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

2013-11-17 Thread Sergey Popov
14.11.2013 01:22, Kent Fredric пишет: > +1 to that, I was going to suggest something similar to help explain > what "~(foo)" means at least till people get used to it > > e.g. > --- > The Following Use Flags were user set, but ignored due to stability masks: >dev-baz/quux: +foo -bar +baz > >

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: New Project: Bug Cleaners

2013-11-17 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sat, 16 Nov 2013 12:16:01 +0100 Tom Wijsman wrote: > Hello > > This is a request for comments on a new project: > > http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Bug_Cleaners Sounds like a good idea to me. > * When is a bug considered still useful? > >There are clear cases like a bug that's no

Re: [gentoo-dev] About preferred ntp provider

2013-11-17 Thread Pacho Ramos
El lun, 11-11-2013 a las 22:13 +0100, Pacho Ramos escribió: > Reading: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489044 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489040 > > I don't know what should be preferred, personally I use net-misc/ntp > simply because I have always being using it, also look

[gentoo-dev] Re: About preferred ntp provider

2013-11-17 Thread Michael Palimaka
On 12/11/2013 08:13, Pacho Ramos wrote: Reading: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489044 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489040 I don't know what should be preferred, personally I use net-misc/ntp simply because I have always being using it, also looks like we don't have any virtu

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

2013-11-17 Thread hasufell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/16/2013 11:57 AM, Thomas Sachau wrote: > Pacho Ramos schrieb: >> El vie, 15-11-2013 a las 23:39 +0100, Michał Górny escribió: >>> Dnia 2013-11-15, o godz. 14:53:00 Ben de Groot >>> napisał(a): >>> As I see it now, with respect to multilib,

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

2013-11-17 Thread Tom Wijsman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 17:09:10 +0100 hasufell wrote: > multilib eclasses as a whole were a big failure, both for users > (enough examples given here) You mean those failures where they mix branches and thus cause blockers between the old and new appro

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

2013-11-17 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 16 Nov 2013 11:57:23 +0100 Thomas Sachau wrote: > >>> 2: multilib-portage > > > > I think this has been discussed multiple times, if I don't > > misremember, PMS team is not willing to accept it until the > > specification is done... and we are waiting for that for years > > probably beca

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

2013-11-17 Thread Martin Vaeth
Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Am Freitag, 15. November 2013, 21:18:03 schrieb Martin Vaeth: > >> If this is not very hard to implement in portage, I would >> strongly vote to remove this implicit connection: > > Not really doable since this is explicitly defined as such in EAPI=5 PMS. > > Retroactiv

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

2013-11-17 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2013-11-17, o godz. 17:04:17 Martin Vaeth napisał(a): > Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > Am Freitag, 15. November 2013, 21:18:03 schrieb Martin Vaeth: > > > >> If this is not very hard to implement in portage, I would > >> strongly vote to remove this implicit connection: > > > > Not really do

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

2013-11-17 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 17:04:17 + (UTC) Martin Vaeth wrote: > Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > Am Freitag, 15. November 2013, 21:18:03 schrieb Martin Vaeth: > > > >> If this is not very hard to implement in portage, I would > >> strongly vote to remove this implicit connection: > > > > Not really

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

2013-11-17 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Samstag, 16. November 2013, 13:58:48 schrieb Michał Górny: > Dnia 2013-11-16, o godz. 13:50:11 > > "Andreas K. Huettel" napisał(a): > > Am Freitag, 15. November 2013, 21:18:03 schrieb Martin Vaeth: > > > Probably a lot of the confusion could be avoided if > > > /etc/portage/package.accept_keyw

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

2013-11-17 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2013-11-17, o godz. 19:13:59 "Andreas K. Huettel" napisał(a): > Am Samstag, 16. November 2013, 13:58:48 schrieb Michał Górny: > > Dnia 2013-11-16, o godz. 13:50:11 > > > > "Andreas K. Huettel" napisał(a): > > > Am Freitag, 15. November 2013, 21:18:03 schrieb Martin Vaeth: > > > > Probably

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

2013-11-17 Thread Martin Vaeth
Michał Górny wrote: > Martin Vaeth napisa=C5=82(a): > > And what does quickly removing used feature gain us in terms of > usability? We are talking about changing a detail of a feature which just has proven that it is causes dependency chaos due to a side effect of that detail which probably nob

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

2013-11-17 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
On 2013-11-17, at 12:04 PM, Martin Vaeth wrote: > Andreas K. Huettel wrote: >> Am Freitag, 15. November 2013, 21:18:03 schrieb Martin Vaeth: >> >>> If this is not very hard to implement in portage, I would >>> strongly vote to remove this implicit connection: >> >> Not really doable since t

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

2013-11-17 Thread Martin Vaeth
Tom Wijsman wrote: > Martin Vaeth wrote: >> >> So keeping PMS is more important than usability? > > Being supported is more important than running into breakage. What has a line in PMS which has practically no influence on anybody except for breaking user experience have to do with "being suppor

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

2013-11-17 Thread Martin Vaeth
Ian Stakenvicius wrote: >>> Am Freitag, 15. November 2013, 21:18:03 schrieb Martin Vaeth: >>> If this is not very hard to implement in portage, I would strongly vote to remove this implicit connection: > > I assume this is about the *.use.stable.mask files ... Even less: The discussion

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

2013-11-17 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2013-11-17, o godz. 19:18:35 Martin Vaeth napisał(a): > Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > >>> Am Freitag, 15. November 2013, 21:18:03 schrieb Martin Vaeth: > >>> > If this is not very hard to implement in portage, I would > strongly vote to remove this implicit connection: > > > > I assu

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

2013-11-17 Thread hasufell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/17/2013 07:46 PM, Martin Vaeth wrote: > Michał Górny wrote: >> we may as well remove support for mixing stable and unstable >> packages. In fact, this will more likely fix a few more bugs! > It was never "officially" supported. That doesn't m

Re: [gentoo-dev] How to obsolete this python-exec news & fix the issue automatically for users

2013-11-17 Thread Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/16/2013 10:28 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > On 11/16/2013 04:11 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >>> On Fri, 15 Nov 2013, Robin H Johnson wrote: >>> Add this line to the dev-lang/python-exec ebuilds: >>> PDEPEND=">=dev-python/python-exec-1:$SLO

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

2013-11-17 Thread Martin Vaeth
Michał Górny wrote: > Martin Vaeth napisa=C5=82(a): >> Even less: The discussion in this part of the thread was >> only about the implicit connection of package.accept_keywords >> with *use.stable.mask, i.e. about removing the >> side effect of unmasking USE-flags by these files. > > Oh, then it

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

2013-11-17 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 19:10:21 + (UTC) Martin Vaeth wrote: > Tom Wijsman wrote: > > Martin Vaeth wrote: > >> > >> So keeping PMS is more important than usability? > > > > Being supported is more important than running into breakage. > > What has a line in PMS You can suggest such line chang

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

2013-11-17 Thread Tom Wijsman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 20:32:39 +0100 hasufell wrote: > >> we may as well remove support for mixing stable and unstable > >> packages. In fact, this will more likely fix a few more bugs! > > It was never "officially" supported. That doesn't mean we hav

Re: [gentoo-dev] About preferred ntp provider

2013-11-17 Thread Peter Stuge
Pacho Ramos wrote: > El lun, 11-11-2013 a las 22:13 +0100, Pacho Ramos escribió: > > Reading: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489044 > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489040 > > > > I don't know what should be preferred > > Any thoughts? :/ I like OpenNTPD. //Peter

Re: [gentoo-dev] About preferred ntp provider

2013-11-17 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: > I like OpenNTPD. Me too, but mostly because of the server. I don't really care/know about client differences. Cheers, Dirkjan

Re: [gentoo-dev] About preferred ntp provider

2013-11-17 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2013-11-11, o godz. 22:13:26 Pacho Ramos napisał(a): > I don't know what should be preferred, personally I use net-misc/ntp > simply because I have always being using it, also looks like we don't > have any virtual that could point me about the "preferred" provider on > Gentoo. Do you know t

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

2013-11-17 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Sonntag, 17. November 2013, 20:51:36 schrieb Martin Vaeth: > Michał Górny wrote: > > Martin Vaeth napisa=C5=82(a): > >> Even less: The discussion in this part of the thread was > >> only about the implicit connection of package.accept_keywords > >> with *use.stable.mask, i.e. about removing th

[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2013-11-17 23h59 UTC

2013-11-17 Thread Robin H. Johnson
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2013-11-17 23h59 UTC. Removals: www-plugins/mozplugger 2013-11-11 16:21:03 axs Additions: media-video/openshot2013-11-11 00:52:14 tomwij app-crypt

Re: [gentoo-dev] About preferred ntp provider

2013-11-17 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > El lun, 11-11-2013 a las 22:13 +0100, Pacho Ramos escribió: >> Reading: >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489044 >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489040 >> >> I don't know what should be preferred, personally I use net-misc/n