[gentoo-dev] [PATCH] eutils.eclass: add optfeature() function

2014-01-23 Thread Chris Reffett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, After some discussion on good ways to communicate optional dependencies to users, I was shown the optfeature() function in net-misc/netctl. Gentoo contributor Andrew Hamilton and I came up with a cleaned up and expanded version of it, and I

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] eutils.eclass: add optfeature() function

2014-01-23 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2014-01-23, o godz. 11:24:41 Chris Reffett creff...@gentoo.org napisał(a): After some discussion on good ways to communicate optional dependencies to users, I was shown the optfeature() function in net-misc/netctl. Gentoo contributor Andrew Hamilton and I came up with a cleaned up and

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] eutils.eclass: add optfeature() function

2014-01-23 Thread Chris Reffett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/23/2014 11:28 AM, Michał Górny wrote: Dnia 2014-01-23, o godz. 11:24:41 Chris Reffett creff...@gentoo.org napisał(a): After some discussion on good ways to communicate optional dependencies to users, I was shown the optfeature() function

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] eutils.eclass: add optfeature() function

2014-01-23 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2014-01-23, o godz. 11:36:06 Chris Reffett creff...@gentoo.org napisał(a): -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/23/2014 11:28 AM, Michał Górny wrote: Dnia 2014-01-23, o godz. 11:24:41 Chris Reffett creff...@gentoo.org napisał(a): After some discussion on good

[gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-23 Thread Steven J. Long
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Sun, 19 Jan 2014, Christopher Head wrote: If stable really is falling behind and the backlog is always growing, obviously something has to be done. I just don't want something to mean don't have a stable tree. The stable tree provides me with a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-23 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 18:12:42 + Steven J. Long sl...@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On Mon, Jan 20, 2014, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Sun, 19 Jan 2014, Christopher Head wrote: If stable really is falling behind and the backlog is always growing, obviously something has to be done. I just

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-23 Thread Steev Klimaszewski
On Thu, 2014-01-23 at 20:13 +0100, Tom Wijsman wrote: I don't think that's what was being proposed, though. The question was really the old complaint about slow architectures; the -* arch solution sounds like the most reasonable definition of dropping keywords, in the absence of AT

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-23 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 14:55:34 -0600 Steev Klimaszewski st...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, 2014-01-23 at 20:13 +0100, Tom Wijsman wrote: The complaint is slow to stable arches Yes. by specifying -* arch it would signify that ONLY that arch uses that version of the ebuild - and it would be up to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-23 Thread Peter Stuge
Tom Wijsman wrote: you shoot down solutions Maybe it wasn't a very good solution that deserved to be shot down. //Peter pgpWdBSgiDfHp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-23 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 23:42:28 +0100 Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Tom Wijsman wrote: you shoot down solutions Maybe it wasn't a very good solution that deserved to be shot down. Maybe it was; what is needed here, is the feedback that makes it better. Work towards a very good solution

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-23 Thread Steev Klimaszewski
On Fri, 2014-01-24 at 00:50 +0100, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 23:42:28 +0100 Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Tom Wijsman wrote: you shoot down solutions Maybe it wasn't a very good solution that deserved to be shot down. Maybe it was; what is needed here, is the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-23 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 18:04:19 -0600 Steev Klimaszewski st...@gentoo.org wrote: Your suggestion was expanding the arm keyword to armv4-linux, armv5-linux, armv6-linux, armv6-hardfloat-linux, armv7-softfp-linux, armv7-hardfloat-linux, armv7-hardfloat-uclibc-linux - that is nowhere near a good

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-23 Thread Steev Klimaszewski
On Fri, 2014-01-24 at 04:04 +0100, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 18:04:19 -0600 Steev Klimaszewski st...@gentoo.org wrote: Your suggestion was expanding the arm keyword to armv4-linux, armv5-linux, armv6-linux, armv6-hardfloat-linux, armv7-softfp-linux, armv7-hardfloat-linux,