Re: [gentoo-dev] Please enhance your USE descriptions!

2011-03-30 Thread justin
On 29/03/11 18:02, Andy Spencer wrote: On 2011-03-29 17:10, Jeroen Roovers wrote: You could start by pointing out some good examples of bad descriptions. A few regular expressions might help with that: /:(\w+) - (Enable|Add) support for \1$/ /:(\w+) - (Enable|Add) \1( support)?$/

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: postgresql.eselect

2011-03-30 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 29-03-2011 22:35:48 -0600, Ryan Hill wrote: Because 'ls' would complain that files didn't exist, such as lib*.dylib when on a Linux system. It doesn't matter. But, using 'find' avoids this mess. Never use ls to get filenames in a script. Instead of for link_source in $(eval ls

Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: USE=hal masked in base/use.mask and related

2011-03-30 Thread Gilles Dartiguelongue
Le mardi 29 mars 2011 à 23:36 +0100, Markos Chandras a écrit : On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 11:36:00AM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: USE=hal is masked in base/use.mask, but unmasked for kde-base/solid and app-cdr/k3b in base/package.use.mask pending on KDE 4.6.x stabilization. This is

[gentoo-dev] net-dns/avahi looks to be required by other packages that shouldn't need it (.la files pollution?)

2011-03-30 Thread Pacho Ramos
I recently saw: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=360445 dev-dotnet/gnome-sharp seems to require avahi even if it shouldn't. I have seen that it also affects to other packages like gnome-base/libgnome. This also sounds me a bit like: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343841 How should

Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: USE=hal masked in base/use.mask and related

2011-03-30 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 03/30/2011 01:36 AM, Markos Chandras wrote: On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 11:36:00AM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: USE=hal is masked in base/use.mask, but unmasked for kde-base/solid and app-cdr/k3b in base/package.use.mask pending on KDE 4.6.x stabilization. Why didn't you use the news

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: postgresql.eselect

2011-03-30 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 03/30/2011 03:58 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote: On 29-03-2011 22:35:48 -0600, Ryan Hill wrote: Because 'ls' would complain that files didn't exist, such as lib*.dylib when on a Linux system. It doesn't matter. But, using 'find' avoids this mess.

Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/ffmpeg and media-video/libav

2011-03-30 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Monday, March 28, 2011 08:26:00 AM Tomáš Chvátal wrote: So after bit of smashing here and there the list of packages depending on media-libs/ffmpeg is stored and automatically generated on my reports page [1] (automatic generation is working if i didn't screw up once a day). So if you

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please enhance your USE descriptions!

2011-03-30 Thread James Cloos
j == justin j...@gentoo.org writes: j In my opinion some thing like j Enables foo intergration j or j Enables support for foo j if it isn't totally clear what foo is Even preferring $C/$PN where $PN is currently used would help, since it makes it clear that the foo is a package. -JimC --

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-admin/rsyslog: ChangeLog rsyslog-5.6.5.ebuild rsyslog-5.6.4.ebuild

2011-03-30 Thread Ultrabug
On 30/03/2011 16:12, Tomas Chvatal (scarabeus) wrote: scarabeus11/03/30 14:12:55 Modified: ChangeLog rsyslog-5.6.5.ebuild rsyslog-5.6.4.ebuild Log: Drop logrotate useflag. Fixes bug #344175. (Portage version: 2.2.0_alpha29/cvs/Linux x86_64) Revision Changes

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please enhance your USE descriptions!

2011-03-30 Thread Amadeusz Żołnowski
Excerpts from James Cloos's message of Wed Mar 30 18:13:21 +0200 2011: j Enables foo intergration j or j Enables support for foo j if it isn't totally clear what foo is Even preferring $C/$PN where $PN is currently used would help, since it makes it clear that the foo is a package. The

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please enhance your USE descriptions!

2011-03-30 Thread Olivier Crête
On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 21:56 +0200, Amadeusz Żołnowski wrote: The main problem is that user might not know what kind of “foo” support it is. For example I have “pango” USE flag in sys-boot/plymouth. What would explain to you something like: “Enables support for x11-libs/pango”? And how you

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please enhance your USE descriptions!

2011-03-30 Thread Amadeusz Żołnowski
Excerpts from Olivier Crête's message of Wed Mar 30 22:14:30 +0200 2011: On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 21:56 +0200, Amadeusz Żołnowski wrote: The main problem is that user might not know what kind of “foo” support it is. For example I have “pango” USE flag in sys-boot/plymouth. What would explain

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please enhance your USE descriptions!

2011-03-30 Thread Dale
Amadeusz Żołnowski wrote: Justin has pointed problem which is worth our attention. It is not just me being pissed off when reading „Enable support for foo”, there are many users complaining about that. +1 Some descriptions may as well not have one at all. May as well Google the flag and

Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: USE=hal masked in base/use.mask and related

2011-03-30 Thread Markos Chandras
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 01:27:48PM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: That said, I still support the idea of news item, just not the idea of you trying to dump the responsibility from the desktop maintainers to me... - Samuli That wasn't my attempt at all. I am sorry if I expressed in a wrong

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please enhance your USE descriptions!

2011-03-30 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 03/30/2011 05:41 PM, Dale wrote: Amadeusz Żołnowski wrote: Justin has pointed problem which is worth our attention. It is not just me being pissed off when reading „Enable support for foo”, there are many users complaining about that.

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: postgresql.eselect

2011-03-30 Thread Ryan Hill
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 07:00:21 -0400 Aaron W. Swenson titanof...@gentoo.org wrote: As for the lib_dir(), I'm unsure if that's a good way to handle things. Or, if it's really the best way, even though it's ugly. There's nothing preventing me from making it a user configurable...it's just that at

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please enhance your USE descriptions!

2011-03-30 Thread Dale
Aaron W. Swenson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 03/30/2011 05:41 PM, Dale wrote: Amadeusz Żołnowski wrote: Justin has pointed problem which is worth our attention. It is not just me being pissed off when reading „Enable support for foo”, there are many

Re: [gentoo-dev] git-2.eclass final review

2011-03-30 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 01:42:51 +0100 Tomáš Chvátal scarab...@gentoo.org wrote: Again the diff is: http://tinyurl.com/62eb88b Why not attach it? What the hell does that URL lead me to? jer

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please enhance your USE descriptions!

2011-03-30 Thread Eray Aslan
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 04:41:25PM -0500, Dale wrote: +1 Some descriptions may as well not have one at all. May as well Google the flag and the package and see what, if anything, it returns. I would say working as intended. If you do not know what a package does, chances are you don't need

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please enhance your USE descriptions!

2011-03-30 Thread Dale
Eray Aslan wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 04:41:25PM -0500, Dale wrote: +1 Some descriptions may as well not have one at all. May as well Google the flag and the package and see what, if anything, it returns. I would say working as intended. If you do not know what a package does,