Re: [gentoo-dev] X11 on Lemote Fulong (Loongson 2E) -- 'lm2e' local USE flag RFC

2008-08-02 Thread Stuart Longland
Donnie Berkholz wrote: On 13:23 Thu 31 Jul , Stuart Longland wrote: An alternative however, I'd like to propose is the addition of a 'lm2e' local USE flag to the affected ebuilds Stuart, I'm glad to hear you've made progress on this and gotten things working! As soon as you get

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New RESTRICT=live value for identification of live ebuilds?

2008-08-02 Thread Mike Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It seems, Slightly like an abuse of the RESTRICT variable. I had thought that RESTRICT was generally for when a normal ebuild needed a feature turning off (such as mirroring, strict checking and hopefully one day ccache). 5:) Overloading it

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New RESTRICT=live value for identification of live ebuilds?

2008-08-02 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2008-08-02 04:02:48 Zac Medico napisał(a): Hi everyone, It might good to add support for a new RESTRICT=live value in ebuilds. By specifying this value, an ebuild would be able to indicate that it uses src_unpack() to download sources from some type of live repository such as cvs, darcs,

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New RESTRICT=live value for identification of live ebuilds?

2008-08-02 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: 2008-08-02 04:02:48 Zac Medico napisał(a): The names of other RESTRICT values are related to features which are restricted. The new proposed value is intended for live ebuilds so its name should be

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New RESTRICT=live value for identification of live ebuilds?

2008-08-02 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Auty wrote: It seems, Slightly like an abuse of the RESTRICT variable. I had thought that RESTRICT was generally for when a normal ebuild needed a feature turning off (such as mirroring, strict checking and hopefully one day ccache).

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New RESTRICT=live value for identification of live ebuilds?

2008-08-02 Thread Mike Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Zac Medico wrote: | Honestly I don't care what the existing scheme is. Fair enough, I don't maintain the code or have to deal with the complaints. It seems a waste to abandon an existing scheme though. Particularly since RESTRICT is an odd name

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for August 7

2008-08-02 Thread Robert Buchholz
On Friday 01 August 2008, Chrissy Fullam wrote: Debian did exactly the same a couple of months ago prior to them moving out to OFTC (http://www.debian.org/News/2006/20060604) This addresses a question I raised a few days back regarding whether we were concerned that Gentoo moving to any

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New RESTRICT=live value for identification of live ebuilds?

2008-08-02 Thread Santiago M. Mola
On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Auty wrote: If there's need for a new class of ebuild information (such as a new way of categorizing ebuilds by feature), perhaps we should add an ebuild features variable specifically for the purpose? That

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New RESTRICT=live value for identification of live ebuilds?

2008-08-02 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Santiago M. Mola wrote: On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Auty wrote: If there's need for a new class of ebuild information (such as a new way of categorizing ebuilds by feature), perhaps we should add

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New RESTRICT=live value for identification of live ebuilds?

2008-08-02 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Auty wrote: Zac Medico wrote: | Honestly I don't care what the existing scheme is. Fair enough, I don't maintain the code or have to deal with the complaints. It seems a waste to abandon an existing scheme though. The scheme is pretty

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New RESTRICT=live value for identification of live ebuilds?

2008-08-02 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: 2008-08-02 04:02:48 Zac Medico napisał(a): The names of other RESTRICT values are related to features which are restricted. The new proposed value is intended for live ebuilds so its name should be

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New RESTRICT=live value for identification of live ebuilds?

2008-08-02 Thread René 'Necoro' Neumann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Zac Medico schrieb: I chose live because I think it's easy for people to associate it with live ebuilds, which I believe is a common term used to refer to ebuild that download live sources in src_unpack. What's in a name though? I'll gladly use

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New RESTRICT=live value for identification of live ebuilds?

2008-08-02 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 René 'Necoro' Neumann wrote: Zac Medico schrieb: I chose live because I think it's easy for people to associate it with live ebuilds, which I believe is a common term used to refer to ebuild that download live sources in src_unpack. What's in a

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New RESTRICT=live value for identification of live ebuilds?

2008-08-02 Thread René 'Necoro' Neumann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Zac Medico schrieb: Well, RESTRICT has long since evolved into a rather generic set of boolean flags and it's quite useful as such. I don't see any need for artificial limitations on what types of flags go there. For you it is just one variable

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New RESTRICT=live value for identification of live ebuilds?

2008-08-02 Thread Luca Barbato
Zac Medico wrote: Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: 2008-08-02 04:02:48 Zac Medico napisaB(a): The names of other RESTRICT values are related to features which are restricted. The new proposed value is intended for live ebuilds so its name should be negation of this feature. I think

Re: [gentoo-dev] X11 on Lemote Fulong (Loongson 2E) -- 'lm2e' local USE flag RFC

2008-08-02 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 16:43 Sat 02 Aug , Stuart Longland wrote: Donnie Berkholz wrote: On 13:23 Thu 31 Jul , Stuart Longland wrote: An alternative however, I'd like to propose is the addition of a 'lm2e' local USE flag to the affected ebuilds Stuart, I'm glad to hear you've made progress on

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New RESTRICT=live value for identification of live ebuilds?

2008-08-02 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 4:36 AM, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: 2008-08-02 04:02:48 Zac Medico napisał(a): The names of other RESTRICT values are related to features which are restricted. The new proposed value is intended for live ebuilds so its

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New RESTRICT=live value for identification of live ebuilds?

2008-08-02 Thread Avuton Olrich
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This new RESTRICT=live value would be useful in at least a couple of ways. One is that it could be used to implement a @live-rebuild package set that's based on RESTRICT instead of INHERITED [1]. It could also be used to

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New RESTRICT=live value for identification of live ebuilds?

2008-08-02 Thread Thomas de Grenier de Latour
On 2008/08/01, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It might good to add support for a new RESTRICT=live value in ebuilds. Since some people have a problem with this flag being put there, what about IUSE=live-rebuild as an alternative? It's use.desc would be something like add this package to

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New RESTRICT=live value for identification of live ebuilds?

2008-08-02 Thread Luis Francisco Araujo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 René 'Necoro' Neumann wrote: | Zac Medico schrieb: | Well, RESTRICT has long since evolved into a rather generic set of | boolean flags and it's quite useful as such. I don't see any need | for artificial limitations on what types of flags go there.

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New RESTRICT=live value for identification of live ebuilds?

2008-08-02 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: On 2008/08/01, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It might good to add support for a new RESTRICT=live value in ebuilds. Since some people have a problem with this flag being put there, what about

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New RESTRICT=live value for identification of live ebuilds?

2008-08-02 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Avuton Olrich wrote: On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some of us in the peanut gallery it'd also be nice to document the pitfalls of grepping inherited to determine if it's a live ebuild (update-live-ebuilds

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New RESTRICT=live value for identification of live ebuilds?

2008-08-02 Thread Thomas de Grenier de Latour
On 2008/08/02, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: USE flags are something that can be enable or disabled Here, what the flag would enable/disable is belonging of live packages to the @live-rebuild set. Compared to the RESTRICT solution, user gains an easy per-package control of this set

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New RESTRICT=live value for identification of live ebuilds?

2008-08-02 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: On 2008/08/02, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: USE flags are something that can be enable or disabled Here, what the flag would enable/disable is belonging of live packages to the @live-rebuild set.

[gentoo-portage-dev] paraller compile portage improvement (package number of threads mark)

2008-08-02 Thread litlle girl
Hi all, There are lots of portage packages that hasn't got jobserver, (i.e. gcc, firefox...) and can be compiled only at one thread/core. This is waste of time and resources on dualcore/quadcore cpus. How about mark packages with number of threads it can be compiled ? (ie. T0 - no limits of

Autoreply: [gentoo-portage-dev] paraller compile portage improvement (package number of threads mark)

2008-08-02 Thread oxbvdarbbvy

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] paraller compile portage improvement (package number of threads mark)

2008-08-02 Thread Patrick Börjesson
On 2008-08-02 12:14, litlle girl uttered these thoughts: Iproved emerge command will be able to compile two or more packages (each 1 thread marked) at the same time (if this packages don't depend on each other). Then wait until compilation ends, and start multithread marked packages

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] paraller compile portage improvement (package number of threads mark)

2008-08-02 Thread litlle girl
thanks, this is what i was looking for... :D regs LLG

[gentoo-portage-dev] Laurie A Chu is out of the office.

2008-08-02 Thread Laurie . A . Chu
I will be out of the office starting 07/31/2008 and will not return until 08/18/2008. I will be out of the office from 8/4/07, returning 8/20/07.