Re: [gentoo-dev] Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-14 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 11/14/2013 01:13 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > Dnia 2013-11-14, o godz. 07:49:55 > Patrick Lauer napisał(a): > >> On 11/13/2013 11:02 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: >> >>> It's also worth pointing out that the whole reason why abi_x86_32 is >>> {package.,}use.stable.masked is because trying to manage

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-14 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 7:03 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote: > > So just "fix it as problems appear and/or we have some spare time" ... Have any problems appeared that impact anybody who hasn't tried to take advantage of the new multilib features (ie modified their config files/etc)? > > Well, you acci

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-14 Thread Ben de Groot
On 14 November 2013 13:13, Michał Górny wrote: > Dnia 2013-11-14, o godz. 07:49:55 > Patrick Lauer napisał(a): > >> On 11/13/2013 11:02 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: >> >> > It's also worth pointing out that the whole reason why abi_x86_32 is >> > {package.,}use.stable.masked is because trying to m

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-14 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 11/14/2013 08:13 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 7:03 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote: >> >> So just "fix it as problems appear and/or we have some spare time" ... > > Have any problems appeared that impact anybody who hasn't tried to > take advantage of the new multilib features (ie

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-14 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 7:21 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: > On 14 November 2013 13:13, Michał Górny wrote: >> >> And how is it possible to discuss anything properly in Gentoo? > > That's because we have no proper leadership. We're an anarchistic > collection of people working at cross-purposes at the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-14 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 7:30 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote: > > Apart from me masking a few things because portage couldn't figure out a > way to a consistent state, and all that ... That is vague. It may be true, but it does nothing to help anybody understand what is going on. I haven't had to mask

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-14 Thread Ben de Groot
On 14 November 2013 20:32, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 7:21 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: >> On 14 November 2013 13:13, Michał Górny wrote: >>> >>> And how is it possible to discuss anything properly in Gentoo? >> >> That's because we have no proper leadership. We're an anarchistic >

Re: [gentoo-dev] keep a gen 2013 snapshot on mirrors

2013-11-14 Thread Francesco R.
Il 14/11/2013 05:38, Johann Schmitz ha scritto: > >> long story short having a portage-20130126.tar.bz2 snapshot > >> (before the EAPI 5 switch) greatly simplified the upgrade of an > >> old server on a client. > > > Updating from old portage versions or > profiles isn't fun but it basically boil

Re: [gentoo-dev] keep a gen 2013 snapshot on mirrors

2013-11-14 Thread Francesco R.
Il 13/11/2013 20:12, Rich Freeman ha scritto: > On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Francesco R. wrote: >> long story short >> having a portage-20130126.tar.bz2 snapshot (before the EAPI 5 switch) >> greatly simplified the upgrade of an old server on a client. >> >> Why not keep a copy on the server

Re: [gentoo-dev] keep a gen 2013 snapshot on mirrors

2013-11-14 Thread Lars Wendler
Am Wed, 13 Nov 2013 14:12:24 -0500 schrieb Rich Freeman : > On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Francesco R. > wrote: > > > > long story short > > having a portage-20130126.tar.bz2 snapshot (before the EAPI 5 > > switch) greatly simplified the upgrade of an old server on a client. > > > > Why not k

Re: [gentoo-dev] keep a gen 2013 snapshot on mirrors

2013-11-14 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 8:17 AM, Francesco R. wrote: > Rich, that made me smile, none of my remote machine has cvs since a > _very_ long time say 2006. > We are speaking of box that have troubles to emerging anything new, plus > me and most of the internet barely remember cvs up :) You don't nee

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-14 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: >> I said > As it is always happy to point out, Council doesn't see itself as > leadership, just as a supreme court of appeal, when everything else > seems to have failed. It likes to get involved as little as possible. The last time I talked

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-14 Thread Ben de Groot
On 14 November 2013 23:12, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: >>> I said >> As it is always happy to point out, Council doesn't see itself as >> leadership, just as a supreme court of appeal, when everything else >> seems to have failed. It likes to get in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-14 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: > I was particularly hit by this as maintainer of freetype, see bugs > 455070 and 459352 for some of the mess that could have been avoided. Looks like 455070 was the source of problems there (the other is just a tracker with the aftermath). T

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-14 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2013-11-14, o godz. 20:03:36 Patrick Lauer napisał(a): > On 11/14/2013 01:13 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Multilib_porting_status > > > > That's the closest thing to a roadmap. > > So just "fix it as problems appear and/or we have some spare time" ... You could

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-14 Thread Thomas Sachau
Rich Freeman schrieb: > On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 7:03 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote: >> >> So just "fix it as problems appear and/or we have some spare time" ... > > Have any problems appeared that impact anybody who hasn't tried to > take advantage of the new multilib features (ie modified their config

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 14 Nov 2013 20:07:39 +0100 Thomas Sachau wrote: > - multilib-portage was planned to add features with a future EAPI > version, so in the end needs agreement from maintainers of package > managers, the pms team and the council. If anyone from those groups > only claims "you wrote so much, b

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Package removal without proper last-riting

2013-11-14 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 3:08 AM, Ryan Hill wrote: > I wasn't aware last-riting had become general policy. It was originally > started by the treecleaner team to give people time to object to > maintainer-needed removals, and others thought it was a good idea, but it > was > always up to the disc

Re: [gentoo-dev] keep a gen 2013 snapshot on mirrors

2013-11-14 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 14/11/13 08:19 AM, Lars Wendler wrote: > Once you go the route to use mirror://gentoo in ebuilds as > SRC_URI people are screwed as soon as the ebuild vanishes from > portage. I'd love to see this (mis-)behavior being more vigorously > disco

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item about Gnome 3.8

2013-11-14 Thread Pacho Ramos
New try: Title: Upgrade to GNOME 3.8 Author: Pacho Ramos Content-Type: text/plain Posted: 2013-11-14 Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 1.0 Display-If-Installed: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GNOME/3.8-upgrade-guide

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-14 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 11/15/2013 01:51 AM, Michał Górny wrote: >>> So tell me, what you exactly want or need? Or is it just bare >>> complaining for the sake of complaining? >> >> Well, you accidentally cut out all references to TommyD's work again. >> Almost as if you don't even want to discuss a working proper sol

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-14 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 11/15/2013 03:35 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 14 Nov 2013 20:07:39 +0100 > Thomas Sachau wrote: >> - multilib-portage was planned to add features with a future EAPI >> version, so in the end needs agreement from maintainers of package >> managers, the pms team and the council. If anyone

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item about Gnome 3.8

2013-11-14 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > We are pleased to announce the stabilization of GNOME-3.8. Users are > strongly encouraged to read the GNOME 3.8 Upgrade Guide to avoid any > possible issues relating to the upgrade. The guide will also show you > how to migrate to systemd as

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-14 Thread Matt Turner
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Martin Vaeth wrote: > The new "features" use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask > have turned maintaining systems with mixed ARCH and ~ARCH keywords > into a nightmare: I agree. I have helped two friends convert to Gentoo recently (one used it a few years ago

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-14 Thread Kent Fredric
On 15 November 2013 17:56, Matt Turner wrote: > After using it for a month, he's now convinced that > Gentoo is clearly the most difficult to use. > > I'm inclined to agree, I'd have to disagree there slightly, arch is more easy to use if you stick to the core set, the binary packages ... as is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-14 Thread Ben de Groot
On 15 November 2013 01:32, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: >> I was particularly hit by this as maintainer of freetype, see bugs >> 455070 and 459352 for some of the mess that could have been avoided. > > Looks like 455070 was the source of problems the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-14 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Fri, 15 Nov 2013, Ben de Groot wrote: > As I see it now, with respect to multilib, we have three competing > solutions, but not a clear direction which way we want to go as a > distro: > 1: emul-* packages > 2: multilib-portage > 3: multilib.eclass > I would like to vote for option 1, a