Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's future directtion ?

2014-12-25 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 20:29:28 +0100 Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org wrote: And proposing a Java revolution because the existing team does not immediately jubilate at your extensive reform proposals is also not necessarily the best idea. For those that disagree, start overlay java2015

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's future directtion ?

2014-12-03 Thread Sid S
Ah, I apologize. I did not mean to quote anything (it happens automatically; I will start paying more attention to it). I was hoping he would remember his additions to the conversation at hand and could extrapolate on them.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's future directtion ?

2014-12-02 Thread Sid S
Hasufell, what are you referring to by attempts to make Gentoo more friendly to gaming? On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 1:38 PM, hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org wrote: Alan Mackenzie: So that instead of conceptualising a branch (as you would do with Mercurial, Bazaar, Subversion, or even CVS), you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's future directtion ?

2014-12-02 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Sid S r03...@gmail.com wrote: Hasufell, what are you referring to by attempts to make Gentoo more friendly to gaming? You quoted an email that didn't refer to attempts to make Gentoo more friendly to gaming. The reason that you should respond below quotes is so

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's future directtion ?

2014-11-29 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 07:09:07AM +, Martin Vaeth wrote: So for non-developers, downloading with git does not necessarily make sense. That being said, please do not consider this as an argument against a change to git: For developers it has only advantages, and AFAIK, it is not planned

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's future directtion ?

2014-11-29 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, everybody. On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 07:09:07AM +, Martin Vaeth wrote: hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org wrote: Martin Vaeth: hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org wrote: With rsync I believe you can exclude categories: http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/TIP_Exclude_categories_from_emerge_sync

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's future directtion ?

2014-11-29 Thread konsolebox
On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 10:28 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Hello, everybody. Good day. instead of conceptualising a branch (as you would do with Mercurial, Bazaar, Subversion, or even CVS), you need to think about commits reachable from a certain head (excluding commits reachable

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's future directtion ?

2014-11-29 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, konsolebox. On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 11:18:49PM +0800, konsolebox wrote: On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 10:28 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Hello, everybody. Good day. instead of conceptualising a branch (as you would do with Mercurial, Bazaar, Subversion, or even CVS), you need

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's future directtion ?

2014-11-29 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On 11/29/2014 09:28 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Speaking as a developer in a project which has just converted to git, I can assure you that git has tremendous disadvantages, even compared with cvs. It depends; they do different things. Depending on what I'm working on, I use either subversion

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's future directtion ?

2014-11-29 Thread hasufell
Alan Mackenzie: So that instead of conceptualising a branch (as you would do with Mercurial, Bazaar, Subversion, or even CVS), you need to think about commits reachable from a certain head (excluding commits reachable from some other head). [snipping everything that is not technical] How

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's future directtion ?

2014-11-28 Thread hasufell
Martin Vaeth: hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org wrote: With rsync I believe you can exclude categories: http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/TIP_Exclude_categories_from_emerge_sync That is uninformed. I think he is right. check the --depth option of git. You can even clone specific tags with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's future directtion ?

2014-11-28 Thread hasufell
James: hasufell hasufell at gentoo.org writes: I still don't see a good argument why we made our system so inflexible, that obviously needed change needs such high amount of work, PR and proof. I think that most folks appreciate your efforts and insightful ideas on how to open up

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's future directtion ?

2014-11-28 Thread James
hasufell hasufell at gentoo.org writes: Already doing so https://github.com/hasufell/games-overlay and that's where I will update ebuilds, not in the tree. And I don't care to get any of that into the tree. OK. People are scared of other gentoo-like distros/PMs. Exherbo is evil,

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's future directtion ?

2014-11-28 Thread Martin Vaeth
hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org wrote: Martin Vaeth: hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org wrote: With rsync I believe you can exclude categories: http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/TIP_Exclude_categories_from_emerge_sync That is uninformed. I think he is right. check the --depth option of git. You can

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's future directtion ?

2014-11-27 Thread Martin Vaeth
hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org wrote: With rsync I believe you can exclude categories: http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/TIP_Exclude_categories_from_emerge_sync That is uninformed. I think he is right. check the --depth option of git. You can even clone specific tags with --depth=1. Every tag

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's future directtion ?

2014-11-27 Thread James
hasufell hasufell at gentoo.org writes: I still don't see a good argument why we made our system so inflexible, that obviously needed change needs such high amount of work, PR and proof. I think that most folks appreciate your efforts and insightful ideas on how to open up development,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's future directtion ?

2014-11-25 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Montag 24 November 2014, 18:13:56 schrieb James: If you want java to prosper at Gentoo, it's gonna take an inner-circle gentoo-dev to at least cheerlead for java within gentoo, imho. I'm not really sure what this inner-circle stuff is supposed to mean. You need a gentoo-dev who is

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's future directtion ?

2014-11-24 Thread James
Rich Freeman rich0 at gentoo.org writes: The reason I jumped into this thread is that someone had problems with the java project. I'm not sure, but maybe something is wrong with my eyes? Your eyes are fine. Gmane's web interface was hosed. I tried to use nntp (earlybird) but that

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's future directtion ?

2014-11-23 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 06:20:01PM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: Don't get me wrong, I'm all for more overlay support. I'm all for reform when there is something to reform. However, in all your complaints about developers causing conflicts you're actually becoming part of the problem. I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's future directtion ?

2014-11-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 23.11.2014 um 16:18 schrieb Nicolas Sebrecht: On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 06:20:01PM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: Don't get me wrong, I'm all for more overlay support. I'm all for reform when there is something to reform. However, in all your complaints about developers causing conflicts

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's future directtion ?

2014-11-23 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 04:31:45PM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: am I the only one who thinks that this way leads to madness? Version conflicts are bad enough. First, version conflicts have their roots in the support for versions of libraries in softwares. This is the best place to fix

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's future directtion ?

2014-11-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 23.11.2014 um 18:33 schrieb Nicolas Sebrecht: On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 04:31:45PM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: am I the only one who thinks that this way leads to madness? Version conflicts are bad enough. First, version conflicts have their roots in the support for versions of

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's future directtion ?

2014-11-23 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 07:25:26PM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: and you want portage to finish on this site of eternity when looking for dependency resolution? I don't think having exposed requirements would explode the time needed to calculate the dependency tree because this does not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's future directtion ?

2014-11-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 23.11.2014 um 19:54 schrieb Nicolas Sebrecht: On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 07:25:26PM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: and you want portage to finish on this site of eternity when looking for dependency resolution? I don't think having exposed requirements would explode the time needed to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's future directtion ?

2014-11-23 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Nicolas Sebrecht nicolas.s-...@laposte.net wrote: Portage should support a way to expose ALL the conditions for a software to work and update installed libraries to match the requirements. This sounds nice in principle, but making it work is not trivial.

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's future directtion ?

2014-11-23 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 02:30:12PM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Nicolas Sebrecht nicolas.s-...@laposte.net wrote: Portage should support a way to expose ALL the conditions for a software to work and update installed libraries to match the requirements. This

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's future directtion ?

2014-11-23 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 08:15:26PM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: which works so well with different useflags. Yes, things need improvements. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's future directtion ?

2014-11-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 23.11.2014 um 21:54 schrieb Nicolas Sebrecht: Today, ebuilds don't even let a chance for an admin to apply a series of patches to the vanilla/distro-maintainer sources without having to rewrite/fork the ebuild. Whatever it is critical for them. The lone option is to fork+overlay. This is a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's future directtion ?

2014-11-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 23/11/2014 22:54, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 02:30:12PM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Nicolas Sebrecht nicolas.s-...@laposte.net wrote: Portage should support a way to expose ALL the conditions for a software to work and update installed

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's future directtion ?

2014-11-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 23.11.2014 um 22:14 schrieb Alan McKinnon: On 23/11/2014 22:54, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 02:30:12PM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Nicolas Sebrecht nicolas.s-...@laposte.net wrote: Portage should support a way to expose ALL the