Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] RESTRICT=parallel for builds that can't be executed in parallel

2010-04-30 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Luca Barbato schrieb: > I wonder if that case shouldn't be handled better with an huge ewarn so > people concerned would really run it in a benchmark environment, alone. ewarns should be circumvented (make it work w/o them), IMHO. I can imagine I'm not the only person who doenst want to keep

Re: [gentoo-dev] A policy to support random superuser account names

2010-04-30 Thread Alec Warner
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to put an emphasis on the fact that many eclasses > and ebuilds in gx86 are relying on an assumption that the superuser > account is always supposed to be named 'root'. > > In fact, no such constraint exists. Although

Re: [gentoo-dev] A policy to support random superuser account names

2010-04-30 Thread Alec Warner
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to put an emphasis on the fact that many eclasses > and ebuilds in gx86 are relying on an assumption that the superuser > account is always supposed to be named 'root'. > > In fact, no such constraint exists. Although

Re: [gentoo-dev] A policy to support random superuser account names

2010-04-30 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 30-04-2010 20:07:26 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > In my opinion, that policy should clearly indicate that the numeric > UID/GID should be always used for referencing the superuser account > as they are fixed unlike the names. Just to complicate matters a bit, there are platforms where the equiva

[gentoo-dev] A policy to support random superuser account names

2010-04-30 Thread Michał Górny
Hello, I would like to put an emphasis on the fact that many eclasses and ebuilds in gx86 are relying on an assumption that the superuser account is always supposed to be named 'root'. In fact, no such constraint exists. Although most users will never even think of changing the superuser account

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC][NEW] Utility to find orphaned files

2010-04-30 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Daniel Pielmeier schrieb: > What about searching the complete file system but using an exclude file where > you can put directories and files which should not be searched. It is tedious > to > tell every path on the command-line. Also for instance if you specify /lib it > will also search unde

Re: [gentoo-dev] ccache causing problems

2010-04-30 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 01:02:48AM +0200, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote: > it's just like any package failing with some gcc/linked/whatever flag, > you just don't stop using that flag where it works just because of one > package, nor do you stop using gcc. And for anybody that thinks they have a bug