Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs due lavajoe retirement

2012-12-08 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Sat, 1 Dec 2012 21:41:35 -0500 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Alec Warner > wrote: > > Look, if you want to make a policy about the stuff, then make a > > policy, get council approval, and write it down. > > Don't make up silly half-solutions. > > Sure, but I'm not awa

[gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs due lavajoe retirement

2012-12-02 Thread Duncan
Ian Stakenvicius posted on Sun, 02 Dec 2012 14:18:04 -0500 as excerpted: > ... a die in pkg_pretend is "fails to be permitted to emerge", not > "fails to build". And this would be essentially a p.mask but without it > using the portage p.mask (and its various connotations). Exactly. =:^) --

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs due lavajoe retirement

2012-12-02 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 02/12/12 03:35 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Sun, 2 Dec 2012 02:20:07 + (UTC) Duncan > <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > >> Rich Freeman posted on Sat, 01 Dec 2012 08:46:34 -0500 as >> excerpted: >> >>> And if we force some types of packages to

[gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs due lavajoe retirement

2012-12-02 Thread Duncan
Michał Górny posted on Sun, 02 Dec 2012 09:35:45 +0100 as excerpted: > On Sun, 2 Dec 2012 02:20:07 + (UTC) > Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > >> Rich Freeman posted on Sat, 01 Dec 2012 08:46:34 -0500 as excerpted: >> >> > And if we force some types of packages to be masked all the time

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs due lavajoe retirement

2012-12-02 Thread Michał Górny
On Sun, 2 Dec 2012 02:20:07 + (UTC) Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > Rich Freeman posted on Sat, 01 Dec 2012 08:46:34 -0500 as excerpted: > > > And if we force some types of packages to be masked all the time, then > > what do we do if we actually need to mask them for removal or securi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs due lavajoe retirement

2012-12-01 Thread Alec Warner
On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Alec Warner wrote: >> Look, if you want to make a policy about the stuff, then make a >> policy, get council approval, and write it down. >> Don't make up silly half-solutions. > > Sure, but I'm not aware of any

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs due lavajoe retirement

2012-12-01 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Alec Warner wrote: > Look, if you want to make a policy about the stuff, then make a > policy, get council approval, and write it down. > Don't make up silly half-solutions. Sure, but I'm not aware of any policy at all concerning packages that contain bundled libra

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs due lavajoe retirement

2012-12-01 Thread Alec Warner
On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > Rich Freeman posted on Sat, 01 Dec 2012 08:46:34 -0500 as excerpted: > >> And if we force some types of packages to be masked all the time, then >> what do we do if we actually need to mask them for removal or security. >> Users

[gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs due lavajoe retirement

2012-12-01 Thread Duncan
Rich Freeman posted on Sat, 01 Dec 2012 08:46:34 -0500 as excerpted: > And if we force some types of packages to be masked all the time, then > what do we do if we actually need to mask them for removal or security. > Users won't even realize they have a known flaw, because they had to > unmask t