Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Mike Frysinger wrote: as avenj pointed out, current 'mission statement' of devrel says that they handle the issue of actually revoking a dev's access I thought this was written somewhere too, but I can't seem to find it anywhere. Do you know where it says this? It certainly says they're resp

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] C++ herd proposal

2005-09-20 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Schlemmer wrote: | Technically it does support it if said developer gets Infra to move it | server side some nasty side effects, etc, but lots better than our | current situation where some bright spark removed most if not all | history o

Re: [gentoo-dev] "Commercial" software in portage

2005-09-22 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Gianelloni wrote: | On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 00:37 +0900, Georgi Georgiev wrote: |>So, how do you treat icc? It requires a license key, but you can get the |>key for free after registering. The package does not cost money and does |>not work out of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Say no to static libraries!

2005-09-23 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ervin Nemeth wrote: | Now let's do the same for xorg-x11, Ha, good luck trying to pass standard configure options into imake. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDM8ChXVaO67S1rtsRAqtiAJ9HTNKxUKpEJq/O/BAjZ8WkBq510QC

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Say no to static libraries!

2005-09-23 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ervin Nemeth wrote: | I see, but how about defining ForceNormalLib as NO in host.def? Yes, that is the way to do it, and I actually have xorg doing this already on USE=minimal. But at this point, monolithic xorg-x11 is in security mode -- it's not ge

Re: [gentoo-dev] Linux Standard Base Project

2005-09-23 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | Nope. There's no interest in LSB compliance. LSB isn't a real standard, | it's some nonsense dreamed up so that companies like Sun can claim that | they are "Linux compliant" (meaning "behaves like RedHat"). Of course you'll

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dirt: To shove under the rug or not shove under the rug? (aka another round of USE_EXPAND)

2005-09-27 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason Stubbs wrote: | Removing the QA check while the QA problem still exists is, in my mind, just | plain ludicrous. Removing the QA check once the QA problem is fixed doesn't | make much sense to me either. However, adjusting the check where necessa

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dirt: To shove under the rug or not shove under the rug? (aka another round of USE_EXPAND)

2005-09-27 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Gianelloni wrote: | On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 19:12 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: |>Which leads me to the one thing I didn't say but feel strongest about.. What |>is the real point of USE_EXPAND? What can/does it do that USE flags do not? | | | As far

Re: [gentoo-dev] default logger

2005-09-27 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | Ok, for those who don't remember... | | In the good old days, syslog-ng was the default. Then, for one of the | releases, the x86 team accidentally included metalog instead of | syslog-ng on the distfiles CD, so the default wa

Re: [gentoo-dev] default logger

2005-09-27 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian Harring wrote: | Re: it being a temporary change that should be undone, it's been | around long enough I won't call it 'temporary' at this point. Oh, so if we screwed up a year ago, we shouldn't fix it. If you won't call that temporary, I won't

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dirt: To shove under the rug or not shove under the rug? (aka another round of USE_EXPAND)

2005-09-27 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason Stubbs wrote: | What are the exact reasons for not wanting to put the expanded flags directly | into IUSE? If it's just a matter of the horrid display existing tools would | give, the functionality can go in and IUSE updated after the functional

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dirt: To shove under the rug or not shove under the rug? (aka another round of USE_EXPAND)

2005-09-27 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason Stubbs wrote: | On Wednesday 28 September 2005 13:19, Donnie Berkholz wrote: | IUSE="baz bop" | iuse_expand VIDEO_CARDS foo bar This has the ring of hack to me, if it's something to be used in ebuilds. |>In addition, it save

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project, GLEP, or skip it?

2005-09-29 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Nebinger wrote: | My ultimate goals is to generate ebuilds for eGroupWare and/or zimbra (I | want a groupware solution for my home system and I like the look and | feel/features that these offer). Um, egroupware is already in portage. Thanks, D

Re: [gentoo-dev] Glibc builds and --as-needed

2005-10-11 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Simon Strandman wrote: | I'm curious why --as-needed is disabled for glibc builds. It was first | added over a year ago in one of the early 2.3.4 builds so is it still | nessecary? I think it had something to do with breaking binutils 2.15.90 or ther

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council meeting Thursday October 13th

2005-10-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Grant Goodyear wrote: | Um, sort of? The council exists mainly to make cross-project decisions. | I suppose that this issue counts, since it involves both the baselayout | folks and the GDP, but the GDP doesn't really care which logger is | installed

[gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The first release candidate was announced roughly 12 hours ago. And fitting the Gentoo you know as up to the minute, so far beyond the bleeding edge that it's wearing a Band-Aid before it starts to bleed, comes the complete package in Portage -- all 2

Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Armak wrote: | KDE doesn't have any special requirements. It doesn't use any kind of X11 | build tool (what is there other than imake?). It does use some X apps like | xmessage, xset etc. After you commit your metaebuilds we'll update the deps | a

Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Armak wrote: | On Thursday 20 October 2005 09:11, Donnie Berkholz wrote: | |>Metabuilds should be forthcoming shortly. I'd appreciate input on |>http://dev.gentoo.org/~spyderous/xorg-x11/metabuilds.txt and in |>particular from peopl

Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Armak wrote: | On Thursday 20 October 2005 17:28, Luca Barbato wrote: |>a useflag could solve the issue as well a all inclusive metaebuild for X. | | To solve this issue it would have to be an on-by-default flag, i.e. | 'noxserver'. I know some pe

Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Armak wrote: | On Thursday 20 October 2005 20:37, Donnie Berkholz wrote: | |>I'd prefer that people don't come to depend on metabuilds at all. | | OK, we can do this. | | |>See |>http://dev.gentoo.org/

Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Armak wrote: | On Thursday 20 October 2005 20:43, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |>Or, you could just activate it in the base profile. | | True. I forget - why can't we solve the problem of all nofoo USE flags this | way? Or is the (remaining)

Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: | On Thursday 20 October 2005 21:25, Dan Armak wrote: | |>True. I forget - why can't we solve the problem of all nofoo USE flags this |>way? Or is the (remaining) problem only with local flags? | | Too many people usin

Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: | On Thursday 20 October 2005 21:42, Donnie Berkholz wrote: | |>I think you're missing the context. He's saying we solve the nofoo |>problem by adding foo to profiles instead, not by adding

Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Armak wrote: | Your mua or some gateway has inserted really ugly linebreaks in the text you | quoted. I tried to make it prettier. | | On Thursday 20 October 2005 21:17, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |>Selected arbitrarily by the x11 team based

Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Gianelloni wrote: | On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 12:17 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |>Selected arbitrarily by the x11 team based on requirement, common use |>and prettiness factor. Probably font-misc-misc, font-bh-ttf, |>font-adobe-utopia-

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder on dependencies.

2005-10-24 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Spider (D.m.D. Lj.) wrote: | If your package, libFoo, installs .h files that directly require header | files from libBar, then you have a Runtime dependency on libBar, not | only a compile time dependency | | | Why? Because libFoo should be usable

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder on dependencies.

2005-10-24 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Spider (D.m.D. Lj.) wrote: | Why? Because they just install the hard RDEPEND, so if you have a system | installed from binaries, you get working linking, but nothing will | compile for the system. Right, until you actually install the build-time deps

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder on dependencies.

2005-10-25 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 21:37:03 -0700 Donnie Berkholz | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | Now, the other side of the story. It's not true runtime dependence | | because it's not required for programs to run, only

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder on dependencies.

2005-10-25 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Grant Goodyear wrote: At the same time, I'm suppose that including header files by default is not such a good thing for the embedded folks. Exactly. And hacking around that with some USE flags for embedded just says, to me, that we can't make a decision: we'll enforce this "usable for compili

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder on dependencies.

2005-10-25 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: See, if libfoo-1.0's headers don't need (say) boost, but libfoo-1.1's headers do, with what you're proposing you'd have to go through and update the dependencies of every single package using libfoo. That's true, and it's why I brought up the cascading DEPEND bit in the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Getting Important Updates To Users

2005-10-30 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thierry Carrez wrote: | But it's a good idea to have some kind of automatic replication of | frontpage announcements to gentoo-announce and the forums, this will | help getting important messages through. However, I'm not sure *all* | frontpage conten

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Getting Important Updates To Users

2005-10-30 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Duncan wrote: | But there's already a GWN list, which I assume those that want have signed | up for. Putting them on the announce list as well would therefore be | little more than noise. That doesn't hold for the other announcements on | the front

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in sys-auth/munge: metadata.xml ChangeLog munge-0.5.9.ebuild

2010-11-20 Thread Donnie Berkholz
uniq): 74 pkg_preinst() { 101 pkg_postinst() { 369 pkg_setup() { -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpLg0TI5fS9J.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] What are || ( ) dependencies?

2010-12-17 Thread Donnie Berkholz
mans may need to decide what's best for any specific package's dependencies. > So would anyone be especially opposed to making "best leftmost" an > explicit requirement, enforced by repoman where possible (at least for > the >= / < case)? Not in the entirely ambiguous case, but things are trickier when one of the packages is installed, even in nonmatching version/USE. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpJzD1EkNdBv.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Summary of suggested new features in EAPI="4"

2010-12-17 Thread Donnie Berkholz
fiable files in > profiles in > EAPI="4". These files would cause that repoman would allow optional > dependencies on packages potentially unsatisfiable in some > configurations (e.g. on stable-only systems). > - Create separate profiles for stable and unstable keywords. USE

Re: [gentoo-dev] Summary of suggested new features in EAPI="4"

2010-12-19 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 22:21 Sat 18 Dec , Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:48:26 -0600 > Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > I don't know of anyone who's actually done this, but setting IUSE > > based on ACCEPT_KEYWORDS being ~arch should be possible. There may be > > be

Re: [gentoo-dev] Deprecate EAPIs 0 and 1?

2011-01-03 Thread Donnie Berkholz
ental stack of added and removed features across multiple levels. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpoajUBHwB8n.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Blockers and package moves

2011-01-17 Thread Donnie Berkholz
end up disappearing. > > Does anyone care to justify their "block the old name" habits? How about playing nicely with overlays where the moves didn't happen (yet)? -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com pgpzJVYB2MpNj.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Upcoming changes to hosting of Git repos on git.gentoo.org (NOT overlays.git.gentoo.org)

2011-01-21 Thread Donnie Berkholz
rtage-tree.git portage-tree.git (the name 'portage' derives from bsd ports, so it makes sense to keep that connection to make it recognizable to that audience) -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com pgp6knDsYSf2N.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Upcoming changes to hosting of Git repos on git.gentoo.org (NOT overlays.git.gentoo.org)

2011-01-21 Thread Donnie Berkholz
he main tree and overlays in this structure. Just do something common for both, like tree/ or ebuilds/ or packages/. In the same vein, there's no good reason I can think of to discriminate between overlays that are project vs personal, since either can be supported or unsupported. -- Thanks

Re: [gentoo-dev] Private SVN repository for live-ebuild

2011-01-28 Thread Donnie Berkholz
uld treat the portage user as a regular user with a regular home directory that can be configured as desired, and flip in and out of that user on demand. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com pgpw94VbQQOSR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Glep 48 update (as nominated for next meeting)

2011-01-30 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Gentoo policy and not team-specific. I personally disagree that it should be possible, but that is a separate decision from whether it should be a common process across all of Gentoo. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com pgpnHaRSmX8mS.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Glep 48 update (as nominated for next meeting)

2011-01-30 Thread Donnie Berkholz
ntrating power in a smaller number of people using a meritocratic process -- OSS communities seem to operate much better as a meritocracy than a democracy, as that provides an incentive to actually get stuff done instead of talk about the best process for it all day. -- Thanks, Donnie Donn

Re: [gentoo-dev] Glep 48 update (as nominated for next meeting)

2011-01-31 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 09:06 Mon 31 Jan , Fabian Groffen wrote: > On 30-01-2011 20:31:24 -0600, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > On 22:11 Fri 28 Jan , Tomáš Chvátal wrote: > > > So draft we would like to have implemented as Glep update is this diff: > > > http://dev.gentoo.or

Re: [gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 81 bugs

2011-02-01 Thread Donnie Berkholz
nds... By the way, could you please change the dates to be -MM-DD (a la ISO 8601) so they make sense to everyone? I was blindingly confused at first and thought they spanned a few days rather than a year. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dber

Re: [gentoo-dev] avoiding urgent stabilizations

2011-02-08 Thread Donnie Berkholz
ability. (With exceptions for security issues.) -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com pgp1Jg4PAhd9O.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] avoiding urgent stabilizations

2011-02-08 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 12:37 Tue 08 Feb , Rich Freeman wrote: > On Feb 8, 2011 11:44 AM, "Donnie Berkholz" wrote: > > (With exceptions for security issues.) > > Other than monitoring bugzilla, how does a Gentoo user even know that > they have a package pending a security update?

Re: [gentoo-dev] avoiding urgent stabilizations

2011-02-09 Thread Donnie Berkholz
e had 19 students last year!). -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com pgpMyQryx46Ud.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Installer (text-based)

2011-02-10 Thread Donnie Berkholz
peration > with others, please contact me (off-list). Like http://agaffney.org/quickstart.php ? -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com pgpVQQh81hULr.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: package.keywords-compatible snippets when stabilizing multiple packages

2011-02-15 Thread Donnie Berkholz
#x27;t you just make a single list that either has keywords for every arch or a ** ? Presumably every arch needs a certain set of packages stable, and it doesn't matter if you redundantly specify packages that are already stable. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com pgpWdbo9YIcLx.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: package.keywords-compatible snippets when stabilizing multiple packages

2011-02-16 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 14:17 Wed 16 Feb , Tobias Klausmann wrote: > Hi! > > On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > On 09:10 Tue 15 Feb, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote: > > > Le lundi 14 février 2011 à 19:19 +0100, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." a écrit : > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Rewrite java-config in C++ or python

2011-02-27 Thread Donnie Berkholz
ead this first" section and > noticing that there is a gentoo-soc mailing list. Indeed, please do join the mailing list! We strongly encourage novel ideas beyond what's on the ideas list, but make sure to discuss them in advance of applying so you find a mentor. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com pgphB5rIWJQox.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk 3 preparation work

2011-02-27 Thread Donnie Berkholz
ext email could have such a list. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com pgpus2FkMRYo4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Make the clustering LiveCD from a previous GSoC bootable from USB

2011-02-27 Thread Donnie Berkholz
n see, it will probably need some updating to work with the latest versions of other software before you can enhance it. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com pgpRrVLe1LqeV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla 4 migration

2011-03-07 Thread Donnie Berkholz
craping. I tried using the python-bugzilla client that accesses Bugzilla via XML-RPC but it didn't seem to work. Do we have anything available? -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com pgpThu2dFRGyd.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla 4 migration

2011-03-07 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 16:35 Mon 07 Mar , Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: > On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 15:13, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > Thanks! One thing I've been very interested about in 3.x and 4.x is API > > access that's better than screen-scraping. I tried using the > > python-bugzill

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla 4 migration

2011-03-08 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 07:50 Tue 08 Mar , Hans de Graaff wrote: > On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 08:13 -0600, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > > Thanks! One thing I've been very interested about in 3.x and 4.x is API > > access that's better than screen-scraping. I tried using the > > py

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Quantity of open bugs

2011-03-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
packages, but clearly more investigation is required before removal. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com pgpXlUAj6ZLsw.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/ffmpeg and media-video/libav

2011-03-23 Thread Donnie Berkholz
so before we decided it was definitely a zombie and burned it to a crisp. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com pgpKRB5nyAlw6.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: git-2.eclass final review

2011-03-23 Thread Donnie Berkholz
ngs over ... > > Or better yet, git clone. This could work well with --shared; even worked for me on separate partitions. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com pgpXPp3orTeuv.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Eclass review: xorg-2 virtualx

2011-03-23 Thread Donnie Berkholz
--disable-jisx0201 > + --disable-koi8-r" > + fi Any chance we can just clean out the fonts that still use the old way and delete most of this? -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com pgpV233MzoVf4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: git-2.eclass final review

2011-03-24 Thread Donnie Berkholz
erhaps we could detect whether submodules are in use (need to find the right place/way in git), then grab them as separate bare checkouts that would eventually be cloned into TMPDIR by changing the repo location git looks for (again, need to sort out how in git). -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie B

Re: [gentoo-dev] mono.eclass EAPI3(/4)

2011-03-25 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-d "${ED}/usr/lib" && "$(get_libdir)" != "lib" ]] No need for quotes when expanding variables or functions inside [[ ]]. That holds true for the rest of the diff, too. I'd also split this (and a later find call) into two separate conditionals, with just one test per [[ ]]. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com pgp15BGErOV6U.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-python/PyZilla: PyZilla-0.1.0.ebuild ChangeLog metadata.xml

2011-03-27 Thread Donnie Berkholz
the same thing with numerous serious, unfixed bugs or tinderbox errors means something much different. We have the ability to do these kinds of intersections today, since our wonderful bug wranglers normally insert the $CAT/$PN into summaries and Diego has tinderbox bugs filed. -- Thanks, Donnie

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-python/PyZilla: PyZilla-0.1.0.ebuild ChangeLog metadata.xml

2011-03-27 Thread Donnie Berkholz
ad a nifty news system for making announcements. And I > thought we were supposed to have Smolt support like two years ago. What > happened to it? I wonder the same question too, since it seems statistics is an eternally returning GSoC project. Sebastian, you worked on this in 2009. What ne

Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc-0.8.1 stable candidate

2011-04-13 Thread Donnie Berkholz
people will start laughing at yet another "new" init system. =) If there's a guide around already, or a blog post, or you want to draft something, let me know and I'd be happy to polish it up. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkho

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: euscan proof of concept (like debian's uscan)

2011-04-18 Thread Donnie Berkholz
the tree. - This looks like a problem (a versioned tarball named cairo-5c): http://euscan.iksaif.net/package/x11-libs/cairo/ -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com pgpKu9VoK0Qtd.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: euscan proof of concept (like debian's uscan)

2011-04-18 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 15:48 Mon 18 Apr , Corentin Chary wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > - Some teams have "official" overlays. Supporting those as an additional > >  source of ebuilds would be pretty nice. > > I'll just checkout these

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: euscan proof of concept (like debian's uscan)

2011-04-18 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 15:48 Mon 18 Apr , Corentin Chary wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > - Another useful thing would be a way to supply CPV tokens for any > >  "unstable" upstream series that we'll never add to the tree. > > There is alre

Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc portage news item

2011-04-20 Thread Donnie Berkholz
clear on what exactly happens though, since I've seen people talking about this *maybe* resulting in an unbootable system. Has anyone tested it? One potential cleaner approach to the same idea Kfir suggested is to make it an interactive emerge with an ACCEPT_LICENSE-like feature that pops up some

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: 24 hour review for >= dev-libs/glib-2.28 stable news item

2011-04-27 Thread Donnie Berkholz
n Editor, they will now be ignored." -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com pgpLMYrMOIz33.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] Web-design help request

2011-05-03 Thread Donnie Berkholz
us to also fix some of the frontend usability issues. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Team lead, public relations Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com pgpfcuG38Min8.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: an eclass for github snapshots?

2011-06-07 Thread Donnie Berkholz
; (section 12.2) It seems compliant to me, as S is assigned an invariant value that happens to contain the character '*', which is overwritten with a new value as a local variable in ebuild functions. Sample code in listing 12.1 in my copy of the PMS seems to suggest this is perfec

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo package statistics -- GSoC 2011

2011-06-08 Thread Donnie Berkholz
roject could actually attempt to factor out which USE flags result in which files in an automatic fashion. That would address one of the biggest objections many people have had to such a package-to-file search engine. It would also be pretty useful for some other GSoC projects, like the ebuild gene

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo commit in xml/htdocs/proj/en/qa: index.xml

2011-06-10 Thread Donnie Berkholz
ink would work alright. Perhaps interested people on the team could just say they want to be lead, and the council would pick one of them. I think leadership should come from the top. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com pgph7SFlBjLvo.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages that explicitly DEPEND on sys-apps/sed

2011-06-22 Thread Donnie Berkholz
on. On a related note that would accomplish similar purposes, it would also be nice if we could somehow discriminate between DEPEND and RDEPEND for @system packages so build-only deps could be removed. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com pgpPUQh7quVSd.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Don't use / when applying sed with CFLAGS

2011-06-27 Thread Donnie Berkholz
g us what to _not_ use as separator how about suggesting a > list of konwn to be good separators for such cases. How about the @ character? One of my favorites for weird cases is ~. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com pgpaaKjqoCZiQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: optinal run time dependencies

2011-06-28 Thread Donnie Berkholz
file. 3) Something like the --take argument and friends that Ciaran mentioned seems reasonable (perhaps --accept-suggestion, w/ a short option to save typing). Problems? Other thoughts? -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com pgpEU

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: deprecation of baselayout-1.x

2011-07-01 Thread Donnie Berkholz
every couple of months to help every time one of these weird problems comes up. I recommended upgrades to the new admin every 3 months, which is a point where nearly everything still works cleanly. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com pgpbxhlF9Fgwu.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-misc/pimd RFC for new ebuild

2011-07-19 Thread Donnie Berkholz
and fix you're proposing? You stopped halfway through, there should've been a part at the end that said: ", so you need to do XX to avoid YY from happening". -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Council Member / Sr. Developer Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com pgpJjW4Wm54GR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-misc/pimd RFC for new ebuild

2011-07-19 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 14:40 Tue 19 Jul , Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 14:32, Kacper Kowalik wrote: > > W dniu 19.07.2011 19:31, Donnie Berkholz pisze: > >> On 11:43 Sun 17 Jul     , Kacper Kowalik wrote: > >>> W dniu 17.07.2011 10:45, Kfir Lavi pisze: > >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Turning eclasses upside down with new EAPIs (the python eclasses)

2011-07-27 Thread Donnie Berkholz
ust plain confusing, and it should go into a new version-bumped eclass instead. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Council Member / Sr. Developer Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com pgpgLBfaNeoHa.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gentoo-x86 migration to repo-per-package

2011-08-09 Thread Donnie Berkholz
sion across packages, and furthmore, package moves wouldn't duplicate history. If you're interested in fixing the above problems as well as the ones that exist regardless of repo format (linked on the main tracker bug [2]), then submodules could become a better option. -- Thanks,

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:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Proposal: ban mirror://gentoo/ from ebuilds

2011-08-20 Thread Donnie Berkholz
source" clause rather than the "providing source at the same time as binary" clause (i.e., 3b rather than 3a in GPL-2). -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Council Member / Sr. Developer Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com pgpKNPzYQVAdA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Implicit system dependencies

2011-08-23 Thread Donnie Berkholz
6f3dfc762f4f7e313b106deb.xml 4. http://soc.dev.gentoo.org/~darkdefender/ebuildgenerator -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Council Member / Sr. Developer Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com pgp441wcSLJ6h.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoostats, SoC 2011

2011-08-29 Thread Donnie Berkholz
s like adding packages to the tree that collect data from users > and compile it, Like, oh, any package with a built-in bug reporting system? -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Council Member / Sr. Developer Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com pgplaqzIBXO04.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] mesa r600 gallium news item

2011-08-31 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 23:12 Thu 25 Aug , Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: > Existing users will not be switched automatically. Why not? If it's considered the supported route going forward, we should just do it automatically. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Council Member / Sr. Developer Gent

Re: [gentoo-dev] mesa r600 gallium news item

2011-08-31 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 17:51 Wed 31 Aug , Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: > Donnie Berkholz schrieb: > > On 23:12 Thu 25 Aug , Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: > >> Existing users will not be switched automatically. > > > > Why not? If it's considered the suppo

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: devqawarn()?

2011-09-01 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 14:44 Thu 01 Sep , Petteri Räty wrote: > One thing to note is that we should get eqawarn into the next EAPI. Why? -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Council Member / Sr. Developer Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com pgpC80OrHx438.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Rewriting bash-completion.eclass

2011-09-01 Thread Donnie Berkholz
ersion bumps to a new eclass. It's just as annoying in an eclass as in a shared library. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Council Member / Sr. Developer Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com pgpe4A1WUfHEv.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] autotools-utils.eclass: punt unnecessary .la files even w/ USE=static-libs.

2011-09-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
comment says "or" but I see an "and" here. > + -e > "s/^dependency_libs='\(.*\)'$/\1/p" \ > + -e > "s/^inherited_linker_fla

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] autotools-utils.eclass: punt unnecessary .la files even w/ USE=static-libs.

2011-09-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
ve .pc files). It's probably more that "nobody" cares about static building than that there aren't packages that would break. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Council Member / Sr. Developer Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com pgphwBqOBZT6Q.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] autotools-utils.eclass: punt unnecessary .la files even w/ USE=static-libs.

2011-09-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 23:58 Mon 12 Sep , Michał Górny wrote: > On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:00:20 -0500 > Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > > local f > > > for f in $(find "${D}" -type f -name '*.la'); do > > > # Keep only .la files with shouldnotlink=yes

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH eutils] Introduce has_iuse() for IUSE checks.

2011-09-13 Thread Donnie Berkholz
gt; > 'in_iuse' or 'iuse_contains'? I'd prefer to keep consistency with the parent function has(), so it's obvious exactly how it will work. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Council Member / Sr. Developer Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com pgpA9WTwC02k1.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] obs eclasses

2011-09-13 Thread Donnie Berkholz
#x27;s possible for incredibly outdated systems (those with bash-3 only) to be updated. We're stuck in this limbo because "we" have apparently decided that just waiting a year, as we used to do, isn't good enough anymore; but at the same time, we don't have a better mechan

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] obs eclasses

2011-09-13 Thread Donnie Berkholz
gt; # information it will all neede variables and takes care of installation. Lots of typos here. > HOMEPAGE="http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:OSC"; > LICENSE="GPL-2" > SLOT="0" > IUSE="" > RDEPEND+="dev-util/osc" You probably want

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] obs eclasses

2011-09-13 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 17:58 Tue 13 Sep , Patrick Lauer wrote: > On 09/13/11 16:44, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > It's because people want to pretend that it's possible for > > incredibly outdated systems (those with bash-3 only) to be updated. > > Actually it's worse - PMS e

Re: [gentoo-dev] new `usex` helper

2011-09-13 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 17:56 Tue 13 Sep , Mike Frysinger wrote: > useful enough for EAPI ? or should i just stick it into eutils.eclass > ? OR BOTH !? I prefer to avoid EAPI whenever possible, as it just makes things slower and more complex. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Council Member / Sr. Dev

Re: [gentoo-dev] new `usex` helper

2011-09-14 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 19:14 Tue 13 Sep , Brian Harring wrote: > On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 09:02:28PM -0500, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > On 17:56 Tue 13 Sep , Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > useful enough for EAPI ? or should i just stick it into eutils.eclass > > > ? OR BOTH !? >

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