo.org Gentoo Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-01 Thread Olivier Crête
On Sun, 2012-01-01 at 01:33 -0600, Matthew Thode wrote: > On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 02:12:22 -0500 > Olivier Crête wrote: > All of my systems currently have a seperate /usr that is mounted at > boot. Unfortunately I do agree that this is not something that we can > fight. This was bro

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2011-12-31 Thread Olivier Crête
co, not much better than baselayout-1 and unmaintained upstream shows that even a relatively large distribution like us can't maintain a competitive base system solution, adopting the udev/kmod/systemd way will allow us to use all the work that they are doing and instead concentrate on making a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for getting rid of udev

2011-10-13 Thread Olivier Crête
, etc. That said, we, the GNOME upstream, think that having a separate /usr is a completely stupid idea. -- Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo.org Gentoo Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for getting rid of udev

2011-10-13 Thread Olivier Crête
ll the computer something the computer already knows is just plain lazy and stupid. -- Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo.org Gentoo Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: using /libexec

2011-09-06 Thread Olivier Crête
that no other distro ive seen uses, and this isnt > > something we need to differentiate Gentoo. > > The same thing should be applied to /usr/libexec then shouldn't it? > (just asking for more info here) /usr/libexec is used by almost all major distros (except Debian), it has be

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: using /libexec

2011-09-06 Thread Olivier Crête
a outdated idea anyway, and most of the other distros will make that completely impossible very soon. Be bold. Fedora is even going to make /lib, /bin and /sbin symlinks to /usr. My 2 cents (as the guy who made the /lib->/lib64 link in the first place). -- Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo.org G

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: should openrc be mandatory on all gentoo systems?

2011-06-29 Thread Olivier Crête
On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 16:46 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:14:22 -0400 > Olivier Crête wrote: > > And you also underestimate the amount of momentum that Lennart has > > managed to amass behind systemd. I expect that much sooner than you > > think

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: should openrc be mandatory on all gentoo systems?

2011-06-29 Thread Olivier Crête
On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 11:08 +0200, Patrick Lauer wrote: > On 06/29/11 03:07, Olivier Crête wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 17:10 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: > >> The background is that /etc/init.d/functions.sh is a link to > >> /lib/r

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: should openrc be mandatory on all gentoo systems?

2011-06-28 Thread Olivier Crête
> greatly appreciated. As long as we have Gentoo-style init scripts in the tree, we will need these functions to be available. So yes, they should probably be in a separate package from openrc itself to ease the transition to the bright systemd future. -- Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo.org Gentoo De

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: use of the /run directory

2011-05-17 Thread Olivier Crête
able super early in the boot process, before even / has been fscked and re-mounted. That means you can do stuff like starting udevd in parallel with fsck of / which means faster boot. This is one of the things required to get 1 second boot. See http://lwn.net/Articles/436012/ -- Olivier Crêt

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: use of the /run directory

2011-05-17 Thread Olivier Crête
don't think we should facilitate it in any way. -- Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo.org Gentoo Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastrite: gst-plugins-v4l and xfce4-icon-theme

2011-03-31 Thread Olivier Crête
tay the execution of gst-plugins-v4l until 2.6.38 is stable? In our stable 2.6.36 release, some drivers have not yet been ported to v4l2. -- Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo.org Gentoo Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please enhance your USE descriptions!

2011-03-30 Thread Olivier Crête
ds support for not being completely broken" -- Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo.org Gentoo Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] rejecting unsigned commits

2011-03-24 Thread Olivier Crête
ady. I didn't know we still allowed that.. I guess the CVS server should just reject unsigned Manifests.. -- Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo.org Gentoo Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla 4 migration

2011-03-07 Thread Olivier Crête
he/she can simply use https://. If he/she > is not, there is no real reason to enforce slower (and not always > supported) SSL. Maybe it's not to protect the user, but to protect the Gentoo infrastructure.. And really, SSL has been supported by every browser for the last 15 years. A

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The future of sys-apps/openrc in Gentoo

2010-08-23 Thread Olivier Crête
On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 19:09 +0100, Mike Auty wrote: > On 23/08/10 18:26, Olivier Crête wrote: > > > > Other distributions are going one step further and are going for > > shell-free boot. We should follow that lead. > > > > Why? Presumably they're doing it

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The future of sys-apps/openrc in Gentoo

2010-08-23 Thread Olivier Crête
; their init scripts are not exactly compatible with what we do). Other distributions are going one step further and are going for shell-free boot. We should follow that lead. -- Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo.org Gentoo Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] The future of sys-apps/openrc in Gentoo

2010-07-04 Thread Olivier Crête
stemD, PolicyKit, NetworkManager, etc. Anyone with half a brain already dropped our stuff. And the lack of use of modern tools is the reason I don't use Gentoo on my work computer anymore. -- Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo.org Gentoo Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy for late/slow stabilizations

2010-06-27 Thread Olivier Crête
On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 18:54 +0300, Markos Chandras wrote: > On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:47:49AM -0400, Olivier Crête wrote: > > On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 18:04 +0300, Markos Chandras wrote: > > > Moreover, slow arches introduce another problem as well. If a package is > > &g

Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy for late/slow stabilizations

2010-06-27 Thread Olivier Crête
stable keyword on all dependencies too so as to not drop break the tree for them. -- Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo.org Gentoo Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] [git migration] The problem of ChangeLog generation

2010-06-25 Thread Olivier Crête
On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 13:00 +0400, Peter Volkov wrote: > В Птн, 25/06/2010 в 14:19 +0530, Arun Raghavan пишет: > > On 25 June 2010 14:15, Peter Volkov wrote: > > > В Чтв, 24/06/2010 в 16:43 -0400, Olivier Crête пишет: > > [...] > > >> Or you could review the

Re: [gentoo-dev] [git migration] The problem of ChangeLog generation

2010-06-24 Thread Olivier Crête
ntoo-x86. > > > > We could abuse git-note Or you could review the changes before pushing (since in git these operations are separate). And live with the consequences of your mistakes! -- Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo.org Gentoo Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: introspection

2010-06-21 Thread Olivier Crête
e lots of other files you dont absolutely need too. Maybe you should start filing bugs against every package that install these tiny files you don't need! All those wasted inodes! -- Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo.org Gentoo Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New global USE flag: introspection

2010-06-21 Thread Olivier Crête
> > Bindings is a common enough term in use flag descriptions, etc, that users > should at least have an idea what it means. Introspection? Not so much. It's not the bindings... It's introspection data that describes the API. -- Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo.org Gentoo Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: introspection

2010-06-20 Thread Olivier Crête
always for everyone. Due to the direction in which GNOME is heading, it will be required by the core desktop anyway. -- Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo.org Gentoo Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-19 Thread Olivier Crête
table. > > Just prevent people from making python invoke 3.x and everything will > > be fine. > > Isn't ~arch supposed to be for testing? Isn't that the point of having > ~arch? ~arch is for testing ebuilds, not the upstream package -- Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo.org Gentoo Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Ideas for a (fast) EAPI=3

2009-04-08 Thread Olivier Crête
always with econf seems slightly inappropriate, given the > above. > Don't think this is an item for fast-tracked EAPI-3. I'm not a big fan either of this one either, when stuff is patched, you may not want that disabled. -- Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo.org Gentoo Developer

[gentoo-dev] media-video/mpeg4ip to give out or give up

2009-03-24 Thread Olivier Crête
Hello, mpeg4ip is dead upstream and has various bugs [1] (some we patch, some we don't). I'll package.mask/remove it if no one wants to take it over (and effectively become upstream). [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190959 -- Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo.org Gentoo

[gentoo-dev] Make the "policykit" USE flag global

2009-03-18 Thread Olivier Crête
one complains, I will make the changes in a couple days. -- Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo.org Gentoo Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Maintainence of /usr/portage/skel.* and some updates for skel.ebuild

2009-03-11 Thread Olivier Crête
by multilib > eclass) > -comment out the inherit line > -comment out DEPEND and RDEPEND > -remove the || die from econf > -comment out the complete src_compile It may also be a good time to think about updating skel.eclass to use EAPI=2 -- Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo.org Gento

Re: [gentoo-dev] How to speed up maintenance and other Gentoo work?

2009-03-03 Thread Olivier Crête
gt; And bits of code of that ilk. Maybe we could use the dev wiki for that kind of stuff? Having a wiki.gentoo.org would be even better... -- Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo.org Gentoo Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 2 policy for portage tree

2008-12-08 Thread Olivier Crête
On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 00:29 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:25:44 -0500 > Olivier Crête <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The testing should be two phased, the first for regression (against > > existing ebuilds), and once thats stable, then we can t

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 2 policy for portage tree

2008-12-08 Thread Olivier Crête
On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 00:11 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:09:50 -0500 > Olivier Crête <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd like to go further and ask that for the next EAPI change, we only > > allow ebuilds using it into the tree once a version

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 2 policy for portage tree

2008-12-08 Thread Olivier Crête
stable user, I also find this very frustrating. I'd like to go further and ask that for the next EAPI change, we only allow ebuilds using it into the tree once a version of portage that supports it has gone stable. And then, not make any ebuild with the new EAPI stable for 60 mo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Flags to punt (including: kerberos USE flag)

2008-10-31 Thread Olivier Crête
Seriously. Who needs the European Biology Open Software Suite > on a *desktop* oriented system? -- Olivier Crête [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[gentoo-dev] giving up app-laptop/i8kutils

2008-10-28 Thread Olivier Crête
Hi, My Inspiron has died so I can no longer test app-laptop/i8kutils, so I can't really maintain it anymore. If any dev wants to take it, its all yours. If there is a user who want to maintain it, I can proxy. -- Olivier Crête [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Developer signature.asc Description:

Re: [gentoo-dev] FHS compliant KDE install and multi-version support

2008-09-06 Thread Olivier Crête
everyone and just install everything in /usr like everyone else does, if upstream wanted it to be parallel installable, they would have made it that way (like gnome 1.x vs gnome 2.x). -- Olivier Crête [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2008-08-18 Thread Olivier Crête
On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 16:18 +0100, Tony "Chainsaw" Vroon wrote: > sys-auth/thinkfinger I have a thinkpad with the right hardware, so I can take this one, did you already pimp out your other thinkpad packages? -- Olivier Crête [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Developer signature.asc Desc

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Should 'imlib' USE flag be on by default in x86 and amd64 desktop profiles?

2008-07-25 Thread Olivier Crête
op users would want, since it lets > them see all those pretty graphics. Comments? Concerns? imlib is unmaintained/deprecated. So I don't think it makes sense to push it by default to users using GNOME/KDE at least (because they have better image loading libraries). -- Olivier Crête [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Developer

Re: [gentoo-dev] system set no longer in part of world set

2008-07-16 Thread Olivier Crête
al/libc". C++ packages will need a stdc++ depend. Adding a dep to libc almost everywhere seems extremely wrong to me. I though we had decided many times that it was a bad idea. -- Olivier Crête [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Removing .la files...

2008-06-19 Thread Olivier Crête
xample)? > > Nothing per se, but I have yet to see any FOSS application dlopen() gtk+ > or libpng. FOSS is the keyword here... the flash plugin dlopens a bunch of stuff -- Olivier Crête [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Keyword amd64 -> x86_64

2008-02-20 Thread Olivier Crête
;t see the problem with AMD64, why it would be more wrong than ia32 or x86 (based on Intel's product numbers!). AMD64 was invented by AMD and they get to pick the name for it. The keyword amd64 in Gentoo when Intel was still dismissing AMD64... -- Olivier Crête [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: net-im/gaim and its plugins

2007-12-08 Thread Olivier Crête
lugins/gaim-slashexec x11-plugins/gaim-xfire x11-plugins/gaimosd x11-plugins/ignorance x11-themes/gaim-smileys -- Olivier Crête [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[gentoo-dev] Last rites for sys-auth/pam_keyring

2007-11-20 Thread Olivier Crête
# Olivier Crete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (20 Nov 2007) # There is now a better version include in gnome-base/gnome-keyring sys-auth/pam_keyring It will be gone in one month. -- Olivier Crête [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[gentoo-dev] Quick last rites for x11-plugins/gaim-libnotify

2007-10-29 Thread Olivier Crête
Two days ago, I removed the beta versions of gaim 2.x, gaim-libnotify depended on it. It has never been So it has been removed from the tree. It is now called x11-plugins/pidgin-libnotify. The rest of gaim will soon follow -- Olivier Crête [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Developer signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-dev] new-style virtual/editor

2007-10-05 Thread Olivier Crête
me versions that depend on virtual/editor actually hardcode nano as the default. -- Olivier Crête [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] new-style virtual/editor

2007-10-05 Thread Olivier Crête
g virtual/editor. -- Olivier Crête [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla improvements

2007-09-27 Thread Olivier Crête
this really required? It pushes the real content even farther down the window. Or if you really want to keep it for new users, please allow us to disable that. -- Olivier Crête [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-im/centericq needs a new maintainer

2007-09-10 Thread Olivier Crête
On Sat, 2007-13-01 at 15:39 -0500, Olivier Crête wrote: > On Tue, 2007-09-01 at 09:35 +0100, Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen wrote: > > net-im/centericq is without an ebuild maintainer and has an open security > > bug > > #160793 > > > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GPL violations with net-misc/vpnc?

2007-08-31 Thread Olivier Crête
d or just exclude it with > an ewarn only? With bindist, you should just disable any non-distributable feature and print a ewarn.. Dieing is not nice since its used to build the stages, etc. -- Olivier Crête [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Status of xcb

2007-08-21 Thread Olivier Crête
just install xcb alongside regular Xlib ? If we can't, I would favor making xcb the default. Its significantly better than the old Xlib. -- Olivier Crête [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Should hotplugged services affect dependencies by default?

2007-08-15 Thread Olivier Crête
On Wed, 2007-15-08 at 15:02 +0100, Roy Marples wrote: > On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 10:09 -0400, Olivier Crête wrote: > > I believe services that don't bind to a specific address should probably > > only depend on net.lo, not net. > > Well, they can actually depend on a speci

Re: [gentoo-dev] Should hotplugged services affect dependencies by default?

2007-08-15 Thread Olivier Crête
modify the script to depend on that interface) and those that use the network, but don't really need it (like sshd, etc). That said, I now use networkmanager (to be able to easily select wifi networks), I don't know how integrated into the whole baselayout-2. -- Olivier Crête [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: net-im/pidgin protocols

2007-07-20 Thread Olivier Crête
r dependencies are enabled by default and have been for a while... The other should really stay off by default. I don't think adding it them to the profiles is wise.. -- Olivier Crête [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-im/pidgin protocols

2007-07-20 Thread Olivier Crête
On Fri, 2007-20-07 at 00:57 +0100, Olivier Crête wrote: > On Thu, 2007-19-07 at 15:22 -0700, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 16:02 -0600, Jim Ramsay wrote: > > > I'm all for doing it now in the profile, but it's not my package. > > > Perhaps

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-im/pidgin protocols

2007-07-19 Thread Olivier Crête
it.. Except for silc and zephyr (which may or may not work very well) and should probably stay off. -- Olivier Crête [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

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