Re: [gentoo-dev] Preventing $ARCH flags in USE

2008-09-15 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 15-09-2008 13:20:23 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > > For future EAPIs, ARCH could be a regular USE_EXPANDed flag as you > > suggest, and package managers could filter any flag in USE which is > > not listed in IUSE. > > While I don't necessarily disagree with you, my impression is that > most peopl

Re: [gentoo-dev] Preventing $ARCH flags in USE

2008-09-15 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:01:46 +0200 Fabian Groffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > While I don't necessarily disagree with you, my impression is that > > most people tend to think that certain profile-specific flags such > > as userland_* and kernel_* should be considered as implicit members > > of I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Jeeves IRC replacement now alive - Willikins

2008-09-15 Thread Serkan Kaba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Can you add it to #gentoo-tr. seqizz is the channel founder. Thanks. Robin H. Johnson yazmış: | Hi folks, | | Sorry that it's taken this long to get completed, but the Jeeves | replacement, Willikins, is finally 99% done, and ready to join lots of |

[gentoo-dev] Migration downtime for bouncer.gentoo.org

2008-09-15 Thread Robin H. Johnson
Bouncer.gentoo.org will be offline for an 30-60 minutes this evening, to migrate between hosts and database servers as part of OSL's database upgrades. -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux Developer & Infra Guy E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 348

[gentoo-dev] Bugzilla3 and Bugzilla Survey 2008

2008-09-15 Thread Robin H. Johnson
For those asking about Bugzilla3 for Gentoo, it's a work-in-progress for the test version. Hopefully I'll announce testing access in the next week or two. On a side note, upstream Bugzilla was doing a survey on large Bugzilla installs, and contacted me to get the Gentoo perspective. The results ar

Re: [gentoo-dev] Preventing $ARCH flags in USE

2008-09-15 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Santiago M. Mola wrote: > On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 9:45 PM, Vlastimil Babka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I think it's better to prevent this rather than waste time with bug >> reports like that. I asked Zac on IRC whether portage could filter such >> f

Re: [gentoo-dev] Preventing $ARCH flags in USE

2008-09-15 Thread Santiago M. Mola
On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 9:45 PM, Vlastimil Babka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think it's better to prevent this rather than waste time with bug > reports like that. I asked Zac on IRC whether portage could filter such > flags. He suggested using use.mask in profiles. Well since ARCH is also > s

[gentoo-dev] Preventing $ARCH flags in USE

2008-09-15 Thread Vlastimil Babka
Apparently, setting USE=x86 in make.conf on amd64 arch can have funny consequences such as [1]. And I can imagine even more subtle and hard to detect errors due to this. I think it's better to prevent this rather than waste time with bug reports like that. I asked Zac on IRC whether portage could

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI-2

2008-09-15 Thread Doug Goldstein
Jan Kundrát wrote: > Michael Hammer wrote: >> But for me it's still questionable why we don't have a gentoo project >> for this important task? > > You mean something like http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/pms.xml ? > > Cheers, > -jkt > This page is incomplete and needs some more details added to i