[gentoo-dev] Re: News item: World file handling changes in Portage-2.2

2008-08-19 Thread Steve Long
Duncan wrote: >every time I try to emerge -NuD system I think there's a good case for system and world without the set specifier working the way they always have. I for one am very aware if I type in @world (ie not system, useful for -e) vs world. I don't see any benefit to the user in jettisonin

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: =dev-lang/python-2.3* (Second try)

2008-08-19 Thread Ali Polatel
Ali Polatel yazmış: > Now that the packages depending on 2.3 are masked, masking this one > again for removal in 30 days. > I've moved python-2.3 from gentoo-x86 to python junkyard overlay¹. ¹: http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/python/browser/overlays/junkyard -- Regards, Ali Polatel pgpB3R7i4

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] What features should be included in EAPI 2?

2008-08-19 Thread Steve Long
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:18:33 -0700 > Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> * The old src_compile phase function is split into separate >>src_configure and src_compile fuctions. > > If you're doing new phases... Exheres has been using src_prepare, after > src_unpac

[gentoo-dev] Re: News item: World file handling changes in Portage-2.2

2008-08-19 Thread Duncan
Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:20:00 +0100: > I think there's a good case for system and world without the set > specifier working the way they always have. I for one am very aware if I > type in @world (ie not system, useful for -

[gentoo-dev] gnat-gpl-2008 has been SLOTted differently from -2008

2008-08-19 Thread George Shapovalov
Hi All. I have some information for those of you using Ada on this list (it appears there are quite a few, so, please drop those "all two people using.." jokes ;)). I have found that the recently released -2008 version has some "incompatible bugs" with the -2007 version (NB: this is gnat-gpl,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for August 7

2008-08-19 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Mark Loeser wrote: > I personally don't see why they should be allowed to stay part of our > communication channels where they have caused problems bad enough to get > them retired. With that being said, I think the same technical issues > come into play here as with banning someone from "Gentoo"

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for August 7

2008-08-19 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Mark Loeser wrote: > Lukasz Damentko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > 1. I'd like to ask Council to discuss possible reactions to our [...] > Due to their privacy policy I don't think we'll ever be able to get > adequate explanations from Freenode staff when our devs are banned. I think that's a lim

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for August 7

2008-08-19 Thread Mauricio Lima Pilla
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Tobias Scherbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Mark Loeser wrote: > > I personally don't see why they should be allowed to stay part of our > > communication channels where they have caused problems bad enough to get > > them retired. With that being said, I think t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: News item: World file handling changes in Portage-2.2

2008-08-19 Thread Joe Peterson
Duncan wrote: > That's an interesting idea. I don't personally care either way, as long > as @world continues to /not/ include system/@system, but having world > (without the @) continue to include system /would/ be useful for backward > compatibility. I think it'd be much better in terms of e

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] What features should be included in EAPI 2?

2008-08-19 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> If you're doing new phases... Exheres has been using src_prepare, after >> src_unpack, to avoid having lots of things of the form: >> >> src_unpack() { >> default >> patch blah >> eautore

[gentoo-dev] media-fonts/droid licensing: should fonts include Apache license in tarball?

2008-08-19 Thread Peter Volkov
Hello. There are droid fonts package in the tree. Author states that they are apache licensed [1] (supposedly similar to google's android sdk) but license itself is not included in the package (only .ttf files are there). Should we RESTRICT="mirror" in such case or it's safe to drop such restricti

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] What features should be included in EAPI 2?

2008-08-19 Thread Arun Raghavan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: [...] > The benefit is that it's a logically separate action, and will avoid > all the silliness of people repeatedly changing their minds about > which phase should do the eautoreconf calls and so on. a) Is this really an issue

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] What features should be included in EAPI 2?

2008-08-19 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:31:17 +0530 Arun Raghavan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > The benefit is that it's a logically separate action, and will avoid > > all the silliness of people repeatedly changing their minds about > > which phase should do the eautoreconf calls and so

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for August 7

2008-08-19 Thread Robert Buchholz
On Tuesday 19 August 2008, Mark Loeser wrote: > I am not sure how we would be able to enforce this across the board > for forcefully retired developers. If we are talking policies, can someone please define the term 'forecefully retired'? What about people whom had been complained about to devre

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: News item: World file handling changes in Portage-2.2

2008-08-19 Thread Steve Long
Joe Peterson wrote: > Duncan wrote: >> That's an interesting idea. I don't personally care either way, as long >> as @world continues to /not/ include system/@system, but having world >> (without the @) continue to include system /would/ be useful for backward >> compatibility. I think it'd be m

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: [RFC] What features should be included in EAPI 2?

2008-08-19 Thread Steve Long
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:31:17 +0530 > Arun Raghavan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> > The benefit is that it's a logically separate action, and will avoid >> > all the silliness of people repeatedly changing their minds about >> > which phase should

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: [RFC] What features should be included in EAPI 2?

2008-08-19 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:27:03 +0100 Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:31:17 +0530 > > Arun Raghavan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > >> > The benefit is that it's a logically separate action, and will > >> > avoid all the silliness of people rep

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: News item: World file handling changes in Portage-2.2

2008-08-19 Thread Joe Peterson
Steve Long wrote: >> @system == system >> ...but... >> @world != world >> >> This, I would think, could cause confusion too - and we'd have to live >> with and document this "quirk". >> > I don't see that as major from a user pov; as soon as you see @ you're in > set territory, which is for finer-g

[gentoo-dev] Re: News item: World file handling changes in Portage-2.2

2008-08-19 Thread Duncan
Joe Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:45:11 -0600: > Ah, OK. I have been considering that "world" is simply a grandfathered > name for "@world" (and same for system). I.e. that "world" is also > specifying the world set, but that only