Re: [gentoo-dev] `paludis --info' is not like `emerge --info'

2009-02-18 Thread Stelian Ionescu
's ebuild - and info about ebuild phases being executed(like ">>> Starting builtin_initmisc" etc...) ? -- Stelian Ionescu a.k.a. fe[nl]ix Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Ideas for a (fast) EAPI=3

2009-03-08 Thread Stelian Ionescu
n example). you can solve this right now, even if in a not very elegant way. For instance, if you need glibc with NPTL support, you can use elibc_glibc? ( >=sys-libs/glibc-2.3 || ( =sys-libs/glibc-2.6 ) ) -- Stelian Ionescu a.k.a. fe[nl]ix Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum vi

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

2012-03-13 Thread Stelian Ionescu
x27;t need an initramfs loaded into my kernel to > get my system into a minimally-usable state. I've been running separate > /usr setups for 10+ years, and only now, such a setup breaks, hence my beef > with Fedora's assertion that such a setup is wrong. You simply misun

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Let's redesign the entire filesystem!

2012-03-15 Thread Stelian Ionescu
> all to people who don't use bluetooth. That's true, but given the need to have a "one size fits all" boot system(for obvious practical reasons), such boot system needs to work with bluetooth input devices -- Stelian Ionescu a.k.a. fe[nl]ix Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur. http://common-lisp.net/project/iolib signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

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

2012-04-30 Thread Stelian Ionescu
his. > So no xulrunner anymore, even if that means losing 'chmsee' and 'kiwix'. Upstream doesn't support it, but Debian, Fedora, openSuse and other distros do so the maintenance work would be shared -- Stelian Ionescu a.k.a. fe[nl]ix Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum vi

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

2012-05-07 Thread Stelian Ionescu
e] 4) unsigned int: IIRC some (few) packages can take optional uint at configure-time. for example with dev-lisp/sbcl one can customize some hardcoded GC parameters suchs as the default heap size, generation size, etc... In the above case, one could have a USE variable named "webkit" of type member-of: [qt,gtk] -- Stelian Ionescu a.k.a. fe[nl]ix Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur. http://common-lisp.net/project/iolib signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stability of /sys api

2012-05-15 Thread Stelian Ionescu
false. Where did you hear such nonsense ? -- Stelian Ionescu a.k.a. fe[nl]ix Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur. http://common-lisp.net/project/iolib signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

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

2012-07-25 Thread Stelian Ionescu
ion such a symlink might be necessary > 3) When support for /etc/make.conf is finally dropped, the presence of > /etc/make.conf should make emerge halt immediately with an error message. 1+ -- Stelian Ionescu a.k.a. fe[nl]ix Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur. http://common-lisp.net/project/iolib signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

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

2012-08-02 Thread Stelian Ionescu
o tell that person > to switch to UTF-8 to get those python packages emerged? I hope not. Yes. -- Stelian Ionescu a.k.a. fe[nl]ix Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur. http://common-lisp.net/project/iolib signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

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

2012-11-18 Thread Stelian Ionescu
an idea it's because the idea is worth something, but that's illogical and in fact false: just because B(worthy idea) was preceded by A(laughter) doesn't mean that whenever there's A(laughter) then B(worthy idea) ensues http://xkcd.com/386/ -- Stelian Ionescu a.k.a. fe[nl]ix Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur. http://common-lisp.net/project/iolib signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: eudev project announcement

2012-12-21 Thread Stelian Ionescu
t; Yes, but do you want to find out when the entire production environment is > > > down? Or would you rather do the upgrades in steps and only risk having to > > > rebuild a few nodes and have a lower performance during that time? > > > There is a big difference between 50% per

Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-06 Thread Stelian Ionescu
didn't one download and burn that CD that is being used for >the _networkless_ install? One could also download the stage needed, actually, at least here in Italy many people buy Linux magazines only to have the latest distros, since the percentage of population not reached by *DSL lines

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC : New ebuild function pkg_create for creating corespondent sorce tarball

2007-07-17 Thread Stelian Ionescu
uch a fairly popular package, I >> wouldn't even bother with it (personally I don't use it). >> > >This is not uncommon in the Java land. it's also quite common in CommonLisp land -- (sign :name "Stelian Ionescu" :aka "fe[nl]ix" :quote "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.") pgpWn02WOwyWY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Unused ebuild built_with_use cleanup

2009-10-07 Thread Stelian Ionescu
se usage will be down to about 600: built_with_use shouldn't be removed until EAPI=3 gets approved because currently there's no good way to emulate "--missing true|false|die" yes, I can use something like this in sbcl: || ( =sys-libs/glibc-2.6 ) but not all its use cases may be t

[gentoo-dev] Calling unknown commands in an ebuild

2010-02-07 Thread Stelian Ionescu
helped: 303849, 297063, 260279, 221257, https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=command+not+found and perhaps others I haven't managed to find in bugzilla -- Stelian Ionescu a.k.a. fe[nl]ix Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur. http://common-lisp.net/project/iolib signature.a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Calling unknown commands in an ebuild

2010-02-07 Thread Stelian Ionescu
On Sun, 2010-02-07 at 14:19 -0800, Zac Medico wrote: > On 02/07/2010 01:10 PM, Stelian Ionescu wrote: > > Wouldn't it be a good idea to use "set -e" in the ebuild environment ? > > I've seen cases of ebuilds calling epatch without inheriting from eutils > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] inetd/xinetd useflags

2005-07-06 Thread Stelian Ionescu
ream, so I don't see >that creating more of it ourselves is a good idea. yes, but since it's common practice to have all xinetd services disabled by default that won't hurt because the user will have to enable the service "manually" anyway. -- Stelian Ionescu

Re: [gentoo-dev] Build dependencies and upgrades.

2011-10-12 Thread Stelian Ionescu
; won't help you with that. You'll also have to enable > --rebuild-if-new-rev=y in order to automatically rebuild the reverse > dependencies of the statically-linked library. And also for source code generators such as flex, bison, autoconf, cmake, et cætera -- Stelian Ionescu a.k

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: deprecate /usr/share/doc/$PF

2011-12-19 Thread Stelian Ionescu
documentation of a specific package (and only knowing PN), one can >currently type the pathname up to PN and press tab which will > complete PVR. With CATEGORY _before_ PN this would no longer work. It's just an ls -d /usr/share/doc/*/$PN, not worth worrying about -- Stelian Ionesc