Re: [gentoo-user] bugs in ebuilds?

2016-11-21 Thread Jorge Almeida 
On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 2:09 PM, Neil Bothwick  wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Nov 2016 05:26:14 -0800, Jorge Almeida wrote:
>
>
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> As a short term solution, you can run the application with nohup.
>
interesting. I was not familar with nohup. I could also redirect
stderr to /dev/null, but that would loose real error messages.

Thanx

Jorge

Re: [gentoo-user] bugs in ebuilds?

2016-11-21 Thread Neil Bothwick 
On Mon, 21 Nov 2016 05:26:14 -0800, Jorge Almeida wrote:

> My current concrete example: gtk+ 3.* has a configuration option
> --enable-debug=[no/minimum/yes] (default=debug_default)
> 
> There is no USE variable to control this. From what I [think I]
> understood, the default is set in the source file configure.ac, which
> sets debug_default to "yes"! This has the effect that it is impossible
> to launch gtk applications (e.g., zathura) from a terminal and still
> do something useful with the terminal, which gets spammed no-end with
> obnoxious messages about stuff the user cannot do anything about,
> anyway.

As a short term solution, you can run the application with nohup.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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Re: [gentoo-user] bugs in ebuilds?

2016-11-21 Thread Jorge Almeida 
On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 5:49 AM, Michael Orlitzky  wrote:
> On 11/21/2016 08:26 AM, Jorge Almeida wrote:
>> What is the proper procedure to ask for some modification in a ebuild?
>> (Bugs as well as feature requests...)
>>
>
> File a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org/
>
Thanks. Done.

Re: [gentoo-user] bugs in ebuilds?

2016-11-21 Thread Michael Orlitzky 
On 11/21/2016 08:26 AM, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> What is the proper procedure to ask for some modification in a ebuild?
> (Bugs as well as feature requests...)
> 

File a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org/


> My current concrete example: gtk+ 3.* has a configuration option
> --enable-debug=[no/minimum/yes] (default=debug_default)
> 
> There is no USE variable to control this...

It might make more sense to disable it unconditionally, but this is
perfectly appropriate for a bug. The bug wranglers will assign it to the
gnome team for you.

[gentoo-user] bugs in ebuilds?

2016-11-21 Thread Jorge Almeida 
What is the proper procedure to ask for some modification in a ebuild?
(Bugs as well as feature requests...)

My current concrete example: gtk+ 3.* has a configuration option
--enable-debug=[no/minimum/yes] (default=debug_default)

There is no USE variable to control this. From what I [think I]
understood, the default is set in the source file configure.ac, which
sets debug_default to "yes"! This has the effect that it is impossible
to launch gtk applications (e.g., zathura) from a terminal and still
do something useful with the terminal, which gets spammed no-end with
obnoxious messages about stuff the user cannot do anything about,
anyway.

If I'm not mistaken about the effect of --enable-debug, this
upstream-caused problem would be easily fixed for gentooers.


TIA


Jorge Almeida