Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenLDAP 2.3.x removal on October 27, migrate to 2.4.x

2014-10-14 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 07:52:03AM +0800, Patrick Lauer wrote: On 10/14/14 05:22, Robin H. Johnson wrote: For compatibility and migration support, we've kept the old OpenLDAP 2.3.x ebuilds in the tree for nearly 5 years. And you better keep them for a while, because some of us are stuck

[gentoo-dev] Re: new virtual: virtual/podofo-build

2014-10-14 Thread Zac Medico
On 10/13/2014 12:46 PM, Zac Medico wrote: Hi, In order to solve bug #503802 [1], I would like to add a virtual/podofo-build package to pull in app-text/podofo and dev-libs/boost. Then packages like app-text/calibre can put virtual/podofo-build in DEPEND and app-text/podofo in RDEPEND. The

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual: virtual/podofo-build

2014-10-14 Thread Alex Xu
On 13/10/14 03:46 PM, Zac Medico wrote: Hi, In order to solve bug #503802 [1], I would like to add a virtual/podofo-build package to pull in app-text/podofo and dev-libs/boost. Then packages like app-text/calibre can put virtual/podofo-build in DEPEND and app-text/podofo in RDEPEND. The

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual: virtual/podofo-build

2014-10-14 Thread Zac Medico
On 10/14/2014 03:56 PM, Alex Xu wrote: On 13/10/14 03:46 PM, Zac Medico wrote: Hi, In order to solve bug #503802 [1], I would like to add a virtual/podofo-build package to pull in app-text/podofo and dev-libs/boost. Then packages like app-text/calibre can put virtual/podofo-build in DEPEND

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removing a blocker from a stable package

2014-10-14 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 10/13/2014 02:41 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: I agree with Diego and Ralph: Go with d. repoman will generate a warning (not an error) about a dependency which does not exist, but this is safe to ignore. Given that (d) didn't require me to do anything else, I just went ahead and removed

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removing a blocker from a stable package

2014-10-14 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 10/14/14 20:25, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 10/13/2014 02:41 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: I agree with Diego and Ralph: Go with d. repoman will generate a warning (not an error) about a dependency which does not exist, but this is safe to ignore. Given that (d) didn't require me to do anything

Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenLDAP 2.3.x removal on October 27, migrate to 2.4.x

2014-10-14 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Tuesday 14 October 2014 16:02:20 Robin H. Johnson wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 07:52:03AM +0800, Patrick Lauer wrote: On 10/14/14 05:22, Robin H. Johnson wrote: For compatibility and migration support, we've kept the old OpenLDAP 2.3.x ebuilds in the tree for nearly 5 years. And

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual: virtual/podofo-build

2014-10-14 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 6:56 PM, Alex Xu alex_y...@yahoo.ca wrote: I feel like there should be a DEPEND specifier for packages required to build against this package. For example, xproto is required to build against SDL (at least using pkg-config), but not to simply use it at runtime. This

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual: virtual/podofo-build

2014-10-14 Thread Zac Medico
On 10/14/2014 06:20 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: So, if the podofo-build virtual listed boost in its RDEPENDs that would be fine. However, it would seem simpler to me to just list boost in the calibre DEPENDs. Yeah, boost in the calibre DEPENDs satisfies my `emerge --depclean --with-bdeps=n`

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual: virtual/podofo-build

2014-10-14 Thread Zac Medico
On 10/14/2014 06:42 PM, Zac Medico wrote: On 10/14/2014 06:20 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: So, if the podofo-build virtual listed boost in its RDEPENDs that would be fine. However, it would seem simpler to me to just list boost in the calibre DEPENDs. Yeah, boost in the calibre DEPENDs

[gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] Package description index file format for faster emerge search actions

2014-10-14 Thread Zac Medico
Hi, As we all know, emerge --search/--searchdesc actions are embarrassingly slow (from most users' perspectives, anyway), especially in comparison to external tools like eix and esearch. Wouldn't it be nice if the performance of emerge's search functionality was more competitive with other

[gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [RFC] Package description index file format for faster emerge search actions

2014-10-14 Thread Duncan
Zac Medico posted on Tue, 14 Oct 2014 00:40:21 -0700 as excerpted: I suggest that we add support for a package description index file format. For example, the attached script will generate a suitable index formatted as series of lines like this:

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [RFC] Package description index file format for faster emerge search actions

2014-10-14 Thread Zac Medico
On 10/14/2014 02:53 AM, Duncan wrote: Zac Medico posted on Tue, 14 Oct 2014 00:40:21 -0700 as excerpted: I suggest that we add support for a package description index file format. For example, the attached script will generate a suitable index formatted as series of lines like this:

[gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [RFC] Package description index file format for faster emerge search actions

2014-10-14 Thread Duncan
Zac Medico posted on Tue, 14 Oct 2014 03:05:35 -0700 as excerpted: On 10/14/2014 02:53 AM, Duncan wrote: Zac Medico posted on Tue, 14 Oct 2014 00:40:21 -0700 as excerpted: I suggest that we add support for a package description index file format. What about homepage? An index for it

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [RFC] Package description index file format for faster emerge search actions

2014-10-14 Thread Zac Medico
On 10/14/2014 02:53 AM, Duncan wrote: What about homepage? An index for it too? If we really want to index the homepage, then a more extensible format might be better. For example, each line of the index could be a JSON object like this: {description: sandbox'd LD_PRELOAD hack, homepage:

[gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [RFC] Package description index file format for faster emerge search actions

2014-10-14 Thread Martin Vaeth
Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: If we really want to index the homepage, then a more extensible format might be better. For example, each line of the index could be a JSON object like this: {description: sandbox'd LD_PRELOAD hack, homepage:

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [RFC] Package description index file format for faster emerge search actions

2014-10-14 Thread Zac Medico
On 10/14/2014 09:27 AM, Martin Vaeth wrote: Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: If we really want to index the homepage, then a more extensible format might be better. For example, each line of the index could be a JSON object like this: {description: sandbox'd LD_PRELOAD hack, homepage: