Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations Update

2007-07-25 Thread Peter Weller
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:38:16 -0700 Christina Fullam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although I've mentioned quite a bit, I feel that some of these questions still need addressing... This lot can probably be added to my candidate info stuffs/platform thingie on the site... [..snip..] 1) What you will

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: New lists and their usage

2007-07-25 Thread Steve Long
Chris Gianelloni wrote: Yeah, you should take that to -project or some other suitable list :P Once some consensus is made and it actually becomes policy, sure. Until then, I'm going to continue to use this list for the same things it's been used for up until now. Once we've agreed upon

[gentoo-dev] Lastrite: media-sound/playmidi

2007-07-25 Thread Samuli Suominen
# Samuli Suominen [EMAIL PROTECTED] (25 Jul 2007) # Broken, doesn't build -- using OSS and GTK+-1.2. # Last release from upstream 9 years ago. # Masked for removal in 30 days. media-sound/playmidi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Forbid using versions in DESCRIPTION

2007-07-25 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 24 July 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Petteri Räty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But is there anything that makes use of version specific DESCRIPTION atoms? Yep. Have a look at sys-devel/gcc for example. Some versions include various extensions, and say so in DESCRIPTION. eh, i'm not

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Forbid using versions in DESCRIPTION

2007-07-25 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 24 July 2007, Luca Barbato wrote: Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote: That would make it impossible to use ${PV} and more importantly also remove some duplication. It isn't duplicated, description is per ebuild and could change, metadata is for the package as whole. can you point

[gentoo-dev] New PDEPEND behaviour.

2007-07-25 Thread Piotr Jaroszyński
Hello, As a result of bug #180045 PDEPENDs can be now merged even before the package that pulls them. Zmedico says that's intended behaviour and PDEPEND is really a RDEPEND, but with a ability to resolve circular deps: circular DEPEND - RDEPEND can't be resolved while circular DEPEND - PDEPEND

Re: [gentoo-dev] New PDEPEND behaviour.

2007-07-25 Thread Brian Harring
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 02:08:39PM +0200, Piotr Jaroszy??ski wrote: Hello, As a result of bug #180045 PDEPENDs can be now merged even before the package that pulls them. Zmedico says that's intended behaviour and PDEPEND is really a RDEPEND, but with a ability to resolve circular deps:

[gentoo-dev] Lastrite: net-misc/bird

2007-07-25 Thread Tony Vroon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 # Tony Vroon [EMAIL PROTECTED] (25 Jul 2007) # Unsuitable for IXP route server usage # Seems incomplete for most other workloads # Lost interest in this package, removal on 25 Aug 2007. net-misc/bird -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: [gentoo-dev] New PDEPEND behaviour.

2007-07-25 Thread Doug Goldstein
Piotr Jaroszyński wrote: Hello, As a result of bug #180045 PDEPENDs can be now merged even before the package that pulls them. Zmedico says that's intended behaviour and PDEPEND is really a RDEPEND, but with a ability to resolve circular deps: circular DEPEND - RDEPEND can't be resolved while

Re: [gentoo-dev] New PDEPEND behaviour.

2007-07-25 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Mittwoch, 25. Juli 2007, Piotr Jaroszyński wrote: As a result of bug #180045 PDEPENDs can be now merged even before the package that pulls them. Zmedico says that's intended behaviour Well, then what our Portage devs think the intended behaviour should be is a bug. E.g. in the case the bug

Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastrite: media-sound/playmidi

2007-07-25 Thread Samuli Suominen
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:22:21 +0300 Samuli Suominen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # Samuli Suominen [EMAIL PROTECTED] (25 Jul 2007) # Broken, doesn't build -- using OSS and GTK+-1.2. # Last release from upstream 9 years ago. # Masked for removal in 30 days. media-sound/playmidi Undo this, fixed

Re: [gentoo-dev] New PDEPEND behaviour.

2007-07-25 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 08:46:43 -0400 Doug Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now how in the world do you pull a depend that needs to be merged AFTER the original package? You make the after package DEPEND upon the before package. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] New PDEPEND behaviour.

2007-07-25 Thread Doug Goldstein
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 08:46:43 -0400 Doug Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now how in the world do you pull a depend that needs to be merged AFTER the original package? You make the after package DEPEND upon the before package. except the user only has to

Re: [gentoo-dev] New PDEPEND behaviour.

2007-07-25 Thread Doug Goldstein
Piotr Jaroszyński wrote: Hello, As a result of bug #180045 PDEPENDs can be now merged even before the package that pulls them. Zmedico says that's intended behaviour and PDEPEND is really a RDEPEND, but with a ability to resolve circular deps: circular DEPEND - RDEPEND can't be resolved while

Re: [gentoo-dev] New PDEPEND behaviour.

2007-07-25 Thread Doug Goldstein
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:51:55 +0200 Carsten Lohrke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And I'm pretty sure nearly everyone using PDEPEND in his ebuilds relies on Portage building the PDEPEND not before the ebuild, which lists it. And I'm pretty sure they don't, since they

Re: [gentoo-dev] New PDEPEND behaviour.

2007-07-25 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:51:55 +0200 Carsten Lohrke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And I'm pretty sure nearly everyone using PDEPEND in his ebuilds relies on Portage building the PDEPEND not before the ebuild, which lists it. And I'm pretty sure they don't, since they have the post package DEPENDing

Re: [gentoo-dev] New PDEPEND behaviour.

2007-07-25 Thread Joe Peterson
Piotr Jaroszyński wrote: We need to update docs or harass zmedico to force PDEPEND to be pulled as soon as possible but not before the pkg that pulls it. There is another problem with PDEPEND that I've run into: if you are doing an emerge that fails some time after the package containing the

Re: [gentoo-dev] New PDEPEND behaviour.

2007-07-25 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:18:06 -0400 Doug Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This e-mail was just some fear mongering on behalf of Paludis devs. No no. It's on behalf of Piotr, who is a Gentoo developer who happens to not understand dependency resolution. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-dev] New PDEPEND behaviour.

2007-07-25 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:28:27 -0400 Doug Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They do. You didn't understand the question at all. Examples off the top of my head.. ipw2100, ipw2200, ivtv, mythtv. I want ivtv support... emerge ivtv It should pull in pvr-firmware immediately after since

Re: [gentoo-dev] New PDEPEND behaviour.

2007-07-25 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Mittwoch, 25. Juli 2007, Brian Harring wrote: I suggest you in the future check out what actually was changed, and do some testing- both the original poster, and yourself are missing what is occuring here Uh, thanks, I never was fond of reading the code of Portage, so I took Piotr's point

Re: [gentoo-dev] New PDEPEND behaviour.

2007-07-25 Thread Piotr Jaroszyński
On Wednesday 25 of July 2007 16:18:04 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Give one example of a legitimate use of dependencies that will break by this change. In your answer, consider that someone might install the post package as a target without having its dependencies installed. I am not saying it's

Re: [gentoo-dev] New PDEPEND behaviour.

2007-07-25 Thread Vlastimil Babka
Carsten Lohrke wrote: Well, I should point out where I come from. There is no need to install a pure runtime dependency before the ebuild pulling it in. If pure runtime dependencies would be handled this way, there would be no need for PDEPEND at all. I consider the current way Portage handles

[gentoo-dev] Gentoo-project and gentoo-dev-announce mailing lists created.

2007-07-25 Thread Wernfried Haas
Hi, Many people may already have noticed it, but here's an announcement for those who haven't yet. Gentoo-project and gentoo-dev-announce mailing lists created. These two mailing lists have been created to improve the flow of information and create an appropriate channel for non-technical

Re: [gentoo-dev] New PDEPEND behaviour.

2007-07-25 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Mittwoch, 25. Juli 2007, Vlastimil Babka wrote: A: PDEPEND=B B: DEPEND=A If this is what you call RDEPEND conceptually broken, then sorry for useles try to explain it :) Maybe package manager could be smart enough and relax the RDEPEND in such cases itself, maybe it's better to say that