Re: [DNG] Devuan and upstream

2015-08-15 Thread T.J. Duchene
On Sat, 15 Aug 2015 20:19:03 + Stephanie Daugherty sdaughe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Stephanie! =) They did, but out of all this design by committee, hidden between all the political bullshit and bikeshedding, they also created the most brilliant, most comprehensive set of standards for

Re: [DNG] Devuan and upstream

2015-08-15 Thread Go Linux
On Sat, 8/15/15, Simon Hobson li...@thehobsons.co.uk wrote: Subject: Re: [DNG] Devuan and upstream To: dng@lists.dyne.org dng@lists.dyne.org Date: Saturday, August 15, 2015, 3:53 PM Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.com wrote: THe way I heard

Re: [DNG] Devuan and upstream

2015-08-15 Thread Simon Hobson
Stephanie Daugherty sdaughe...@gmail.com wrote: They did, but out of all this design by committee, hidden between all the political bullshit and bikeshedding, they also created the most brilliant, most comprehensive set of standards for quality control, package uniformity, license

Re: [DNG] Devuan and upstream

2015-08-15 Thread T.J. Duchene
The lack of the last two: multiple versions and shell scripts are why Debian derivatives cannot share packages, even though they use identical base code. Correction: The lack of multiple versions and packahe shell scripts are why Debian derivatives cannot share packages, even though they use

Re: [DNG] Devuan and upstream

2015-08-15 Thread Roger Leigh
On 15/08/2015 00:19, James Powell wrote: Slackware is maintained by 3 core people with extra help as needed. The rest of the packages are pushed by the community at large contributing. Devuan doesn't have to maintain every package possible. That's ludicrous to think so. Debian got in over its

Re: [DNG] Devuan and upstream

2015-08-15 Thread Roger Leigh
On 15/08/2015 05:38, Isaac Dunham wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 02:42:14PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 02:02:22PM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote: Seems to me there's something weird, both, in libreoffice depending on just one single version of libstdc++, and in

Re: [DNG] Devuan and upstream

2015-08-15 Thread Roger Leigh
On 15/08/2015 05:57, T.J. Duchene wrote: On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 22:38:35 -0700 Isaac Dunham ibid...@gmail.com wrote: To elaborate on this, GCC 5.1 (I think) has changed the ABI for C++11 support. Packages using C++11 need to be rebuilt with the new library; libreoffice has already been rebuilt,

Re: [DNG] Devuan and upstream

2015-08-15 Thread Stephanie Daugherty
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 8:20 PM James Powell james4...@hotmail.com wrote: Slackware is maintained by 3 core people with extra help as needed. The rest of the packages are pushed by the community at large contributing. Devuan doesn't have to maintain every package possible. That's ludicrous to

Re: [DNG] Devuan and upstream

2015-08-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 02:20:44PM -0500, T.J. Duchene wrote: Having a specifically defined base makes it easier for third parties to ensure that software is going to work without a hitch. It's much more attractive from a testing standpoint than the usual Linux hodge-podge. I think it is

Re: [DNG] Devuan and upstream

2015-08-15 Thread Laurent Bercot
On 15/08/2015 22:19, Stephanie Daugherty wrote: They did, but out of all this design by committee, hidden between all the political bullshit and bikeshedding, they also created the most brilliant, most comprehensive set of standards for quality control, package uniformity, license auditing, and

Re: [DNG] Devuan and upstream

2015-08-14 Thread Stephanie Daugherty
On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 4:06 PM T.J. Duchene t.j.duch...@gmail.com wrote: 1. You can't mark a package as Do not install. APT simply does not give you the option. Heaven knows, there are a lot of people who dislike things like network- manager, and do not them to install for any reason.

Re: [DNG] Devuan and upstream

2015-08-14 Thread Noel Torres
James Powell james4...@hotmail.com escribió: [...] Devuan should follow the Debian methodology, but equally it should forge it's own path away from Debian. It doesn't need to draw from any other distribution like Funtoo, CRUX, Slackware, or anything other distributions, other than seeing

Re: [DNG] Devuan and upstream

2015-08-14 Thread James Powell
From: Stephanie Daughertymailto:sdaughe...@gmail.com Sent: ‎8/‎14/‎2015 6:21 AM To: T.J. Duchenemailto:t.j.duch...@gmail.com; dng@lists.dyne.orgmailto:dng@lists.dyne.org Subject: Re: [DNG] Devuan and upstream On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 4:06 PM T.J. Duchene t.j.duch...@gmail.com

Re: [DNG] Devuan and upstream

2015-08-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 05:19:25PM -0700, James Powell wrote: Slackware is maintained by 3 core people with extra help as needed. The rest of the packages are pushed by the community at large contributing. Devuan doesn't have to maintain every package possible. That's ludicrous to think so.

Re: [DNG] Devuan and upstream

2015-08-14 Thread T.J. Duchene
On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 22:38:35 -0700 Isaac Dunham ibid...@gmail.com wrote: To elaborate on this, GCC 5.1 (I think) has changed the ABI for C++11 support. Packages using C++11 need to be rebuilt with the new library; libreoffice has already been rebuilt, but not KDE. That's a very good

Re: [DNG] Devuan and upstream

2015-08-14 Thread James Powell
@lists.dyne.orgmailto:dng@lists.dyne.org Subject: Re: [DNG] Devuan and upstream On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 05:19:25PM -0700, James Powell wrote: Slackware is maintained by 3 core people with extra help as needed. The rest of the packages are pushed by the community at large contributing. Devuan

Re: [DNG] Devuan and upstream

2015-08-14 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 14/08/2015 10:16, Noel Torres a écrit : Everyone that has anytime been trapped in the Dependency Hell knows about the complicated chains of dependencies in Debian. As a simple example, today it is impossible to install LibreOffice 5 and KDE together, since libreoffice 1:5.0.1~rc1-2 ends

Re: [DNG] Devuan and upstream

2015-08-14 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 02:02:22PM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote: Seems to me there's something weird, both, in libreoffice depending on just one single version of libstdc++, and in libklabxml being broken by this version of libstdc++, be it the fault of kde or libstdc++ developpers. That's the

Re: [DNG] Devuan and upstream

2015-08-13 Thread James Powell
As someone who's background is in Slackware, I know where automatic package dependency resolution has its good points and bad points. Pkgtools is very basic. Everything is left to the system administrator to resolve, but SlackBuilds.org offered a solution. It allows packages to have certain