[gentoo-dev] "maintainer needed" for app-emul/playonlinux

2012-07-08 Thread Michael Mol
I filed bug 425330. Nothing special, I'm just a heavy user and advocate of IPv6, and I figured I ought to file the bug locally so that the Gentoo dev associated with it can run it up the flagpole to upstream. I just saw that it's now CC'd to "maintainer-needed". I don't like it when packages I use

Re: [gentoo-dev] "maintainer needed" for app-emul/playonlinux

2012-07-08 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 12:53 PM, David Abbott wrote: > On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Michael Mol wrote: >> I filed bug 425330. Nothing special, I'm just a heavy user and >> advocate of IPv6, and I figured I ought to file the bug locally so >> that the Gentoo dev ass

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Output / End User Experience

2012-07-09 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Peter Stuge wrote: >> Rich Freeman wrote: >>> It also seems like the current portage output is giving the user some >>> contradictory and counterproductive advice. It seems like there are >>> really only two

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Output / End User Experience

2012-07-10 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 7:18 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 3:25 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: >> On 10 July 2012 11:03, Rich Freeman wrote: >> >> You keep saying that, but do you have any actual data to back up >> that claim? There is no doubt that Chromium is a mainstream and >> p

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

2012-07-11 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 11/07/12 06:40 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 4:27 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> >> wrote: >>> Being able to choose not to run systemd at all? If there's no

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

2012-07-11 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Michael Mol wrote: >> Walter Dnes (very active over in gentoo-user) has put a lot of work >> into testing and documenting mdev as an alternative for udev. There's >> been a good de

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: udev <-> mdev

2012-07-13 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 01:49:32AM +0300, Maxim Kammerer wrote >> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Richard Yao wrote: >> > mdev would need to switch to the netlink hotplug interface. >> >> I think that's quite unlikely, since mdev is not a da

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: udev <-> mdev

2012-07-13 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 08:40:20PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote > >> I'll venture a guess the solution will be to create a shim daemon >> which turns around and launches udev. > > A quicker-and-dirtier solution wou

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: udev <-> mdev

2012-07-13 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 9:22 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 03:41:36AM +0300, Maxim Kammerer wrote >> On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 3:13 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: >> > Do you realize this would effectively kill linux in the embedded >> > device area? Udev, even without the systemd code,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: udev <-> mdev

2012-07-15 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 8:30 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > Rich Freeman posted on Sun, 15 Jul 2012 14:48:55 -0400 as excerpted: > >> Giving it a little thought, the simplest tmpfs-based root would be one >> that defines a tarball as a the root. The system would create a tmpfs, >> extr

Re: [gentoo-dev] Opinion against /usr merge

2012-07-18 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > I don't mind the merge of /bin, /usr/bin, /sbin and /usr/sbin; > moreover, I want an even more radical change: > > /usr -> /System > /home -> /Users > /etc -> /Config This would be a terrible idea, IMO. If you can rationalize this, wh

Re: [gentoo-dev] Opinion against /usr merge

2012-07-18 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:40:12 +0100 > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > >> On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 12:35:58 -0500 >> Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >> > All the arguments for keeping /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, and /usr/sbin >> > separated are really instances of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Opinion against /usr merge

2012-07-18 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Alec Warner wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Michael Mol wrote: [snip] >> To me, it looks a lot like what once was / is now expected to be an >> initramfs, which I find extraordinarily problematic, for the following >> reasons:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Opinion against /usr merge

2012-07-18 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Michael Mol wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Alec Warner wrote: > [snip] >>> Debian uses initramfs-tools... >> >> AFAIK, neither genkernel nor dracut

Re: [gentoo-dev] Opinion against /usr merge

2012-07-18 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Michael Mol wrote: >> AFAIK, neither genkernel nor dracut were expected to get tied to the >> Gentoo update process. Has that changed? > > We don't even update kernels as part of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Opinion against /usr merge

2012-07-18 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Michael Mol wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés >> wrote: >>> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Michael Mol wrote: >>>> On Wed, Jul 18,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Opinion against /usr merge

2012-07-18 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Michael Mol wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >>> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Michael Mol wrote: >>>> AFAIK, neither genkernel nor dr

Re: [gentoo-dev] Opinion against /usr merge

2012-07-18 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 18/07/12 03:47 PM, Michael Mol wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés >> wrote: >>> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Mi

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: openrc init scripts taking command line arguments

2012-07-18 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: > William Hubbs wrote: >> /etc/init.d/foo stop start >> >> would no longer work the way you might expect because there would be no >> way to tell whether start is a command or an argument to stop. >> >> What are your thoughts about this change? >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Opinion against /usr merge

2012-07-18 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Michael Mol wrote: >> So your initramfs doesn't include network tools such as ping, >> traceroute or wget. Fine. Fundamentally speaking, why shouldn't >> someone else's?

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: news item: changes to stages (make.conf and make.profile)

2012-07-24 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 7:39 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote: > On 24-07-2012 07:20:31 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote: >> > I don't know about general consensus. In my opinion, it's plain spam to >> > existing users. (And that would IMO be the xth n

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: news item: changes to stages (make.conf and make.profile)

2012-07-24 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote: >> On 24-07-2012 08:01:40 -0400, Michael Mol wrote: >>> 3) That news item about udev-181 and a unified /usr is still greeting >>> new users...and it's sti

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: news item: changes to stages (make.conf and make.profile)

2012-07-24 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Dale wrote: > Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Fabian Groffen wrote: >>> On 24-07-2012 14:52:43 -0400, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: This is a change that will break all new installs and expecting experienced gentoo users to read

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: news item: changes to stages (make.conf and make.profile)

2012-07-24 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 24/07/12 02:52 PM, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: >> On 07/24/2012 09:33 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote: >>> On 24-07-2012 09:24:03 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: I guess this is a matte

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: news item: changes to stages (make.conf and make.profile)

2012-07-25 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Aaron W. Swenson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 07/24/2012 04:19 PM, Michael Mol wrote: >> Another user opinion...it would be a significant improvement to >> the stage images and live discs to includ

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: news item: changes to stages (make.conf and make.profile)

2012-07-25 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 25-07-2012 13:29, Michael Mol wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Aaron W. Swenson >> wrote: >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE--

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage FEATURE suggestion - limited-visibility builds

2012-07-26 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > I've been messing around with namespaces and some of what systemd has > been doing with them, and I have an idea for a portage feature. > > But before doing a brain dump of ideas, how useful would it be to have > a FEATURE for portage to do a

Re: [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 locale by default

2012-07-30 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 07/27/12 16:16, Aaron W. Swenson wrote: >> >> No user will be happy with whatever we decide to use as a default. > > The defaults should be what's best for the most people, with a bias > towards safety. Why don't we just take a survey

Re: [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 locale by default

2012-07-30 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:35:36 -0400 > Michael Orlitzky wrote: > >> On 07/27/12 16:16, Aaron W. Swenson wrote: >> > >> > No user will be happy with whatever we decide to use as a default. >> >> The defaults should be what's best for the most p

Re: [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 locale by default

2012-07-30 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:50:29 -0400 > Michael Orlitzky wrote: > >> On 07/30/12 10:41, Michał Górny wrote: >> > On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:35:36 -0400 >> > Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> > >> >> On 07/27/12 16:16, Aaron W. Swenson wrote: >> >>> >> >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage FEATURE suggestion - limited-visibility builds

2012-07-31 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 10:48 AM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > On 7/26/12 8:26 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> I've been messing around with namespaces and some of what systemd has >> been doing with them, and I have an idea for a portage feature. >> >> But before doing a brain dump of ideas, how usefu

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage FEATURE suggestion - limited-visibility builds

2012-07-31 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 31/07/12 10:55 AM, Michael Mol wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 10:48 AM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." >> wrote: >>> On 7/26/12 8:26 PM, Rich F

Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

2012-08-07 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Tue, 7 Aug 2012 11:33:59 -0400 > Sylvain Alain wrote: > >> The KDE team seems to work on that too : >> http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=134052539215508&w=2 > > it's actually worth it. > more user-spread FUD or however you like to c

Re: [gentoo-dev] Global Systemd USE Flag

2012-08-08 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Wed, 8 Aug 2012 16:48:20 +0200 > "Jason A. Donenfeld" wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Michał Górny >> wrote: >> > Not everyone uses bash. Not everyone cares at all about >> > bash-completion. What is your point? >> >> I'm not

Re: [gentoo-dev] pid 1 design

2012-08-09 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 22:27:37 +0200 > Peter Stuge wrote: > >> Rich Freeman wrote: [snip] >> > Systemd isn't a like-for-like replacement for traditional inits. >> > It aims to be much more, so this is a bit of an apples-to-oranges >> > comparis

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

2012-08-15 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > > Rich Freeman posted on Wed, 15 Aug 2012 06:27:41 -0400 as excerpted: > > > Right now having decent KDE and Gnome support with all the bells and > > whistles[...] isn't that hard, [It] will likely get harder, which means > > i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

2012-08-15 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:18:24 -0400 > Michael Mol wrote: >> I've occasionally noticed portage tell me about circular dependencies, >> where the most straight forward resolution is to emerge some package >> in t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

2012-08-16 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Gregory M. Turner wrote: > On 8/16/2012 4:59 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> [snip] > > > tldr: I like, approve and otherwise +1 the idea of somehow paring down or > eliminating @system but I think it's going to be fairly challenging, so more > discussion on this topic

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

2012-08-16 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Michael Mol wrote: >> The limited-visibility build feature discussed a week or so ago would >> go a long way in detecting unexpressed build dependencies. > > I can't say that is a

Re: [gentoo-dev] remove system set?

2012-08-16 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Doug Goldstein wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 7:05 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: [snip] >> >> It is only useful for situations where people want to do something >> unusual. Some would argue that this is the only situation where >> Gentoo is useful. If I wanted a

Re: [gentoo-dev] remove system set?

2012-08-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Michael Mol wrote: >> Bootstrapping is an inherently curious problem. Most systems are built >> upon the systems they themselves build, but getting to that >> self-hosting state always

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI usage

2012-08-30 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Johannes Huber wrote: [snip] >> Developers have only a limited amount of time, and this will eat into >> it. The result is likely to not be new shiny ebuilds that use the new >> EAPIs, but rather old rusty ones that still use the old EAPI but also >> which conta

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI usage

2012-08-30 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: >> >> The primary benefit to the policy that dev's should bump EAPI when >> bumping ebuilds is so that older inferior EAPIs can be deprecated and >> eventually removed from the tree. >

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI usage

2012-08-30 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Thomas Sachau wrote: > Michael Mol schrieb: >> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: >>> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: >>>> >>>> The primary benefit to the policy that dev'

Re: [gentoo-dev] EJOBS variable for EAPI 5? (was: [RFC] Create a JOBS variable to replace -jX in MAKEOPTS)

2012-09-01 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Brian Harring wrote: > On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:12:44AM -0400, Alexis Ballier wrote: >> On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 15:45:21 +0100 >> Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> >> > On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 10:21:15 +0200 >> > Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> > > Coming back to this old topic [1]. I

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Future EAPI] src_fetch() phase function to support VCS fetching

2012-09-04 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > Hello, > > As Sid Hayn raised today on #gentoo-portage, it would be useful to > finally have portage able to fetch updates from VCS-es independently > of src_unpack(). This could be used, for example, on machines > temporarily connected to the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Unified DEPENDENCIES concept

2012-09-07 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 07/09/12 12:03 PM, Michał Górny wrote: >> On Fri, 7 Sep 2012 12:46:41 -0300 Alexis Ballier >> wrote: >> >>> I actually do like the concept but I'm not sure we can reach >>> consensu

Re: [gentoo-dev] EJOBS variable for EAPI 5?

2012-09-12 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Hans de Graaff wrote: > On Wed, 2012-09-12 at 08:58 -0400, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > > > So essentially what you're saying here is that it might be worthwhile > > to look into parallelism as a whole and possibly come up with a > > solution that combines 'emerge -

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP: gentoo sync based unified deps proposal

2012-09-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: > On 17 September 2012 20:41, Ciaran McCreesh > wrote: >> On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 19:49:12 +0800 >> Ben de Groot wrote: >>> Or, even easier and more straightforward: just keep using *DEPEND. The >>> case hasn't been made yet why we need to change

Re: [gentoo-dev] The lack of maintainer causing media-video/mediatomb to be lastrited next

2012-09-18 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 6:44 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > Use bugzilla's search for 'mediatomb' and you will find multiple counts of > build failures the media-video@ herd is simply not capable of handling due > to lack of resources (manpower) > > So if nobody steps up, I've CCd treecleaners at bu

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP: gentoo sync based unified deps proposal

2012-09-18 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Hans de Graaff wrote: > On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 11:47 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > >> Yes, and sometimes we're doing 'use test'. I simply don't see how >> adding a separate group of dependencies just for 'test' phase is going >> to help us. They fit just fine into bu

Re: [gentoo-dev] vala.eclass: change vala_src_prepare behavior when USE=-vala

2012-09-20 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > El jue, 20-09-2012 a las 10:14 -0400, Ian Stakenvicius escribió: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA256 >> >> On 20/09/12 09:52 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> > On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 09:13:40 -0400 Ian Stakenvicius >> > wrote: >> >

Re: [gentoo-dev] vala.eclass: change vala_src_prepare behavior when USE=-vala

2012-09-20 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > El jue, 20-09-2012 a las 18:55 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh escribió: >> On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 19:54:43 +0200 >> Pacho Ramos wrote: >> > That isn't necessary what could occur if the behavior changes >> > unexpectedly: as current behavior is already be

[gentoo-dev] ship app-arch/pbzip2 instead of app-arch/bzip2

2012-09-26 Thread Michael Mol
A few months ago, I filed bug 423651 to ask that bzip2 on the install media be replaced with pbzip2. It was closed a short while later, telling me that it'd involve changing what's kept in @system, and that had to be discussed here, rather than in a bug report. Here's a detailed description of ho

Re: [gentoo-dev] ship app-arch/pbzip2 instead of app-arch/bzip2

2012-09-26 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 26.09.2012 22:43, schrieb Matt Turner: >> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Michael Mol wrote: >>> A few months ago, I filed bug 423651 to ask that bzip2 on the install >>> media be replaced with >>>

Re: [gentoo-dev] ship app-arch/pbzip2 instead of app-arch/bzip2

2012-09-26 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: > Michael Mol schrieb: >> A few months ago, I filed bug 423651 to ask that bzip2 on the install >> media be replaced with >> pbzip2. > > If I understand correctly, pbzip2 depends on bzip2. So wh

Re: [gentoo-dev] ship app-arch/pbzip2 instead of app-arch/bzip2

2012-09-26 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Christoph Junghans wrote: > 2012/9/26 Mike Gilbert : >> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Michael Mol wrote: >>> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn >>> wrote: >>>> Michael Mol schrieb: >>&g

Re: [gentoo-dev] How to raise money for Gentoo

2012-09-27 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 9:23 AM, wbrana wrote: > Page www.gentoo.org asks for donations > "Donate to support our development efforts." > Gentoo could get more money if all *.gentoo.org would contain advertisements. I run a technical website with around 6k visits per day, and my experience is that

Re: [gentoo-dev] How to raise money for Gentoo

2012-09-27 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Alec Warner wrote: > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Dale wrote: >> wbrana wrote: >>> Page www.gentoo.org asks for donations >>> "Donate to support our development efforts." >>> Gentoo could get more money if all *.gentoo.org would contain >>> advertisements. >

Re: [gentoo-dev] How to raise money for Gentoo

2012-09-27 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Alec Warner wrote: > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Michael Mol wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Alec Warner wrote: >>> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Dale wrote: >>>> wbrana wrote: >>>>> Page www.g

Re: [gentoo-dev] CIA replacement

2012-10-01 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Rafael Goncalves Martins > wrote: >> Maybe someone with good cvs knowledge can contribute a hook for irker >> [1], so we can have #gentoo-commits flooding our irc clients again! :) > > Why exactly are we still

Re: [gentoo-dev] CIA replacement

2012-10-01 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Michael Mol wrote: >> I don't know to what depth this has been discussed in the past, but if >> you use git, you also get an HTTP transport, which has a useful >> feature: You could

Re: [gentoo-dev] Discussing stuff that is not appropriate to discuss

2012-10-01 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > On 01/10/2012 17:51, Gregory M. Turner wrote: >> >> Anyhow, I get it: administering the vcs for a huge project such as >> Gentoo is very hard work. If I somehow gave some other impression, I'm >> sorry. Perhaps Rich and I insensitively

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: CIA replacement

2012-10-02 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > Responding to no one in particular, but to the sub-thread about IRC > bots: > > On Tue, 2 Oct 2012 08:32:26 +0200 > Fabian Groffen wrote: > >> On 02-10-2012 12:40:20 +0800, Ben de Groot wrote: >> > The irker proxy was mentioned in this threa

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] A news item covering PYTHON_TARGETS

2012-10-29 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > Michał Górny posted on Mon, 29 Oct 2012 15:45:01 +0100 as excerpted: > > > Title: PYTHON_TARGETS deployment > > [snip] > > > Lately, a new Python eclasses were deployed and the way of supporting > > multiple Python implementat

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dropping slotted boost

2012-10-30 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:30:16 -0700 > Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > > > Given the amount of headaches that Boost seems to give us all, now > > thanks to the recent changes even more because Gentoo's boost is > > different from all others and no

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dropping slotted boost

2012-10-30 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > On 30/10/2012 12:31, Michael Mol wrote: > > > > I've never understood why Gentoo uses a separate ebuild for it. I mean, > > I can understand some efficiency gains from having a single compiled > > copy, b

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dropping slotted boost

2012-10-30 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > On 30/10/2012 13:39, Michael Mol wrote: > > In general, I agree...but Boost wasn't intended to be a shared library, > > so there shouldn't be a conflict there. > > But there are shared libraries, and the

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dropping slotted boost

2012-10-30 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > > On 30/10/12 22:49, Michael Mol wrote: >> >> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò >> mailto:flamee...@flameeyes.eu>> wrote: >> >> On 30/10/2012 13:39, Michael Mol wrote: >&g

Re: [gentoo-dev] Merging the devrel handbook into the devmanual

2012-10-31 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 17:26:38 +0100 > Theo Chatzimichos wrote: > > +1 and btw move the devmanual in the wiki :D > > That would rather go against the original idea behind the devmanual, > which was that it was supposed to be high quality a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Merging the devrel handbook into the devmanual

2012-11-01 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 17:26:38 +0100 > Theo Chatzimichos wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Michael Palimaka >> wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > In bug #304435[1], hwoarang suggested merging the devrel handbook[2] into >> > the devmanua

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Additional USE_EXPAND variables: E_MODULES and E_MODULES_CONF

2012-11-15 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > Thomas Sachau posted on Thu, 15 Nov 2012 20:45:16 +0100 as excerpted: > >> Ben de Groot schrieb: >>> On 14 November 2012 05:13, Thomas Sachau wrote: >>> Alexis Ballier schrieb: > - considering gentoo generally uses e-

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-20 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 08:08:38PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 09:08:52AM -0800, Greg KH wrote >> >> > Again, any specific pointer to a commit in the tree that caused this? >> >> See http://wiki.gentoo.org/index.php?titl

Re: [gentoo-dev] Using emerge-webrsync to simplify the handbook

2012-11-30 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Richard Yao wrote: > On 11/28/2012 11:08 AM, Matthew Thode wrote: >> On 11/28/2012 09:05 AM, Richard Yao wrote: >>> On 11/28/2012 09:17 AM, Maxim Kammerer wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Richard Yao wrote: > We could slightly simplify the handboo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Package up for grabs: skencil

2016-09-20 Thread Michael Mol
On Friday, September 16, 2016 09:54:42 PM Duncan wrote: > Kristian Fiskerstrand posted on Fri, 16 Sep 2016 14:58:22 +0200 as > > excerpted: > > On 09/16/2016 02:31 PM, Hanno Böck wrote: > >> media-gfx/skencil is a python-written vector graphics tool. It was once > >> popular before inkscape became

Re: [gentoo-dev] Package file name requirement for binary ebuilds

2016-10-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Monday, October 17, 2016 03:52:52 PM Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: > On 10/17/2016 03:47 PM, M. J. Everitt wrote: > > On 17/10/16 14:44, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > >>> If a binary package is provided in addition to its source-based > >>> equivalent, the name of the former should be suffixed

Re: [gentoo-dev] Package file name requirement for binary ebuilds

2016-10-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Monday, October 17, 2016 03:37:28 AM William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > On Monday, October 17, 2016 8:57:30 AM EDT Michał Górny wrote: > > On Sun, 16 Oct 2016 18:30:44 -0400 > > > > "William L. Thomson Jr." wrote: > > > Part of the idea is to help differentiate the types of binaries in tree > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Commented packages in the @system set

2016-10-27 Thread Michael Mol
On Wednesday, October 26, 2016 11:14:53 PM Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 10:54 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 01:10:10AM +, Peter Stuge wrote > > > >> waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > >> > For a build-from-source distro like Gentoo, gcc and associated > >> >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Commented packages in the @system set

2016-10-27 Thread Michael Mol
On Thursday, October 27, 2016 09:21:06 AM Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 9:07 AM, Michael Mol wrote: > > I want to +1 this, but I do see one problem: If all dependencies are > > defined, how does "emerge --with-bdeps=y --emptytree @world" work? > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] rsync.gentoo.org rsync modules: ChangeLogs dropped from gentoo-portage

2016-11-16 Thread Michael Mol
On Wednesday, November 16, 2016 05:59:50 AM Doug Freed wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 3:26 AM, Kent Fredric wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Nov 2016 01:11:48 + > > > > So are we going to have a broken rsync tree for 4 days due to the manifest > > validation failing on every package, resulting in no

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Userkit.eclass

2016-11-29 Thread Michael Mol
On Monday, November 28, 2016 02:39:48 PM William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > On Monday, November 28, 2016 10:42:54 AM EST Alec Warner wrote: > > Generally speaking as a fellow who maintained thousands of systems (many > > of > > which ran various operating systems.) > > > > You cannot rely on all OS v

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Userkit.eclass

2016-11-30 Thread Michael Mol
On Tuesday, November 29, 2016 04:49:24 PM William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > On Tuesday, November 29, 2016 10:40:20 AM EST Michael Mol wrote: > > Highly detailed lists like that--used as a broad standard--are a bad idea. > > They represent a single synchronization point that every

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Userkit.eclass

2016-11-30 Thread Michael Mol
On Wednesday, November 30, 2016 01:41:24 PM William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > On Wednesday, November 30, 2016 1:22:07 PM EST Michael Mol wrote: > > If Gentoo wants to do it internally, that's one thing. > > This list is about Gentoo internal things Here, let me bring up a b

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Userkit.eclass

2016-11-30 Thread Michael Mol
On Wednesday, November 30, 2016 03:25:21 PM William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > On Wednesday, November 30, 2016 3:08:30 PM EST Michael Mol wrote: > > > IMHO it is something that should be a part of LSB. If not POSIX in > > > general. One cannot really change the past or cu

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please retain authorship of contributed patches

2016-12-02 Thread Michael Mol
On Thursday, December 01, 2016 10:13:17 PM Andrey Utkin wrote: > On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 12:50:42PM -0800, Daniel Campbell wrote: [snip] > > Thanks for bringing this to attention. It's somewhat related to another > > discussion we've been having about copyright, and it may be worth > > considerin

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tinderboxing efforts in Gentoo

2016-12-02 Thread Michael Mol
On Friday, December 02, 2016 02:10:27 PM Michał Górny wrote: > Hi, everyone. > > I've heard multiple times about various tinderbox projects being > started by individuals in Gentoo. In fact, so many different projects > that I've forgotten who was working on most of them. > > I know that Toralf i

Why lastrite when it works? (Was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due to retirement)

2017-01-03 Thread Michael Mol
On Tuesday, January 3, 2017 12:05:10 PM EST Michał Górny wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jan 2017 16:00:52 +0700 (+07) > > gro...@gentoo.org wrote: > > On Mon, 2 Jan 2017, Brian Evans wrote: > > > IMO, this one should be given last-rites as upstream is dead and it > > > heavily depends on wireless-tools and WE

Re: Why lastrite when it works? (Was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due to retirement)

2017-01-03 Thread Michael Mol
On Tuesday, January 3, 2017 9:24:19 AM EST Damien LEVAC wrote: > On 01/03/2017 09:14 AM, Michael Mol wrote: > > On Tuesday, January 3, 2017 12:05:10 PM EST Michał Górny wrote: > >> On Tue, 3 Jan 2017 16:00:52 +0700 (+07) > >> > >> gro...@gentoo.org wrote: &

Re: Why lastrite when it works? (Was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due to retirement)

2017-01-03 Thread Michael Mol
On Tuesday, January 3, 2017 10:23:02 AM EST Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 9:57 AM, Michael Mol wrote: > > For security's sake, even mature software needs, at minimum, routine > > auditing. Unless someone's doing that work, the package should be > >

Re: Why lastrite when it works? (Was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due to retirement)

2017-01-06 Thread Michael Mol
On Friday, January 6, 2017 5:27:24 PM EST Kent Fredric wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jan 2017 10:23:02 -0500 > > Rich Freeman wrote: > > I tend to be firmly in the camp that a package shouldn't be removed > > unless there is evidence of a serious bug (and that includes things > > blocking other Gentoo packa

Re: [gentoo-dev] Attracting developers (Re: Packages up for grabs...)

2012-12-16 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: > On 16 December 2012 16:57, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> Inspired by the number of packages being unmaintained -- why not use >> some of that bug bounty money to fix up the recruitment documentation > > Recruitment documentatiob? What does th

Re: [gentoo-dev] College Course in Gentoo Development

2012-12-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Roy Bamford wrote: > On 2012.12.17 16:02, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: >> On 12/17/2012 10:32 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: >> > Hi everyone, >> > >> > Give the talk on the list about attracting devs, I've should >> > probably mention that I'm teaching a College

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

2012-12-20 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 20/12/12 10:37 AM, Brian Dolbec wrote: >>> /var/cache/repositories/ /var/cache/repositories/gentoo <== the main portage tree /var/cache/repositories/local<== the >>>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

2012-12-20 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> On Thu, 20 Dec 2012, Diego Elio Pettenň wrote: > >>> /var/cache/portage/distfiles >>> /var/cache/portage/repositories/gentoo >>> /var/cache/portage/repositories/{sunrise,kde,gnome,whatever,layman,grabs} >>> /var/db/portage/repositories

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

2012-12-20 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 12:31 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 06:58:11AM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 4:25 AM, George Shapovalov wrote: >> > On Thursday 20 December 2012 09:11:39 Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> >> > /var/cache/repositories/local<== the new

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Wordiness

2012-12-21 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Matt Turner wrote: > On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 11:05 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: >> > > My point is that you consistently write long essays that I, and > apparently most others, don't bother to read. I'm not sure if you're > aware of this. > > Someone sa

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is /var/cache the right place for repositories?

2012-12-24 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 4:08 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> On Mon, 24 Dec 2012, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > >> On 20.12.2012 19:14, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >>> The tree is a database. It belongs in /var/db/. > >> I don't see /var/db in the latest release of the Filesystem >> Hierarchy Standard: >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is /var/cache the right place for repositories?

2012-12-24 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> On Mon, 24 Dec 2012, Diego Elio Pettenň wrote: > >>> /var/cache/packages/ PKGDIR > >> Maybe /var/spool/binpkgs ? > > This doesn't look right to me. /var/spool contains things like printer > queues or outgoing mail that are typically del

Re: [gentoo-dev] Attracting developers (Re: Packages up for grabs...)

2012-12-29 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Brian Dolbec wrote: > On Sat, 2012-12-29 at 16:42 +0800, Ben de Groot wrote: >> On 27 December 2012 00:39, Kent Fredric wrote: >> > Can we short cut the whole quiz process and have some "Inbound" repository >> > until we're full git, which people can fork/commit/

Gentoo and Github (Re: [gentoo-dev] Attracting developers (Re: Packages up for grabs...) )

2012-12-29 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Brian Dolbec wrote: >> On Sat, 2012-12-29 at 16:42 +0800, Ben de Groot wrote: >>> On 27 December 2012 00:39, Kent Fredric wrote: >>> > Can we short cut the whole quiz

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