Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-20 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 03:04:57PM -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote: > Why do you think that discussing problems with packages constitutes > whining? Are the developers now supposed to get feedback from the user > community by divination? please go read your original post. is that useful feedback

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-16 Thread bofh
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 9:18 PM, L. V. Lammert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for making my point! There's no good reason why git should require > X, so the package version should not. Now I understand why there's so many issues in the world. Love you way you deliberately misinterpret my w

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-16 Thread jared r r spiegel
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 04:54:34PM -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote: > At 05:23 PM 7/16/2008 -0400, William Boshuck wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 03:42:15PM -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote: >> > >> > I always do my homework, >> >> Is the following mindless word-drool about 'put startx into rc' >> an examp

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-16 Thread L. V. Lammert
At 09:03 PM 7/16/2008 -0400, bofh wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 8:41 PM, L. V. Lammert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Flavors is what enables the no_x11 option. What do you not understand about packages? If CVS requires X, then it requires X. You need to understand OpenBSD's philosophy. Why are

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-16 Thread L. V. Lammert
At 10:52 AM 7/17/2008 +1000, Damien Miller wrote: On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, L. V. Lammert wrote: You know, if you spent 1/10th of the effort that you have wasted ranting on learning the ports system then you could have modified the port to place the X11-requiring bits in a subpackage already. It isn'

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-16 Thread bofh
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 8:41 PM, L. V. Lammert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Marc Espie wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 09:30:02AM -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote: > > > If a command line tool like git has a 'GUI Helper', then that package > is > > > broken (which, I believe, i

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-16 Thread Damien Miller
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, L. V. Lammert wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Marc Espie wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 09:30:02AM -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote: > > > If a command line tool like git has a 'GUI Helper', then that package is > > > broken (which, I believe, is the case in this situation). >

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-16 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Marc Espie wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 09:30:02AM -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote: > > If a command line tool like git has a 'GUI Helper', then that package is > > broken (which, I believe, is the case in this situation). > > You don't get it, so I'll explain it. > Yes, I DO g

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-16 Thread Marc Espie
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 09:30:02AM -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote: > If a command line tool like git has a 'GUI Helper', then that package is > broken (which, I believe, is the case in this situation). You don't get it, so I'll explain it. There are a lot of packages in OpenBSD. We can spend time pro

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-16 Thread L. V. Lammert
At 05:23 PM 7/16/2008 -0400, William Boshuck wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 03:42:15PM -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote: > > I always do my homework, Is the following mindless word-drool about 'put startx into rc' an example of how you do your homework? Yep, .. though I relied on another post instea

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-16 Thread William Boshuck
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 03:42:15PM -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote: > > I always do my homework, Is the following mindless word-drool about 'put startx into rc' an example of how you do your homework? On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 09:30:02AM -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Tony Abernethy

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-16 Thread L. V. Lammert
At 09:54 PM 7/16/2008 +0200, Landry Breuil wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 9:08 PM, L. V. Lammert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That doesn't fix the main problem, however, .. a version control package > should NOT be in packages as an X flavor. > > It was mentioned earlier that there is a non-X ver

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-16 Thread L. V. Lammert
At 09:54 PM 7/16/2008 +0200, Landry Breuil wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 9:08 PM, L. V. Lammert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That doesn't fix the main problem, however, .. a version control package > should NOT be in packages as an X flavor. > > It was mentioned earlier that there is a non-X ver

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-16 Thread Don Hiatt
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of L. V. Lammert > It was mentioned earlier that there is a non-X version in ports - why > don't the maintainers FIX the problem and make that the package instead > of > all this bitching about why people compain about broken packages?

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-16 Thread Landry Breuil
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 9:08 PM, L. V. Lammert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That doesn't fix the main problem, however, .. a version control package > should NOT be in packages as an X flavor. > > It was mentioned earlier that there is a non-X version in ports - why > don't the maintainers FIX the

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-16 Thread Ted Unangst
On 7/16/08, L. V. Lammert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It was mentioned earlier that there is a non-X version in ports - why > don't the maintainers FIX the problem and make that the package instead of > all this bitching about why people compain about broken packages? The problem was fixed mon

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-16 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 02:08:51PM -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Ted Unangst wrote: > > > On 7/15/08, L. V. Lammert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > No, I'm sending an email to misc when a package depends on X that should > > > **NOT** depend on X. That's what's broken, obvio

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-16 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Tony Abernethy wrote: > Ted Unangst wrote: > > >If a command line tool like git has a 'GUI Helper', then that package is > >broken (which, I believe, is the case in this situation). > > The parallel argument is that if any GUI tool has a command line > helper function, then t

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-16 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Ted Unangst wrote: > On 7/15/08, L. V. Lammert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No, I'm sending an email to misc when a package depends on X that should > > **NOT** depend on X. That's what's broken, obviously, if you're saying I > > should be installing X on a production serv

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-16 Thread William Boshuck
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 09:30:02AM -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Tony Abernethy wrote (to tedu@): > > > Out of curiosity, what happens when you install X but > > answer "no" to the question about intending to RUN X? > > > ... It would install all the C crap and not put startx

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-16 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Marco Peereboom wrote: > You could also use a less retarded source control system. > Not my choice, unfortunately, .. almost all of the Rails projects use GIT. Lee == Leland V. Lammert[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-16 Thread Ted Unangst
On 7/16/08, Tony Abernethy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ted Unangst wrote: > > > >If a command line tool like git has a 'GUI Helper', then that package is > >broken (which, I believe, is the case in this situation). I most certainly did not write that.

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-16 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Ted Unangst wrote: > On 7/15/08, L. V. Lammert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No, I'm sending an email to misc when a package depends on X that should > > **NOT** depend on X. That's what's broken, obviously, if you're saying I > > should be installing X on a production serv

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-16 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Tony Abernethy wrote: > Ted Unangst wrote: > > > > On 7/15/08, L. V. Lammert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > No, I'm sending an email to misc when a package depends on > > X that should > > > **NOT** depend on X. That's what's broken, obviously, if > > you're saying I > > >

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-16 Thread Tony Abernethy
Ted Unangst wrote: >If a command line tool like git has a 'GUI Helper', then that package is >broken (which, I believe, is the case in this situation). The parallel argument is that if any GUI tool has a command line helper function, then that package is broken. (Microsoft Windows still has a co

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-16 Thread Tony Abernethy
MY APOLOGIES --- getting cross-eyed in my old age. >On 7/16/08, Tony Abernethy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Ted Unangst wrote: >> >> >> >If a command line tool like git has a 'GUI Helper', then that package is >> >broken (which, I believe, is the case in this situation). > >I most certainly di

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-16 Thread Bernd Ahlers
Marc Espie [Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:30:28PM +0200] wrote: >> It's because of gitk which is a repository browser (or so >> http://git.or.cz/course/svn.html tells me). Annoying that there's no >> git-no_x11 but them's the breaks. > >Makes no sense. It's clearly a multi-package situation, not flavor.

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-15 Thread Ted Unangst
On 7/15/08, Darrin Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Out of curiosity, what happens when you install X but answer > > > "no" to the question about intending to RUN X? > > > > exactly the same thing that happens when you answer "yes". > > > Doesn't that question effect the machdep.allo

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-15 Thread Damien Miller
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Ted Unangst wrote: > try it. install x, then resist the urge to type "startx". can you do > it? can you ignore the siren song, or do your fingers fly forth of > their own volition? I have it on good authority that plugging one's ears with wax helps. -d

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-15 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 08:11:37PM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote: > On 7/15/08, Tony Abernethy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ted Unangst wrote: > > > tar zxf X > > > pkg_add crap > > > rm -r /usr/X11R6 > > > > > > > Lovely. > > > > Out of curiosity, what happens when you install X but answer > >

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-15 Thread bofh
No, I want it *MY* way, all the time! Oh, wait, I'm not talking about a burger or my own distro, am I? On 7/15/08, Marco Peereboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You could also use a less retarded source control system. > > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 05:51:04PM -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote: >> On Tue,

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-15 Thread Marco Peereboom
You could also use a less retarded source control system. On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 05:51:04PM -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Will Maier wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 02:30:36PM -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote: > > > Depends on tcl-8.4.7p6, .. maybe, .. but what does X have to

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-15 Thread Ted Unangst
On 7/15/08, Tony Abernethy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ted Unangst wrote: > > tar zxf X > > pkg_add crap > > rm -r /usr/X11R6 > > > > Lovely. > > Out of curiosity, what happens when you install X but answer > "no" to the question about intending to RUN X? exactly the same thing that happens

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-15 Thread Tony Abernethy
Ted Unangst wrote: > > On 7/15/08, L. V. Lammert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No, I'm sending an email to misc when a package depends on > X that should > > **NOT** depend on X. That's what's broken, obviously, if > you're saying I > > should be installing X on a production server. NOT. > >

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-15 Thread Ted Unangst
On 7/15/08, L. V. Lammert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, I'm sending an email to misc when a package depends on X that should > **NOT** depend on X. That's what's broken, obviously, if you're saying I > should be installing X on a production server. NOT. tar zxf X pkg_add crap rm -r /usr/X11R6

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-15 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 05:51:04PM -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Will Maier wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 02:30:36PM -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote: > > > Depends on tcl-8.4.7p6, .. maybe, .. but what does X have to do > > > with git?? > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-15 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Will Maier wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 02:30:36PM -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote: > > Depends on tcl-8.4.7p6, .. maybe, .. but what does X have to do > > with git?? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tk_%28framework%29 > > > Can't install tk-8.4.7p1: lib not found X11.11.1

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-15 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 04:52:16PM -0400, Nick Guenther wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Will Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 02:30:36PM -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote: > >> Depends on tcl-8.4.7p6, .. maybe, .. but what does X have to do > >> with git?? > > > > htt

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-15 Thread abuse
On 2008-07-15, L. V. Lammert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Depends on tcl-8.4.7p6, .. maybe, .. but what does X have to do with git?? ports@, dammit. > Can't install tk-8.4.7p1: lib not found X11.11.1 > > Is this a broken dependency or . . . ? Seems like git installed cleanly on > 4.2. And

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-15 Thread Nick Guenther
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Will Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 02:30:36PM -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote: >> Depends on tcl-8.4.7p6, .. maybe, .. but what does X have to do >> with git?? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tk_%28framework%29 > >> Can't install tk-8.

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-15 Thread Will Maier
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 02:30:36PM -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote: > Depends on tcl-8.4.7p6, .. maybe, .. but what does X have to do > with git?? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tk_%28framework%29 > Can't install tk-8.4.7p1: lib not found X11.11.1 > > Is this a broken dependency No. > or . . .

'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-15 Thread L. V. Lammert
Depends on tcl-8.4.7p6, .. maybe, .. but what does X have to do with git?? Can't install tk-8.4.7p1: lib not found X11.11.1 Is this a broken dependency or . . . ? Seems like git installed cleanly on 4.2. Lee