Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage fork: sys-apps/portage-mgorny

2018-03-24 Thread Zac Medico
On 03/24/2018 07:26 PM, Kent Fredric wrote: > On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 13:44:49 -0700 > Zac Medico wrote: > >> That only happens when dependency satisfaction fails by normal means. > > And when that happens, it is better to bail and go "Uh oh, something bad", > not "oh, right,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Upcoming posting restrictions on the gentoo-dev mailing list

2018-03-24 Thread Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike)
El 24/03/18 a las 04:34, Aaron Bauman escribió: > > On March 23, 2018 11:11:16 PM EDT, "Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera > (klondike)" wrote: >> El 20/03/18 a las 09:52, Kristian Fiskerstrand escribió: >>> This was not put in effect on 23 January 2018, however I have now >>>

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage fork: sys-apps/portage-mgorny

2018-03-24 Thread Kent Fredric
On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 13:44:49 -0700 Zac Medico wrote: > That only happens when dependency satisfaction fails by normal means. And when that happens, it is better to bail and go "Uh oh, something bad", not "oh, right, lets install something that will likely make things worse

Re: [gentoo-dev] understanting gentoo

2018-03-24 Thread Benda Xu
Abhishek, Abhishek Kumar writes: > I want know about code that exist in gentoo/gentoo > which parse the command eslect news. > Please respond as soon as possible. A classic by Eric Raymond and Rick Moen on how to ask questions the smart way:

[gentoo-dev] Stepping down as a proxy maintainer + packages up for grabs.

2018-03-24 Thread Brendan Horan
Hi all, It has become quite obvious to me I do not have the time for Gentoo package maintenance any more. As of today I am stepping down as a proxy maintainer and offering all my packages up for grabs. I'd like to extend many thanks to Amynka for all her extensive help and guidance, and

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage fork: sys-apps/portage-mgorny

2018-03-24 Thread Zac Medico
On 03/24/2018 01:33 PM, Kent Fredric wrote: > On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 11:27:20 -0700 > Zac Medico wrote: > >> The defaults certainly do not work perfectly in all situations. However, >> there are a vast number of situations where using --autounmask-continue >> will make

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage fork: sys-apps/portage-mgorny

2018-03-24 Thread Kent Fredric
On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 11:27:20 -0700 Zac Medico wrote: > The defaults certainly do not work perfectly in all situations. However, > there are a vast number of situations where using --autounmask-continue > will make appropriate package.mask changes without the need for any user

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage fork: sys-apps/portage-mgorny

2018-03-24 Thread Zac Medico
On 03/24/2018 02:01 AM, Kent Fredric wrote: > On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 09:02:20 +0100 > Michał Górny wrote: > >> ...except that it is also used to say 'this is experimental version, >> unmask at will' and Portage wants to unmask stuff for you anyway. Well, >> I mean the default

[gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH] app-emulation/virt-manager-9999: Drop python2 support

2018-03-24 Thread Matthias Maier
Applied. Thanks! On Sat, Mar 24, 2018, at 05:02 CDT, Michal Privoznik wrote: > With upstream commit of bd891eb380cdf771f0296a39193614a10749088b > virt-manager is strictly python3 only. Update the ebuild to > follow this change. > > Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage fork: sys-apps/portage-mgorny

2018-03-24 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 5:01 AM, Kent Fredric wrote: > On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 09:02:20 +0100 > Michał Górny wrote: > >> ...except that it is also used to say 'this is experimental version, >> unmask at will' and Portage wants to unmask stuff for you anyway.

Re: [gentoo-dev] understanting gentoo

2018-03-24 Thread nado
March 24, 2018 11:40 AM, "Abhishek Kumar" wrote: hi everyone I want know about code that exist in gentoo (https://github.com/gentoo)/gentoo (https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo) which parse the command eslect news. Please respond as soon as possible. Hi, There are a ton of things I'd like

[gentoo-dev] understanting gentoo

2018-03-24 Thread Abhishek Kumar
hi everyone I want know about code that exist in gentoo / gentoo which parse the command eslect news. Please respond as soon as possible.

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage fork: sys-apps/portage-mgorny

2018-03-24 Thread Kent Fredric
On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 09:02:20 +0100 Michał Górny wrote: > ...except that it is also used to say 'this is experimental version, > unmask at will' and Portage wants to unmask stuff for you anyway. Well, > I mean the default configuration of Portage, not mine. Yeah, that default

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage fork: sys-apps/portage-mgorny

2018-03-24 Thread Michał Górny
W dniu sob, 24.03.2018 o godzinie 20∶02 +1300, użytkownik Kent Fredric napisał: > On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 11:53:40 +0100 > Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > > Still, masking is the wrong way to express such preferences. If you > > package.mask sys-devel/gcc then you say that something is

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage fork: sys-apps/portage-mgorny

2018-03-24 Thread Kent Fredric
On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 11:53:40 +0100 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > Still, masking is the wrong way to express such preferences. If you > package.mask sys-devel/gcc then you say that something is wrong with > that package. Which I believe is not what you want to express here. I might