Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: splitting virtual/

2011-08-16 Thread Michał Górny
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:42:01 -0700 Zac Medico wrote: > On 08/15/2011 11:41 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Now that we don't have any old-style virtuals in gx86 anymore, > > I think the 'virtual' category is basically one another plain > > category nowadays. > > In sys-apps/portage,

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: splitting virtual/

2011-08-16 Thread Zac Medico
On 08/16/2011 12:01 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:42:01 -0700 > Zac Medico wrote: > >> On 08/15/2011 11:41 AM, Michał Górny wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> Now that we don't have any old-style virtuals in gx86 anymore, >>> I think the 'virtual' category is basically one another plain

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: splitting virtual/

2011-08-16 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/16/2011 12:01 AM, Micha? Górny wrote: >>> Considering the number of different virtuals in this category, >>> maybe it would be a good idea to split it a little? What I'm >>> proposing is maybe creating some kind of '*-virtual' categories. >>>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?

2011-08-16 Thread Dale
Duncan wrote: Rich Freeman posted on Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:20:21 -0400 as excerpted: On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 2:04 AM, Dale wrote: I understand that Fedora is wanting to do this. What I don't understand is why. It seems it is udev that is wrecking this havoc. Well, the answe

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: splitting virtual/

2011-08-16 Thread Michał Górny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:26:41 -0700 Zac Medico wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 08/16/2011 12:01 AM, Micha? Górny wrote: > >>> Considering the number of different virtuals in this category, > >>> maybe it would be a

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: splitting virtual/

2011-08-16 Thread Zac Medico
On 08/16/2011 12:40 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:26:41 -0700 > Zac Medico wrote: >> On 08/16/2011 12:01 AM, Micha? Górny wrote: > Considering the number of different virtuals in this category, > maybe it would be a good idea to split it a little? What I'm > propos

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: splitting virtual/

2011-08-16 Thread Michał Górny
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 01:10:48 -0700 Zac Medico wrote: > On 08/16/2011 12:40 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:26:41 -0700 > > Zac Medico wrote: > >> On 08/16/2011 12:01 AM, Micha? Górny wrote: > > Considering the number of different virtuals in this category, > > maybe i

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: splitting virtual/

2011-08-16 Thread Zac Medico
On 08/16/2011 01:29 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 01:10:48 -0700 > Zac Medico wrote: > >> On 08/16/2011 12:40 AM, Michał Górny wrote: >>> On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:26:41 -0700 >>> Zac Medico wrote: On 08/16/2011 12:01 AM, Micha? Górny wrote: >>> Considering the number of di

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: splitting virtual/

2011-08-16 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:19:38 -0700 Zac Medico wrote: > > Isn't that another, ugly, non-PMS hack which makes people think they > > are creating correct packages? > > Are you saying that you'd prefer to have package managers pull in > redundant packages for not good reason? No, package managers sh

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: splitting virtual/

2011-08-16 Thread Zac Medico
On 08/16/2011 02:32 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:19:38 -0700 > Zac Medico wrote: >>> Isn't that another, ugly, non-PMS hack which makes people think they >>> are creating correct packages? >> >> Are you saying that you'd prefer to have package managers pull in >> redundant p

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: splitting virtual/

2011-08-16 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 03:01:26 -0700 Zac Medico wrote: > On 08/16/2011 02:32 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:19:38 -0700 > > Zac Medico wrote: > >>> Isn't that another, ugly, non-PMS hack which makes people think > >>> they are creating correct packages? > >> > >> Are you sayi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?

2011-08-16 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 3:39 AM, Dale wrote: > How long till all this is going to be a absolute requirement?  That is my > question. Well, I don't speak for the teams that want to implement this, but my recommendation is that it not become a requirement until everything is in place to support it.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?

2011-08-16 Thread Dale
Rich Freeman wrote: Considering that we still haven't finished doing all of this for OpenRC yet, I wouldn't worry about the changes hitting you anytime soon. I'd consider a lessons-learned from OpenRC that we shouldn't stabilize packages until AFTER the docs are updated. Otherwise it can tend

[gentoo-dev] USE=introspection has been unmasked in the tree

2011-08-16 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
Hello folks, Introspection has finally been unmasked in the tree![1] This means that most of the issues with introspection have either been ironed out, or can be handled. Note that introspection was already being selectively unmasked on newer ebuilds using profiles/base/package.use.mask for quite

[gentoo-dev] Re: Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?

2011-08-16 Thread Duncan
Rich Freeman posted on Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:34:09 -0400 as excerpted: > Considering that we still haven't finished doing all of this for OpenRC > yet, I wouldn't worry about the changes hitting you anytime soon. I'd > consider a lessons-learned from OpenRC that we shouldn't stabilize > packages un

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?

2011-08-16 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > But then the docs folks said the policy was only to document stable, and > that they weren't going to document openrc until it was going stable. Well, I can see their point - OpenRC was the future for probably 2 years before

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE=introspection has been unmasked in the tree

2011-08-16 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 21:23 Tue 16 Aug , Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > A side-note that we've wanted to get out to all devs is that everyone > should *always* use IUSE="+introspection". Then why is it a flag? -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Council Member / Sr. Developer Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE=introspection has been unmasked in the tree

2011-08-16 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 12:29 AM, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 21:23 Tue 16 Aug     , Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: >> A side-note that we've wanted to get out to all devs is that everyone >> should *always* use IUSE="+introspection". > > Then why is it a flag? > So that people who use, say, json-glib i

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE=introspection has been unmasked in the tree

2011-08-16 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Nirbheek Chauhan schrieb: >>> A side-note that we've wanted to get out to all devs is that everyone >>> should *always* use IUSE="+introspection". >> Then why is it a flag? >> > So that people who use, say, json-glib in embedded environments don't > need to pull in a package that is quite unnecessa

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE=introspection has been unmasked in the tree

2011-08-16 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
2011/8/17 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn : > Nirbheek Chauhan schrieb: A side-note that we've wanted to get out to all devs is that everyone should *always* use IUSE="+introspection". >>> Then why is it a flag? >>> >> So that people who use, say, json-glib in embedded environments don't >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?

2011-08-16 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 09:22:30AM -0500, Dale wrote: > Thanks for the reply. I also agree that the docs should be ready first > then the change. I have a friend that may be switching from Gentoo > because he can not get good docs on how to get his network working after > the OpenRC update. I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?

2011-08-16 Thread Dale
Robin H. Johnson wrote: On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 09:22:30AM -0500, Dale wrote: Thanks for the reply. I also agree that the docs should be ready first then the change. I have a friend that may be switching from Gentoo because he can not get good docs on how to get his network working after t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?

2011-08-16 Thread Sven Vermeulen
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 09:22:30AM -0500, Dale wrote: > Thanks for the reply. I also agree that the docs should be ready first > then the change. I have a friend that may be switching from Gentoo because > he can not get good docs on how to get his network working after the OpenRC > update. I

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE=introspection has been unmasked in the tree

2011-08-16 Thread Maciej Mrozowski
On Tuesday 16 of August 2011 22:14:28 Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > 2011/8/17 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn : > > Nirbheek Chauhan schrieb: > A side-note that we've wanted to get out to all devs is that everyone > should *always* use IUSE="+introspection". > >>> > >>> Then why is it a flag? >

[gentoo-dev] Relinking fun with libtool

2011-08-16 Thread Matti Bickel
Hi folks, coming back from an extended vacation I found bug #351266[1] still open. The root cause of this install failure seems to be libtool trying to relink php's apache module. I'm not entirely sure what causes this (as my system doesn't relink the library), but more importantly I failed to fin

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE=introspection has been unmasked in the tree

2011-08-16 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 3:27 AM, Maciej Mrozowski wrote: > On Tuesday 16 of August 2011 22:14:28 Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: >> 2011/8/17 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn : >> > Then why don't you make it a default flag in desktop/gnome profile >> > instead? That way, the embedded users who don't use a de

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?

2011-08-16 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 03:55:23PM -0500, Dale wrote: > > Did he file a bug for this? We have been working on them. > Nope. He's a ghost Gentoo user. I don't think he is subscribed to any > mailing list or the forums. He just searches for clues and docs. Can you please data-capture that bug and

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE=introspection has been unmasked in the tree

2011-08-16 Thread Jeremy Olexa
On 08/16/2011 06:07 PM, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: The use-case for disabling introspection globally is if you will never use any gobject language bindings for the next 4-5 years. FYI: I disabled it globally, already, on my server. As the rrdtool stack pulls in pango with the +introspection defau

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE=introspection has been unmasked in the tree

2011-08-16 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Jeremy Olexa schrieb: > On 08/16/2011 06:07 PM, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: >> The use-case for disabling introspection globally is if you will never >> use any gobject language bindings for the next 4-5 years. > > FYI: I disabled it globally, already, on my server. As the rrdtool stack > pulls in pan

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?

2011-08-16 Thread Dale
Robin H. Johnson wrote: On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 03:55:23PM -0500, Dale wrote: Did he file a bug for this? We have been working on them. Nope. He's a ghost Gentoo user. I don't think he is subscribed to any mailing list or the forums. He just searches for clues and docs. Ca

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?

2011-08-16 Thread Dale
Sven Vermeulen wrote: On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 09:22:30AM -0500, Dale wrote: Thanks for the reply. I also agree that the docs should be ready first then the change. I have a friend that may be switching from Gentoo because he can not get good docs on how to get his network working after the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?

2011-08-16 Thread Jeremy Olexa
On 08/16/2011 09:01 PM, Dale wrote: Allow me to start this way. If you change a page, send me a link, http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-doc-cvs/

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: splitting virtual/

2011-08-16 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday, August 15, 2011 17:33:24 Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > I don't see a pressing need to split virtual/ yet :) +1 -mike signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.