Re: [gentoo-dev] x11-libs/lib*: wrong RDEPENDs bug

2009-12-28 Thread Fabio Erculiani
I discussed this a few weeks ago with some devs on IRC and the general answer was, file bugs. I filed bugs. About the rest, I decline any comment. Have fun. -- Fabio Erculiani http://www.sabayon.org http://www.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] x11-libs/lib*: wrong RDEPENDs bug

2009-12-28 Thread Fabio Erculiani
; > If they are genuine bugs, then there isn't anything to discuss. Thanks, I will also create a tracker bug next time. > >> List of Gentoo bugs: > > Tracker bug is #298759[1] > > > Regards, >     jer > > > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=298759 > > > -- Fabio Erculiani http://www.sabayon.org http://www.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] x11-libs/lib*: wrong RDEPENDs bug

2009-12-28 Thread Fabio Erculiani
D and RDEPEND is the only _valid_ solution. Thanks Others here gave opposite opinion by the way. Rémi -- Fabio Erculiani http://www.sabayon.org http://www.gentoo.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] x11-libs/lib*: wrong RDEPENDs bug

2009-12-28 Thread Fabio Erculiani
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 9:51 PM, David Leverton wrote: > On Monday 28 December 2009 20:50:17 Fabio Erculiani wrote: >> What all this has to do with the fact that they are just build >> dependencies? Just wondering. > > They're not just build dependencies.  They're r

Re: [gentoo-dev] x11-libs/lib*: wrong RDEPENDs bug

2009-12-28 Thread Fabio Erculiani
nybody. A lot of work is being done lately to try to improve it. -- Fabio Erculiani http://www.sabayon.org http://www.gentoo.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] x11-libs/lib*: wrong RDEPENDs bug

2009-12-28 Thread Fabio Erculiani
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 12/28/2009 10:51 PM, David Leverton wrote: On Monday 28 December 2009 20:50:17 Fabio Erculiani wrote: What all this has to do with the fact that they are just build dependencies? Just wondering. They're not just

Re: [gentoo-dev] x11-libs/lib*: wrong RDEPENDs bug

2009-12-28 Thread Fabio Erculiani
In any case, I think that this situation should be addressed, and perhaps a comment from PMS might help. Regards, -- Fabio Erculiani http://www.sabayon.org http://www.gentoo.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] x11-libs/lib*: wrong RDEPENDs bug

2009-12-28 Thread Fabio Erculiani
sing bit! Thanks for the answer. > > -- > Gokdeniz Karadag > > > -- Fabio Erculiani http://www.sabayon.org http://www.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] x11-libs/lib*: wrong RDEPENDs bug

2009-12-28 Thread Fabio Erculiani
weird that other PMs out there do that since 1994 (replace 1994 with older value). Perhaps adding a big fat # XXX somewhere in ebuilds would have helped us all in saving some time today. So, at least for now, I suspect I have to give up and close my shiny 27 bugs. Right? -- Fabio Ercu

[gentoo-dev] [looking-for-man-power] Packaging RedHat/Fedora tools and libs

2010-04-09 Thread Fabio Erculiani
om installation profiles and backends quite easily. I'm really really impressed by the amazing work RedHat guys did during last years. Regards, -- Fabio Erculiani http://www.sabayon.org http://www.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] [looking-for-man-power] Packaging RedHat/Fedora tools and libs

2010-04-09 Thread Fabio Erculiani
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Zac Medico wrote: > On 04/09/2010 04:34 AM, Fabio Erculiani wrote: >> They are available in the "sabayon" overlay. Is there anybody >> interested in helping me out for the integration and, perhaps, >> merge-into-Portage part? >

Re: [gentoo-dev] [looking-for-man-power] Packaging RedHat/Fedora tools and libs

2010-04-14 Thread Fabio Erculiani
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 2:45 AM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 01:34:46PM +0200, Fabio Erculiani wrote: >> app-admin/authconfig > (just checking, this is the nsswitch.conf changer right?), if so, then > add to below. > >> net-misc/fcoe-utils >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] The future of sys-apps/openrc in Gentoo

2010-07-04 Thread Fabio Erculiani
nd to other devs willing to take over. -- Fabio Erculiani http://www.sabayon.org http://www.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] status of releng project

2010-08-12 Thread Fabio Erculiani
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: > On 9 August 2010 14:29, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> sure would be nice if someone picked up the installer again ... > > No, it wouldn't. Best leave that dead and buried. That one, for sure. > > Cheers, > Ben &g

Re: [gentoo-dev] status of releng project

2010-08-12 Thread Fabio Erculiani
our app-admin/anaconda package and installing them on less annoying library path (/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime), something not really Gentoo-compliant. > > -A > >> that's why i said "it'd be nice" and not "i'm going to do it" >> -mike >> >> > > -- Fabio Erculiani http://lxnay.com http://www.sabayon.org http://www.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] status of releng project

2010-08-12 Thread Fabio Erculiani
r gui python one was better.  that and the insistence on > redhat-only tools (like rpm) is obnoxious. > -mike RPM dependency has been moved to the yum module inside anaconda and it's not required anymore. > > -- Fabio Erculiani http://lxnay.com http://www.sabayon.org http://www.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: please use the latest Portage/repoman version to commit to tree

2010-10-04 Thread Fabio Erculiani
Am I the only one who is waiting for a Portage 2.2 unmask on ~arch? It's taking months if not years ;-) -- Fabio Erculiani

Re: [gentoo-dev] Support for Python 3

2010-10-25 Thread Fabio Erculiani
Please, just, no. Projects and people are just not ready, yet. And even Python experts at #python tell to stay away from Py3, last time I checked. -- Fabio Erculiani

Re: [gentoo-dev] Extending EAPI="4"

2010-10-25 Thread Fabio Erculiani
enough, besides being happy that their app will KEEP working. -- Fabio Erculiani

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Installer (text-based)

2011-02-09 Thread Fabio Erculiani
installer out there. Text frontend comes for free, but nowadays, there aren't many servers without a vesa-compatible video card or VNC/X-over-ssh/whatever availability. Regards, -- Fabio Erculiani http://lxnay.com

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Installer (text-based)

2011-02-09 Thread Fabio Erculiani
staller that would cover a standard install, newbie-oriented scenario would be definitely good. Experienced people won't use it anyway, so why bothering trying to cover their needs, it would be a straight way to fail again. -- Fabio Erculiani http://lxnay.com

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gentoo-x86 migration to repo-per-package

2011-08-06 Thread Fabio Erculiani
I really love the idea of being able to atomically push updates across multiple CPVs. This is also what KDE, GNOME, and many other teams are waiting for. Having multiple repos means no atomicity and at this point, I would rather prefer CVS (omg!). -- Fabio Erculiani

[gentoo-dev] The fun of being a PDEPEND

2011-08-10 Thread Fabio Erculiani
ere is no guarantee on the scheduling) 2. a way to have some handy packages being pulled in at some point (audacious plugins?) Who is this poor little PDEPEND? I think it's time to take action and fix the gray area around PDEPENDs, or at least clarify the fact to us developers. -- Fabio Erculiani

Re: [gentoo-dev] The fun of being a PDEPEND

2011-08-10 Thread Fabio Erculiani
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 1:31 AM, Zac Medico wrote: > On 08/10/2011 02:14 PM, Fabio Erculiani wrote: >> The problem here is that Portage enforces the same rule by trying to >> schedule the PDEPEND "as soon as possible" > > This behavior was introduced in order to s

Re: [gentoo-dev] The fun of being a PDEPEND

2011-08-10 Thread Fabio Erculiani
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 23:14:22 +0200 > Fabio Erculiani wrote: >> I've intermittently spent my last two days trying to figure out a >> weird bug on Entropy dependency resolution algorithm (which is >> actua

Re: [gentoo-dev] The fun of being a PDEPEND

2011-08-10 Thread Fabio Erculiani
off if you just > implement the ASAP behavior. I would rather want to see it becoming mandatory by PMS, also. But beside the ASAP, do you agree that there is still a dependency issue? > -- > Thanks, > Zac > > -- Fabio Erculiani

Re: [gentoo-dev] The fun of being a PDEPEND

2011-08-11 Thread Fabio Erculiani
PEND}}" expects to find a sane JDK environment. -- Fabio Erculiani http://lxnay.com

Re: [gentoo-dev] The fun of being a PDEPEND

2011-08-11 Thread Fabio Erculiani
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >>>>>> On Thu, 11 Aug 2011, Fabio Erculiani wrote: > > > Generally, you cannot rely on any dependency (outside of the system > set) being present in pkg_setup: > > <http://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/pms/hea

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-zope maintenance

2011-08-13 Thread Fabio Erculiani
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: > Hi there, > > > media-libs/FusionSound for whatever reason blocks net-zope/zodb > probably file collisions. IIRC i've been hit by that long time ago. There should be also a bug about it. > > Cheers, &g

[gentoo-dev] genkernel & unionfs

2011-08-28 Thread Fabio Erculiani
Hi, straight question. Is there anybody out there using genkernel-based kernels+initramfs and unionfs? The support inside genkernel is rotting and it would be nice to have it removed and replaced by aufs2, and by dm-snapshot afterwards (thanks to likewhoa for the advice). Cheers, -- Fabio

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] virtual/polkit-agent virtual pkg

2011-09-06 Thread Fabio Erculiani
passwords, etc. But the same applet can be used in both GNOME and LXDE, making lxpolkit a better choice over polkit-gnome for the latter. My proposal is to create a virtual pkg listing all the polkit auth agent implementations and make pkgs depend on it. -- Fabio Erculiani

[gentoo-dev] gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders usage in tree

2011-10-09 Thread Fabio Erculiani
. Others affected: app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-gtklibs gnome-base/librsvg media-libs/libwmf others? -- Fabio Erculiani http://lxnay.com

Re: [gentoo-dev] linux-info.eclass: check_extra_config requires a configured kernel

2011-11-04 Thread Fabio Erculiani
Anything using /proc/config.gz is broken. For the following reasons: 1) could be not available (CONFIG not enabled) 2) doesn't reflect the kernel you're compiling against (chrooted env, multiple kernels on the system, etc) -- Fabio Erculiani

Re: [gentoo-dev] linux-info.eclass: check_extra_config requires a configured kernel

2011-11-04 Thread Fabio Erculiani
uild time task, and not install time) I'm sure there are other reasons as well... -- Fabio Erculiani http://lxnay.com

Re: [gentoo-dev] linux-info.eclass: check_extra_config requires a configured kernel

2011-11-04 Thread Fabio Erculiani
pkg_setup() is shared between binpkgs and srcpkgs, and often it ends up containing stuff that should be rather placed into src_{prepare,configure,whatever}. -- Fabio Erculiani http://lxnay.com

Re: [gentoo-dev] linux-info.eclass: check_extra_config requires a configured kernel

2011-11-04 Thread Fabio Erculiani
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 10:18 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 04:11:42PM +0100, Fabio Erculiani wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> > >> > It is good that we warn users about this when they install the package, >&g

Re: [gentoo-dev] linux-info.eclass: check_extra_config requires a configured kernel

2011-11-04 Thread Fabio Erculiani
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 11:12 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 11:02:18PM +0100, Fabio Erculiani wrote: >> > The ONLY time that kernel config checks are fatal is when you're >> > building kernel modules, and the module will fail to compile unless &

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] enable verbose build whenever it's possible

2011-11-05 Thread Fabio Erculiani
libtool command, which is often mostly noise. > And writing to std{out,err} is expensive! ;-) > -- > ~Nirbheek Chauhan > > Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team > > -- Fabio Erculiani http://lxnay.com

Re: [gentoo-dev] We need *you* for a USE="selinux" dependency

2011-12-04 Thread Fabio Erculiani
ulled it in), and this is the only case I can think of. If you need to schedule a dep install at some point, you should rather use PDEPEND, but if the same is required earlier in the schedule, well, you're flooked. -- Fabio Erculiani http://lxnay.com

Re: [gentoo-dev] We need *you* for a USE="selinux" dependency

2011-12-07 Thread Fabio Erculiani
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 4:04 AM, Brian Harring wrote: > [..] > > While it appears that way, it's not actually true; RDEPEND is what the > pkg requires to be able to be usable, not what is required to merge > it. > [...] Correct, I didn't want to be so picky on

[gentoo-dev] RFC: Application name in metadata.xml

2012-02-11 Thread Fabio Erculiani
adata.xml (adding to its .dtd) to also support this? It would be nice to show this info in GUI package managers instead of the actual, and ugly (for the newbies), CP or CPV. It would be just a small addition that would make a big diff. So? -- Fabio Erculiani

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Application name in metadata.xml

2012-02-11 Thread Fabio Erculiani
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:00:38 +0100 > Fabio Erculiani wrote: > >> I think this is not the first time it's been discussed here, but maybe >> I'm wrong. >> Other distros associate a more user-friendly

Re: [gentoo-dev] media-video/nvidia-settings is orphan for a long time

2012-02-12 Thread Fabio Erculiani
is kinda funny. -- Fabio Erculiani

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Application name in metadata.xml

2012-02-13 Thread Fabio Erculiani
Markos, there are also webapps. -- Fabio Erculiani http://lxnay.com

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ffmpeg vs libav choice of default

2015-02-14 Thread Fabio Erculiani
If only libav and ffmpeg developers would stop breaking their API on every release... Just break it once and for all. It's so sad that I still can't upgrade from libav-9 because of this. Feature request: could you stop breaking the API for a couple of years? Thanks. If you say that you have to, we

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