Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for May 28

2009-06-01 Thread Tiziano Müller
Am Mittwoch, den 27.05.2009, 20:55 +0100 schrieb Roy Bamford: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 2009.05.27 13:46, Ferris McCormick wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 20:57 +0200, Tiziano Müller wrote: > > > This is your friendly reminder! Same bat time (typically the 2nd & > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for May 28

2009-05-28 Thread Roy Bamford
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2009.05.28 20:54, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, 28 May 2009 20:42:30 +0100 > Roy Bamford wrote: > > I don't see any objective measurements of performace in GLEP 55 > > either. perhaps you coul

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for May 28

2009-05-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 28 May 2009 22:56:46 +0200 Patrick Lauer wrote: > So, basically, we can't do anything, because the universe might > spontaneously decide to cease to exist. Quite scary, that. No. What we do is don't design a fragile solution. We design a solution that can handle users doing what we reaso

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for May 28

2009-05-28 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Thursday 28 May 2009 21:52:49 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 28 May 2009 21:46:48 +0200 > > Patrick Lauer wrote: > > > And just how do you plan to enforce that? What measures will you > > > take to ensure that there's no way for developers or users to > > > modify the repository? > > > > I ca

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for May 28

2009-05-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 28 May 2009 20:42:30 +0100 Roy Bamford wrote: > I don't see any objective measurements of performace in GLEP 55 > either. perhaps you could point me to a version and pargraph in GLEP > that details these benchmarks ? It's not a question of be

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for May 28

2009-05-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 28 May 2009 21:46:48 +0200 Patrick Lauer wrote: > > And just how do you plan to enforce that? What measures will you > > take to ensure that there's no way for developers or users to > > modify the repository? > I can think of many simple methods. Like a tarball with a checksum. ...which

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for May 28

2009-05-28 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Thursday 28 May 2009 21:26:43 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 28 May 2009 21:19:35 +0200 > > Patrick Lauer wrote: > > You know, usually snipping away everything else is a bit evil because > > it removes context, but in this case I just want to point out one or > > two little pieces ... > > Bec

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for May 28

2009-05-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 28 May 2009 12:42:02 -0700 Josh Saddler wrote: > GLEP55 has not effectively shown that there *is* a problem, otherwise > we wouldn't have had months of discussion on that topic. Uh. Did you miss the part where we need global scope changes in ebuilds? -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc D

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for May 28

2009-05-28 Thread Roy Bamford
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2009.05.28 20:26, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: [snip] > > I think I have pointed you a few times at objective statements > > disagreeing with your subjective opinion. I hate repeating myself. > > And yet you keep ignoring the part where GLEP 55 demonstr

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for May 28

2009-05-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 28 May 2009 21:19:35 +0200 Patrick Lauer wrote: > You know, usually snipping away everything else is a bit evil because > it removes context, but in this case I just want to point out one or > two little pieces ... Because you know fine well I'm right, but want to carry on trying to derai

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for May 28

2009-05-28 Thread Patrick Lauer
You know, usually snipping away everything else is a bit evil because it removes context, but in this case I just want to point out one or two little pieces ... I almost feel bad for writing so many emails to this list. On Thursday 28 May 2009 20:48:45 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > For example a r

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for May 28

2009-05-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 28 May 2009 20:30:44 +0200 Patrick Lauer wrote: > > Interactive time is important. If it were adding those extra > > seconds to the build, no-one would care. But it's not. It's adding > > them to when the user's sitting at the screen waiting for results. > > So how about we improve the st

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for May 28

2009-05-28 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Thursday 28 May 2009 20:04:18 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 28 May 2009 18:56:00 +0100 > > Roy Bamford wrote: > > As I understand this, it may add six seconds to an emerge world while > > the dep tree is calculated. Lets say it takes an hour to do emerge > > world, the time has increased fro

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for May 28

2009-05-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 28 May 2009 18:56:00 +0100 Roy Bamford wrote: > As I understand this, it may add six seconds to an emerge world while > the dep tree is calculated. Lets say it takes an hour to do emerge > world, the time has increased from 3600 seconds to 3

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for May 28

2009-05-28 Thread Roy Bamford
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2009.05.28 06:46, Tiziano Müller wrote: [snip] > I did some analysis on that. The result is that the the performance > penalty of not having the EAPI not in the filename depends on various > factors. But it is for sure that there is a performance pe

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for May 28

2009-05-28 Thread Ferris McCormick
On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 12:46 +, Ferris McCormick wrote: > On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 20:57 +0200, Tiziano Müller wrote: > > This is your friendly reminder! Same bat time (typically the 2nd & 4th > > Thursdays at 2000 UTC / 1600 EST), same bat channel (#gentoo-council @ > > irc.freenode.net) ! > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for May 28

2009-05-28 Thread Tiziano Müller
Am Donnerstag, den 28.05.2009, 09:23 +0200 schrieb Patrick Lauer: > On Thursday 28 May 2009 07:46:36 Tiziano Müller wrote: > > > And here is why (I'm only looking at the non-degenerated case with valid > > metadata, ignoring overlays which some consider a corner case (I don't > > understand that a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for May 28

2009-05-28 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Thursday 28 May 2009 07:46:36 Tiziano Müller wrote: > And here is why (I'm only looking at the non-degenerated case with valid > metadata, ignoring overlays which some consider a corner case (I don't > understand that argument, but that's another thing)): overlays tend to come without metadata

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for May 28

2009-05-27 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Thursday 28 May 2009 01:10:50 Piotr Jaroszyński wrote: > >> > >> How is it one-way exactly? You can do pretty much anything you want in > >> a new EAPI (that's the point). > > > > You cannot undo it. > > > > In other words, you'll have to allow stupid filenames until the end of > > times even i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for May 28

2009-05-27 Thread Tiziano Müller
Am Mittwoch, den 27.05.2009, 22:43 +0100 schrieb Roy Bamford: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 2009.05.27 21:06, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Wed, 27 May 2009 20:55:33 +0100 > > Roy Bamford wrote: > > > That means

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for May 28

2009-05-27 Thread Piotr Jaroszyński
2009/5/28 Patrick Lauer : > On Thursday 28 May 2009 00:12:56 Piotr Jaroszyński wrote: >> 2009/5/27 Patrick Lauer : >> > On Wednesday 27 May 2009 22:57:25 Joe Peterson wrote: >> >> > Gentoo should not repeat the VHS vs Betamax war. For those who do not >> >> > remember, VHS was the better marketed b

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for May 28

2009-05-27 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Thursday 28 May 2009 00:12:56 Piotr Jaroszyński wrote: > 2009/5/27 Patrick Lauer : > > On Wednesday 27 May 2009 22:57:25 Joe Peterson wrote: > >> > Gentoo should not repeat the VHS vs Betamax war. For those who do not > >> > remember, VHS was the better marketed but inferior technical solution >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for May 28

2009-05-27 Thread Piotr Jaroszyński
2009/5/27 Patrick Lauer : > On Wednesday 27 May 2009 22:57:25 Joe Peterson wrote: > >> > Gentoo should not repeat the VHS vs Betamax war. For those who do not >> > remember, VHS was the better marketed but inferior technical solution >> > that won the standards war for domestic Video recorders. >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for May 28

2009-05-27 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Wednesday 27 May 2009 22:57:25 Joe Peterson wrote: > > Gentoo should not repeat the VHS vs Betamax war. For those who do not > > remember, VHS was the better marketed but inferior technical solution > > that won the standards war for domestic Video recorders. > > > :) Yep. And bad design deci

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for May 28

2009-05-27 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 27 May 2009 22:43:21 +0100 Roy Bamford wrote: > You chose to ignore "Adding metadata to the filename is not required > and is bad system design practice." > > I assume you agree with that as you chose to snip it, not to refute > it with a te

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for May 28

2009-05-27 Thread Roy Bamford
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2009.05.27 21:06, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, 27 May 2009 20:55:33 +0100 > Roy Bamford wrote: > > That means the EAPI needs to be extracted before the ebuild is > > sourced, which from the f

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for May 28

2009-05-27 Thread Joe Peterson
Roy Bamford wrote: > GLEP 55 still confuses the problem and the solution. > Adding metadata to the filename is not required and is bad system > design practice. Its also the first step on the slippery slope to > adding more metadata in the future. ++ > Changing the .ebuild extension, to blind e

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for May 28

2009-05-27 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 27 May 2009 20:55:33 +0100 Roy Bamford wrote: > That means the EAPI needs to be extracted before the ebuild is > sourced, which from the figures bandied about on the list may take > marginaly longer but its a price worth paying for a sound sys

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for May 28

2009-05-27 Thread Roy Bamford
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2009.05.27 13:46, Ferris McCormick wrote: > On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 20:57 +0200, Tiziano Müller wrote: > > This is your friendly reminder! Same bat time (typically the 2nd & > 4th > > Thursdays at 2000 UTC / 1600 EST), same bat channel (#gentoo- > cou

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for May 28

2009-05-27 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Wed, 27 May 2009, Ferris McCormick wrote: > I note that the .eapi-${EAPI} part could well be optional, in which > case GLEP54 falls naturally into the new scheme as something like > ${PN}-${PVR}-scm.eb Sorry, but this is not what GLEP 54 proposes. GLEP 54 proposes to make "-scm" part of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for May 28

2009-05-27 Thread Ferris McCormick
On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 20:57 +0200, Tiziano Müller wrote: > This is your friendly reminder! Same bat time (typically the 2nd & 4th > Thursdays at 2000 UTC / 1600 EST), same bat channel (#gentoo-council @ > irc.freenode.net) ! > > If you have something you'd wish for us to chat about, maybe even vot

[gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for May 28

2009-05-26 Thread Tiziano Müller
This is your friendly reminder! Same bat time (typically the 2nd & 4th Thursdays at 2000 UTC / 1600 EST), same bat channel (#gentoo-council @ irc.freenode.net) ! If you have something you'd wish for us to chat about, maybe even vote on, let us know! Simply reply to this e-mail for the whole Gentoo