[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Developer Retirements

2009-03-12 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
tis 2009-03-10 klockan 08:29 -0700 skrev Alec Warner: > > With some devs reviewing gentoo-commits@, I highly doubt that this commit > > could go unnoticed more than a few hours. > > really? cause I bet I could slip something in; now I'm motivated to try ;p > Looking inside of package.mask this m

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: LD_AS_NEEDED="1" in profiles/targets/developer/make.defaults?

2009-10-04 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
be formed before enabling it anywhere by default. Should this test really be run by default, or should it be shielded by USE="unsafetests" or something of just restricted? My 2 cents. [1] http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/dbus/dbus-1.3.0.ebuild?rev=1.5&view=markup and scroll to the bottom. //Peter Hjalmarsson

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: USE=qa-test

2009-10-07 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
ons 2009-10-07 klockan 16:46 +0200 skrev Gilles Dartiguelongue: > Le mardi 06 octobre 2009 à 20:38 -0600, Ryan Hill a écrit : > > Some packages, like dbus[1], have testing features that, while useful for > > developers and arch-testers, aren't something that should be foisted on > > users. Dbus' c

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: USE=qa-test

2009-10-11 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
Sorry for reviving an old thread, but was there any progress on this topic? With packages as dbus that breaks with FEATURES/USE="test" hand in hand with packages like dev-libs/gmp[1] there would really be nice to know if you are supposed to be screwed or helped by FEATURES/USE="test"... [1](fr

[gentoo-dev] Re: FEATURES use or misuse?

2009-11-04 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
tis 2009-11-03 klockan 16:48 +0100 skrev Patrick Lauer: > Hi there, > > All of these bugs were for the use of the FEATURES variable in ebuilds, which > is a very convenient thing to work around issues. > For example known failures with FEATURE="distcc" or funky things like test > failures with

[gentoo-dev] Re: mtime preservation

2009-11-28 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
tor 2009-11-26 klockan 05:04 + skrev Duncan: > Ciaran McCreesh posted on Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:13:27 + as excerpted: > > > Examples will merely be > > dismissed as one-off cases that can be worked around, or as relying upon > > a string of coincidences that will "obviously" never really happ

[gentoo-dev] Re: A parting gift

2009-12-03 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
ons 2009-12-02 klockan 17:55 + skrev Jacob Todd: > On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 09:15:10AM +0100, Gunnar Wrobel wrote: > > ... I did buy the rights to my book back. > Wait, you don't keep the 'rights' to *your* book when it's published? > No this is a common thing with books. Remember some time ag

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Enable userpriv by default? Support RESTRICT=userpriv? Interaction with prefix in EAPI 3?

2009-12-11 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
fre 2009-12-11 klockan 12:11 -0800 skrev Zac Medico: > Should we enable FEATURES=userpriv by default? If we do that then do > we also need to support RESTRICT=userpriv? Maybe RESTRICT=userpriv > should not be supported on the grounds that it is never justified? > What about prefix support (in EAPI

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: QA last rites for x11-wm/ion

2009-12-15 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
mån 2009-12-14 klockan 19:03 -0500 skrev Mike Frysinger: > On Monday 14 December 2009 18:38:36 Ryan Hill wrote: > > On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:46:18 +0100 Diego E. Pettenò wrote: > > > # Diego E. Pettenò (13 Dec 2009) > > > # on behalf of QA team > > > # > > > # Pre-strip files (bug #241534), ignore

[gentoo-dev] Re: [rfc] layman storage location (again)

2010-01-16 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
lör 2010-01-16 klockan 19:16 +0100 skrev Sebastian Pipping: > On 01/16/10 05:39, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Friday 15 January 2010 20:55:18 Sebastian Pipping wrote: > >> On 01/16/10 02:45, Mike Frysinger wrote: > >>> the better idea > >>> though would be to split your stuff along the proper lines

[gentoo-dev] Re: [rfc] layman storage location (again)

2010-01-16 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
lör 2010-01-16 klockan 19:31 +0100 skrev Jörg Schaible: > dev-ran...@mail.ru wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 01:57:38PM +0100, Ben de Groot wrote: > >> 2010/1/16 Peter Volkov : > >> > layman cache is nfs distributable. Also it's good idea to have it close > >> > to PORTDIR. Thus I'd like to k

[gentoo-dev] Re: [rfc] layman storage location (again)

2010-01-18 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
mån 2010-01-18 klockan 06:27 +0100 skrev Ulrich Mueller: > > On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > > > isn't a package tree somehow having "system-wide implications"? > > i'm not really sure about /var/db - doesn't seem to be in FHS. > > is a package tree a database? > > This depend

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: [rfc] layman storage location (again)

2010-01-18 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
mån 2010-01-18 klockan 12:40 +0100 skrev Michael Haubenwallner: > Alex Alexander wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 09:05:58AM +0100, Peter Hjalmarsson wrote: > >> I sometimes think the main problem is the tree itself. Portage really > >> should had a directory of its

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Deprecation of python_version(), python_mod_exists(), python_tkinter_exists(), distutils_python_version() and distutils_python_tkinter() in EAPI <=2

2010-03-05 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
ons 2010-03-03 klockan 17:46 +0200 skrev Petteri Räty: > On 03/03/2010 02:47 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:47:37 +0100 > > Tomáa Chvátal wrote: > Removing eclass functions like this is not allowed by current > policy. If you want to do it, you should discuss about

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-08 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
mån 2010-03-08 klockan 10:53 +0100 skrev Antoni Grzymala: > Sorry guys if I missed something crucial in this lengthy thread, but > from what I'm understanding: > > if python-3 goes stable (and unmasked): > > - it is a separate, slotted version > - it generally shouldn't get pulled in (current po

[gentoo-dev] Re: Reorganizing handling of target specific profiles (Was: Split desktop profile patches & news item for review)

2010-03-08 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
mån 2010-03-08 klockan 19:13 +0200 skrev Mart Raudsepp: > Instead I think we should be improving "eselect profile" to support > multiple inheriting /etc/make.profile files in a user friendly fashion, > and in the end removing 249 subprofiles, instead of adding 28+. > I vote for this one. A prof

[gentoo-dev] Re: Packages pulling in python-3*, also they dont require it

2010-03-20 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
fre 2010-03-19 klockan 05:13 -0500 skrev Dale: > Because, when I installed gcc 4.3, I could then unmerge the old gcc. > That's why I didn't complain about that. With python, we still have to > have the current version plus the new version which is not being used at > all. > That was if you

[gentoo-dev] Re: Packages pulling in python-3*, also they dont require it

2010-03-20 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
I have a question related to this: If I have package X which supports python2 and python 3, and I install it without python3 installed it will only install python2-files (i.e. /usr/lib/python2.x/*), right? What happens if I later install packages Y that is only python3, and relies on the python3 p

[gentoo-dev] when to use a function and an implementation use flag.

2010-03-24 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
I took a look at qemu-kvm and found something I percieve as funny: It had a gnutls use-flag, but no ssl useflag. As I see it is I want ssl/tls support it should be sufficient to enable USE="ssl" and let the maintainer of said ebuild decide which implementation (if more then one) I am better off wi

[gentoo-dev] Re: Should we disable RESOLVED LATER from bugzilla?

2010-04-05 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
mån 2010-04-05 klockan 03:54 +0300 skrev Mart Raudsepp: > The problem is really the RESOLVED connotation and the hiding that goes > along with that on searches, etc. > > The LATER status itself can be useful when used properly (more as > "ASSIGNED LATER"). In the lack of that some bigger teams mig

[gentoo-dev] Re: ccache causing problems

2010-05-03 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
fre 2010-04-30 klockan 16:34 + skrev Robin H. Johnson: > Note however, that while I have a high level of trust in ccache, I do > think there are more latent bugs in distcc. > Heh, yeah. I have had problems with ccache having broken cache (i.e. stuff breaks, removing the cache and it unbreaks)

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC][NEW] Utility to find orphaned files

2010-05-03 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
fre 2010-04-30 klockan 18:24 +0200 skrev Enrico Weigelt: > * Daniel Pielmeier schrieb: > > > What about searching the complete file system but using an exclude file > > where > > you can put directories and files which should not be searched. It is > > tedious to > > tell every path on the comm

[gentoo-dev] Re: About libpng-1.4 handling

2010-05-11 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
mån 2010-05-10 klockan 23:52 -0400 skrev Mike Frysinger: > On Monday 10 May 2010 23:10:48 Markos Chandras wrote: > > provide a user friendly way to migrate to the new libpng without the need > > to spend so many hours digging around on which packages to rebuild. > > if you're "digging around" then

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-python/traits: traits-3.4.0.ebuild

2010-06-20 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
sön 2010-06-20 klockan 15:55 +0200 skrev Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis: > > This problem is probably caused by bugs in Python 2, which have been fixed in > Python 3. > > $ echo 'a = True' > test.pyx > $ cython test.pyx > $ gcc -O2 -Wall -I/usr/include/python3.1 -c test.c > $ gcc -O2 -Wall

[gentoo-dev] Re: New global USE flag: introspection

2010-06-22 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
tis 2010-06-22 klockan 15:17 +0530 skrev Arun Raghavan: > On 21 June 2010 21:23, Arun Raghavan wrote: > [...] > > I'm still trying to think of a good name. I understand the concerns > > about "introspection" being too generic and non GNOME-y, but "gir" is > > likely to cause confusion. > > "gir"

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

2010-07-05 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
mån 2010-06-28 klockan 15:05 +0100 skrev Ciaran McCreesh: > On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:59:21 +0100 > Roy Bamford wrote: > > All of engineering involves compromise. > > It's not a question of compromise. It's a question of being right vs > being wrong. If one person says that 2 + 2 = 4 and a loud mob

[gentoo-dev] Re: New global use flag: vpx or vp8

2010-08-13 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
lör 2010-07-31 klockan 13:37 +0200 skrev Hanno Böck: > vpx for supporting googles vp8 codec used in webm. > > At the moment this is only mplayer and ffmpeg, but it's pretty obvious that > apps supporting vp8 will start popping up everywhere (currently working on > arista ebuild which will suppor

[gentoo-dev] Why (i.e. USE="openssl" instead of USE="ssl")

2010-08-14 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
se flag to ensure that my whole system has support for it, or should I just have to enable USE="ssl"? And will I still be sure that those use flag did not disable a (maybe superior or by maintainer preferred) internal ssl implementation? [1] Last time I did a bugreport about this, here is the answer: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=310681 Regards Peter Hjalmarsson

[gentoo-dev] Re: Why (i.e. USE="openssl" instead of USE="ssl")

2010-08-14 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
lör 2010-08-14 klockan 13:45 +0200 skrev Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn: > Peter Hjalmarsson schrieb: > > This is about my beloved USE="ssl". A bit long and ranty, but if you > > want the consensus, just read the last part. > > > > > > Today a new snaps

[gentoo-dev] Re: Why (i.e. USE="openssl" instead of USE="ssl")

2010-08-14 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
lör 2010-08-14 klockan 15:14 +0300 skrev Samuli Suominen: > > [1] Last time I did a bugreport about this, here is the answer: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=310681 > > Long story short: > > If package has SSL support, and use "ssl" is ignored or not present in a > ebuild. it's plain

[gentoo-dev] Re: openrc portage news item

2011-04-15 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
y to be enabled by default? Regards Peter Hjalmarsson