Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-01 Thread Fabio Erculiani
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 5:26 AM, Kent Fredric wrote: > [snip] > > Against, the symlink may introduce parts that are breakable, like if user > messes up and places the destination of the symlink on a different partition > ( shouldn't be a problem, but might be ), or if you're doing an initird that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RANT: Upgrade icu and KDE at once

2013-05-01 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Thu, 2 May 2013 03:38:24 + (UTC) Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > After some early issues with "too much magic" re preserved-libs Why is it magic? It is well explained what it does (eg. man make.conf). > I originally would rather let the upgrades happen as > they always did and simp

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GCC USE flag changes

2013-05-01 Thread Hans de Graaff
On Thu, 2013-05-02 at 00:57 -0400, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: > On 05/01/2013 03:00 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > > On 01/05/2013 06:29, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: > >> I don't mean to start a flamewar here but the test suite situation is so > >> bad with circular deps (I'm looking at y

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Handling of tests

2013-05-01 Thread Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/01/2013 09:18 PM, Ryan Hill wrote: > On Wed, 1 May 2013 10:14:02 +0200 > Ralph Sennhauser wrote: > >> On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:25:40 -0600 >> Ryan Hill wrote: >> >>> I'm also going to rename the "test" flag to "regression-test" or >>> something

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GCC USE flag changes

2013-05-01 Thread Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/01/2013 03:00 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > On 01/05/2013 06:29, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: >> I don't mean to start a flamewar here but the test suite situation is so >> bad with circular deps (I'm looking at you ruby herd) and random >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Handling of tests (was: GCC USE flag changes)

2013-05-01 Thread Kent Fredric
On 2 May 2013 16:21, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wednesday 01 May 2013 21:24:07 Kent Fredric wrote: > > please do not top post > -mike > My apologies, Gmail has forced upon us this new message composer, and it sucks, it actively discourages bottom posting, and I'm stuck with it. I even complain

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-01 Thread Kent Fredric
On 2 May 2013 15:18, William Hubbs wrote: > Like I've already said too, I don't see that we need to do this change. > > Systemd is called /usr/lib/systemd/systemd (it should be > /lib/systemd/systemd), and sysvinit is called /sbin/init,, so I don't > see the need for moving init around and creati

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Handling of tests (was: GCC USE flag changes)

2013-05-01 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 01 May 2013 21:24:07 Kent Fredric wrote: please do not top post -mike signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Shall econf append its arguments to end of ./configure invocation?

2013-05-01 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 30 April 2013 12:38:03 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:25:08 +0200 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > > On Tue, 30 Apr 2013, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > > Below is a patch that brings the spec in line with common sense. > > > > And in fact, I wonder why we're even discussing th

[gentoo-dev] Re: RANT: Upgrade icu and KDE at once

2013-05-01 Thread Duncan
Zac Medico posted on Wed, 01 May 2013 08:01:45 -0700 as excerpted: > On 05/01/2013 07:46 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> I think it is time to consider enabling [preserve-libs] by default. >> Hopefully any ABI bumps will be accompanied by a >> subslot / slot-operator migration at this point. > > Yeah

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-01 Thread William Hubbs
On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 11:14:28PM +0200, Fabio Erculiani wrote: > On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 9:52 PM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." > wrote: > > On 5/1/13 3:04 AM, Fabio Erculiani wrote: > > > > As far as I read the bug, Mike (vapier) is doing the right thing. > > Distros doing lots of custom changes can only

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-01 Thread William Hubbs
On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 03:13:54PM +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote: > El mié, 01-05-2013 a las 13:00 +0200, Fabio Erculiani escribió: > [...] > > >> The only remaining problem is about eselect-sysvinit, for this reason, > > >> I am probably going to create a new separate pkg called > > >> _sysvinit-next_,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-01 Thread Alex Xu
On 01/05/13 10:11 PM, Duncan wrote as excerpted: > Steven J. Long posted on Wed, 01 May 2013 19:52:03 +0100 as excerpted: > >>> Gentoo is about choice, which to me also means "embrace diversitiy". >>> If you want to keep living in your little world, fine, you can and >>> you're very welcome, but a

[gentoo-dev] Re: Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-01 Thread Duncan
Steven J. Long posted on Wed, 01 May 2013 19:52:03 +0100 as excerpted: >> Gentoo is about choice, which to me also means "embrace diversitiy". >> If you want to keep living in your little world, fine, you can and >> you're very welcome, but also people who want to have fun with new >> stuff should

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GCC USE flag changes

2013-05-01 Thread Matt Turner
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Ryan Hill wrote: > On Wed, 01 May 2013 08:00:29 +0100 > Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > >> On 01/05/2013 06:29, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: >> > I don't mean to start a flamewar here but the test suite situation is so >> > bad with circular deps (I'm looking at you

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Shall econf append its arguments to end of ./configure invocation?

2013-05-01 Thread Ryan Hill
On Wed, 1 May 2013 08:57:35 +0200 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Apr 2013, Ryan Hill wrote: > > Then the person implementing the code for Paludis is either a monkey > > or a robot*. Anyone capable of reasoning could puzzle out the > > implications of not allowing user-given options to o

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Handling of tests (was: GCC USE flag changes)

2013-05-01 Thread Kent Fredric
2 other classes of tests you may want to consider : - network/internet accessibility required tests - markers for tests that are known/expected to fail under many conditions and are not worth end-user-testing, but end-users can force-running any way if they really want to see the individual failur

[gentoo-dev] Re: Handling of tests (was: GCC USE flag changes)

2013-05-01 Thread Ryan Hill
On Wed, 1 May 2013 10:14:02 +0200 Ralph Sennhauser wrote: > On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:25:40 -0600 > Ryan Hill wrote: > > > I'm also going to rename the "test" flag to "regression-test" or > > something similar to get it out of FEATURES="test" control. The > > testsuite is a huge time-suck and onl

[gentoo-dev] Re: GCC USE flag changes

2013-05-01 Thread Ryan Hill
On Wed, 01 May 2013 08:00:29 +0100 Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > On 01/05/2013 06:29, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: > > I don't mean to start a flamewar here but the test suite situation is so > > bad with circular deps (I'm looking at you ruby herd) and random > > failures that I only enable tes

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-01 Thread Matt Turner
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: > Steven, I think you can behave a lot better on the internet. kthx. Amazing. I came to the exact opposite conclusion.

Re: [gentoo-dev] GNOME migrating from GConf to GSettings; effects on Gentoo?

2013-05-01 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 09:22:56AM -0400, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote > On Wed, 2013-05-01 at 04:19 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > I think I just realized what this means. I run ICEWM, not GNOME. > > GNUMERIC and ABIWORWD and GIMP are the 3 GNOME apps that I use a lot. > > Do I have to emerge GNOM

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-01 Thread Peter Stuge
Fabio, I think you're doing awesome work! Steven, I think you can behave a lot better on the internet. kthx. Steven J. Long wrote: > > It looks like there is some consensus on the effort of making systemd > > more accessible, > > Sure there is: there's also consensus that this approach is wrong

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-01 Thread Fabio Erculiani
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 9:52 PM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > On 5/1/13 3:04 AM, Fabio Erculiani wrote: > > As far as I read the bug, Mike (vapier) is doing the right thing. > Distros doing lots of custom changes can only add more chaos to the picture. We are a distribution, we have our own goals,

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH 2/2] Example use of edefault.

2013-05-01 Thread Michał Górny
--- gx86/dev-python/setuptools/setuptools-0.6.33.ebuild | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/gx86/dev-python/setuptools/setuptools-0.6.33.ebuild b/gx86/dev-python/setuptools/setuptools-0.6.33.ebuild index 4f4f3aa..91a8d57 100644 --- a/gx86/dev-python/setuptools/

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/2] Introduce edefault() as a friendly default sub-phase wrapper.

2013-05-01 Thread Michał Górny
--- gx86/eclass/distutils-r1.eclass | 18 ++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) diff --git a/gx86/eclass/distutils-r1.eclass b/gx86/eclass/distutils-r1.eclass index 47b5b97..4c2e819 100644 --- a/gx86/eclass/distutils-r1.eclass +++ b/gx86/eclass/distutils-r1.eclass @@ -206,6 +206,20

[gentoo-dev] [PATCHES] distutils-r1: support 'edefault' in sub-phase functions

2013-05-01 Thread Michał Górny
Hi, everyone. This one goes to gentoo-dev since it's a potentially wider idea and I'd like to get other developers opinion on. As you most likely already know, distutils-r1 allows ebuilds to define sub-phase functions like: python_compile() { # commands which will be run for each impl

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-01 Thread Michał Górny
On Wed, 01 May 2013 12:52:09 -0700 ""Paweł Hajdan, Jr."" wrote: > On 5/1/13 3:04 AM, Fabio Erculiani wrote: > > It is sad to say that the "territoriality" in base-system (and > > toolchain) is not allowing any kind of progress [3] [4]. This is > > nothing new, by the way. > > > > [4] "useless cr

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-01 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 5/1/13 3:04 AM, Fabio Erculiani wrote: > It is sad to say that the "territoriality" in base-system (and > toolchain) is not allowing any kind of progress [3] [4]. This is > nothing new, by the way. > > [4] "useless crap": https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=399615 As far as I read the bug,

Re: [gentoo-dev] GCC USE flag changes

2013-05-01 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 4/30/13 8:25 PM, Ryan Hill wrote: > I'm also going to rename the "test" flag to "regression-test" or something > similar to get it out of FEATURES="test" control. The testsuite is a huge > time-suck and only useful to developers IMO (always expected to fail and > primarily meant to be used to c

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-apache/mod_loopback, www-apache/mod_watch

2013-05-01 Thread Ulrich Mueller
# Ulrich Müller (01 May 2013) # HOMEPAGE and SRC_URI dead, tarball not redistributable. # Last upstream release in 2004. # Masked for removal in 30 days, bug #464938. www-apache/mod_loopback # Ulrich Müller (01 May 2013) # HOMEPAGE and SRC_URI dead, tarball not redistributable. # Last upstream r

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Shall econf append its arguments to end of ./configure invocation?

2013-05-01 Thread David Leverton
On 1 May 2013 02:52, Ryan Hill wrote: > Then the person implementing the code for Paludis is either a monkey or a > robot*. > > *or both (?!) > Alternative possibilities include ninja, zombie and wizard.

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-01 Thread Steven J. Long
On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 03:14:07PM +0100, Fabio Erculiani wrote: > On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Steven J. Long > wrote: > > On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 12:04:00PM +0200, Fabio Erculiani wrote: > >> PLEASE DO NOT START A FLAME WAR AND READ ON FIRST. > >> THIS IS NOT A POST AGAINST OPENRC. > >> > >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] RANT: Upgrade icu and KDE at once

2013-05-01 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Zac Medico wrote: > On 05/01/2013 07:46 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Zac Medico wrote: >>> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Jörg Schaible >>> wrote: The most annoying fact is, that none of this would have been necessary with >

Re: [gentoo-dev] RANT: Upgrade icu and KDE at once

2013-05-01 Thread Zac Medico
On 05/01/2013 07:46 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Zac Medico wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Jörg Schaible wrote: >>> The most annoying fact is, that none of this would have been necessary with >>> portage 2.2, but maybe we have to wait for 2.1.11.500 befor

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RANT: Upgrade icu and KDE at once

2013-05-01 Thread Zac Medico
On 05/01/2013 02:07 AM, Jörg Schaible wrote: > Hi Zac, > > Zac Medico wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Jörg Schaible >> wrote: >>> The most annoying fact is, that none of this would have been necessary >>> with portage 2.2, but maybe we have to wait for 2.1.11.500 before 2.2 >>> gets

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-01 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 6:04 AM, Fabio Erculiani wrote: > - genkernel needs to migrate to *udev (or as I did, provide a --udev > genkernel option), mdev is unable to properly activate LVM volumes and > LVM is actually working by miracle with openrc. Alternatively, we > should migrate to dracut. I'

Re: [gentoo-dev] RANT: Upgrade icu and KDE at once

2013-05-01 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Zac Medico wrote: > On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Jörg Schaible wrote: >> The most annoying fact is, that none of this would have been necessary with >> portage 2.2, but maybe we have to wait for 2.1.11.500 before 2.2 gets >> stable... > > Since portage-2.1.11.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-01 Thread Fabio Erculiani
There is no tracker yet. But it may be very well materialize at some point. -- Fabio Erculiani

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-01 Thread Matthew Thode
On 05/01/13 05:04, Fabio Erculiani wrote: > PLEASE DO NOT START A FLAME WAR AND READ ON FIRST. > THIS IS NOT A POST AGAINST OPENRC. > > With the release of Sabayon 13.04 [1] and thanks to the efforts I put > into the systemd-love overlay [2], systemd has become much more > accessible and easy to m

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-01 Thread Fabio Erculiani
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Steven J. Long wrote: > On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 12:04:00PM +0200, Fabio Erculiani wrote: >> PLEASE DO NOT START A FLAME WAR AND READ ON FIRST. >> THIS IS NOT A POST AGAINST OPENRC. >> >> With the release of Sabayon 13.04 [1] and thanks to the efforts I put >> into t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-01 Thread Michał Górny
On Wed, 01 May 2013 12:50:42 +0200 Pacho Ramos wrote: > El mié, 01-05-2013 a las 12:04 +0200, Fabio Erculiani escribió: > [...] > > - other ~490 systemd units are missing at this time and writing them > > could also be a great GSoC project (don't look at me, I'm busy > > enough). > [...] > > Can

[gentoo-dev] Re: Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-01 Thread Steven J. Long
On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 12:04:00PM +0200, Fabio Erculiani wrote: > PLEASE DO NOT START A FLAME WAR AND READ ON FIRST. > THIS IS NOT A POST AGAINST OPENRC. > > With the release of Sabayon 13.04 [1] and thanks to the efforts I put > into the systemd-love overlay [2], systemd has become much more > a

Re: [gentoo-dev] GNOME migrating from GConf to GSettings; effects on Gentoo?

2013-05-01 Thread Alexandre Rostovtsev
On Wed, 2013-05-01 at 04:19 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > I think I just realized what this means. I run ICEWM, not GNOME. > GNUMERIC and ABIWORWD and GIMP are the 3 GNOME apps that I use a lot. > Do I have to emerge GNOME-BASE in it's entirety just to get GSettings > working? Then I misunderstoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-01 Thread Pacho Ramos
El mié, 01-05-2013 a las 13:00 +0200, Fabio Erculiani escribió: [...] > >> The only remaining problem is about eselect-sysvinit, for this reason, > >> I am probably going to create a new separate pkg called > >> _sysvinit-next_, that contains all the fun stuff many developers were > >> not allowed

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-01 Thread Fabio Erculiani
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > El mié, 01-05-2013 a las 12:04 +0200, Fabio Erculiani escribió: > [...] >> - other ~490 systemd units are missing at this time and writing them >> could also be a great GSoC project (don't look at me, I'm busy >> enough). > [...] > > Can't them

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-01 Thread Pacho Ramos
El mié, 01-05-2013 a las 12:04 +0200, Fabio Erculiani escribió: [...] > - other ~490 systemd units are missing at this time and writing them > could also be a great GSoC project (don't look at me, I'm busy > enough). [...] Can't them be stolen from other distros running systemd? [...] > The only

Re: [gentoo-dev] RANT: Upgrade icu and KDE at once

2013-05-01 Thread Peter Stuge
Peter Stuge wrote: > Jörg Schaible wrote: > > icu. The ebuild happily removes any trace of the old shared libs > > with the result that half of the stuff that is *required* to build > > kdelibs is now broken. The build aborts and leaves behind a broken > > system. And this happened now not for the

[gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

2013-05-01 Thread Fabio Erculiani
PLEASE DO NOT START A FLAME WAR AND READ ON FIRST. THIS IS NOT A POST AGAINST OPENRC. With the release of Sabayon 13.04 [1] and thanks to the efforts I put into the systemd-love overlay [2], systemd has become much more accessible and easy to migrate to/from openrc. Both are able to happily coexis

Re: [gentoo-dev] RANT: Upgrade icu and KDE at once

2013-05-01 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 1 May 2013 11:20:37 +0200 Peter Stuge wrote: > Tom Wijsman wrote: > > > Well, here we go again! Again an update of Gentoo stable where > > > emerge tries to upgrade icu and KDE in one run (and this time > > > additionally libreoffice). > > > > If you don't want that to happen, use packag

Re: [gentoo-dev] RANT: Upgrade icu and KDE at once

2013-05-01 Thread Peter Stuge
Jörg Schaible wrote: > icu. The ebuild happily removes any trace of the old shared libs > with the result that half of the stuff that is *required* to build > kdelibs is now broken. The build aborts and leaves behind a broken > system. And this happened now not for the first time! Tom Wijsman wrot

[gentoo-dev] Re: RANT: Upgrade icu and KDE at once

2013-05-01 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Zac, Zac Medico wrote: > On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Jörg Schaible > wrote: >> The most annoying fact is, that none of this would have been necessary >> with portage 2.2, but maybe we have to wait for 2.1.11.500 before 2.2 >> gets stable... > > Since portage-2.1.11.20 [1], you can do th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GCC USE flag changes

2013-05-01 Thread Ralph Sennhauser
On Wed, 01 May 2013 01:29:05 -0400 "Rick \"Zero_Chaos\" Farina" wrote: > Sadly it is so > bad that we have a FEATURES=test-fail-continue I can't really say > anything negative, that fact really says it all... My beef is not with the existence of this FEATURE but that it's enabled in the dev

Re: [gentoo-dev] GNOME migrating from GConf to GSettings; effects on Gentoo?

2013-05-01 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 12:10:33AM -0400, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote > On Tue, 2013-04-30 at 23:26 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 11:17:35PM -0400, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote > > > > > It impacts users who use stable keywords and are therefore stuck with > > > GNOME-2.32. Th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Handling of tests (was: GCC USE flag changes)

2013-05-01 Thread Ralph Sennhauser
On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:25:40 -0600 Ryan Hill wrote: > I'm also going to rename the "test" flag to "regression-test" or > something similar to get it out of FEATURES="test" control. The > testsuite is a huge time-suck and only useful to developers IMO > (always expected to fail and primarily mean

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GCC USE flag changes

2013-05-01 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 01/05/2013 06:29, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: > I don't mean to start a flamewar here but the test suite situation is so > bad with circular deps (I'm looking at you ruby herd) and random > failures that I only enable tests for my own packages. Sadly it is so > bad that we have a FEATURES=t