[gentoo-dev] Re: FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-06-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/27/2010 09:10 PM, dev-ran...@mail.ru wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 08:48:25PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: ... It is allowed. Section 7.1.1, Paragraphs 2 and 3 of the C++ standard: ... Not in C. ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (aka C99), section 6.7.1, note 101: The implementation may treat any

[gentoo-dev] Re: Adding --as-needed to LDFLAGS in profiles/default/linux/make.defaults

2010-06-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/28/2010 10:51 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:44:54 +0300 Samuli Suominen wrote: You've forgotten "make --as-needed not break correct code by making the linker ignore explicit instructions from a program author to link two things together". Until you do that, --as-needed

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] debug USE flag misuse

2010-07-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/01/2010 11:00 PM, Ryan Hill wrote: [...] The way to control compiler flags in Gentoo is CFLAGS. That is true. However, there's a problem; you can control package options of individual packages with USE flags, but you can't control compilation switches of individual packages with CFLAGS

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

2010-07-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/04/2010 05:29 PM, Lars Wendler wrote: Hi list, now that openrc has no active upstram anymore [1] what shall we do? To be honest I was really looking forward for openrc/baselayout-2 finally becoming stable in Gentoo but this seems to be quite implausible now that openrc has no upstream anym

[gentoo-dev] Should I file three bug reports or just one?

2010-07-14 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I've updated to dev-libs/openssl-1.0.0a today, and it tells me: Old versions of installed libraries were detected on your system. In order to avoid breaking packages that depend on these old libs, the libraries are not being removed. You need to run revdep-rebuild in order to remove these old de

[gentoo-dev] Re: fat binaries

2010-11-14 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/15/2010 01:30 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: Il giorno dom, 14/11/2010 alle 22.03 +0100, Thomas Kahle ha scritto: I have a package (sci-libs/mpir) whose configure supports building of fat binaries with both x86 and amd64 assembler in the binary. Oh the heck are they implemented? If they a

[gentoo-dev] Re: GCC 4.5 unmasking tomorrow

2010-11-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/21/2010 12:46 AM, Ryan Hill wrote: I'm unmasking sys-devel/gcc-4.5.1 tomorrow. I'd like to recommend everyone who has already unmasked it to rebuild it now as there has been some important patches added recently (see ChangeLog). revbump?

[gentoo-dev] Re: GCC 4.5 unmasking tomorrow

2010-11-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/21/2010 04:57 AM, Ryan Hill wrote: On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 01:38:23 +0200 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 11/21/2010 12:46 AM, Ryan Hill wrote: I'm unmasking sys-devel/gcc-4.5.1 tomorrow. I'd like to recommend everyone who has already unmasked it to rebuild it now as there has

[gentoo-dev] Re: GCC 4.5 unmasking tomorrow

2010-11-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/21/2010 08:49 PM, Ryan Hill wrote: On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 13:54:19 +0200 Alex Alexander wrote: On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 01:47:57AM -0600, Ryan Hill wrote: On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 17:35:18 +1300 Alistair Bush wrote: We don't do revbumps on masked toolchain packages. Why not? Yeah why not?

[gentoo-dev] Re: GCC 4.5 unmasking tomorrow

2010-11-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/23/2010 09:32 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Tuesday, November 23, 2010 01:36:15 Graham Murray wrote: Mike Frysinger writes: well, not quite. the way we agreed in the past was to not revbump the masked package, but once it was unmasked, we revbump it just once at that point. Is there so

[gentoo-dev] Re: Rail Model font for coders

2011-01-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/20/2011 11:14 AM, hare_krsna_hare_krsna_krsna_krsna_hare_hare_hare_rama_hare_rama_rama_rama_hare_h...@lavabit.com wrote: There is a font for coders called Rail Model, please include it with Linux distributions: http://code.google.com/p/railmodel/downloads/detail?name=RailModelFont.zip&can

[gentoo-dev] Re: MULTI_ABI support addition to main tree portage

2011-01-29 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/29/2011 07:03 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: I would like to know what is "blocking" this from landing main tree in the "near" future, as I reviewed: http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org/msg41737.html and looks like there wasn't major problems (at least commented in this thread

[gentoo-dev] Suggestion: Portage should not mask packages globally, but only for some arches

2011-02-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
It seems that KDE 4.6 is still hard-masked for x86 and amd64 because it's waiting for ppc and ppc64 keywords. I believe it would be beneficial for people if they wouldn't have to wait for arches that don't affect them at all. It seems better if the packages can be unmasked for x86 and amd64 a

[gentoo-dev] Re: Suggestion: Portage should not mask packages globally, but only for some arches

2011-02-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/02/2011 10:30 AM, Kacper Kowalik wrote: W dniu 02.02.2011 08:59, Nikos Chantziaras pisze: It seems that KDE 4.6 is still hard-masked for x86 and amd64 because it's waiting for ppc and ppc64 keywords. I believe it would be beneficial for people if they wouldn't have to wait

[gentoo-dev] Re: Suggestion: Portage should not mask packages globally, but only for some arches

2011-02-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/02/2011 11:01 PM, Christian Faulhammer wrote: Hi, Nikos Chantziaras: On 02/02/2011 10:30 AM, Kacper Kowalik wrote: W dniu 02.02.2011 08:59, Nikos Chantziaras pisze: It seems that KDE 4.6 is still hard-masked for x86 and amd64 because it's waiting for ppc and ppc64 keywords. I be

[gentoo-dev] Re: libpng-1.5 smooth upgrade

2011-02-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/13/2011 01:21 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Friday, February 11, 2011 11:49:43 Samuli Suominen wrote: On 02/11/2011 06:38 PM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: 4) What have we learned from libpng 1.2 -> 1.4 upgrade? I'd just like to be better informed. [...] We have been discussing about remov

[gentoo-dev] Re: libjpeg-turbo by default for ~arch users

2011-02-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/28/2011 08:18 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: libjpeg-turbo-1.1.0 final is out and in tree now, and everything in tree has been tested against it working. Unless any objections, i'll commit this minor change so ~arch users will get it by default now: [...] While you're at it, could you change

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: www-client/chromium-bin

2011-03-05 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/05/2011 04:41 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Alex Alexander wrote: Anyway, compilation on a modern system shouldn't take more than an hour. ~15-20 minutes on a quad i5. Clearly your definition of modern doesn't include my server... :) Just checked and the last

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: www-client/chromium-bin

2011-03-05 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/05/2011 12:00 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 03/05/2011 04:41 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Alex Alexander wrote: Anyway, compilation on a modern system shouldn't take more than an hour. ~15-20 minutes on a quad i5. Clearly your definition of modern do

[gentoo-dev] Re: Please enhance your USE descriptions!

2011-03-29 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/29/2011 08:00 PM, Matt Turner wrote: On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 2:24 PM, justin wrote: Hi, the descriptions of USE flags should explain what the USE is good for. In my opinion some thing like Enables foo intergration or Enables support for foo if it isn't totally clear what "foo" is, suck

[gentoo-dev] About the Qt 4.7.3 bump

2011-05-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Why did the bump to Qt 4.7.3 happen? AFAIK, it only contains Symbian changes, and Gentoo does not run on the Symbian platform.

[gentoo-dev] Re: About the Qt 4.7.3 bump

2011-05-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 05/11/2011 02:11 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 02:05:16PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Why did the bump to Qt 4.7.3 happen? AFAIK, it only contains Symbian changes, and Gentoo does not run on the Symbian platform. Sorry wrong link http://qt.nokia.com/developer

[gentoo-dev] Re: About the Qt 4.7.3 bump

2011-05-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 05/11/2011 03:32 PM, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dne 11.5.2011 13:05, Nikos Chantziaras napsal(a): Why did the bump to Qt 4.7.3 happen? AFAIK, it only contains Symbian changes, and Gentoo does not run on the Symbian platform. With this approach you

[gentoo-dev] Re: Please migrate to git-2.eclass

2011-06-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/25/2011 12:35 AM, Michał Górny wrote: Hello, git-2.eclass is in the tree for a while now, and there's still awful lot of packages using old& deprecated git.eclass. I think I remember seeing deprecation warnings in the past when an ebuild was using a deprecated eclass (right at the begi

[gentoo-dev] Re: a virtual advantage ?

2011-06-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/26/2011 06:54 PM, Philip Webb wrote: Yesterday, I upgraded 'xorg-drivers' to the latest stable 1.10 & then found upon rebooting that X failed to recognise the keyboard. Yes, it's happened before& I was not surprised: I had to switch the machine off, reboot, login as root -- experience lon

[gentoo-dev] Re: a virtual advantage ?

2011-06-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/26/2011 09:25 PM, Philip Webb wrote: 110626 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 06/26/2011 06:54 PM, Philip Webb wrote: Yesterday, I upgraded 'xorg-drivers' to the latest stable 1.10 & then found upon rebooting that X failed to recognise the keyboard. Yes, it's happened

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoostats, SoC 2011

2011-08-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/24/2011 01:48 PM, Patrick Lauer wrote: [...] If you sneakily add something to cron.daily by default you can get pretty nice coverage. But I guess anyone trying that in Gentooland will meet some rather unpleasant resistance :) emerge always asks me after a world update whether I want to "a

[gentoo-dev] Stable and keyword requests by users

2011-08-31 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Can users file stable and keyword requests?

[gentoo-dev] zlib breakage

2011-09-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I believe something needs to be done with the zlib-1.2.5.1-r1 and -r2 packages currently in the tree. The maintainer of zlib pushed those revisions with a patch that alters macro identifiers, making Gentoo's zlib incompatible with upstream. As a result, a lot of packages stopped building. Bu

[gentoo-dev] Re: zlib breakage

2011-09-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/24/2011 02:10 AM, Matt Turner wrote: On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I believe something needs to be done with the zlib-1.2.5.1-r1 and -r2 packages currently in the tree. The maintainer of zlib pushed those revisions with a patch that alters macro identifiers

[gentoo-dev] Re: zlib breakage

2011-09-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/24/2011 02:40 AM, Alec Warner wrote: This was just another episode of Vapier's hostile and arrogant behavior towards users. Every time someone comes up with a valid argument of why he's wrong, the final answer is "don't care, I do what I please because I'm the dev and you're not." So my r

[gentoo-dev] Re: zlib breakage

2011-09-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/24/2011 03:23 AM, Brian Harring wrote: [...] Right now, zlib does the exact opposite of what should be done; Vapier changed zlib, and tries to fix the packages that break because of that change. The correct way to handle it is to let zlib be, and fix the packages that stopped working with

[gentoo-dev] Re: zlib breakage

2011-09-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/24/2011 08:24 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Friday, September 23, 2011 17:44:50 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I believe something needs to be done with the zlib-1.2.5.1-r1 and -r2 packages currently in the tree. The maintainer of zlib pushed those revisions with a patch that alters macro

[gentoo-dev] Re: zlib breakage

2011-09-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/24/2011 10:07 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 02:43, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/24/2011 08:24 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: the defines in question are internal to zlib. packages relying on them are broken, plain and simple. Then fix *them*, not zlib. they are

[gentoo-dev] Re: About gcc-4.6 unmasking

2012-02-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 22/02/12 00:38, Alec Warner wrote: On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: As looks like fixing old grub is far away because nobody know what is causing that issues, probably trying to get grub-1.99 ready for stabilization would be interesting (we will need to do that sooner or l

[gentoo-dev] Re: Changing policy about -Werror

2018-09-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/09/2018 14:32, Andrew Savchenko wrote: My point is that in *most* cases -Werror indeed should be removed, because upstream rarely can keep up with all possible configure, *FLAGS, compiler versions and arch combinations. But! In some cases — especially for security oriented software — this f

[gentoo-dev] Re: Packaging changes in LLVM 10

2020-03-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 16/03/2020 14:37, Gerion Entrup wrote: when I compile LLVM for myself, I also always choose SHARED_LIBS simply because of RAM usage when linking the libraries. In the past, I was not able to link the single library on my 16 GB machine (I have not tested it now and this could be dependent on ot

[gentoo-dev] Re: vmware team needs help

2015-02-14 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 13/02/15 00:03, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: We have an overlay that can be used and is used for user contributions. Any plans to move it to github so we can fork and send pull requests?

[gentoo-dev] Re: vmware team needs help

2015-02-14 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 14/02/15 20:30, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: Am Samstag, 14. Februar 2015, 15:38:12 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: On 13/02/15 00:03, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: We have an overlay that can be used and is used for user contributions. Any plans to move it to github so we can fork and send pull

[gentoo-dev] Re: vmware team needs help

2015-02-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 13/02/15 00:03, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: * sorting out the screwed-up bundled library situation VMware seems to bundle everything they need. Currently, revdep-rebuild triggers false positives for a library that is no longer in portage (libgtop-2.0.so.7 from gnome-base/libgtop-2.28.5; it w

[gentoo-dev] Re: vmware team needs help

2015-02-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Btw, what is the appropriate place to discuss vmware overlay related issues?

[gentoo-dev] Re: vmware team needs help

2015-02-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 15/02/15 20:20, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: Am Sonntag, 15. Februar 2015, 18:29:25 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: Btw, what is the appropriate place to discuss vmware overlay related issues? Best is probably #gentoo-virtualization on freenode. Any non-realtime place?

[gentoo-dev] Should there be a preference with qt4 and qt5 USE flags?

2015-03-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Some ebuilds in portage for Qt-based software support both Qt4 as well as Qt5. Some have "+qt4 qt5" in IUSE, others have "qt4 qt5". Is there a guideline for this somewhere? If a package needs Qt and thus lists: REQUIRED_USE="^^ ( qt4 qt5 )" but otherwise doesn't prefer one version over the

[gentoo-dev] Re: Should there be a preference with qt4 and qt5 USE flags?

2015-03-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/03/15 21:35, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote: On Sun, 2015-03-08 at 21:31 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Some ebuilds in portage for Qt-based software support both Qt4 as well as Qt5. Some have "+qt4 qt5" in IUSE, others have "qt4 qt5". Is there a guideline for this som

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: media-video/mplayer2 media-video/smplayer2

2015-03-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 16/03/15 11:58, Alexander Berntsen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 15/03/15 10:15, Ben de Groot wrote: # These projects have been abandoned upstream. Most mplayer2 devs have moved # on to media-video/mpv, and users are suggested to do the same. We have # media-video

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: media-video/mplayer2 media-video/smplayer2

2015-03-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 16/03/15 16:27, Rich Freeman wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: On 16 March 2015 at 21:54, Юра Цимбалов wrote: That would be great, but it depends on getting newer mpv stable, while (s)mplayer2 is dead and broken right now. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?qu

[gentoo-dev] Re: multilib amd64 news item for review

2015-03-29 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 17/03/15 18:29, Michał Górny wrote: Dnia 2015-03-17, o godz. 16:55:32 René Neumann napisał(a): Am 17.03.2015 um 16:33 schrieb Michał Górny: However, some users may prefer setting ABI_X86 globally to enable 32-bit libraries in all packages that support building them. This can be done usin

[gentoo-dev] Re: multilib amd64 news item for review

2015-03-29 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 29/03/15 19:24, Michał Górny wrote: Dnia 2015-03-29, o godz. 19:14:43 Nikos Chantziaras napisał(a): On 17/03/15 18:29, Michał Górny wrote: Dnia 2015-03-17, o godz. 16:55:32 René Neumann napisał(a): Am 17.03.2015 um 16:33 schrieb Michał Górny: However, some users may prefer setting

[gentoo-dev] Re: multilib amd64 news item for review

2015-03-29 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 29/03/15 20:28, Michał Górny wrote: Dnia 2015-03-29, o godz. 19:59:19 Nikos Chantziaras napisał(a): According to emerge --info, ABI_X86 seems to append, not override. In make.conf: ABI_X86="32" Then: $ emerge --info | grep -i abi_x86 You get: ABI_X86="32 64&q

[gentoo-dev] Re: multilib amd64 news item for review

2015-03-29 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 29/03/15 21:00, Andrew Savchenko wrote: */* long list of 433 flags Yeah, just noticed that I can't split the lines. I then tried to define an array of USE flags in make.conf: GLOBAL_USE_FLAGS=( ... ) so that I can then use that array in package.use, but for some reason make.conf doesn'

[gentoo-dev] git://anongit.gentoo.org is extremely slow

2015-04-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Adding overlays with layman is now extremely slow after the overlays were moved to anongit.gentoo.org. Cloning anything beginning with "git://anongit.gentoo.org/" is capped at 15KB/s, sometimes 10KB/s. This is unworkably slow. Is this intentional?

[gentoo-dev] Re: git://anongit.gentoo.org is extremely slow

2015-04-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 23/04/15 23:01, Robin H. Johnson wrote: On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 05:11:13PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Adding overlays with layman is now extremely slow after the overlays were moved to anongit.gentoo.org. Cloning anything beginning with "git://anongit.gentoo.org/" is capped

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC News item: FFmpeg default

2015-07-14 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
"he page you have tried to view (Why Debian returned to FFmpeg) is currently available to LWN subscribers only." On 14/07/15 14:12, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: https://lwn.net/Articles/650816/ On Apr 16, 2015 1:51 PM, "Ben de Groot" mailto:yng...@gentoo.org>> wrote: On 11 April 2015 at 15:

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: media-video/subliminal

2020-05-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 19/04/2020 22:47, Michał Górny wrote: # Michał Górny (2020-04-19) # Unmaintained. Stuck on Python 3.6. Last release in 2016. # Removal in 30 days. Bug #718410. media-video/subliminal It's an active project. Just not doing releases often. Today 2.1.0 was released: https://github.com/

[gentoo-dev] Re: How to set CXX compiler?

2020-07-06 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/07/2020 10:48, Xianwen Chen (陈贤文) wrote: Thank you, Michael and James. Yes, I plan to submit a nice patch to the Makefile to upstream. However, I think something is not right on my computer. I have earlier tried to specify   emake CC="$(tc-getCXX)" prefix="${EPREFIX}/usr" DESTDIR="${D}

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