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2013-04-25 Thread Ulrich Mueller
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[gentoo-dev] Useflags: xsl vs xslt

2013-04-25 Thread René Neumann
Dear all, I noticed, that there is a global useflag 'xsl', with one of those bleh-descriptions "Enables XSL support" There is exactly one user of it: php -- to pull in libxslt. Now there is also the local useflag xslt (used by three other packages) for enabling xslt support (by pulling in libxsl

Re: [gentoo-dev] Useflags: xsl vs xslt

2013-04-25 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
The correct one should be xslt and that's it..

Re: [gentoo-dev] Useflags: xsl vs xslt

2013-04-25 Thread Gilles Dartiguelongue
Le jeudi 25 avril 2013 à 10:45 +0200, René Neumann a écrit : > Dear all, > > I noticed, that there is a global useflag 'xsl', with one of those > bleh-descriptions "Enables XSL support" > > There is exactly one user of it: php -- to pull in libxslt. > > Now there is also the local useflag xslt (

Re: [gentoo-dev] Useflags: xsl vs xslt

2013-04-25 Thread Ole Markus With
On 25/04/13 10:45, René Neumann wrote: > There is exactly one user of it: php -- to pull in libxslt. > > * Should php remain 'xsl' or go to 'xslt'? The reason for using xsl is that PHP had two xsl(t) extensions: one called xslt and one called xsl. Before we had USE flags for both of these to dis

Re: [gentoo-dev] Useflags: xsl vs xslt

2013-04-25 Thread Peter Stuge
René Neumann wrote: > * Is there a real difference between them? As far as I can see XSL > is a superset of XSLT, but it's somewhat fuzzy. XSL is the Extensible Stylesheet Language, one way to think of this is as the file format. XSL is a subset of XML. XSLT means XSL Transform, which is the proc

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC

2013-04-25 Thread Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov
Hey, all! Just one question: why do you all talking about IUSE=+oldnet, but not REQUIRED_USE="^^ ( net oldnet )" for example? 24.04.2013 23:16, William Hubbs пишет: > All, > > it has been suggested that gentoo's oldnet scripts be split out into > their own package separate from OpenRC so that

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC

2013-04-25 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote: > Hey, all! > > Just one question: why do you all talking about IUSE=+oldnet, but not > REQUIRED_USE="^^ ( net oldnet )" for example? It it isn't necessary for a system to have support for either oldnet or newnet. Sure, it is rar

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC

2013-04-25 Thread Carlos Silva
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov > wrote: > > Hey, all! > > > > Just one question: why do you all talking about IUSE=+oldnet, but not > > REQUIRED_USE="^^ ( net oldnet )" for example? > > It it isn't necessary for

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC

2013-04-25 Thread Peter Stuge
Carlos Silva wrote: > Care to explain how will the installation be done if "networking" > isn't requirement? I build a stage4 tarball on a build host, and unpack that tarball onto the media that I want to run the target system on. That's just one way. The point is that nothing fundamentally requi

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC

2013-04-25 Thread Carlos Silva
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: > Carlos Silva wrote: > > Care to explain how will the installation be done if "networking" > > isn't requirement? > > I build a stage4 tarball on a build host, and unpack that tarball > onto the media that I want to run the target system on. >

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC

2013-04-25 Thread Peter Stuge
Carlos Silva wrote: > > > Care to explain how will the installation be done if "networking" > > > isn't requirement? > > > > I build a stage4 tarball on a build host, and unpack that tarball > > onto the media that I want to run the target system on. > > And from where comes this build host exactl

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC

2013-04-25 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:13:56 + Carlos Silva wrote: > On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Rich Freeman > wrote: > > > It it isn't necessary for a system to have support for either > > oldnet or newnet. Sure, it is rare these days, but networking > > support should be a default, not a requiremen

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC

2013-04-25 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 24 April 2013 19:17:01 William Hubbs wrote: > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 06:34:46PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 02:16:51PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote > > > Considering our default configuration ships sshd (an argument we don't > > > need to rehash here), it seems

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC

2013-04-25 Thread G.Wolfe Woodbury
I have just one question When "gentoo-oldscripts" is pulled from openrc WHAT will be the default network configuration method? Without the "standard" net scripts, many systems will break. What is being given for network configuration? NetworkManager? (yuck!) -- G.Wolfe Woodbury redwo...@g

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC

2013-04-25 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:27 PM, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: > I have just one question > > When "gentoo-oldscripts" is pulled from openrc > > WHAT will be the default network configuration method? "gentoo-oldscripts" The intent isn't to remove these scripts (unless for some reason you don't wan

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC

2013-04-25 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 25 April 2013 14:27:39 G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: > When "gentoo-oldscripts" is pulled from openrc > > WHAT will be the default network configuration method? the existing defaults will remain the same. we're just debating how to guarantee that. -mike signature.asc Description: This i

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC

2013-04-25 Thread viv...@gmail.com
On 04/24/13 21:17, William Hubbs wrote: > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 09:00:17PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: >> On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:16:06 -0500 >> William Hubbs wrote: >> >>> This means when you emerge or upgrade to openrc-0.12, the net.* scripts >>> will no longer be included. I am going to call th

[gentoo-dev] glibc-2.16.0 stabilization train

2013-04-25 Thread Mike Frysinger
i've opened http://bugs.gentoo.org/467256 to track glibc-2.16 stabilization. with the 2.18 release process starting up in a month or so, we need to make room for it now that 2.17 is in ~arch. that means 2.16 going into arch since it isn't realistically seeing anymore testing. -mike signature

[gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC

2013-04-25 Thread Steven J. Long
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 01:30:25PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote: > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 02:16:51PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 1:54 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > > > if we keep a dependency for a while, even behind something like > > > IUSE="+oldnet", when we drop it, peop

[gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC

2013-04-25 Thread Duncan
Carlos Silva posted on Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:13:56 + as excerpted: > On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > >> It it isn't necessary for a system to have support for either oldnet or >> newnet. Sure, it is rare these days, but networking support should be >> a default, not a r

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC

2013-04-25 Thread Carlos Silva
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:15 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > > Maybe I was miss understood here. I know that there are tons of ways to have gentoo *running* in a box without it having network connection. The thing is that makes like 0.01% of the total installs. It's not a default ins

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC

2013-04-25 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 25 April 2013 15:09:28 viv...@gmail.com wrote: > On 04/24/13 21:17, William Hubbs wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 09:00:17PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > >> On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:16:06 -0500 William Hubbs wrote: > >>> This means when you emerge or upgrade to openrc-0.12, the net.* s

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC

2013-04-25 Thread Peter Stuge
Carlos Silva wrote: > John Doe ..runs Windows. > is it a safe default meaning that 99% or more of the people will > use or *need* it? Nobody suggested that networking should be disabled or excluded by default. //Peter

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC

2013-04-25 Thread Ambroz Bizjak
I *really* hate those virtual dependencies that don't actually satisfy a real dependency, and require manual choice-specific intervention by the user anyway. For example, packages that build external kernel modules tend to depend on virtual/kernel-sources. However, this dependency doesn't make sure

[gentoo-dev] OldNet out of OpenRC: as the requester

2013-04-25 Thread Robin H. Johnson
Hi all, I'm the one that had asked WilliamH about splitting out OldNet from OpenRC, so I figured rather than respond to every single part of this thread, I wanted to give a general response. Misc preamble: -- If you're a student considering GSoC, reading this email, and this interests