Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for September 25

2008-09-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:18:24 -0700 Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - PMS as a draft standard. This is the deadline for these 4 > requirements: > - There needs to be a PMS lead who is a Gentoo dev [calchan]. > Both cardoe & antarus volunteered if this was needed. ferdy's accep

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making built_with_use die by default with EAPI 2

2008-09-23 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 22 September 2008 22:25:20 Petteri Räty wrote: > > If you mean something like > > > > built_with_use cat/foo coolfeature || ewarn "bar will be more useful if > > you rebuild cat/foo with USE=coolfeature" > > > > then you can use > > > > has_version 'cat/foo[coolfeature]' || ...

[gentoo-dev] libffi situation

2008-09-23 Thread Luis Francisco Araujo
Hello there, This email is to ask for suggestions about bug #163724 , I am myself one of the maintainer of several packages depending upon such a library, and the current situation isn't helping too much to decide how to handle such a packages. As we all know, the independent libffi project

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: addition of virtual/fonts package

2008-09-23 Thread Jeremy Olexa
Ryan Hill wrote: On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:03:53 -0500 Jeremy Olexa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm thinking that a virtual/fonts package would be a good addition to the tree. We have hit this issue in Gentoo Prefix where any font package would satisfy a dependency. I also have an open bug where a

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: media-plugins/slimserver-alienbbc

2008-09-23 Thread Joe Peterson
# Joe Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (23 Sep 2008) # Masked for removal in 30 days (see bug #238442) # Depends on old media-sound/slimserver # Will bring back in a form that works with media-sound/squeezecenter media-plugins/slimserver-alienbbc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for September 25

2008-09-23 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Donnie Berkholz wrote: > 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 dev > list to see. Please vote on deploying the PROPERTIES variable to the cache [1]

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: addition of virtual/fonts package

2008-09-23 Thread Ben de Groot
Jeremy Olexa wrote: > Ryan Hill wrote: >> On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:03:53 -0500 >> Jeremy Olexa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I'm thinking that a virtual/fonts package would be a good addition to >>> the tree. We have hit this issue in Gentoo Prefix where any font >>> package would satisfy a depen

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Default src_install for EAPI-2 or following EAPI

2008-09-23 Thread Thomas Sachau
Ulrich Mueller schrieb: >> On Sun, 21 Sep 2008, Steve Long wrote: > >> That works for that specific case, yes, but it's still not a general >> solution, which is what BASH arrays were invented for. For instance, >> an ebuild author cannot specifically include a file with spaces, and >> ignore

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making built_with_use die by default with EAPI 2

2008-09-23 Thread Petteri Räty
Bo Ørsted Andresen kirjoitti: On Monday 22 September 2008 22:25:20 Petteri Räty wrote: If you mean something like built_with_use cat/foo coolfeature || ewarn "bar will be more useful if you rebuild cat/foo with USE=coolfeature" then you can use has_version 'cat/foo[coolfeature]' ||

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making built_with_use die by default with EAPI 2

2008-09-23 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:33:44 +0300 Petteri Räty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bo Ørsted Andresen kirjoitti: > > On Monday 22 September 2008 22:25:20 Petteri Räty wrote: > >>> If you mean something like > >>> > >>> built_with_use cat/foo coolfeature || ewarn "bar will be more > >>> useful if you

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making built_with_use die by default with EAPI 2

2008-09-23 Thread Petteri Räty
Alexis Ballier kirjoitti: On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:33:44 +0300 Petteri Räty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bo Ørsted Andresen kirjoitti: On Monday 22 September 2008 22:25:20 Petteri Räty wrote: If you mean something like built_with_use cat/foo coolfeature || ewarn "bar will be more useful if y

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making built_with_use die by default with EAPI 2

2008-09-23 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 23 September 2008 22:44:35 Alexis Ballier wrote: > > > False. If for instance coolfeature was made optional in >=pv you > > > can use logic like: > > > > > > if has_version '>=cat/foo-pv' && ! has_version > > > 'cat/foo[coolfeature]'; then ewarn '...' > > > fi > > > > I think this should

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Default src_install for EAPI-2 or following EAPI

2008-09-23 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 23 September 2008 21:39:52 Thomas Sachau wrote: > default_src_install() { >         if [ -f Makefile -o -f GNUmakefile -o -f makefile ]; then >                 if emake DESTDIR="${D} install || einstall ; then >                         die "install failed" >                 else >      

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Default src_install for EAPI-2 or following EAPI

2008-09-23 Thread Robert Buchholz
On Tuesday 23 September 2008, Thomas Sachau wrote: > Ulrich Mueller schrieb: > > And I still don't see why we would need the most general solution > > for a *default* function. There's always the possibility to write > > your own src_install() for the few ebuilds that need it. > > > > Ulrich > > I

[gentoo-dev] [project] Re: Default src_install for EAPI-2 or following EAPI

2008-09-23 Thread Steve Long
Duncan wrote: > Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 22 Sep 2008 01:35:57 > +0100: > >>> This is an old rhetorical trick (I don't know its name in English): You >>> impute that I claimed things which I never said - of course, then it is >>> easy for

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Default src_install for EAPI-2 or following EAPI

2008-09-23 Thread Steve Long
Thomas Sachau wrote: > Ulrich Mueller schrieb: >> And I still don't see why we would need the most general solution for >> a *default* function. There's always the possibility to write your own >> src_install() for the few ebuilds that need it. >> > I aggree with Ulrich in this case. As I said;

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Default src_install for EAPI-2 or following EAPI

2008-09-23 Thread Alec Warner
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 23 September 2008 21:39:52 Thomas Sachau wrote: >> default_src_install() { >> if [ -f Makefile -o -f GNUmakefile -o -f makefile ]; then >> if emake DESTDIR="${D} install || einstall ;

[gentoo-dev] Cooperation with Gentoo

2008-09-23 Thread Mateusz Mierzwinski (me.matheos.org)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I writing that letter not because of any software problems. I just want to say, that You making great job with Gentoo. I'm using that OS 3 years and I think, that this is pretty much more than normal Linux distro. It's fast, it's stable, it's prof

[gentoo-dev] Re: Default src_install for EAPI-2 or following EAPI

2008-09-23 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Steve Long wrote: > As I said; generality in lib functions seems like a useful thing. Other ebuild variables are space separated lists, so why should DOCS be an exception? So far nobody has shown a real-life example of an existing ebuild that could profit from the arra

[gentoo-dev] Re: Default src_install for EAPI-2 or following EAPI

2008-09-23 Thread Duncan
Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:34:33 +0100: > "Why do we never have time to do it right, but always plenty of time to > do it over." > In this case, you're saying "oh anyone who wants something that copes > with all filenames can

[gentoo-dev] Re: [project] Re: Default src_install for EAPI-2 or following EAPI

2008-09-23 Thread Duncan
Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:13:12 +0100: > we both smiled at each other I missed that. Thanks. "Over and out." -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you u