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] RFC: Project proposal -- maintainer-wanted

2009-05-28 Thread Peter Volkov
В Чтв, 14/05/2009 в 03:32 +0300, Mart Raudsepp пишет: > Project maintainer-wanted > = Mart, I think that it's good idea to create such project but with a different goals. I think currently maintainer-wanted alias is missed by most developers: new packages are assigned there

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 54 and hyphens in PV

2009-05-28 Thread Tiziano Müller
Am Dienstag, den 19.05.2009, 19:01 +0200 schrieb Ulrich Mueller: > > On Mon, 18 May 2009, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > On Mon, 18 May 2009 06:59:36 +0200 > > Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >> AFAICS, there _is_ an ambiguity. You can have the following two > >> ebuilds in the tree, simultaneously: >

Re: [gentoo-dev] [amd64-fbsd] remove charset.alias

2009-05-28 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 11-03-2009 18:26:33 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > as for the ebuilds, those lines should be dropped completely. ive been > > > dropping them in newer versions of the packages rather than going back > > > and deleting them all by hand ... > > > > Aha, that explains why this recently started

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] GLEP 54 and hyphens in PV

2009-05-28 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Thu, 28 May 2009, Tiziano Müller wrote: >> ${PORTDIR}/app-misc/foo/foo-1a_live.ebuild >> ${PORTDIR}/app-misc/foo-1a/foo-1a-live.ebuild > you probably mean: > ${PORTDIR}/app-misc/foo-1a/foo-1a.live.ebuild No, I mean what I had written, namely to use an underscore as separator, i.e., "_li

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 54 and hyphens in PV

2009-05-28 Thread Piotr Jaroszyński
2009/5/28 Ulrich Mueller : >> On Thu, 28 May 2009, Tiziano Müller wrote: > >>> ${PORTDIR}/app-misc/foo/foo-1a_live.ebuild >>> ${PORTDIR}/app-misc/foo-1a/foo-1a-live.ebuild > >> you probably mean: >> ${PORTDIR}/app-misc/foo-1a/foo-1a.live.ebuild > > No, I mean what I had written, namely to use a

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) ! > > >

[gentoo-dev] Ulm will be next council member, not me, no time at the moment.

2009-05-28 Thread Samuli Suominen
We've discussed it and ulm will be next in line for council since dberkholz retiring. We shared a place with ulm on the list. Good luck ulm, thanks, Samuli

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 54 and hyphens in PV

2009-05-28 Thread Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Piotr Jaroszyński wrote: > 2009/5/28 Ulrich Mueller : >>> On Thu, 28 May 2009, Tiziano Müller wrote: ${PORTDIR}/app-misc/foo/foo-1a_live.ebuild ${PORTDIR}/app-misc/foo-1a/foo-1a-live.ebuild >>> you probably mean: >>> ${PORTDIR}/app-misc/f

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 54 and hyphens in PV

2009-05-28 Thread Piotr Jaroszyński
2009/5/28 Marijn Schouten (hkBst) : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Piotr Jaroszyński wrote: >> 2009/5/28 Ulrich Mueller : On Thu, 28 May 2009, Tiziano Müller wrote: > ${PORTDIR}/app-misc/foo/foo-1a_live.ebuild > ${PORTDIR}/app-misc/foo-1a/foo-1a-live.ebuild >

[gentoo-dev] GLEP 55: another approach: display pretty messages with old PMs

2009-05-28 Thread Michael Haubenwallner
Hi, As far as I can see, the basic problem with EAPI is that in EAPI 0 it isn't specified how to specify the EAPI for an ebuild to be known at pre-filename-parse-, pre-source- and post-source-time. Ancient PM do not assume that there might be ebuilds they do not understand. They only know how to 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 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 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] How not to discuss

2009-05-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 28 May 2009 08:28:12 +0200 Patrick Lauer wrote: > - Try to avoid subjective statements. Statements like "C++ feels > better" don't add anything to the discussion and are objectively > wrong for me, so they have no place in a technical discussion You mean like "EAPI in the filename feels b

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] How not to discuss

2009-05-28 Thread Alec Warner
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 28 May 2009 08:28:12 +0200 > Patrick Lauer wrote: >> - Try to avoid subjective statements. Statements like "C++ feels >> better" don't add anything to the discussion and are objectively >> wrong for me, so they have no place in a

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] How not to discuss

2009-05-28 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Thursday 28 May 2009 20:14:57 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 28 May 2009 08:28:12 +0200 > > Patrick Lauer wrote: > > - Try to avoid subjective statements. Statements like "C++ feels > > better" don't add anything to the discussion and are objectively > > wrong for me, so they have no place in

Re: [gentoo-dev] How not to discuss

2009-05-28 Thread Roy Bamford
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2009.05.28 19:36, Alec Warner wrote: [snip] > > The community could of course just deny the features that require > glep55 (no bash4, no global scope changes, etc..) I guess the > community is doing that by default anyway by repeated discussing th

Re: [gentoo-dev] How not to discuss

2009-05-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 28 May 2009 20:49:54 +0200 Patrick Lauer wrote: > Now you may still think (subjective thing, that) that glep55 is the > best solution. And I, with the same subjectivity, think it isn't. GLEP 55 shows that other solutions require either a design-enforced performance penalty or remove the a

Re: [gentoo-dev] How not to discuss

2009-05-28 Thread Joe Peterson
Alec Warner wrote: >> No, it's entirely objective. GLEP 55 clearly shows how the filename >> based options are objectively better than anything else. > > But the decision will not be based entirely on objective merits > (although I will concede that EAPI in filename is the 'best' technical > choic

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 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] How not to discuss

2009-05-28 Thread Piotr Jaroszyński
2009/5/28 Joe Peterson : > Alec Warner wrote: >>> No, it's entirely objective. GLEP 55 clearly shows how the filename >>> based options are objectively better than anything else. >> >> But the decision will not be based entirely on objective merits >> (although I will concede that EAPI in filename

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 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 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 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 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 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
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 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

[gentoo-dev] Re: How not to discuss

2009-05-28 Thread Ryan Hill
On Thu, 28 May 2009 08:28:12 +0200 Patrick Lauer wrote: > This is becoming a rather lengthy email ping pong, but as people seem to be > unable to discuss things I had to highlight a few issues there. I'm sorry to be rude, but ever consider that the reason people keep repeating things to you is

[gentoo-dev] Re: How not to discuss

2009-05-28 Thread Duncan
Ciaran McCreesh posted 20090528191457.21ab4...@snowcone, excerpted below, on Thu, 28 May 2009 19:14:57 +0100: > No, it's entirely objective. GLEP 55 clearly shows how the filename > based options are objectively better than anything else. Now that's just being facetious. -- Duncan - List repl