[gentoo-dev] Re: new category: games-adventure/

2013-07-15 Thread Steven J. Long
Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > I don't believe in the future until I can see it. I'm pretty sure that's > the same thing that they said about app-antivirus at some point (can > somebody _kill_ that category please?!) Since it's clearly been bothering you for a while, why haven't you done anything, i

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Council constituent meeting 30 July 2013 at 19:00 UTC

2013-07-25 Thread Steven J. Long
Rich Freeman wrote: > Roy Bamford wrote: > > The open floor is a part of the openness and approachability of the > > council. Its 60 seconds well spent, even if nobody says anything. > > The concern that was raised was that when it does get used it is rare > for anything to get accomplished. The

[gentoo-dev] Re: Dropping static libs support from cryptsetup and lvm2

2013-08-02 Thread Steven J. Long
Pacho Ramos wrote: > How the /usr in other partition ended finally then? I though that, since > there are a lot of things in / that rely in others in /usr, people were > supposed to either use initramfs or busybox to get /usr mounted As Rich said, lvm doesn't link outside rootfs so it's not an iss

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Multiple implementations shouldn't block Gentoo's progress. Stabilize package combinations?

2013-08-08 Thread Steven J. Long
On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 08:39:20AM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: > I've always disliked unnecessary profiles, a lot, but this whole > selecting of init plus packages supporting it plus the /usr-move issue > the systemd maintainers are bundling together with it by forcing the > unstandard systemd

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

2013-08-08 Thread Steven J. Long
wrote: > It would seem to make sense if the packages are unmasked conditionally s/ conditionally// > in the parent, or the linux profile, and then unmasked in the profiles > that need them. Sorry if I'm misunderstanding. And for noise. -- #friendly-coders -- We're friendly, but we're not /that

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

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

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

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

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

2013-08-23 Thread Steven J. Long
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013: Tom Wijsman wrote: > "Steven J. Long" wrote: > > > The core system has to be a usable basis to build "everything" from. > > I do agree with this except for "shaky"; it is a nice goal to pursue... > > That still does

[gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH systemd.eclass] Introduce systemd_install_serviced().

2013-09-10 Thread Steven J. Long
Michał Górny wrote: > +systemd_install_serviced() { > + debug-print-function ${FUNCNAME} "${@}" > + > + local src=${1} > + local service=${2} > + > + if [[ ! ${service} ]]; then > + [[ ${src} == *.conf ]] || die "Source file needs .conf suffix" I would hoist this check

[gentoo-dev] Re: bash-completion-2.1-r1

2013-09-10 Thread Steven J. Long
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 10:43:53AM +, Martin Vaeth wrote: > Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > > > > Indeed. The general gentoo policy is that "trivial" files such as bash- > > completions, systemd unit files, etc, aren't to be install-controlled via > > USE flags > > Then why is bash-com

[gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: status of OpenRC's public API

2013-09-16 Thread Steven J. Long
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013, William Hubbs wrote: > OpenRC currently has a public api, consisting of librc and libeinfo > (rc.h and einfo.h are the headers); however, I do not know of any > released software that uses these, so, if there is nothing, I am > considering making this code private to OpenRC an

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: rfc: status of OpenRC's public API

2013-09-18 Thread Steven J. Long
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 7:28 AM, Steven J. Long > > It's only an issue at system-level when your code is dependent on what > > the higher layer is going to do with your output, or requires a specific > > higher layer to run a

[gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: converting /etc/mtab to a symlink

2013-10-13 Thread Steven J. Long
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 07:38:19AM +0800, Patrick Lauer wrote: > On 10/14/2013 07:29 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Patrick Lauer wrote: > >> On 10/14/2013 03:32 AM, William Hubbs wrote: > >>> All, > >>> > >>> from what I'm seeing, we should look into converting /etc/

[gentoo-dev] Re: openrc 0.12 - netifrc/newnet mix-up

2013-12-11 Thread Steven J. Long
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013, Steev Klimaszewski wrote: > On Tue, 2013-12-10, Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013, Steev Klimaszewski wrote: > > > On Mon, 2013-12-09, Rich Freeman wrote: > > > You're thinking with your x86/amd64 hat on here. > > > > Actually, I probably just underquoted. I am we

[gentoo-dev] Re: Recommend cronie instead of vixie-cron in handbook?

2013-12-14 Thread Steven J. Long
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013, Pavlos Ratis wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197625#c14 > > > > This has reminded me that maybe we should switch to cronie from > > vixie-cron as default and recommended cron provider in Handbook. Last > > time

[gentoo-dev] Re: libtool lt_dlopenext vs. gen_ld_script: breakages at runtime

2014-01-08 Thread Steven J. Long
On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 04:09:12AM +, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > Summary: > > gen_ld_script is removing a vital unversioned symlink from some packages, and > this breaks libtool lt_dlopenext consumers at runtime. > lt_dlopenext is given the basename of a library to find. In this case,

[gentoo-dev] Re: Portage QOS

2014-01-12 Thread Steven J. Long
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 Igor wrote: > I've been using C/C++ since school it's fast, even bad code is working fast. > > I WOULD NEVER BELIVE PYTHON IS AS FAST AS C++ with math algorithms > that do calculate staff and not call functions from pre-complied > objects written in C/C++. I would never belie

[gentoo-dev] Re: libtool lt_dlopenext vs. gen_ld_script: breakages at runtime

2014-01-12 Thread Steven J. Long
On Wed, Jan 08, 2014, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: > Or we could just stop randomly moving libs across the system and > breaking things then hackmeating things back to a "working" state with > gen_ld_script. > > The whole reason for having gen_ld_script is because people wanted > dynamic libs i

[gentoo-dev] Re: Default USE changes for fortran and mudflap?

2014-01-12 Thread Steven J. Long
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 01:53:47AM -0600, Ryan Hill wrote: > While I'm adding USE defaults to toolchain.eclass and moving them out of the > profiles, I thought now would be a good time to review a couple default flag > settings. > > mudflap: > This is currently enabled by default but I'd like to d

[gentoo-dev] Re: [OT] pkgcore bikeshed

2014-01-13 Thread Steven J. Long
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 04:15:37PM +0700, "C. Bergström" wrote: > On 01/13/14 03:43 PM, Alexander Berntsen wrote: > > Realistically, we have to keep updating them both in parallel. pkgcore > > needs to be brought up to portage-level functionality, Yeah but it already outshines under the hood: all

[gentoo-dev] pkgcore EAPI-6 (Was: OT: pkgcore bikeshed)

2014-01-13 Thread Steven J. Long
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014, Alexander Berntsen wrote: > > Updating both in parallel isn't hard: once pkgcore is up to EAPI-5, > > EAPI-6 isn't that much work (mostly bash afair.) > If it is trivial: show us the code. Ah that old canard. Tell you what: I hereby undertake to deliver everything currently

[gentoo-dev] Re: [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Steven J. Long
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 19:27:36 +0100 > Tom Wijsman wrote: > > > Not an API. APIs are bad. What we should have is a good set of > > > lightweight Unix-friendly command line tools. See, for example, the > > > "Scripting Commands" section of "man cave". >

[gentoo-dev] arch="any" (Re: rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy)

2014-01-18 Thread Steven J. Long
On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 12:56:36AM +0100, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 18:28:41 + > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 17:47:58 +0100 > > Tom Wijsman wrote: > > > Maybe we can let the package managers only perceive it as keyworded > > > or stable if all of its depen

[gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-23 Thread Steven J. Long
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Sun, 19 Jan 2014, Christopher Head wrote: > > If stable really is falling behind and the backlog is always growing, > > obviously something has to be done. I just don't want "something" to > > mean "don't have a stable tree". The stable tree provides me

[gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-24 Thread Steven J. Long
Tom Wijsman wrote: > "Steven J. Long" wrote: > > What? Without a stable tree, Gentoo is useless afaic. > > It moves us closer to upstream releases, a little more bleeding edge; a > lot of users and developers run that already, it is found to be useful. What? Mor

[gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-28 Thread Steven J. Long
Please set your client not to embed people's email addresses in your responses: it's spambait in web archives. Thanks. Tom Wijsman wrote: > "Steven J. Long" wrote: > > Tom Wijsman wrote: > > > "Steven J. Long" wrote: > > > > What? Wit

[gentoo-dev] Re: Dealing with XDG directories in ebuild environment

2014-01-28 Thread Steven J. Long
Alec Warner wrote: > Sorry, I work on Portage. What I'm saying is that We are free to change the > behavior of *portage* now; rather than waiting for a new EAPI. If an ebuild > needs to define EAPI=eapi-next to 'correctly' use XDG_*, well that is > someone else's can of worms. Agreed: portage can

[gentoo-dev] Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-02 Thread Steven J. Long
Rich Freeman wrote: > Jeroen Roovers wrote: > > "Paweł Hajdan" wrote: > > > >> Why not allow maintainers to drop redundant stable and even ~arch > >> keywords from their packages? > > > > This is standard practice already. > > If there is still pain then maybe we need to re-communicate this, or >

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-04 Thread Steven J. Long
Tom Wijsman wrote: > "Steven J. Long" wrote: > > > Closing those bugs as WONTFIX is more work, and in some cases the bugs > > would be justified, if the user is on the slow arch in question. > > They are less work; since it lets the slower arches move their wo

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] All profile directories going EAPI=5

2014-02-04 Thread Steven J. Long
Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: > Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > in its last session the Gentoo council decided that 30 days from now the > > entire profile tree will be updated to require EAPI=5 support. .. > > If you are running an installation that has not been updated for more than > > a > >

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-13 Thread Steven J. Long
On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 01:08:33AM +0100, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Tue, 4 Feb 2014 21:03:20 + > "Steven J. Long" wrote: > > > Tom Wijsman wrote: > > > > > They are less work; since it lets the slower arches move their work > > > to bugs of impo

[gentoo-dev] Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-18 Thread Steven J. Long
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 "Steven J. Long" wrote: > > > > > Much better for the arch in question to field the bug, than tell > > > > the user there is no problem, and we don't care. That way you can > > > &g

[gentoo-dev] Re: FHS or not (WAS: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2014-03-11)

2014-02-28 Thread Steven J. Long
On Sat, Mar 01, 2014 at 07:20:24AM +0200, Samuli Suominen wrote: > If only Portage had supported checking if files from /usr were used by > files installed to / > Hard to create check for every case, but something like libraries and NEEDED > entries (bug 443590) would have been a start > But there

[gentoo-dev] Re: FHS or not (WAS: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2014-03-11)

2014-02-28 Thread Steven J. Long
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 09:31:08PM -0600, William Hubbs wrote: > On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 09:47:05PM -0500, Wyatt Epp wrote: > > But let's be real here: if I install something and > > want to configure its system-wide bits, the first place I go is ALWAYS > > /etc. When I don't find it there, with t

[gentoo-dev] Re: Handling /dev/rfkill, testers wanted

2014-03-07 Thread Steven J. Long
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 09:17:20PM +0200, Samuli Suominen wrote: > - sys-apps/systemd has it's own service to handle /dev/rfkill from > 99-systemd.rules we don't install with sys-fs/udev: > > SUBSYSTEM=="rfkill", TAG+="systemd", IMPORT{builtin}="path_id", > ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS}+="systemd-rfkill@$nam

[gentoo-dev] Re: Enabling EAPI 5 in arch profile directories

2014-03-07 Thread Steven J. Long
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 09:53:57PM -0500, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: > On 12/31/2013 06:43 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 31. Dezember 2013, 23:30:14 schrieb Mike Gilbert: > >> I have noticed that the arch profile directories (profiles/arch/$ARCH) > >> are not EAPI 5 capable. T

[gentoo-dev] Re: crossdev and multilib interference

2014-03-26 Thread Steven J. Long
Mike Frysinger wrote: > Greg Turner wrote: > > As for how to fix it, if foo-bar-baz-quux crossdev targets are at > > ${EROOT}/usr/foo-bar-baz-quux, putting wrappers in > > ${EROOT}/usr/foo-bar-baz-quux/cross-wrappers, or something like that, > > seems perfectly reasonable... heck, pure speculation,

[gentoo-dev] Re: Possibility of overriding user defined INSTALL_MASK from an ebuild?

2014-03-26 Thread Steven J. Long
Joshua Kinard wrote: > Basically what I am suggesting is finding a sane way to politely tell users > who set INSTALL_MASK locally that specific to systemd/udev packages, they > risk breaking their system if using it or migrating to it. Optionally, > telling them the same thing if they install a pa

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: crossdev and multilib interference

2014-03-27 Thread Steven J. Long
Mike Frysinger wrote: > Steven J. Long wrote: > > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > if they're in $PATH, then the exact location is irrelevant. > > > they need not be in /usr/bin to cause a problem. > > > if they're not in $PATH, then you're breaking

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Possibility of overriding user defined INSTALL_MASK from an ebuild?

2014-03-27 Thread Steven J. Long
Tom Wijsman wrote: > If we were to take this example to its extreme; then we would have to > create an inventory of which INSTALL_MASK entries are good and bad for > each ebuild, in which we cover all the files installed by that ebuild. Why are you directing this at me? Please don't cc me off-list

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: crossdev and multilib interference

2014-03-30 Thread Steven J. Long
Mike Frysinger wrote: > Steven J. Long wrote: > > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > Steven J. Long wrote: > > > > The cross tools should NOT pollute the default PATH, simply because the > > > > user happened to run crossdev at some point. > > > >

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Banning modification of pkg-config files

2014-05-14 Thread Steven J. Long
On Sat, May 10, 2014, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, May 10, 2014, hasufell wrote: > > Longterm, this makes it year after year more difficult to develop > > software for "Linux". Instead (like valve), people start to develop for > > certain distros only (like Ubuntu), because it's just too much work

[gentoo-dev] Re: Anyone with access to genkernel repository? Or should genkernel be p.masked on amd64 profiles?

2014-05-30 Thread Steven J. Long
On Fri, May 30, 2014, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: > On 05/30/2014 11:10 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=461828 > > > > I'll p.mask it on amd64 profiles if noone replies soon :( > > > > Please don't p.mask a working program because a config file is wrong

[gentoo-dev] Re: UPower upstream (git master) and 0.99 release -> No sys-power/pm-utils support anymore

2014-05-30 Thread Steven J. Long
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 09:57:01AM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: > > On 27/05/14 08:34, Michał Górny wrote: > > Dnia 2014-05-26, o godz. 23:15:34 > > Samuli Suominen napisał(a): > > > >> UPower upstream removed sys-power/pm-utils support from 0.99 release > >> (currently unkeyworded in tree), as

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: crossdev and multilib interference

2014-06-19 Thread Steven J. Long
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 10:56 -0400, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote: > All multilib packages that use pkgconfig, for one thing. (Which means almost > all multilib packages.) Because current crossdev versions blindly install > their > /usr/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu-pkg-config wrapper script, overwriting th

[gentoo-dev] Re: Eclass vs EAPI For Utility Functions (Patching/etc)

2014-06-19 Thread Steven J. Long
On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 03:30:10PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > Dnia 2014-06-15, o godz. 07:00:15 > Rich Freeman napisał(a): > > > The Eclass argument goes like this: > > Eclasses already work in every PM. Half of what we're debating is > > already in eutils. Why move this code into the PM, wher

[gentoo-dev] Re: crossdev and multilib interference

2014-08-01 Thread Steven J. Long
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > On 19/06/14 05:20 PM, Steven J. Long wrote: > > Well I've spent far too long at crossdev code, only to see this and > > realise you can simply hard-mask: > > cross-i686-pc-linux-gnu/{binutils,gcc,glibc,pkg-config} in the

[gentoo-dev] Re: package.mask vs ~arch

2014-08-01 Thread Steven J. Long
On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 11:01:53PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote: > On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 10:04:54AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > > A package that hasn't been tested AT ALL doesn't belong in ~arch. > > Suppose the maintainer is unable to test some aspect of the package, > > or any aspect of the pack

[gentoo-dev] Re: Avoiding rebuilds

2014-08-01 Thread Steven J. Long
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 05:49:07AM +, Martin Vaeth wrote: > hasufell wrote: > > Ulrich Mueller: > >> > >> I wonder if it wouldn't be saner to leave our revision syntax > >> untouched. > > As already mentioned, -r1.1 is only one of several possible ways > how to achieve the same aim; I am not

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: crossdev and multilib interference

2014-08-01 Thread Steven J. Long
On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 10:36AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > On 01/08/14 05:05 AM, Steven J. Long wrote: > > I don't know why we can't just mask cross-*/whatever in the > > multilib profile, instead of more talk of "masking crossdev" with a > > heavy heart.

[gentoo-dev] Re: Avoiding rebuilds

2014-08-02 Thread Steven J. Long
Martin Vaeth wrote: > Steven J. Long wrote: Please set your client not to include email addresses (for publically web-archived newsgroups.) > >> > It will probably also cause confusion for comaintainers and > >> > collaborators, especially when INSTALL_VERSION points t

[gentoo-dev] Re: systemd profiles

2014-09-09 Thread Steven J. Long
On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 03:27:15PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 2:11 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > > > > I can deprecate it. To do so, I would need to have it print out a > > deprecation warning that would be wrong for Gentoo in the next release. > > > > That warning would have

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Deprecating and killing the concept of herds

2014-09-10 Thread Steven J. Long
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 07:53:31AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 7:33 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > > > Personally I would vote for simply have a tag pointing to > > the alias but we would still need to keep a list of real maintainers for > > that alias as usually not all peop

[gentoo-dev] Re: Does the scm ebuild masking policy make sense for git?

2014-09-10 Thread Steven J. Long
On Sun, Sep 07, 2014 at 09:03:00PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > Right now the general policy is that we don't allow unmasked (hard or > via keywords) ebuilds in the tree if they use an scm to fetch their > sources. There are a bunch of reasons for this, and for the most part > they make sense. >

[gentoo-dev] Re: git migration

2014-09-20 Thread Steven J. Long
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 07:26:06AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 6:18 AM, hasufell wrote: > > Ulrich Mueller: > >> > >> ChangeLogs are aimed at users > > > > Did any1 ask them if they care? > > > > I'm sure somebody will reply and say that they care. Yup, mainly because of

[gentoo-dev] Re: Add bc back to the stage3

2014-09-28 Thread Steven J. Long
On Sat, Sep 27, 2014, Luca Barbato wrote: > On 17/09/14 14:09, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Sep 2014, Luca Barbato wrote: > > > >> The bc utility is part of the posix tools and it might be used to build > >> linux among the other stuff. > > > > Luca, > > > > bc is not in the sys

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Looking for alternative to RESTRICT=userpriv

2014-09-28 Thread Steven J. Long
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 09:51:31PM -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > On 07/09/2014 07:17 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > >>> c) 'esudo' helper [3]. This is a more generic form of (2), with > >>> support for other potential privilege changes. > >> .. > > I don't think we'd use the reference 'sudo' impl. Rather s

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Looking for alternative to RESTRICT=userpriv

2014-09-29 Thread Steven J. Long
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014, Zac Medico wrote: > On 09/28/2014, Steven J. Long wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 24, 2014, Zac Medico wrote: > >> The environment doesn't necessarily have to be isolated, since we could > >> extend the existing environment saving/loading support t

[gentoo-dev] Re: Add bc back to the stage3

2014-09-29 Thread Steven J. Long
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 04:05:19AM +, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: > It seems like everyone needs to "chill" a bit. ++ > On Sat, 27 Sep 2014, Tom Wijsman wrote: > > What is really needed here is a vote by the Council on whether to add bc > > back to the stage3. If the people do insist, a

[gentoo-dev] Re: Looking for alternative to RESTRICT=userpriv

2014-10-02 Thread Steven J. Long
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 07:52:02AM -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > On 09/29/2014 04:31 PM, Steven J. Long wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 29, 2014, Zac Medico wrote: > >> On 09/28/2014, Steven J. Long wrote: > >>> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014, Zac Medico wrote: > >>>>

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Deprecating and killing herds in metadata.xml

2014-10-02 Thread Steven J. Long
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > If people are that attached to then we should apparently fix it > instead of removing it, possibly by making it closely resemble > . Well to do that you need to clear up that "ontological discussion" which is nothing more than defining what it is you'

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Looking for alternative to RESTRICT=userpriv

2014-10-03 Thread Steven J. Long
On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 05:01:20AM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: > Steven J. Long wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 07:52:02AM -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > > > The IPC implementation that I've suggested does not involve an SUID > > > helper, so it is much more se

[gentoo-dev] Re: Looking for alternative to RESTRICT=userpriv

2014-10-03 Thread Steven J. Long
Peter Stuge wrote: > Steven J. Long wrote: > > > It's a lot more secure to have a single well-defined privileged trust > > > anchor (the privileged process) with a well-defined protocol, than to > > > have built-in privilege escalation which allows arbitrary acti

[gentoo-dev] Re: virtual/{posix,stage1,2,3} Was: Add bc back to the stage3

2014-10-10 Thread Steven J. Long
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 09:22:18PM +, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 12:31:16PM -0400, Richard Yao wrote: > > May I suggest an alternative? We could implement sys-virtual/posix and > > make it depend on all packages that are not necessary for @system, but > > are necessary fo

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Looking for alternative to RESTRICT=userpriv

2014-10-10 Thread Steven J. Long
On Sun, Oct 05, 2014, Zac Medico wrote: > On 10/02/2014 07:32 PM, Steven J. Long wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2014, Zac Medico wrote: > >>> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014, Zac Medico wrote: > >>>> We control the shell code that launches the requested command, so we can &

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Inviting you to project "PackageMap"

2009-07-11 Thread Steven J Long
Sorry for delay in answering this one, been up to here with RL, and I didn't have access to the debian and BSD bookmarks. Sebastian Pipping wrote: > Steven J Long wrote: >> You might as well use Gentoo's version specification for your internal >> format, as it's th

[gentoo-dev] Guys: take it to -project

2009-07-11 Thread Steven J Long
I'm not answering the the points in here, much as I would like to. My bad, I forgot that dev ML sets followup-to, stripping w/e the author puts on there. My mail was set to followup-to project. There's nothing stopping anyone else posting to project either, if they believe they're not discussing e

[gentoo-dev] Re: Please stop requesting keywords for arches you don't have

2009-07-15 Thread Steven J Long
Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Raúl Porcel wrote: >> Also, *STOP* dropping keywords when a new dependency isn't keyworded >> without filing a bug for that architecture. >> > > Towards reducing arch load, I say that new packages should not be > added to ~arch if some of

[gentoo-dev] Re: stacking profile.bashrc?

2009-07-19 Thread Steven J Long
Zac Medico wrote: > The specification is really the most important part, and you have to > give the -dev community an opportunity to participate in refining > the spec (via RFC email, GLEP, or whatnot). > > It seems like this idea will probably serve for bug 179800, which is > about allowing ecla

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: stacking profile.bashrc?

2009-07-20 Thread Steven J Long
Zac Medico wrote: > Steven J Long wrote: >> Zac Medico wrote: >> >>> The specification is really the most important part, and you have to >>> give the -dev community an opportunity to participate in refining >>> the spec (via RFC email, GLEP, or what

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: stacking profile.bashrc?

2009-07-22 Thread Steven J Long
Zac Medico wrote: > Steven J Long wrote: >> Yeah sounds right. Perhaps a per-category bashrc split (both for >> usual /etc/portage case and for overlays) might also be useful? >> (Overlay admin can always test PN should the need arise.) > > Maybe that's more in

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: RFC: Make 10.0 profiles EAPI-2 'compliant'

2009-08-13 Thread Steven J Long
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:50:26 + (UTC) > Mark Bateman wrote: >> > On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:41:30 +0200 >> > Tomáš Chvátal gentoo.org> wrote: >> > > Also we should allow the stuff as directory thingus (portage >> > > already handles it right). >> > >> > That's a seperate

[gentoo-dev] Re: selinux profiles as 'dev' instead of 'stable' in profiles.desc?

2009-08-15 Thread Steven J Long
Samuli Suominen wrote: > I find it very hard to commit thesedays since tree is full of > DEPEND.bad's from selinux profiles (existing ones that I didn't create). > > I vote for marking these profiles as dev, instead of stable since that's > what they seem to be. > > Any thoughts? !doIt Anyone wh

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: stacking profile.bashrc?

2009-08-17 Thread Steven J Long
Zac Medico wrote: > Steven J Long wrote: >> Zac Medico wrote: >> >>> Steven J Long wrote: >>>> Yeah sounds right. Perhaps a per-category bashrc split (both for >>>> usual /etc/portage case and for overlays) might also be useful? >>>

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: RFC: Make 10.0 profiles EAPI-2 'compliant'

2009-08-17 Thread Steven J Long
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:22:16 +0100 > Steven J Long wrote: >> > PMS accurately reflects the Portage documentation and the commit >> > message that introduced the feature -- it's purely for use >> > in /etc/portage/, which is beyond

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: RFC: Make 10.0 profiles EAPI-2 'compliant'

2009-08-20 Thread Steven J Long
Rémi Cardona wrote: > Le 18/08/2009 03:30, Steven J Long a écrit : > [snip] > > Steven, > > This thread was dead for more than 4 days. Yet you pick it up and you > try to pick a fight with Ciaran. > No I was answering the points he made, specifically he gave the fact t

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: RFC: Make 10.0 profiles EAPI-2 'compliant'

2009-08-20 Thread Steven J Long
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > I look forward to seeing Funtoo's creation of EAPI funtoo-2. > Well judging by your EAPI-2, I'd prefer it. Apart from USE-deps, there's been no discussion apart from under your supervision on bugzie. nonfatal? (or w/e it's called.) Who came up with that idea, and why did

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

2011-06-16 Thread Steven J Long
Brian Harring wrote: >> And no, I don't think that Gentoo should fully support reduced-@system >> builds, but there is no harm in making them more of a viable option. > > Personally... I think gentoo should aim for it actually. Question is > how close we can get to it w/out overly burdening deve

[gentoo-dev] Re: /usr vs. initramfs redux

2011-08-06 Thread Steven J Long
Sven Vermeulen wrote: > On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 07:42:29PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 10:06:48PM +0200, Sven Vermeulen wrote: >> > That said, I'm a bit hesitant to describing that we "recommend" it >> > regardless of the situation. What is wrong with describing when? At

[gentoo-dev] Re: /usr vs. initramfs redux

2011-08-06 Thread Steven J Long
Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 10:37 PM, William Hubbs > wrote: >> Not quite. It is actually inside the kernel binary. You are thinking of >> an initrd. >> >> Look at these files: >> >> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt. >> /usr/src/linux/Documentat

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

2011-08-18 Thread Steven J Long
Ulrich Mueller wrote: > But both sides of [[ ]] aren't symmetric, in the first place: > > # When the == and != operators are used, the string to the right of > # the operator is considered a pattern and matched according to the > # rules described below under Pattern Matching. > > So there's alm

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

2011-09-19 Thread Steven J Long
Joshua Kinard wrote: > On 09/13/2011 07:24, Amadeusz Żołnowski wrote: > >> You don't need -n/-z with [[. >> >> [[ $var ]] == [[ -n $var ]] >> [[ ! $var ]] == [[ -z $var ]] >> Also, you can usually be more succinct with [[ $var ]] || { some code; } for the empty case (as opposed to [[ $var ]

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-admin/chrpath: ChangeLog chrpath-0.13-r2.ebuild

2011-10-11 Thread Steven J Long
Michał Górny wrote: > I don't think that passing multiple files to epatch actually improves > readability. Simple example: > > # bug #123456, foo, bar > epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${P}-foo.patch > # bug #234567, baz bazinga blah blah > epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${P}-baz.patch > > With multiple arguments, yo

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-admin/chrpath: ChangeLog chrpath-0.13-r2.ebuild

2011-10-13 Thread Steven J Long
Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 10/12/2011 06:30 AM, Steven J Long wrote: >> Michał Górny wrote: >>> I don't think that passing multiple files to epatch actually improves >>> readability. Simple example: >>> >>> # bug #123456, foo, bar >>>

[gentoo-dev] Re: Moving more hardening features to default?

2011-10-22 Thread Steven J Long
Magnus Granberg wrote: > It's hard to keep the patches up to date when they > are not maintained upstream. > > There are about 30 packages which have problems with PIE. We either add > patch to these or else use filter-flags on them. Sounds perfectly reasonable just to filter those, and not giv

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Moving more hardening features to default?

2011-10-26 Thread Steven J Long
Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike) wrote: > El 23/10/11 05:56, Steven J Long escribió: >> Will we be able to switch off SSP via config, or will we have to setup >> our own profile? > This should do the trick: > CFLAGS=$CFLAGS -fno-stack-protector Well, with quotes ;) b

[gentoo-dev] Re: estack_{push,pop}: cool new helpers or over engineering?

2011-12-15 Thread Steven J Long
Just to point out that arithmetic context can be more efficient; no bugs, except for a /minor/ possibility (second last comment.) Mike Frysinger wrote: > --- eutils.eclass 14 Dec 2011 17:36:18 - 1.372 > +++ eutils.eclass 14 Dec 2011 23:46:37 - > @@ -100,6 +100,54 @@ esvn_clea

[gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-04 Thread Steven J Long
Michał Górny wrote: > On Sun, 1 Jan 2012 08:53:26 + > Sven Vermeulen wrote: > >> On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 07:59:47PM -0600, William Hubbs wrote: >> > The goal is to deprecate /bin, /lib, /sbin and /usr/sbin. My >> > understanding is that they want to move software that is installed >> > in /b

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-04 Thread Steven J Long
Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Steven J Long > wrote: >> The thing I don't understand is why it is necessary to move stuff from >> /bin to /usr/bin. After all, if you're running the "approved" setup you >> don't have a sep

[gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-17 Thread Steven J Long
Michał Górny wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:14:52 +0100 > Enrico Weigelt wrote: > >> * Micha?? Górny schrieb: >> >> > Does working hard involve compiling even more packages statically? >> >> I guess, he means keeping udev in / ? > > Because adding 80 KiB of initramfs hurts so much? We shoul

[gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-17 Thread Steven J Long
Michał Górny wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:56:11 -0600 > Dale wrote: >> How much time does it take when the initramfs fails? > > The same when rootfs fails? Only the fact that initramfs is less likely > to break than rootfs, Seems to me for the average desktop user (who all this is aimed at, a

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