Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Testing is not a valid reason to package.mask

2008-10-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
Ryan Hill wrote: On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 22:24:35 +0200 Jeroen Roovers<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please people, if you want to get something tested, then don't mask it. Um... no? One thing that package.mask has always been used for is temporarily masking a package until it can be tested an

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI-2 and src_configure in eclasses

2008-10-07 Thread Brian Harring
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 05:07:21PM +0100, Steve Long wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 17:38:11 +0200 > > Ulrich Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > By the way, do we really want to special case eapi-2 in every > >> > eclass ? That's lot of code duplication and will ge

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing doc use flag on gtk-doc packages to gtk-doc-rebuild or something else

2008-10-07 Thread Mart Raudsepp
On E, 2008-10-06 at 03:46 +0300, Petteri Räty wrote: > With USE="doc" the GNOME packages behave like what you expect but it's > the USE="-doc" case that's in question here. With USE="-doc" you don't > get any use flags installed normally and if it's in the tarball and is > always installed then the

[gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI-2 and src_configure in eclasses

2008-10-07 Thread Steve Long
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 17:38:11 +0200 > Ulrich Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > By the way, do we really want to special case eapi-2 in every >> > eclass ? That's lot of code duplication and will get even worse >> > when we'll reach eapi-42. That would have been cool to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI-2 and src_configure in eclasses

2008-10-07 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:07:21 +0100 Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's illegal, according to PMS. It also won't work with Paludis, > > since phase function definitions aren't made available until just > > before that phase executes (there is a reason for this -- it > > provides us with a

[gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI-2 and src_configure in eclasses

2008-10-07 Thread Steve Long
Alexis Ballier wrote: > Indeed; different names could be given to different implementations of > the same thing, but that might completely kill the point of abstracting > it. > Maybe eclasses should die on unknown eapi; the fact is I really hate the > current way it's done when switching an ebuild

Re: [gentoo-dev] Baselayout-2 / OpenRC Stabilization

2008-10-07 Thread Doug Goldstein
Petteri Räty wrote: > Doug Goldstein kirjoitti: > >> As some people may have already noticed, I have recently added OpenRC >> 0.3.0 to the tree. This will be the stabilization candidate in >> approximately 30 days. >> >> I encourage everyone to kick the tires on this one. >> >> Current Bugs: *ht

[gentoo-dev] Re: developer profile

2008-10-07 Thread Steve Long
Duncan wrote: > Thomas Sachau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], > excerpted below, on Sun, 05 Oct 2008 14:24:55 +0200: > >> I just had a user in bugzilla who thought, the developer profile would >> be for software developers, not just for gentoo developers. Probably he >> is not the

[gentoo-dev] Re: Projects without a homepage, and valid contents of HOMEPAGE (per bug 239268)

2008-10-07 Thread Steve Long
Robert Buchholz wrote: > On Sunday 05 October 2008, Thilo Bangert wrote: >> Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> > On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 03:44:20 -0700 >> > >> > "Robin H. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > Either we need special cases to declare that it no longer has a >> > > homepag

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: "Slacking" arches - which are stable, which aren't?

2008-10-07 Thread Santiago M. Mola
El lun, 06-10-2008 a las 23:13 +, Duncan escribió: > Jeremy Olexa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], > excerpted below, on Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:07:14 -0500: > > > AFAIK, it is incorrect right now to exclude s390, arm, sh, etc on > > stablereqs right now..But, I ask this question to