Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving COLLISION_IGNORE (and UNINSTALL_IGNORE?) to profiles/*/make.defaults

2013-08-10 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2013-08-09, o godz. 23:27:41 Zac Medico napisał(a): > On 08/09/2013 02:32 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Just a quick one. > > > > Currently, the two listed variables are set in make.globals (installed > > by portage ebuild); > > > > COLLISION_IGNORE="/lib/modules/* *.py[co] *

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving COLLISION_IGNORE (and UNINSTALL_IGNORE?) to profiles/*/make.defaults

2013-08-10 Thread Zac Medico
On 08/10/2013 12:48 AM, Michał Górny wrote: >> Are we sure that this thing really belongs in the profile, rather than >> something that's defined in ebuilds? Or maybe we should have both? > > Well, AFAICS we have three cases: > > 1. kernel modules that all are installed to a common location > and

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving COLLISION_IGNORE (and UNINSTALL_IGNORE?) to profiles/*/make.defaults

2013-08-10 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2013-08-09, o godz. 11:32:12 Michał Górny napisał(a): > Hello, > > Just a quick one. > > Currently, the two listed variables are set in make.globals (installed > by portage ebuild); > > COLLISION_IGNORE="/lib/modules/* *.py[co] *\$py.class" > UNINSTALL_IGNORE="/lib/modules/*" I've commit

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving COLLISION_IGNORE (and UNINSTALL_IGNORE?) to profiles/*/make.defaults

2013-08-10 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2013-08-10, o godz. 01:14:52 Zac Medico napisał(a): > On 08/10/2013 12:48 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > >> Are we sure that this thing really belongs in the profile, rather than > >> something that's defined in ebuilds? Or maybe we should have both? > > > > Well, AFAICS we have three cases: > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 08/09/2013 07:37 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 19:31:22 +0800 > Patrick Lauer wrote: >> Somehow I get really confused by this selective perception (anyone >> remembering the KDE overlay getting paludised and the fallout from >> that?) > > That's a very selective perception t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 08/09/2013 07:45 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 19:39:08 +0800 > Patrick Lauer wrote: > >> On 08/09/2013 07:26 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: >>> On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 19:31:22 +0800 >>> Patrick Lauer wrote: >>> You just removed the upgrade path for users. >>> >>> The upgrade path is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 08/09/2013 08:28 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 7:31 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote: >> You just removed the upgrade path for users. >> > > Just install systemd. There really isn't any practical alternative. > Gentoo with systemd is as Gentooish a configuration as Gentoo with > Ope

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 08/09/2013 11:12 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 17:50:24 +0300 > Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > >> So users will have gnome working but not any other component? How can >> this a good service for users? > > Just like we can't ensure that everything builds with LLVM doesn't mean > we shou

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote: > not must, but if I choose to run the official supported configuration, > well, then telling me to go to an unsupported state is quite confusing > and sends the wrong signal. > There is no one official supported configuration of Gentoo. Nobo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 08/09/2013 10:59 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 17:22:38 +0300 > Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > >> There was no decision to support Gentoo using any other layout than >> openrc (baselayout). > > Was there the decision to only support a single layout on Gentoo? Where? > You kids don't re

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote: >> not must, but if I choose to run the official supported configuration, >> well, then telling me to go to an unsupported state is quite confusing >> and sends the wrong signal. >> > > Th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 6:55 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote: > Lots of users ran into troubles, and like in the current situation they > were unable to get support as they ran an actively unsupported > configuration. Since when was installing half the packages on your system a supported configuration (w

Re: [gentoo-dev] multilib conversion: Please keep building binaries for all target ABIs

2013-08-10 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Matt Turner schrieb: > I think this is doable, and I think I have a good reason for wanting > to be able to do it. > > I have no idea why Tommy[D] or AxS want to do it. I've never discussed > my plans with them. The main reason seems indeed being able to build 32 bit software where a 32 bit toolc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 18:50:49 +0800 Patrick Lauer wrote: > On 08/09/2013 07:37 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 19:31:22 +0800 > > Patrick Lauer wrote: > >> Somehow I get really confused by this selective perception (anyone > >> remembering the KDE overlay getting paludised and t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 14:12:42 +0300 Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Rich Freeman > wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Patrick Lauer > > wrote: > >> not must, but if I choose to run the official supported > >> configuration, well, then telling me to go to an unsupp

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 19:04:09 +0800 Patrick Lauer wrote: > Using llvm doesn't imply removing gcc ... Using systemd doesn't imply removing openrc ... -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : tom...@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C16

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Michael Weber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/10/2013 01:42 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 19:04:09 +0800 Patrick Lauer > wrote: > >> Using llvm doesn't imply removing gcc ... > > Using systemd doesn't imply removing openrc ... > Running systemd as PID=1 does imply not ru

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 19:03:10 +0800 Patrick Lauer wrote: > On 08/09/2013 10:59 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > > On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 17:22:38 +0300 > > Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > > > >> There was no decision to support Gentoo using any other layout than > >> openrc (baselayout). > > > > Was there the decisi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 18:55:03 +0800 Patrick Lauer wrote: > Lots of users ran into troubles, and like in the current situation > they were unable to get support as they ran an actively unsupported > configuration. Support for it is given all over the place; like for instance in #gentoo and #gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Ben Kohler
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 6:59 AM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > > > Support for it is given all over the place; like for instance in #gentoo > and #gentoo-desktop on the FreeNode IRC network, on the Gentoo Forums, > on the gentoo-user ML as well as for bugs on the Bugzilla bug tracker. > > The people sayin

Re: [gentoo-dev] multilib conversion: Please keep building binaries for all target ABIs

2013-08-10 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 09/08/13 11:28 PM, Matt Turner wrote: > On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Michał Górny > wrote: >>> ...so, allowing for the ability of 32bit userland with 64bit >>> toolchain (via, say, setting ABI_X86=32 in make.conf) using >>> the eclasses is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread William Hubbs
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 01:51:13PM +0200, Michael Weber wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 08/10/2013 01:42 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 19:04:09 +0800 Patrick Lauer > > wrote: > > > >> Using llvm doesn't imply removing gcc ... > > > > Using syst

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving COLLISION_IGNORE (and UNINSTALL_IGNORE?) to profiles/*/make.defaults

2013-08-10 Thread Zac Medico
On 08/10/2013 02:22 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > Dnia 2013-08-10, o godz. 01:14:52 > Zac Medico napisał(a): > >> On 08/10/2013 12:48 AM, Michał Górny wrote: Are we sure that this thing really belongs in the profile, rather than something that's defined in ebuilds? Or maybe we should have b

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] repositories.xml now served via api.gentoo.org

2013-08-10 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Mon, 2013-07-29 at 16:09 -0700, Brian Dolbec wrote: > On Mon, 2013-07-29 at 18:13 +0200, Alex Legler wrote: > > The overlays configuration file repositories.xml is the first file that > > is now being served via api.gentoo.org. > > > > New public URL: https://api.gentoo.org/overlays/repositorie

[gentoo-dev] Re: [typo] Re: Re: Multiple implementations shouldn't block Gentoo's progress.

2013-08-10 Thread Steven J. Long
Rich Freeman wrote: > In general I'd avoid any requirement to use a non-base profile. > Obviously using the right arch/prefix profile makes sense as those are > fundamental config changes and they're all minimalist profiles anyway. > The issues come when you force users to use non-minimalist profi

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Steven J. Long
Tom Wijsman wrote: > Let's say that I were to develop a system with some other Gentoo devs; > that doesn't mean we are able to make everything in the tree support > that system, making it an usable tool for everything is unrealistic This isn't just "any tool" though: it's the core init-system. You

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 20:34:58 +0100 "Steven J. Long" wrote: > Tom Wijsman wrote: > > Let's say that I were to develop a system with some other Gentoo > > devs; that doesn't mean we are able to make everything in the tree > > support that system, making it an usable tool for everything is > > unrea

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2013.08.07 13:45, Michael Weber wrote: > Greetings, > > Gnome Herd decided to target stablilization of 3.8 [1] which requires > systemd. > [snip] > >Michael > > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478252 > -- > Michael Weber > Gentoo Developer > web: https://xmw.de/ > mailto: Mi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread viv...@gmail.com
On 08/09/13 15:54, Michał Górny wrote: > Dnia 2013-08-09, o godz. 14:14:12 > "viv...@gmail.com" napisał(a): >> On 08/09/13 13:38, Pacho Ramos wrote: >>> El vie, 09-08-2013 a las 19:39 +0800, Patrick Lauer escribió: On 08/09/2013 07:26 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 19:31:22

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Wulf C. Krueger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09.08.2013 02:26, Mike Auty wrote: > I could be a KDE developer, or a Gentoo documenter, or work on > mplayer. All those people are open source contributors and > necessary ones, but that doesn't mean that any of them necessarily > has the skills

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Mike Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/08/13 23:42, Wulf C. Krueger wrote: > On 09.08.2013 02:26, Mike Auty wrote: >> I could be a KDE developer, or a Gentoo documenter, or work on >> mplayer. All those people are open source contributors and >> necessary ones, but that doesn't mea

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Mike Auty wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 10/08/13 23:42, Wulf C. Krueger wrote: >> On 09.08.2013 02:26, Mike Auty wrote: >>> I could be a KDE developer, or a Gentoo documenter, or work on >>> mplayer. All those people are open sour

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Tom Wijsman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 00:10:29 +0100 Mike Auty wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 10/08/13 23:42, Wulf C. Krueger wrote: > > On 09.08.2013 02:26, Mike Auty wrote: > >> I could be a KDE developer, or a Gentoo documenter, or

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Mike Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/08/13 00:45, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > They thought deeply about the changes that are being made to the > desktop, and they discussed it and reached a consensus about what > the direction of the project is; you can usually read about in the >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Mike Auty wrote: > Just because companies pour money into something does not mean they > know what they're doing, or that they've done their market research > into what their users want. I've tried several of the forks, and > sadly Gnome, because of the backing it

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [typo] Re: Re: Multiple implementations shouldn't block Gentoo's progress.

2013-08-10 Thread Rich Freeman
On Aug 10, 2013 2:41 PM, "Steven J. Long" wrote: > It's also easier for developers to handle, similar to the KDE profiles. Though I'm > not sure why it's necessary to use a "non-base" profile. We have several > "non-minimalist" profiles already, and the suggestion seems to fit into the > existing

[gentoo-dev] Re: [typo] Re: Re: Multiple implementations shouldn't block Gentoo's progress.

2013-08-10 Thread Duncan
Steven J. Long posted on Sat, 10 Aug 2013 19:42:11 +0100 as excerpted: > That's the point though: given that certain decisions are forced if you > want to use gnome3 (ie you must use systemd, which in turn forces a > whole set of decisions about all the functionality you can no longer mix > and ma

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 09/08/13 12:51, Pacho Ramos wrote: El vie, 09-08-2013 a las 11:26 +0200, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn escribió: Pacho Ramos schrieb: If OpenBSD can do it, then Gentoo can do it, too. So would you accept ebuild patches that make it possible to install Gnome 3.8 without systemd again? Only mak