Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastrite: media-gfx/pngcrush

2011-10-11 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 10/11/11 06:22, Matt Turner wrote: > On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Markos Chandras > wrote: >> I am not in QA fwiw just trying to keep a basic QA level in >> portage tree. > > Wait, what? If you're not even in QA, then who are you to start >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite: media-gfx/pngcrush

2011-10-11 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 10/11/11 04:00, Ryan Hill wrote: > On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 18:33:15 +0300 Samuli Suominen > wrote: > >> It's not like fastened lastriting hasn't happened before. I >> question your motives in picking this particular one. It's not >> like I expected

Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastrite: media-gfx/pngcrush

2011-10-11 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: > On 10/11/11 06:22, Matt Turner wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Markos Chandras >> wrote: >>> I am not in QA fwiw just trying to keep a basic QA level in >>> portage tree. >> >> Wait, what? If you're not even in QA, then who are

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite: media-gfx/pngcrush

2011-10-11 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 10/11/11 05:36, Alec Warner wrote: > > 3) Maintainers (and upstreams) are not always responsive. The bug > was opened in February and wasn't really worked on until recently. > It is a bit of surprise all this talking for a bug that went unattend

Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastrite: media-gfx/pngcrush

2011-10-11 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 10/11/11 08:21, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Markos Chandras > wrote: >> On 10/11/11 06:22, Matt Turner wrote: >>> On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Markos Chandras >>> wrote: I am not in QA fwiw just trying t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite: media-gfx/pngcrush

2011-10-11 Thread Peter Volkov
В Втр, 11/10/2011 в 08:09 +0100, Markos Chandras пишет: > Isn't this the same situation with gcc stabilizations? No. As was pointed many times, there was (and still is) no clear stabilization path announced. But there is some work behind scene and pressing dates with absolutely no need. If you wan

[gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite: media-gfx/pngcrush

2011-10-11 Thread Duncan
Markos Chandras posted on Tue, 11 Oct 2011 08:09:21 +0100 as excerpted: > On 10/11/11 04:00, Ryan Hill wrote: >> Then stop trying to remove packages that have an active maintainer. >> I could have sworn that was written down somewhere. >> > Isn't this the same situation with gcc stabilizations?

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite: media-gfx/pngcrush

2011-10-11 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Ryan Hill schrieb: > On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 18:33:15 +0300 > Samuli Suominen wrote: > >> It's not like fastened lastriting hasn't happened before. I question >> your motives in picking this particular one. It's not like I expected >> cookies for the time I've put into this porting effort, but not thi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite: media-gfx/pngcrush

2011-10-11 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Markos Chandras schrieb: >> 3) Maintainers (and upstreams) are not always responsive. The bug >> was opened in February and wasn't really worked on until recently. > It is a bit of surprise all this talking for a bug that went > unattended for 9 months isn't it? O:) It is like people want open bugs

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite: media-gfx/pngcrush

2011-10-11 Thread Rich Freeman
2011/10/11 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn : > There was no indication 9 months ago that this bug is so bad that the > package would be removed if not fixed. Masking the package is ok if it > is totally broken or violates policy. Removal when the maintainer is > explicitly against it is not ok. Agree

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite: media-gfx/pngcrush

2011-10-11 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 10/11/2011 08:38 AM, Peter Volkov wrote: > В Вск, 09/10/2011 в 22:28 +, Duncan пишет: >> Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn posted on Sun, 09 Oct 2011 18:37:59 +0200 as >> excerpted: >> >>> Duncan schrieb: Libpng isn't held up that way, while the package still gets its 30 day masking las

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite: media-gfx/pngcrush

2011-10-11 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 10/11/2011 07:10 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 10/11/2011 08:38 AM, Peter Volkov wrote: >> В Вск, 09/10/2011 в 22:28 +, Duncan пишет: >>> Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn posted on Sun, 09 Oct 2011 18:37:59 +0200 as >>> excerpted: >>> Duncan schrieb: > Libpng isn't held up that way, w

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite: media-gfx/pngcrush

2011-10-11 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:10:01 +0300 Samuli Suominen wrote: > so no, you don't get to use this as anykind of weapon against me or > anyone else involved. I thought the idea was to fix the problem in whatever way best serves the needs of Gentoo's users, not to engage in warfare. What's all this talk

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite: media-gfx/pngcrush

2011-10-11 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 10/11/2011 07:28 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:10:01 +0300 > Samuli Suominen wrote: >> so no, you don't get to use this as anykind of weapon against me or >> anyone else involved. > > I thought the idea was to fix the problem in whatever way best serves > the needs of Gen

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite: media-gfx/pngcrush

2011-10-11 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 10/11/2011 08:38 AM, Peter Volkov wrote: > В Вск, 09/10/2011 в 22:28 +, Duncan пишет: >> Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn posted on Sun, 09 Oct 2011 18:37:59 +0200 as >> excerpted: >> >>> Duncan schrieb: Libpng isn't held up that way, while the package still gets its 30 day masking las

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite: media-gfx/pngcrush

2011-10-11 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 10/11/11 14:57, Rich Freeman wrote: > Finally, when you are taking action in some role (QA, whatever), > make a note of it so that people know in what capacity you are > acting and what project head to escalate to. If you can't say that > "I'm do

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite: media-gfx/pngcrush

2011-10-11 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 10/11/11 14:57, Rich Freeman wrote: > 2011/10/11 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn : The previous e-mail was not a direct response to you but I picked it at random so I can reply to @all since I sent the entire thread to /dev/null - -- Regards, Mark

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-admin/chrpath: ChangeLog chrpath-0.13-r2.ebuild

2011-10-11 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 10/11/2011 07:49 PM, Fabian Groffen (grobian) wrote: > grobian 11/10/11 16:49:18 > > Modified: ChangeLog chrpath-0.13-r2.ebuild > Log: > Revert ssuominen's changes that were totally uncalled for and most > importantly broke the installation of this package on the main con

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite: media-gfx/pngcrush

2011-10-11 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: > Seems like none of you ever bothered to read the bug about pngcrush > and what was discussed there. I read the entire discussion before making a single post - it would be irresponsible not to. Now, I can't say that I checked the cvs hist

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-admin/chrpath: ChangeLog chrpath-0.13-r2.ebuild

2011-10-11 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 11-10-2011 19:59:13 +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: > So I've missed one ${EPREFIX} for docdir= ? How about just fixing that, > and not crapping all over the package? How about first asking the maintainer before you completely rewrite an ebuild? I'm not innocent on this topic either (ask Diego f

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-admin/chrpath: ChangeLog chrpath-0.13-r2.ebuild

2011-10-11 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 10/11/2011 08:05 PM, Fabian Groffen wrote: > On 11-10-2011 19:59:13 +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: >> So I've missed one ${EPREFIX} for docdir= ? How about just fixing that, >> and not crapping all over the package? > > How about first asking the maintainer before you completely rewrite an > ebu

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-admin/chrpath: ChangeLog chrpath-0.13-r2.ebuild

2011-10-11 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 11-10-2011 21:01:40 +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 10/11/2011 08:05 PM, Fabian Groffen wrote: > > On 11-10-2011 19:59:13 +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: > >> So I've missed one ${EPREFIX} for docdir= ? How about just fixing that, > >> and not crapping all over the package? > > > > How about f

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite: media-gfx/pngcrush

2011-10-11 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 10/11/11 18:34, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Markos Chandras > wrote: I understand your points but given the fact that we have no active QA team to pick up the mess whenever needed (Diego can't do eveyrything on his ow

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-admin/chrpath: ChangeLog chrpath-0.13-r2.ebuild

2011-10-11 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 10/11/2011 09:13 PM, Fabian Groffen wrote: > On 11-10-2011 21:01:40 +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: >> On 10/11/2011 08:05 PM, Fabian Groffen wrote: >>> On 11-10-2011 19:59:13 +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: So I've missed one ${EPREFIX} for docdir= ? How about just fixing that, and not cr

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-admin/chrpath: ChangeLog chrpath-0.13-r2.ebuild

2011-10-11 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 11-10-2011 21:34:22 +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: > Thanks, the end result of installed files look now OK. Care to reopen > the stabilization bug? The changes are trivial. Shall we stick to the policy and wait 30 days without bugs first? > I just hope nobody will take an example of the ebuild

[gentoo-dev] Build dependencies and upgrades.

2011-10-11 Thread Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike)
Hi, Today I have found that build dependencies are left in the system but won't be upgraded when running emerge -vauD1 world. This can be inconvenient since security issues fixed in those left over packages won't be applied properly. So, is there any reason for this behaviour? Shouldn't build depe

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-admin/chrpath: ChangeLog chrpath-0.13-r2.ebuild

2011-10-11 Thread Matt Turner
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > I just hope nobody will take an example of the ebuild with code > duplication (multiple epatch calls), overquoting, redudant use of find > when rm is more than enough, ... I haven't looked, but if we don't already, a little style guide wou

Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastrite: media-gfx/pngcrush

2011-10-11 Thread Matt Turner
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 3:07 AM, Markos Chandras wrote: >> Wait, what? If you're not even in QA, then who are you to start >> masking other people's packages? >> > It seems you don't even bother to read the masking message or my > comments on the bug. I said "Talk to QA and CC me if you want to >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Build dependencies and upgrades.

2011-10-11 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 10/11/11 19:50, Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike) wrote: > Hi, > > Today I have found that build dependencies are left in the system > but won't be upgraded when running emerge -vauD1 world. This can be > inconvenient since security issue

Re: [gentoo-dev] Build dependencies and upgrades.

2011-10-11 Thread Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike)
El 11/10/11 20:55, Markos Chandras escribió: > On 10/11/11 19:50, Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike) wrote: > > Hi, > > > Today I have found that build dependencies are left in the system > > but won't be upgraded when running emerge -vauD1 world. This can be > > inconvenient since security

Re: [gentoo-dev] Build dependencies and upgrades.

2011-10-11 Thread Alec Warner
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike) wrote: > El 11/10/11 20:55, Markos Chandras escribió: >> On 10/11/11 19:50, Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike) wrote: >> > Hi, >> >> > Today I have found that build dependencies are left in the system >> > but won't

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-admin/chrpath: ChangeLog chrpath-0.13-r2.ebuild

2011-10-11 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 10/11/2011 09:46 PM, Fabian Groffen wrote: > On 11-10-2011 21:34:22 +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: >> Thanks, the end result of installed files look now OK. Care to reopen >> the stabilization bug? The changes are trivial. > > Shall we stick to the policy and wait 30 days without bugs first? OK

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-admin/chrpath: ChangeLog chrpath-0.13-r2.ebuild

2011-10-11 Thread Michał Górny
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:50:30 -0400 Matt Turner wrote: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Samuli Suominen > wrote: > > I just hope nobody will take an example of the ebuild with code > > duplication (multiple epatch calls), overquoting, redudant use of > > find when rm is more than enough, ... >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-admin/chrpath: ChangeLog chrpath-0.13-r2.ebuild

2011-10-11 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 11-10-2011 22:38:10 +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: > This document should be fixed. Any comments about the patches belong to > header of those patches, available for possible upstreams as well. > Doesn't belong to ebuilds. The devmanual doesn't suggest this is the way to go, does it? > So it ve

Re: [gentoo-dev] Build dependencies and upgrades.

2011-10-11 Thread Michał Górny
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:36:15 -0700 Alec Warner wrote: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera > (klondike) wrote: > > El 11/10/11 20:55, Markos Chandras escribió: > >> On 10/11/11 19:50, Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike) wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > >> > Today I ha

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-admin/chrpath: ChangeLog chrpath-0.13-r2.ebuild

2011-10-11 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 10/11/2011 10:49 PM, Fabian Groffen wrote: > On 11-10-2011 22:38:10 +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: >> This document should be fixed. Any comments about the patches belong to >> header of those patches, available for possible upstreams as well. >> Doesn't belong to ebuilds. > > The devmanual does

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite: media-gfx/pngcrush

2011-10-11 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
On Dienstag 11 Oktober 2011 20:23:13 Markos Chandras wrote: > On 10/11/11 18:34, Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Markos Chandras > > > wrote: > I understand your points but given the fact that we have no active QA > team to pick up the mess whenever needed (Diego can't d

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-admin/chrpath: ChangeLog chrpath-0.13-r2.ebuild

2011-10-11 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 11-10-2011 23:00:19 +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: > > The devmanual doesn't suggest this is the way to go, does it? > > No, but it should. different topic -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Build dependencies and upgrades.

2011-10-11 Thread Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike)
El 11/10/11 21:36, Alec Warner escribió: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera > (klondike) wrote: >> El 11/10/11 20:55, Markos Chandras escribió: >>> On 10/11/11 19:50, Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike) wrote: Hi, Today I have found that build depend

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-admin/chrpath: ChangeLog chrpath-0.13-r2.ebuild

2011-10-11 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 10/11/2011 11:04 PM, Fabian Groffen wrote: > On 11-10-2011 23:00:19 +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: >>> The devmanual doesn't suggest this is the way to go, does it? >> >> No, but it should. > > different topic still on the same one.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite: media-gfx/pngcrush

2011-10-11 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 10/11/11 21:01, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > On Dienstag 11 Oktober 2011 20:23:13 Markos Chandras wrote: >> On 10/11/11 18:34, Rich Freeman wrote: >>> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Markos Chandras >> >>> wrote: >> I understand your points but

Re: [gentoo-dev] Build dependencies and upgrades.

2011-10-11 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike) wrote: > So, is there any reason for this behaviour? Shouldn't build dependencies > either be cleaned with --depclean after building or be upgraded to avoid > possible issues? > I agree: with-bdeps should either default to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite: media-gfx/pngcrush

2011-10-11 Thread Alec Warner
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 10/11/11 21:01, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: >> On Dienstag 11 Oktober 2011 20:23:13 Markos Chandras wrote: >>> On 10/11/11 18:34, Rich Freeman wrote: On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:52

[gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite: media-gfx/pngcrush

2011-10-11 Thread Ryan Hill
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:52:42 +0100 Markos Chandras wrote: > Seems like none of you ever bothered to read the bug about pngcrush > and what was discussed there. It is getting a little bit of a habit to > escalate minor problems to flames in Gentoo. So feel free to > write/say/do whatever you want(

[gentoo-dev] Re: Build dependencies and upgrades.

2011-10-11 Thread Duncan
Mike Gilbert posted on Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:04:02 -0400 as excerpted: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera > (klondike) wrote: >> So, is there any reason for this behaviour? Shouldn't build >> dependencies either be cleaned with --depclean after building or be >> upgra

[gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite: media-gfx/pngcrush

2011-10-11 Thread Ryan Hill
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 08:09:21 +0100 Markos Chandras wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 10/11/11 04:00, Ryan Hill wrote: > > On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 18:33:15 +0300 Samuli Suominen > > wrote: > > > >> It's not like fastened lastriting hasn't happened before. I > >> ques

[gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite: media-gfx/pngcrush

2011-10-11 Thread Ryan Hill
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:41:21 -0600 Ryan Hill wrote: > > Isn't this the same situation with gcc stabilizations? Once the > > timeframe for fixing broken packages with e.g gcc-4.5 is passed, the > > remaining broken packages will be gone. > > Absolutely not. They aren't even masked. There are us

Re: [gentoo-dev] Build dependencies and upgrades.

2011-10-11 Thread Zac Medico
On 10/11/2011 11:50 AM, Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike) wrote: > Hi, > > Today I have found that build dependencies are left in the system but > won't be upgraded when running emerge -vauD1 world. > This can be inconvenient since security issues fixed in those left over > packages won't

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-admin/chrpath: ChangeLog chrpath-0.13-r2.ebuild

2011-10-11 Thread Steven J Long
Michał Górny wrote: > I don't think that passing multiple files to epatch actually improves > readability. Simple example: > > # bug #123456, foo, bar > epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${P}-foo.patch > # bug #234567, baz bazinga blah blah > epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${P}-baz.patch > > With multiple arguments, yo

[gentoo-dev] Suggestion for getting rid of udev

2011-10-11 Thread Walter Dnes
Hi all Recently, there was a firestorm on the gentoo-user list over the idea that udev would eventually require /usr to be on the same physical parition as /, or else use initramfs, which is its own can of worms. I'm not a programmer, let alone a developer. Rather than merely ranting, I went an

Re: [gentoo-dev] Build dependencies and upgrades.

2011-10-11 Thread Zac Medico
On 10/11/2011 02:04 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera > (klondike) wrote: >> So, is there any reason for this behaviour? Shouldn't build dependencies >> either be cleaned with --depclean after building or be upgraded to avoid >> possible issu

Re: [gentoo-dev] Build dependencies and upgrades.

2011-10-11 Thread Zac Medico
On 10/11/2011 12:56 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > Or go with a saner defaults... So, are any of the following sane? 1) Pull in updates for packages even though those packages won't be used for anything. 2) Pull in build-time dependencies for packages that are already built, even though no portage ve

Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for getting rid of udev

2011-10-11 Thread Zac Medico
On 10/11/2011 09:40 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > Hi all > > Recently, there was a firestorm on the gentoo-user list over the idea > that udev would eventually require /usr to be on the same physical > parition as /, or else use initramfs, which is its own can of worms. I'm > not a programmer, let al

Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for getting rid of udev

2011-10-11 Thread Nathan Phillip Brink
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:40:23AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > Hi all > > Recently, there was a firestorm on the gentoo-user list over the idea > that udev would eventually require /usr to be on the same physical > parition as /, or else use initramfs, which is its own can of worms. I'm > not a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Build dependencies and upgrades.

2011-10-11 Thread Mike Gilbert
On 10/12/2011 12:54 AM, Zac Medico wrote: > On 10/11/2011 12:56 PM, Michał Górny wrote: >> Or go with a saner defaults... > > So, are any of the following sane? > > 1) Pull in updates for packages even though those packages won't be used > for anything. > Francisco raised a possibly valid point

Re: [gentoo-dev] Build dependencies and upgrades.

2011-10-11 Thread Zac Medico
On 10/11/2011 10:28 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On 10/12/2011 12:54 AM, Zac Medico wrote: >> On 10/11/2011 12:56 PM, Michał Górny wrote: >>> Or go with a saner defaults... >> >> So, are any of the following sane? >> >> 1) Pull in updates for packages even though those packages won't be used >> for a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Build dependencies and upgrades.

2011-10-11 Thread Graham Murray
Zac Medico writes: > On 10/11/2011 10:28 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> Francisco raised a possibly valid point in his original message: though >> packages may not be currently used for anything, but they could contain >> un-patched security flaws. > > If they contain something that's accessed at run

Re: [gentoo-dev] Build dependencies and upgrades.

2011-10-11 Thread Zac Medico
On 10/11/2011 10:59 PM, Graham Murray wrote: > Zac Medico writes: > >> On 10/11/2011 10:28 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: >>> Francisco raised a possibly valid point in his original message: though >>> packages may not be currently used for anything, but they could contain >>> un-patched security flaws.