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

2011-10-12 Thread Michał Górny
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:40:23 -0400 "Walter Dnes" wrote: > The other option is to drop udev entirely. As an example, I suggest > looking at Alpine Linux http://alpinelinux.org/ It's a lightweight > server-oriented distro. It uses busybox's mdev instead of udev, and > some other mdev substitut

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

2011-10-12 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 10/12/11 05:40, Walter Dnes wrote: > Hi all > > The other option is to drop udev entirely. As an example, I > suggest looking at Alpine Linux http://alpinelinux.org/ It's a > lightweight server-oriented distro. It uses busybox's mdev instead >

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

2011-10-12 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 10/12/11 02:44, Ryan Hill wrote: > 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 t

[gentoo-dev] last rites: games-roguelike/fargoal

2011-10-12 Thread Michael Sterrett
+# Michael Sterrett (12 Oct 2011) +# Upstream has moved to commercial development and +# the latest version doesn't work with newer allegro. +# Masked for removal on 2011 +# bug #369271 +games-roguelike/fargoal

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

2011-10-12 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 05:32:05AM +, Nathan Phillip Brink wrote > You can already try out what using mdev instead of udev is like in > Gentoo. Just add `sys-apps/busybox mdev' to /etc/portage/package.use, > remerge busybox. You must be sure to be using busybox-1.92.2 or later > for bug #83301

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

2011-10-12 Thread Walter Dnes
> Goodbye desktop users then. > > We recently dropped HAL. Now all the magic that was done by HAL (and > required udev anyway) is done through udev directly. My system worked just fine before HAL was introduced, thank you. I always had sys-apps/hal and sys-apps/dbus in /etc/portage/package.mas

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

2011-10-12 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:05:15PM -0700, Zac Medico wrote > Are you aware of the simple linuxrc approach that I suggested here? > > http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_20749880f5bc5feda141488498729fe8.xml Thanks for the pointer. I've got a spare box kicking around that I'll try this on

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

2011-10-12 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: >  Forking udev is probably not an option.  The udev lead developer is a > Redhat employee, and his direction seems to be to drag everybody in > Redhat's direction.  Our community doesn't have Redhat's billions. We should note that RedHat is al

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

2011-10-12 Thread Stelian Ionescu
On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 23:10 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > 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 fo

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

2011-10-12 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 10/12/2011 04:44 AM, Ryan Hill wrote: > 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.

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

2011-10-12 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 7:27 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > That's probably why there's no mention in the docs other than the portage > manpage.  Now that we have swift back, he's applying some much needed > attention to the docs tree and its coming back into shape. =:^) I definitely a

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

2011-10-12 Thread Zac Medico
On 10/12/2011 07:10 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > That leads me to another concern. The defaults should be the safe > options, and the options should be to make the actions less safe. > > In my thinking the most conservative options right now are either > emerge -uDN world or emerge -uDN --with-bdeps

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

2011-10-12 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 6:09 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: >> Goodbye desktop users then. >> >> We recently dropped HAL. Now all the magic that was done by HAL (and >> required udev anyway) is done through udev directly. > >  My system worked just fine before HAL was introduced, thank you.  I > always ha

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

2011-10-12 Thread Michał Górny
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:09:49 -0400 "Walter Dnes" wrote: > > Goodbye desktop users then. > > > > We recently dropped HAL. Now all the magic that was done by HAL (and > > required udev anyway) is done through udev directly. > > My system worked just fine before HAL was introduced, thank you. I

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

2011-10-12 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: >> Goodbye desktop users then. >> >> We recently dropped HAL. Now all the magic that was done by HAL (and >> required udev anyway) is done through udev directly. > >  My system worked just fine before HAL was introduced, thank you.  I > always ha

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

2011-10-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:00:23 +0530 Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > Then please continue with udev in package.mask and kindly stop trying > to impose your workflow on the rest of the world. Isn't the point here that the desktop / GNOME OS guys are trying to impose their deep integration, tight coupling

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

2011-10-12 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:00:23 +0530 > Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: >> Then please continue with udev in package.mask and kindly stop trying >> to impose your workflow on the rest of the world. > > Isn't the point here that the desktop / GNOME OS

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-im/qutecom: metadata.xml ChangeLog qutecom-2.2_p20110210.ebuild

2011-10-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 02 October 2011 16:40:18 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: > Another example from the X.org packages, installing the proprietary > ATI/NVidia drivers will cause downgrades for xorg-server on ~arch > systems. Nobody in his right mind is proposing to treeclean them because > of this. yes

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

2011-10-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 12 October 2011 09:26:12 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: > > Forking udev is probably not an option. The udev lead developer is a > > Redhat employee, and his direction seems to be to drag everybody in > > Redhat's direction. Our community

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GCC upgrades, FUD and gentoo documentation

2011-10-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 08 October 2011 11:07:49 Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > Il giorno sab, 08/10/2011 alle 11.33 +, Sven Vermeulen ha scritto: > > - The fix_libtool_files.sh command is now part of the toolchain > > eclass, so > > > > doesn't need to be ran by users anymore > > Moreover, that should on

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

2011-10-12 Thread Peter Volkov
В Втр, 11/10/2011 в 19:10 +0300, Samuli Suominen пишет: > > Samuli pretends here to act as a part of QA team (although he is not). > > Actually even whiteboard of stabilization bug tells #at _earliest_ 17 > > Oct" and thus there is really no sign for rush. This is the case where > > QA should voice

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

2011-10-12 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 10/12/2011 06:30 AM, Steven J Long wrote: > 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 "${FILES

Re: [gentoo-dev] GCC upgrades, FUD and gentoo documentation

2011-10-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 08 October 2011 18:57:23 James Cloos wrote: > > "SV" == Sven Vermeulen writes: > SV> - Since 3.4.0/4.1.0, the C++ ABI is forward-compatible, so rebuilds > SV> from that version onwards should not be needed > > That is not generally true. > > I use gcc-4.5 as my system gcc, but

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

2011-10-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 12 October 2011 15:19:25 Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 10/12/2011 06:30 AM, Steven J Long wrote: > > Michał Górny wrote: > >> I don't think that passing multiple files to epatch actually improves > >> readability. Simple example: > >> > >> # bug #123456, foo, bar > >> epatch "${FILESDIR

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GCC upgrades, FUD and gentoo documentation

2011-10-12 Thread Matt Turner
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Saturday 08 October 2011 11:07:49 Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: >> Il giorno sab, 08/10/2011 alle 11.33 +, Sven Vermeulen ha scritto: >> > - The fix_libtool_files.sh command is now part of the toolchain >> > eclass, so >> > >> >   doesn't

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GCC upgrades, FUD and gentoo documentation

2011-10-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 12 October 2011 15:38:47 Matt Turner wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Saturday 08 October 2011 11:07:49 Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > >> Il giorno sab, 08/10/2011 alle 11.33 +, Sven Vermeulen ha scritto: > >> > - The fix_libtool_files.sh command

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

2011-10-12 Thread Alec Warner
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wednesday 12 October 2011 15:19:25 Samuli Suominen wrote: >> On 10/12/2011 06:30 AM, Steven J Long wrote: >> > Michał Górny wrote: >> >> I don't think that passing multiple files to epatch actually improves >> >> readability. Simple exam

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

2011-10-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 12 October 2011 15:44:53 Alec Warner wrote: > If I want to add a patch to the list I might forget to to add the \ admittedly, i hit this every once in a while, and with all the "|| die" being implicit, it doesn't get caught right away. fortunately latest portage will issue a QA war

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

2011-10-12 Thread Tomáš Chvátal
2011/10/12 Mike Frysinger : > On Wednesday 12 October 2011 15:44:53 Alec Warner wrote: >> If I want to add a patch to the list I might forget to to add the \ > > admittedly, i hit this every once in a while, and with all the "|| die" being > implicit, it doesn't get caught right away.  fortunately

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

2011-10-12 Thread Tomáš Chvátal
Hmm for the command-not-found, it should be fatal not just warning I suppose. I was not even aware of this fancy portage feature :) Tom

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

2011-10-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 12 October 2011 15:57:45 Tomáš Chvátal wrote: > 2011/10/12 Mike Frysinger: > > On Wednesday 12 October 2011 15:44:53 Alec Warner wrote: > >> If I want to add a patch to the list I might forget to to add the \ > > > > admittedly, i hit this every once in a while, and with all the "|| d

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-im/qutecom: metadata.xml ChangeLog qutecom-2.2_p20110210.ebuild

2011-10-12 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Mike Frysinger schrieb: > otherwise, Rich summed up things nicely in his later post. If you mean that common sense thing: if there is disagreement about it, then it is obviously not common. >> The second time the package was removed was even without mask or >> announcement. > well, it shouldn't

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-im/qutecom: metadata.xml ChangeLog qutecom-2.2_p20110210.ebuild

2011-10-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 12 October 2011 17:42:47 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: > Mike Frysinger schrieb: > > otherwise, Rich summed up things nicely in his later post. > > If you mean that common sense thing: if there is disagreement about it, > then it is obviously not common. you're mixing "common"

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-im/qutecom: metadata.xml ChangeLog qutecom-2.2_p20110210.ebuild

2011-10-12 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Mike Frysinger schrieb: >> The removed qutecom ebuild was not broken at any time. > > by splitting my reply, you changed the meaning. having qutecom in the tree > with a depend on versions that i'm now removing breaks the depgraph. The depgraph is broken after the old versions are removed, not

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

2011-10-12 Thread Nathan Phillip Brink
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 09:09:24AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 05:32:05AM +, Nathan Phillip Brink wrote > > > You can already try out what using mdev instead of udev is like in > > Gentoo. Just add `sys-apps/busybox mdev' to /etc/portage/package.use, > > remerge busybox

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-im/qutecom: metadata.xml ChangeLog qutecom-2.2_p20110210.ebuild

2011-10-12 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 10/13/2011 02:27 AM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: > Mike Frysinger schrieb: >>> The removed qutecom ebuild was not broken at any time. >> >> by splitting my reply, you changed the meaning. having qutecom in the tree >> with a depend on versions that i'm now removing breaks the depgraph.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-im/qutecom: metadata.xml ChangeLog qutecom-2.2_p20110210.ebuild

2011-10-12 Thread Matt Turner
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 10/13/2011 02:27 AM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: >> Mike Frysinger schrieb: The removed qutecom ebuild was not broken at any time. >>> >>> by splitting my reply, you changed the meaning.  having qutecom in the tree >>> with

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-im/qutecom: metadata.xml ChangeLog qutecom-2.2_p20110210.ebuild

2011-10-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 12 October 2011 19:27:41 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: > Mike Frysinger schrieb: > >> The removed qutecom ebuild was not broken at any time. > > > > by splitting my reply, you changed the meaning. having qutecom in the > > tree with a depend on versions that i'm now removing br

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-im/qutecom: metadata.xml ChangeLog qutecom-2.2_p20110210.ebuild

2011-10-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 12 October 2011 19:58:31 Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 10/13/2011 02:27 AM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: > > Mike Frysinger schrieb: > >>> The removed qutecom ebuild was not broken at any time. > >> > >> by splitting my reply, you changed the meaning. having qutecom in the > >>

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

2011-10-12 Thread Duncan
Rich Freeman posted on Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:26:12 -0400 as excerpted: > My concern with something like dropping udev is that it would make us > different from every other desktop distro out there. I'm not aware of > any distro packaging Gnome/KDE without udev. Not having Redhat's > billions to me

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

2011-10-12 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Zac Medico wrote: > How about if we add a `emerge --upgrade` target that is analogous to > `apt-get upgrade`? If we hide the new defaults behind a target like > --upgrade, rather than change the defaults globally, then it allows > people's existing scripted and ha

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

2011-10-12 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > Thus, the point I'd make and that I believe you were making is not that > Gentoo can't be different, or we'd obviously be doing a binary distro > like everyone else, but that we pick the differences which we value > enough to

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

2011-10-12 Thread Duncan
Zac Medico posted on Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:09:56 -0700 as excerpted: > On 10/12/2011 07:10 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> The defaults should be [safe] and the options should [flexibly >> allow less safety where judged necessary]. >> >> In my thinking the most conservative options right now are either

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

2011-10-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 12 October 2011 11:09:56 Zac Medico wrote: > How about if we add a `emerge --upgrade` target that is analogous to > `apt-get upgrade`? isn't that already done with @installed ? `emerge --upgrade @installed` -mike signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

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

2011-10-12 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:20 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wednesday 12 October 2011 11:09:56 Zac Medico wrote: >> How about if we add a `emerge --upgrade` target that is analogous to >> `apt-get upgrade`? > > isn't that already done with @installed ?  `emerge --upgrade @installed` Well, you'd

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-im/qutecom: metadata.xml ChangeLog qutecom-2.2_p20110210.ebuild

2011-10-12 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 10/13/2011 03:19 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wednesday 12 October 2011 19:58:31 Samuli Suominen wrote: >> On 10/13/2011 02:27 AM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: >>> Mike Frysinger schrieb: > The removed qutecom ebuild was not broken at any time. by splitting my reply, you c

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-im/qutecom: metadata.xml ChangeLog qutecom-2.2_p20110210.ebuild

2011-10-12 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 10/13/2011 03:10 AM, Matt Turner wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: >> On 10/13/2011 02:27 AM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: >>> Mike Frysinger schrieb: > The removed qutecom ebuild was not broken at any time. by splitting my reply, you changed

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

2011-10-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 12 October 2011 23:26:28 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:20 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Wednesday 12 October 2011 11:09:56 Zac Medico wrote: > >> How about if we add a `emerge --upgrade` target that is analogous to > >> `apt-get upgrade`? > > > > isn't that alre

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

2011-10-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 11 October 2011 14:50:27 Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike) > This can be inconvenient since security issues fixed in those left over > packages won't be applied properly. `glsa-check -f affected`. i thought there was talk of an automatic @security set at some point, but not s

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

2011-10-12 Thread Duncan
Rich Freeman posted on Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:26:28 -0400 as excerpted: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:20 PM, Mike Frysinger > wrote: >> isn't that already done with @installed ?  `emerge --upgrade >> @installed` > > Well, you'd arguably at least need a -N in there. Indeed. > Also, this doesn't wor

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

2011-10-12 Thread Michał Górny
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:20:23 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wednesday 12 October 2011 11:09:56 Zac Medico wrote: > > How about if we add a `emerge --upgrade` target that is analogous to > > `apt-get upgrade`? > > isn't that already done with @installed ? `emerge --upgrade > @installed` -mike

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

2011-10-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 13 October 2011 01:33:07 Michał Górny wrote: > On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:20:23 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Wednesday 12 October 2011 11:09:56 Zac Medico wrote: > > > How about if we add a `emerge --upgrade` target that is analogous to > > > `apt-get upgrade`? > > > > isn't that alr