Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Enable FEATURES="userpriv usersandbox" by default?

2012-05-28 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 9:09 PM, Maxim Kammerer wrote: > Ditto, ~2 years with regular full @world rebuild. > Yup, been years since the last time I even saw a bug for this. Probably wouldn't hurt to announce in news if it will impact existing users. I doubt anybody would actually remove the port

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Enable FEATURES="userpriv usersandbox" by default?

2012-05-28 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Zac Medico wrote: > Note that ebuilds can set RESTRICT="userpriv" if they require superuser > privileges during any of the src_* phases that userpriv affects. Current list of packages in portage using userpriv restriction: app-laptop/tp_smapi dev-db/firebird gam

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Enable FEATURES="userpriv usersandbox" by default?

2012-05-28 Thread Duncan
Zac Medico posted on Mon, 28 May 2012 14:34:22 -0700 as excerpted: > In case you aren't familiar with FEATURES=userpriv, here's the > description from the make.conf(5) man page: > > Allow portage to drop root privileges and compile packages as > portage:portage without a sandbox (unless users

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Enable FEATURES="userpriv usersandbox" by default?

2012-05-28 Thread Michael Weber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/28/2012 11:34 PM, Zac Medico wrote: > I've been using FEATURES="userpriv usersandbox" for years, and I > don't remember experiencing any problems because of it, so I think > that it would be reasonable to have it enabled by default. > Objection

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Enable FEATURES="userpriv usersandbox" by default?

2012-05-28 Thread Davide Pesavento
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 11:34 PM, Zac Medico wrote: > Hi, > > In case you aren't familiar with FEATURES=userpriv, here's the > description from the make.conf(5) man page: > >  Allow portage to drop root privileges and compile packages as >  portage:portage without a sandbox (unless usersandbox is

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Enable FEATURES="userpriv usersandbox" by default?

2012-05-28 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Montag 28 Mai 2012, 23:34:22 schrieb Zac Medico: > I've been using FEATURES="userpriv usersandbox" for years, and I don't > remember experiencing any problems because of it, so I think that it > would be reasonable to have it enabled by default. Objections? No objections. Excellent idea. --

[gentoo-dev] RFC: Enable FEATURES="userpriv usersandbox" by default?

2012-05-28 Thread Zac Medico
Hi, In case you aren't familiar with FEATURES=userpriv, here's the description from the make.conf(5) man page: Allow portage to drop root privileges and compile packages as portage:portage without a sandbox (unless usersandbox is also used). The rationale for having the separate "usersandbox

Re: [gentoo-dev] dev-libs/libusbx:1 the default provider for virtual/libusb:1 (for ~arch)

2012-05-28 Thread Zac Medico
On 05/28/2012 02:02 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > El dom, 27-05-2012 a las 17:16 -0700, Zac Medico escribió: >> On 05/27/2012 11:12 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: >>> Fedora rawhide and ArchLinux switched to libusbx and followed suit in >>> our virtual/libusb:1. >>> Debian is considering the switch also. We

[gentoo-dev] net-print/foomatic-filters-ppds

2012-05-28 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Hi everyone, while I was looking at various printing bugs, I came across the package net- print/foomatic-filters-ppds. It claims to provide the non-ps-printer ppd's for foomatic, but the last version is from 2008. * foomatic-db (current) contains the same printers "unprocessed" * there is no up

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: OpenRC Networking Scripts

2012-05-28 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 27/05/12 10:56 AM, William Hubbs wrote: > On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 10:49:07AM -0400, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 >> >> On 26/05/12 03:40 PM, William Hubbs wrote: >>> All, >>> >>> I realize this has b

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH eutils] Move remove_libtool_files() from autotools-utils for wider use.

2012-05-28 Thread Pacho Ramos
El lun, 28-05-2012 a las 09:58 +0200, Michał Górny escribió: > As autotools-utils exports phase functions, it will be better if > remove_libtool_files() functions would be somewhere else. > --- > eutils.eclass | 68 > + > 1 file changed, 6

Re: [gentoo-dev] dev-libs/libusbx:1 the default provider for virtual/libusb:1 (for ~arch)

2012-05-28 Thread Pacho Ramos
El dom, 27-05-2012 a las 17:16 -0700, Zac Medico escribió: > On 05/27/2012 11:12 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > > Fedora rawhide and ArchLinux switched to libusbx and followed suit in > > our virtual/libusb:1. > > Debian is considering the switch also. We'll see... > > > > I've been in contact with

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH eutils] Move remove_libtool_files() from autotools-utils for wider use.

2012-05-28 Thread Michał Górny
As autotools-utils exports phase functions, it will be better if remove_libtool_files() functions would be somewhere else. --- eutils.eclass | 68 + 1 file changed, 68 insertions(+) diff --git a/eutils.eclass b/eutils.eclass index c88ef35.