Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] PROPERTIES=set for meta-packages that should behave like package sets

2008-09-28 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Duncan wrote: > Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], > excerpted below, on Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:56:27 -0700: > >> For example, `emerge kde-meta` would behave as as normal meta-package >> currently does, and `emerge @kde-meta` would

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] PROPERTIES=set for meta-packages that should behave like package sets

2008-09-28 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rémi Cardona wrote: > Zac Medico a écrit : >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> Please consider a PROPERTIES=set value that allows an ebuild to >> indicate that it should behave like a package set when selected o

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] PROPERTIES=set for meta-packages that should behave like package sets

2008-09-28 Thread Rémi Cardona
Zac Medico a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone, Please consider a PROPERTIES=set value that allows an ebuild to indicate that it should behave like a package set when selected on the command line. This is behavior is somewhat difficult to describe in words but th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Default src_install for EAPI-2 or following EAPI

2008-09-28 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Thomas Sachau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So what about this one? > > default_src_install() { >if [ -f Makefile ] || [ -f GNUmakefile ] || [ -f makefile ]; then >emake DESTDIR="${D}" install || die "emake install failed" >fi >

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] PROPERTIES=set for meta-packages that should behave like package sets

2008-09-28 Thread Duncan
Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:56:27 -0700: > For example, `emerge kde-meta` would behave as as normal meta-package > currently does, and `emerge @kde-meta` would reference the same package > as a set and could thereby trigger diff

[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2008-09-28 23h59 UTC

2008-09-28 Thread Robin H. Johnson
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2008-09-28 23h59 UTC. Removals: sci-libs/blas-config2008-09-23 10:27:32 bicatali sci-libs/lapack-config 2008-09-23 10:28:05 bicatali sci-libs/libsc

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] PROPERTIES=set for meta-packages that should behave like package sets

2008-09-28 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:56:27 -0700 > Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> As I've tried to explain, the an ebuild which exhibits >> PROPERTIES=set doesn't necessarily have to behave any differently >> than a meta-package cu

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] PROPERTIES=set for meta-packages that should behave like package sets

2008-09-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:56:27 -0700 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I've tried to explain, the an ebuild which exhibits > PROPERTIES=set doesn't necessarily have to behave any differently > than a meta-package currently does. What we would do is create a > configuration that maps the set-

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] PROPERTIES=set for meta-packages that should behave like package sets

2008-09-28 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:11:42 -0700 > Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> GLEP 37 effectively abolishes virtuals. It doesn't try to overload >>> new behaviour onto packages. >> Well, PROPERTIES=set doesn't necessarily need

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] PROPERTIES=set for meta-packages that should behave like package sets

2008-09-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:11:42 -0700 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > GLEP 37 effectively abolishes virtuals. It doesn't try to overload > > new behaviour onto packages. > > Well, PROPERTIES=set doesn't necessarily need overload new behavior > onto packages any more that virtual ebuilds do.

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] PROPERTIES=set for meta-packages that should behave like package sets

2008-09-28 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:53:12 -0700 > Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does this seem like a good approach? Are there any suggestions for improvements or alternative approaches? >>> Strikes me as a good way of cau

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] PROPERTIES=set for meta-packages that should behave like package sets

2008-09-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:53:12 -0700 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Does this seem like a good approach? Are there any suggestions for > >> improvements or alternative approaches? > > > > Strikes me as a good way of causing extreme confusion for users... > > Perhaps it's not so confusin

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] PROPERTIES=set for meta-packages that should behave like package sets

2008-09-28 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:21:18 -0700 > Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Does this seem like a good approach? Are there any suggestions for >> improvements or alternative approaches? > > Strikes me as a good way of causin

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] PROPERTIES=set for meta-packages that should behave like package sets

2008-09-28 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:42:39 -0700 > Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Some some sort of mapping of packages into sets space does seem >> better than changing the behavior of these packages other cases. >> However, PROPE

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] PROPERTIES=set for meta-packages that should behave like package sets

2008-09-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:21:18 -0700 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does this seem like a good approach? Are there any suggestions for > improvements or alternative approaches? Strikes me as a good way of causing extreme confusion for users... Consider sets in package.use, for example. Any

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council meeting summaries for August & September

2008-09-28 Thread Josh Saddler
Donnie Berkholz wrote: - All our docs should be updated to refer to irc.gentoo.org instead of irc.freenode.net. Fixed in irc.xml and most of our other documentation in /doc/en/; will fix the rest later. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] PROPERTIES=set for meta-packages that should behave like package sets

2008-09-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:42:39 -0700 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some some sort of mapping of packages into sets space does seem > better than changing the behavior of these packages other cases. > However, PROPERTIES=set will still be useful for governing > recursion, since recursion int

[gentoo-dev] Council meeting summaries for August & September

2008-09-28 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Hi all, I just posted the summaries from August & September meetings. The complete summaries & logs are at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/. Here's the most important bits: - EAPI=2 is approved for use in the tree. P

Re: [gentoo-dev] Usage of econf with an additional || die

2008-09-28 Thread Vlastimil Babka
Thomas Sachau wrote: > I see many ebuild that still use "econf || die", also econf should die by > itself. Are there any > specific reasons for this? Some cases where econf does not die also it fails? > Or some other reason > for this? My guess is that due to the general lack of consistency in w

[gentoo-dev] Usage of econf with an additional || die

2008-09-28 Thread Thomas Sachau
I see many ebuild that still use "econf || die", also econf should die by itself. Are there any specific reasons for this? Some cases where econf does not die also it fails? Or some other reason for this? Some feedback on this would be nice. Thanks -- Thomas Sachau Gentoo Linux Developer s

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] PROPERTIES=set for meta-packages that should behave like package sets

2008-09-28 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marius Mauch wrote: > On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:21:18 -0700 > Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> Please consider a PROPERTIES=set value that allows an ebuild to >> indicate

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

2008-09-28 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 09:19 Wed 17 Sep , Zac Medico wrote: >> I suggest that we unmask the appropriate ARCH flags in >> profiles/arch/*/use.mask, add ../base to profiles/arch/*/parent, and >> create profiles/arch/base/use.mask to mask all of

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

2008-09-28 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 09:19 Wed 17 Sep , Zac Medico wrote: > I suggest that we unmask the appropriate ARCH flags in > profiles/arch/*/use.mask, add ../base to profiles/arch/*/parent, and > create profiles/arch/base/use.mask to mask all of the existing ARCH > flags. This will serve to mask all but the appropriate

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] PROPERTIES=set for meta-packages that should behave like package sets

2008-09-28 Thread Marius Mauch
On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:21:18 -0700 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi everyone, > > Please consider a PROPERTIES=set value that allows an ebuild to > indicate that it should behave like a package set when selected on > the command line.