Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: EAPI specification in ebuilds

2012-03-08 Thread Michał Górny
problem with new bash > features, too, since you could point that command at a specific > version. And what would /usr/bin/eapi5 do? Are you suggesting misusing shebang or making ebuilds PM-centric? -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: EAPI specification in ebuilds

2012-03-08 Thread Michał Górny
of the EAPI parsing would be discarded for earlier EAPIs). > > I don't like this idea because the sane way should be easy and > straightforward. Mixing a constant declaration with bash assignment > just confuses users who think the assignment is full bash when in > fact it is not. > > EAPI=$(somefunc) > EAPI=${SOMEVAR%%-*} > and so forth all don't meet the regex (and would be flagged invalid.) > However a naive author might think they work. And they all should be invalid due to our policies. The most important ebuild variables like EAPI should be readable on sight, without having to lookup random variables, functions etc. -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: EAPI specification in ebuilds

2012-03-08 Thread Michał Górny
On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:56:21 -0500 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 03/08/2012 07:03 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > >> > >> Someone suggested using a standard shebang the last time this came > >> up, and if I remember correctly it was one of the > >> least-disag

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: EAPI specification in ebuilds

2012-03-08 Thread Michał Górny
t; .ebuild -> .eb. And we're going to retroactively migrate the tree or have random file suffixes intermixed? Not to mention we're either keeping two different variants for a longer while, or disregarding backwards compatibility with older package managers for no actual benefit. -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] eselect repository moved to git

2012-03-08 Thread Michał Górny
er is in master. Did you just do the ultimately ugly thing of having two repos in one, as two completely diverged branches? -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: EAPI specification in ebuilds

2012-03-08 Thread Michał Górny
variable, > and we wouldn't need to know the EAPI ahead of time to do it as long > as it's the first function called in the ebuild. > > This is of course isomorphic to requiring a specific EAPI=4 format, > but does allow you to do stupid things like x=`seq 4 4`; eapi $x

Re: [gentoo-dev] media-optical, net-zope, sgml, text-markup herds are empty

2012-03-09 Thread Michał Górny
er they want For net-zope, I'd prefer dropping it. We decided to get rid of Zope, removed almost all relevant packages, so there's no point in keeping the herd. -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: EAPI specification in ebuilds

2012-03-09 Thread Michał Górny
On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:35:14 -0500 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 03/09/2012 12:04 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > >> > >> This is of course isomorphic to requiring a specific EAPI=4 format, > >> but does allow you to do stupid things like x=`seq 4 4`; eapi $x; > >&

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: EAPI specification in ebuilds

2012-03-09 Thread Michał Górny
f now is makeself and similar. Those are indeed a quite good argument. But the main point here is that at some point someone may want to use a non-bash syntax for ebuilds. Or some kind of optional bash extension. -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: unmasking udev-181

2012-03-11 Thread Michał Górny
something in make.conf when /usr is on separate partition. -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: unmasking udev-181

2012-03-11 Thread Michał Górny
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 09:36:24 + Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 09:41:02 +0100, Michał Górny wrote: > > > > A major change like this needs more notice than this. The news > > > item should give some reasonable notice of the change to give > > > p

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: newsitem: unmasking udev-181

2012-03-11 Thread Michał Górny
/sbin -> /usr/* > > split. > > Indeed. I thought we got past this already and started moving things > to /usr [1][2] > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/398081 > http://bugs.gentoo.org/403073 I've just reported executables which are broken without /usr mounted. Some devs moved them to /usr, others moved libraries to /. -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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

2012-03-11 Thread Michał Górny
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 10:25:38 -0700 (PDT) Leho Kraav wrote: > On Monday, May 30, 2011 9:30:02 AM UTC+3, Michał Górny wrote: > > > > Right now, a quick 'grep -l github.*tarball' shows that there are > > about 147 ebuilds in portage using github snapshots. Thi

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: EAPI specification in ebuilds

2012-03-12 Thread Michał Górny
uild. Of course, this could make problems with stuff like: # EAPI 4 because of foobarbaz EAPI=4 (on the other hand, in this particular case it will fetch '4' anyway). And this will work as well with: 15-xml and - eapi: 15-yaml -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: EAPI specification in ebuilds

2012-03-12 Thread Michał Górny
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 08:30:19 + Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:27:11 +0100 > Michał Górny wrote: > > 15-xml > > > > and > > > > - eapi: 15-yaml > > You're carefully concocting your examples to make it look like it > should

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: EAPI specification in ebuilds

2012-03-12 Thread Michał Górny
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:39:52 +1300 Kent Fredric wrote: > On 12 March 2012 21:27, Michał Górny wrote: > > And we could just use a good regex for that instead. > > > > Something like: [eE][aA][pP][iI] [a-z0-9-+]+ > > > > and just require users for this to be t

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

2012-03-12 Thread Michał Górny
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:36:00 +0800 Ben wrote: > On 12 March 2012 02:27, Michał Górny wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 10:25:38 -0700 (PDT) > > Leho Kraav wrote: > > > >> On Monday, May 30, 2011 9:30:02 AM UTC+3, Michał Górny wrote: > >> > > >> &

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD : .ebuild is only bash

2012-03-12 Thread Michał Górny
t; > to use GLEP 55. > > If we do go with a variant of GLEP 55, I'd prefer a variant that uses > a constant extension (like .eb) and places the EAPI string just after > the version component of the name. For example: > >foo-1.0-r1-eapi5.ebuild Or .eapi5.ebuild, to make it

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD : .ebuild is only bash

2012-03-12 Thread Michał Górny
actual format changes. In other words, if EAPI 15 introduces XML-based syntax, we start using .xml.ebuild. If EAPI 7 introduces bash4 in global scope (still don't see much reason for it), we use .bash4.ebuild. -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-news repository migrated to git

2012-03-15 Thread Michał Górny
e svn repository any more. > > Especially, this concerns the news about udev unmasking that was > committed (to svn) yesterday. Can we make svn read-only then? -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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

2012-03-19 Thread Michał Górny
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:47:41 +0100 Michał Górny wrote: > On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:36:00 +0800 > Ben wrote: > > > On 12 March 2012 02:27, Michał Górny wrote: > > > On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 10:25:38 -0700 (PDT) > > > Leho Kraav wrote: > > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fix spurious dep to eselect-python

2012-03-20 Thread Michał Górny
fix is to make python.eclass add dependency on > app-admin/eselect-python only when ${CATEGORY}/${PN} is > dev-lang/python, dev-java/jython or dev-python/pypy. See bug #341037. Couldn't we just push that dependency to the specific ebuilds? -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] ESCM_OFFLINE/ EVCS_OFFLINE env variable policy

2012-03-31 Thread Michał Górny
y is called dev-vcs too. [1] [1]:https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311101 -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Should ${T} be defined in pkg_prepare ?

2012-04-01 Thread Michał Górny
ty here. Why don't you delight us with your vision of wildly accurate space prediction, mister? -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] thirdpartymirrors URL for bitbucket

2012-04-11 Thread Michał Górny
https://bitbucket.org one, so if the URI stops working, we can replace it with the 'official' one. Any comments? -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] >= udev-182 tracker

2012-04-11 Thread Michał Górny
r any fears about trying to force an untimely > stabilization? Maybe we should create a new mailing list, say, gentoo-usr-discuss...@lists.gentoo.org. -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making user patches globally available

2012-04-15 Thread Michał Górny
ally > _before_ src_prepare (the same way as done currently in > base_src_prepare) No. EAPIs have overridable phase functions for a reason. > * disallow or deprecate at least direct calls to epatch, to ensure > ordering What if some patches are applied conditionally? -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making user patches globally available

2012-04-15 Thread Michał Górny
thanks to complete control over the moment where epatch_user() is called, autotools-utils is able to smartly do autoreconf when needed. If user patches were forced to be PM-only feature, there would be no good way of doing that. -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] About validate_desktop_entries in eutils.eclass

2012-04-15 Thread Michał Górny
ss > as it's not used by most of packages, and calling it from a lot of > eclasses/ebuilds doesn't sound me like a good idea. > > What do you think? Agreed. It should be in repoman. -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] About validate_desktop_entries in eutils.eclass

2012-04-15 Thread Michał Górny
On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 16:12:11 +0200 Pacho Ramos wrote: > El dom, 15-04-2012 a las 16:02 +0200, Michał Górny escribió: > > On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 11:59:50 +0200 > > Pacho Ramos wrote: > > > > > I am unsure about validate_desktop_entries() utility. It's > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE=gui? (was: About how to handle wxGTK based packages with gnome profiles)

2012-04-16 Thread Michał Górny
? Most of the devs probably prefer the way 'I want GUI only if it's using my favorite toolkit'. But users OTOH may prefer saying 'I want GUI in this app, no matter what it uses'. This would probably handle the wxwidgets case most correct, having it under USE=gui or similar. -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making user patches globally available

2012-04-16 Thread Michał Górny
On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 17:19:18 -0500 William Hubbs wrote: > On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 03:55:58PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > > > > What if some patches are applied conditionally? > > imo patches that are applied conditionally should be rewritten so they > can always be ap

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE=gui?

2012-04-16 Thread Michał Górny
On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:22:22 +0300 Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 04/16/2012 11:11 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:12:16 +0200 > > ""Paweł Hajdan, Jr."" wrote: > > > >> On 4/10/12 8:58 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > >>> O

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making user patches globally available

2012-04-18 Thread Michał Górny
orks? Do you have a > better alternative? And it implies autotools on every, even very simple patch. autotools-utils does that much better but everyone likes reinventing wheels. -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Add new remote-id types in metadata.dtd

2012-04-19 Thread Michał Górny
us|pecl|pear|bitbucket) > #REQUIRED> Wouldn't it be better if we kept them sorted? -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Add new remote-id types in metadata.dtd

2012-04-19 Thread Michał Górny
hub, gitorious and bitbucket provide file > hosting? I know they host repos, but for most ebuilds where remote-id > would be useful, we need tarballs. Yes, they do. -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Add new remote-id types in metadata.dtd

2012-04-21 Thread Michał Górny
On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:32:49 +0200 Corentin Chary wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Michał Górny > wrote: > > On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:31:11 +0200 > > Corentin Chary wrote: > > > >> -       >> (freshmeat|sourceforge|sourceforge-jp|cpan|v

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: x11-apps/xsetmode & x11-apps/xsetpointer

2012-04-22 Thread Michał Górny
# Michał Górny (22 Apr 2012) # Obsolete and unmaintained. Their functions are provided by # x11-apps/xinput nowadays ('xinput set-mode' and 'xinput set-pointer' # respectively). Bug #411999. Masked for removal in 30 days. x11-apps/xsetmode x11-apps/xsetpointer <=x11-base/xo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: x11-apps/xsetmode & x11-apps/xsetpointer

2012-04-22 Thread Michał Górny
On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 06:39:04 -0400 Philip Webb wrote: > 120422 Michał Górny wrote: > > # Michał Górny (22 Apr 2012) > > # Obsolete and unmaintained. Their functions are provided by > > # x11-apps/xinput nowadays ('xinput set-mode' and 'xinput > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] epatch_user usage

2012-04-23 Thread Michał Górny
es users have patches which touch autoconf files but my > existing patch set doesn't so I'm not calling eautoreconf. Does anyone > have a suggested way to handle this? inherit autotools-utils -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] epatch_user usage

2012-04-23 Thread Michał Górny
lways call it when the user applies patches. i don't see a big > deal. epatch_user && eautoreconf > -mike No configure.{ac,in} present! -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] epatch_user usage

2012-04-23 Thread Michał Górny
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:14:15 -0400 Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote: > On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 06:05 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:45:36 -0500 > > Doug Goldstein wrote: > > > > > So I've just had one reservation when using epatch_user for &g

Re: [gentoo-dev] epatch_user usage

2012-04-24 Thread Michał Górny
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:25:56 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Tuesday 24 April 2012 00:15:45 Michał Górny wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:10:30 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > On Monday 23 April 2012 23:45:36 Doug Goldstein wrote: > > > > So I've

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal to move use.local.desc somewhere in /var

2012-04-24 Thread Michał Górny
require fixing all tools using it. And as it is already deprecated, I don't see much good in still working on it. -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New third party mirrors

2012-04-24 Thread Michał Górny
uplicate entries added (eg > adding us.pear, de.pear and the pear bouncer is bad. Should have just > the bouncer). It'd be great if we could add some kind of additional mirror entries, which would be used by repoman to signal missing mirror:// entries but won't be used for downloads. -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New third party mirrors

2012-04-25 Thread Michał Górny
On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 09:16:05 +0200 Corentin Chary wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Michał Górny > wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:19:11 + > > "Robin H. Johnson" wrote: > > > >> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 04:50:49PM +0200, Corentin Chary wr

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available

2012-04-26 Thread Michał Górny
re will be only used for ebuilds not calling epatch_user manually or through the eclass. -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New third party mirrors

2012-04-26 Thread Michał Górny
uts something like "you should use 'mirror://github'". Well, we could decide on something common and special like: github:bad-uris http://. And then let repoman suggest using mirror with ':bad-uris' stripped. -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available

2012-04-26 Thread Michał Górny
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:43:37 -0700 Zac Medico wrote: > On 04/26/2012 11:27 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 06:18:32 + (UTC) > > Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > > > >> My suggestion is therefore to do the simple thing, just apply a

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New third party mirrors

2012-04-27 Thread Michał Górny
On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:06:38 +0200 Corentin Chary wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 8:41 PM, Michał Górny > wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:21:36 +0200 > > Corentin Chary wrote: > > > >> Second solution: > >> github http://cloud.github.com/downloa

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available

2012-04-27 Thread Michał Górny
tc/portage/patches2/ or > some such. Another solution could be to make the existing > epatch_user call a no-op, and force post-src-prepare invocation on > EAPIs 1-4. > > But both of these have problems in that they nullify the work done in > existing ebuilds to locate the c

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available

2012-04-27 Thread Michał Górny
t comes to marginal feature which many of devs don't even accept, it's enough to quickly release a new EAPI which most of the tree won't support. -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available

2012-04-27 Thread Michał Górny
ely slot-operator-deps and profile-iuse-injection.) Of course, if we take the 'quick EAPI 5 route', it won't include anything useful. In the meantime, do we have a complete list of candidates for EAPI 5? -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: EAPI 5 (Was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available)

2012-04-28 Thread Michał Górny
On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:12:27 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > * Get a versionator replacement into the PM Why are we trying to make PM a brick instead of keeping stuff modular? What does the eclass lack which could be provided by PM? -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Descript

Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastrite app-text/chmsee. Semi-lastrite libopensync-plugin-google-calendar.

2012-04-28 Thread Michał Górny
On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 12:17:55 +0200 Michael Weber wrote: > Is there any state-of-the-art(tm) alternative to read .chm ebooks? I > wouldn't want to loose this possibility. The one and only FBReader? -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012

2012-04-28 Thread Michał Górny
e mentioned mentioning two cross-linked program/data trees (well, three or four in our case) with fuzzy classification rules is against KISS? -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-29 Thread Michał Górny
ghts on that ? Maybe we should provide it independently in some other package. Considering the implementations are supposed to be compatible, the .m4 file should work fine with all of them. And we'll create same configure files independently of which impl particular user uses. -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] RFC: new feature to disable merging into stray locations

2012-04-29 Thread Michał Górny
unted] + /etc + /lib, /lib32, /lib64 + /opt + /sbin [potentially + /service for ugly daemontools] + /usr + /var - /usr/local - /usr/portage What are your thoughts on this? [1]:https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=410691#c4 -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new feature to disable merging into stray locations

2012-04-30 Thread Michał Górny
On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:23:03 +0200 Krzysztof Pawlik wrote: > On 30/04/12 10:12, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >>>>>> On Mon, 30 Apr 2012, Michał Górny wrote: > >> Since lately Gentoo devs force you to replace collision-protect > >> with protect-owned [1]

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new feature to disable merging into stray locations

2012-04-30 Thread Michał Górny
On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:24:58 +0200 Krzysztof Pawlik wrote: > On 30/04/12 08:57, Michał Górny wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Since lately Gentoo devs force you to replace collision-protect with > > protect-owned [1] and sometimes packages just spit out files > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new feature to disable merging into stray locations

2012-04-30 Thread Michał Górny
On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:37:53 +0200 Krzysztof Pawlik wrote: > On 30/04/12 11:28, Michał Górny wrote: > > On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:23:03 +0200 > > Krzysztof Pawlik wrote: > > > >> On 30/04/12 10:12, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >>>>>>>> On

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new feature to disable merging into stray locations

2012-04-30 Thread Michał Górny
On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:40:26 +0200 Krzysztof Pawlik wrote: > On 30/04/12 11:30, Michał Górny wrote: > > On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:24:58 +0200 > > Krzysztof Pawlik wrote: > > > >> On 30/04/12 08:57, Michał Górny wrote: > >>> Hello, > >>&g

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new feature to disable merging into stray locations

2012-04-30 Thread Michał Górny
} in pkg_preinst(). > - PM has a manifest file that lists all installed file, it can check > against it, not against live file system, so just removing the files > may not be enough (just my speculations - I'm not sure of this) It is enough in case of Portage. Especially that thos

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-30 Thread Michał Górny
s also "pkg-config-lite" and "pkgconf". they should be > compatible with the canonical pkg-config. they aren't yet in the > tree, but will be once we agree on this topic. > > any comments ? Maybe if pkgconf proves really good we could finally add pkg-config dep to @system... -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles/default/bsd: ChangeLog profile.bashrc

2012-05-03 Thread Michał Górny
on the ChangeLog file. So I moved my entry using vim. > > there it is. vim (last i looked) will re-encode for you. guess you > should fix your locale settings to something that ends in ".UTF8" ;). Or set a more friendly 'fencs' in your vimrc. -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: epatch_user usage

2012-05-04 Thread Michał Górny
tils.eclass 3186 python.eclass Do you have any real arguments? -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] New category for (libre)office extensions: office-ext ?

2012-05-05 Thread Michał Górny
> them. > > Suggestion: new category office-ext > > What do you think? office-plugins, to follow suit. -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: remove ldap from desktop profiles use flags

2012-05-06 Thread Michał Górny
e. What do you guys think? > > > > Cheers, Ben | yngwin > > > A new minimal profile targeting who? Desktop users with lightweight > DE/WM ? I don't think even heavyweight DE/WM usually needs ldap... -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] add global useflag: webkit

2012-05-07 Thread Michał Górny
webkit support. This kind of information could be useful to some > people, and it may be preferable to having a separate webkit-qt flag. If 'qt' flag is required for webkit support, it's 'webkit? ( qt )'. -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] add global useflag: webkit

2012-05-07 Thread Michał Górny
On Mon, 07 May 2012 14:41:33 -0700 Zac Medico wrote: > On 05/07/2012 01:43 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > > On Mon, 07 May 2012 13:24:31 -0700 > > Zac Medico wrote: > > > >> On 05/07/2012 12:18 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >>>>>>>> On Mon,

Re: [gentoo-dev] add global useflag: webkit

2012-05-07 Thread Michał Górny
On Mon, 07 May 2012 20:58:18 -0700 Zac Medico wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05/07/2012 08:50 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > > On Mon, 07 May 2012 14:41:33 -0700 Zac Medico > > wrote: > > > >> On 05/07/2012 01:43 PM, Michał Gó

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

2012-05-10 Thread Michał Górny
;t think you are forced to use anything. As was proven before, there are always alternatives. -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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

2012-05-10 Thread Michał Górny
On Thu, 10 May 2012 21:14:33 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 10 May 2012 22:13:33 +0200 > Michał Górny wrote: > > > On Thu, 10 May 2012 20:55:02 +0100 > > > Markos Chandras wrote: > > > > Make a constructive criticism if you really need to rant about

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal of accepting arguments to `default` in src_install (and more?) phases in EAPI=5 (for the next council meeting?)

2012-05-12 Thread Michał Górny
your > proposal, even without the need to add an explicit src_install > function. As above. Otherwise, we'll end up reimplementing just another variable to let users pass their custom arguments. -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: check for enewuser, enewgroup outside of pkg_setup

2012-05-13 Thread Michał Górny
tinst. If you don't need it in install-time (i.e. don't install any files owned by it), you should indeed defer the check as late as possible. There's no point in creating user earlier when the emerge can still fail/be aborted. -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding PYTHON_TARGETS=python2_7 to base profile

2012-05-13 Thread Michał Górny
and it becomes much harder for the python team > to provide a smooth upgrade path by adding in new preferred targets > later on. Yes, in particular the person who opened my bug has interpreted the 'any-of' message as 'set to "python2_6 python2_7"'... -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] -Werror unwanted?

2012-05-14 Thread Michał Górny
to the > documentation then? Upstream which enforces a particular warning flags on users is a dumb upstream. Necessary warning flags should be set locally by devs / distro maintainers rather than through autoconf. If they can't handle that, someone should probably be replaced. -- Best r

[gentoo-dev] RFC: git-2.eclass & fetching from multiple repos

2012-05-17 Thread Michał Górny
fallback2" ... ) Still painful for s-l-r but could be implemented without eclass-specific hacks as array support. Of course, if we support this not only for fetching but for checkouts as well, it's likely to get unreadable as well... What are your ideas? -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] news item: Portage's config-protect-if-modified feature is enabled by default

2012-05-17 Thread Michał Górny
ts will be to the final user. -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: git-2.eclass & fetching from multiple repos

2012-05-19 Thread Michał Górny
On Sat, 19 May 2012 12:28:02 -0700 Luca Barbato wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 17/05/12 01:40, Michał Górny wrote: > > > > > > 1/ Mike suggested something like: > > > > EGIT_REPO_URI=( "repo1 fallback1

Re: [gentoo-dev] Implementing udev without an initramfs (Was: Stability of /sys api)

2012-05-19 Thread Michał Górny
if you just set up an initramfs instead of writing that post, you'd probably save some time. Our time, especially. -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Remove eclass/ChangeLog (was: Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in eclass: autotools.eclass)

2012-05-20 Thread Michał Górny
On Sun, 20 May 2012 15:33:11 +0300 Samuli Suominen wrote: > ChangeLog entries missing for every autotools.eclass modification > today. I will repeat once again: autogenerate them. -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] Do we need games group and all that game prefixes?

2012-05-20 Thread Michał Górny
fixes, like all other apps. Don't pollute systems with unnecessary security perimeters which don't provide any real benefit. Any comments? -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] enhancement for doicon/newicon in eutils.eclass

2012-05-21 Thread Michał Górny
n for > review now. I'd rather see a new function for that rather than making doicon() overcomplex. -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] autotools.eclass no longer inherits eutils; check your ebuilds!

2012-05-21 Thread Michał Górny
imilar widely used eclass, it is best to | email the gentoo-dev list. It may be that your proposed change is | broken in a way you had not anticipated> [...]. If you don't email | gentoo-dev first, and end up breaking something, expect to be in a | lot of trouble. Not that this disrespect for this rule is something new... -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Do we need games group and all that game prefixes?

2012-05-22 Thread Michał Górny
I've opened a bug for this: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=417101 -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Git migration - clean cut or git-cvsserver

2012-05-23 Thread Michał Górny
"[TRACKER] portage migration to git". Kill it! And while we're at it, kill ChangeLogs as well! /me hides... -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remove eclass/ChangeLog

2012-05-23 Thread Michał Górny
epared for commit. With CVS, it's PITA but with git it's already much better. Of course, it all fails if every commit has to update a randomly changed, shared file called ChangeLog... -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Git migration - clean cut or git-cvsserver

2012-05-23 Thread Michał Górny
ght coupling. CVS was good enough for my grandfather, > > and it's good enough for you. > > I hope this is sarcasm or a joke? Obviously. His grandfather used SCCS. -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] enhancement for doicon/newicon in eutils.eclass

2012-05-23 Thread Michał Górny
o try to understand what magic is happening there... Please reimplement in Perl. -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Git migration - clean cut or git-cvsserver

2012-05-23 Thread Michał Górny
On Wed, 23 May 2012 16:14:53 -0500 Dan Douglas wrote: > If not I will be leaving Gentoo for Funtoo in the near future, though > there are disadvantages to doing this I don't look forward to dealing > with. Most of us will probably be doing that :P. -- Best regards

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Git migration - clean cut or git-cvsserver

2012-05-24 Thread Michał Górny
that monitors for changes in the master repo, and > replicates commits to github after each push > > c) Tie it with the rsync tree building system so every time the tree > is built for rsync clients, the master is replicated to github. d) Talk with github folks to add our repo as 'mirror'. -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Git migration - clean cut or git-cvsserver

2012-05-24 Thread Michał Górny
On Thu, 24 May 2012 17:02:24 +0200 Ralph Sennhauser wrote: > On Thu, 24 May 2012 16:40:02 +0200 > Michał Górny wrote: > > > d) Talk with github folks to add our repo as 'mirror'. > > Can we keep the master on Gentoo hardware please. Yes, that's the inten

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH eutils] Move remove_libtool_files() from autotools-utils for wider use.

2012-05-28 Thread Michał Górny
As autotools-utils exports phase functions, it will be better if remove_libtool_files() functions would be somewhere else. --- eutils.eclass | 68 + 1 file changed, 68 insertions(+) diff --git a/eutils.eclass b/eutils.eclass index c88ef35.

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Enable FEATURES="userpriv usersandbox" by default?

2012-05-29 Thread Michał Górny
usersync since a long time, how about add it too? > > Yeah, I think that would be a good default too. I guess the portage > ebuild can do a recursive adjustment of $PORTDIR permissions in > pkg_postinst, in order to solve bug #277970 [1]. Wouldn't that break users who sync using a regular user? And then break again, and again every time portage is merged? -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] Should packages auto-eselect alternative implementation on removal?

2012-05-30 Thread Michał Górny
? That seems to be the most reasonable way of ensuring the system is left in working state. 3) how about semi-official eselect modules, like eselect-sh? I don't really see all shells depending on it; should the ebuilds check whether a particular eselect module is installed first? [1]:https://b

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH eutils] Move remove_libtool_files() from autotools-utils for wider use.

2012-05-30 Thread Michał Górny
On Tue, 29 May 2012 14:50:19 +0100 Steven J Long wrote: > Michał Górny wrote: > > > + find "${D}" -type f -name '*.la' -print0 | while read -r -d '' > > f; > .. > > + rm -f "${f}" || die > .. > > + done > &g

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH eutils] Move remove_libtool_files() from autotools-utils for wider use.

2012-05-30 Thread Michał Górny
On Wed, 30 May 2012 17:19:49 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Monday 28 May 2012 03:58:56 Michał Górny wrote: > > +# @USAGE: [all] > > this is incorrect. the usage is: > No, it's perfectly valid. Moreover, it even explains what the function actually does rathe

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH eutils] Move remove_libtool_files() from autotools-utils for wider use.

2012-05-31 Thread Michał Górny
parsing is incorrect and needs fixing. probably > easiest by doing: case $#:$1 in > 0:'') ;; > 1:all) removing_all=1 ;; > *) die "invalid usage" ;; > esac Just a little reverse logic in spirit of makefiles. But the case variant would be probabl

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH eutils] Introduce prune_libtool_files().

2012-05-31 Thread Michał Górny
A function which determines correct .la files for removal and removes them. --- gx86/eclass/eutils.eclass | 92 - 1 file changed, 91 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/gx86/eclass/eutils.eclass b/gx86/eclass/eutils.eclass index c88ef35..b0399ac

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