Re: [gentoo-dev] Uppercase characters in package names

On 12/02/2016 10:28 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> On Fri, 2 Dec 2016, Mike Gilbert wrote: > >> The devmanual states: >> The name section should contain only lowercase non-accented letters, >> the digits 0-9, hyphens, underscores and plus characters. Uppercase >> characters are strongly

Re: [gentoo-dev] Optimizing toe stepping

On 11/03/2016 03:16 AM, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > Hey guys, > > Every other day on IRC, I see people arguing about touching each > others packages, despite our policies against it. (Sometimes it's even > me who's doing the touching!) My instinctive reaction is always, > "can't everybody calm

Re: [gentoo-dev] Commented packages in the @system set

Theoretically no. When autotools is used correctly, the release tarball has no dependency on either. That said, many people don't generate / distribute a release tarball. However, I don't think this is the criterion used to determine what should be in @system. The wiki defines the system set

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: the demise of grub:0

On 10/04/2016 12:45 AM, Jörg Schaible wrote: > -1 > > I'd love to move to grub2 for all of my machines, but it does simply not > work for one of my servers. I can install grub2 and it tells me that > installation and anything else went fine, but when I try to boot with it, it > stops and

Re: [gentoo-dev] nftables

On 09/08/2016 05:31 PM, Ian Bloss wrote: > Anyone actively using nftables for their firewall over iptables? > Considering giving it a go as the syntax looks much nicer than iptables. Works well enough for me. I haven't seen any obvious bugs with the newest version and no one has reported any

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Global USE=gui

On 06/03/2016 07:35 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > On 02/06/16 09:48 PM, Nick Vinson wrote: >> On 06/02/2016 08:08 AM, Raymond Jennings wrote: >>> use case: Telling a package to build a gui without deciding which one >>> to build. Also helps in cases where you h

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Global USE=gui

On Jun 3, 2016 1:15 PM, "Alan McKinnon" wrote: > > On 03/06/2016 21:34, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 10:35:45AM -0400, Ian Stakenvicius wrote >> >>> USE=gui is about building the graphical user interface that an >>> application offers, when

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Global USE=gui

On 06/02/2016 08:08 AM, Raymond Jennings wrote: > use case: Telling a package to build a gui without deciding which one > to build. Also helps in cases where you have package A that can only > build a qt gui, and package B that can build both qt and gtk, and > package C that can build gtk only.