Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk's X use flag

2006-07-14 Thread Michael Cummings
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuan Van wrote: Jakub Moc wrote: Ser Gio wrote: Hello, Why does x11-libs/gtk+-2.8.19 has the X useflag? The ebuild doesn't look like it's using it. thanks, Sérgio Because virtualx.eclass has it in IUSE and the ebuild inherits it. I hate

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk's X use flag

2006-07-14 Thread Jakub Moc
Michael Cummings wrote: I hate it when this happens. I have an ebuild inherits perl-app. It pulls in minimal and perl USE-flags. kinda misleading. Tuan The perl use flag is to avoid make perl a dep for every package that inherits the eclass even if perl isn't in your personal USE flags.

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags

2006-07-14 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Friday 14 July 2006 06:03, Daniel Watkins wrote: Is there a rationale behind this decision? On some systems libmad does not work and has to be masked, if I called it mp3, it couldn't be use.masked or all the mp3 supports, even when not provided by libmad, would have been removed.

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags

2006-07-14 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 05:03 +0100, Daniel Watkins wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It seems to me that having both of these two flags can only cause confusion. I upgraded xine-lib yesterday and spent a very frustrating 2 hours trying to work out what had broken my Amarok

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags

2006-07-14 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 16:20 +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: Per-package use.mask is not here for another year and in the mean time I needed a working solution, this is it. While it is a working solution, it isn't necessarily a sensible one. If the package only uses libmad, and libmad

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags

2006-07-14 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Friday 14 July 2006 16:38, Chris Gianelloni wrote: If a user has USE=mp3 -mad then they should *always* have working mp3 support. Give me per-package use.mask baby, and I'll do whatever you want. But as when I asked it was considered low priority, then you can start barking at portage devs,

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags

2006-07-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 10:43:54 -0400 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | If the package only uses libmad, and libmad doesn't work on $platform, | then why not simply disable mp3 support on that platform until libmad | is fixed? Because it confuses the hell out of users who want to know why

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags

2006-07-14 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Friday 14 July 2006 16:43, Chris Gianelloni wrote: While it is a working solution, it isn't necessarily a sensible one. You can take over xine-lib and fix it however you prefer. As this, as well as any other idea you can find, is just an HACK until portage devs implements the per-package

Re: [gentoo-dev] [QA] Incomplete IUSE for useflags in {,R,P}DEPEND, SRC_URI etc...

2006-07-14 Thread John Mylchreest
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 03:23:06PM +0200, Matthias Schwarzott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 12 July 2006 15:16, Danny van Dyk wrote: Hi all, thanks to djm's efforts i was just able to scan the whole tree using qualudis. For a start, i'll attach a list of QA violations on missing

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for net-misc/ssh

2006-07-14 Thread Gustavo Felisberto
Stuart Herbert wrote: Hi, On 7/11/06, Gustavo Felisberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm removing net-misc/ssh from the tree as Tectia no longer provides a free version of they're ssh client and server. The last update to this package was one year and half so I'm a bit afraid of security

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags

2006-07-14 Thread Jason Wever
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten?? wrote: But as when I asked it was considered low priority, then you can start barking at portage devs, instead of me. I know some of us arch team ninjas asked for this in bug #96368 some time ago.

[gentoo-dev] Re: 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags

2006-07-14 Thread Daniel Watkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 10:43:54 -0400 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | If the package only uses libmad, and libmad doesn't work on $platform, | then why not simply disable mp3 support on that platform until libmad |

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags

2006-07-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:49:47 +0100 Daniel Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 10:43:54 -0400 Chris Gianelloni | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | If the package only uses libmad, and libmad doesn't work on | | $platform, then why not simply disable mp3

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags

2006-07-14 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 15:59 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 10:43:54 -0400 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | If the package only uses libmad, and libmad doesn't work on $platform, | then why not simply disable mp3 support on that platform until libmad | is fixed?

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags

2006-07-14 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 17:09 +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: On Friday 14 July 2006 16:43, Chris Gianelloni wrote: While it is a working solution, it isn't necessarily a sensible one. You can take over xine-lib and fix it however you prefer. Quite honestly, I don't care. As this, as

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags

2006-07-14 Thread Simon Stelling
Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: On Friday 14 July 2006 06:03, Daniel Watkins wrote: Is there a rationale behind this decision? On some systems libmad does not work and has to be masked, if I called it mp3, it couldn't be use.masked or all the mp3 supports, even when not provided by

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags

2006-07-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:14:39 -0400 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 15:59 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 10:43:54 -0400 Chris Gianelloni | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | If the package only uses libmad, and libmad doesn't work on | |

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags

2006-07-14 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Friday 14 July 2006 20:20, Chris Gianelloni wrote: See, it is this kind of self-serving attitude that really needs to stop around here. So the portage devs didn't include something that you wanted in the latest release... Did you give them a patch for it? Do I ask people to give me patches

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags

2006-07-14 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Friday 14 July 2006 20:24, Simon Stelling wrote: In the specific case of xine-lib, the mad USE flag can simply be replaced with mp3 because mips, which is the only arch that has the mad USE flag in use.mask, doesn't have any version keyworded. If I revert the change, mips won't be able to

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags

2006-07-14 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 14:20 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 17:09 +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: On Friday 14 July 2006 16:43, Chris Gianelloni wrote: While it is a working solution, it isn't necessarily a sensible one. You can take over xine-lib and fix it

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Useflags: qt, qt3, qt4?

2006-07-14 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 15:45, Donnie Berkholz wrote: -qt +qt3: This would only be available in 2 cases: - Package supports both qt4 and qt3, and they're mutually exclusive - Package supports both qt4 and qt3, and they can both be enabled at once In case 1, -qt +qt3 would enable qt3. In

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Useflags: qt, qt3, qt4?

2006-07-14 Thread Harald van Dijk
On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 09:09:15PM +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote: On Wednesday 21 June 2006 15:45, Donnie Berkholz wrote: -qt +qt3: This would only be available in 2 cases: - Package supports both qt4 and qt3, and they're mutually exclusive - Package supports both qt4 and qt3, and

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags

2006-07-14 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: Per-package use.mask is not here for another year and in the mean time I needed a working solution, this is it. It think we can have it sooner than another year. There are lots of fixes in 2.1.1_pre and I'd like

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags

2006-07-14 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Friday 14 July 2006 22:24, Zac Medico wrote: It think we can have it sooner than another year.  There are lots of fixes in 2.1.1_pre and I'd like to close the merge window pretty soon so that it can be stabilized.  I'll work on a patch for package.use and package.use.mask so that we should