[gentoo-dev] Re: openrc portage news item

2011-04-15 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
Peter Hjalmarsson

[gentoo-dev] Why (i.e. USE=openssl instead of USE=ssl)

2010-08-14 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
that those use flag did not disable a (maybe superior or by maintainer preferred) internal ssl implementation? [1] Last time I did a bugreport about this, here is the answer: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=310681 Regards Peter Hjalmarsson

[gentoo-dev] Re: Why (i.e. USE=openssl instead of USE=ssl)

2010-08-14 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
lör 2010-08-14 klockan 13:45 +0200 skrev Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn: Peter Hjalmarsson schrieb: This is about my beloved USE=ssl. A bit long and ranty, but if you want the consensus, just read the last part. Today a new snapshot of gnash was uploaded where the old USE=ssl

[gentoo-dev] Re: Why (i.e. USE=openssl instead of USE=ssl)

2010-08-14 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
lör 2010-08-14 klockan 15:14 +0300 skrev Samuli Suominen: [1] Last time I did a bugreport about this, here is the answer: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=310681 Long story short: If package has SSL support, and use ssl is ignored or not present in a ebuild. it's plain broken.

[gentoo-dev] Re: New global use flag: vpx or vp8

2010-08-13 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
lör 2010-07-31 klockan 13:37 +0200 skrev Hanno Böck: vpx for supporting googles vp8 codec used in webm. At the moment this is only mplayer and ffmpeg, but it's pretty obvious that apps supporting vp8 will start popping up everywhere (currently working on arista ebuild which will support

[gentoo-dev] Re: Adding --as-needed to LDFLAGS in profiles/default/linux/make.defaults

2010-07-05 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
mån 2010-06-28 klockan 15:05 +0100 skrev Ciaran McCreesh: On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:59:21 +0100 Roy Bamford neddyseag...@gentoo.org wrote: All of engineering involves compromise. It's not a question of compromise. It's a question of being right vs being wrong. If one person says that 2 + 2 =

[gentoo-dev] Re: New global USE flag: introspection

2010-06-22 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
tis 2010-06-22 klockan 15:17 +0530 skrev Arun Raghavan: On 21 June 2010 21:23, Arun Raghavan ford_pref...@gentoo.org wrote: [...] I'm still trying to think of a good name. I understand the concerns about introspection being too generic and non GNOME-y, but gir is likely to cause confusion.

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-python/traits: traits-3.4.0.ebuild

2010-06-20 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
sön 2010-06-20 klockan 15:55 +0200 skrev Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis: This problem is probably caused by bugs in Python 2, which have been fixed in Python 3. $ echo 'a = True' test.pyx $ cython test.pyx $ gcc -O2 -Wall -I/usr/include/python3.1 -c test.c $ gcc -O2 -Wall

[gentoo-dev] Re: About libpng-1.4 handling

2010-05-11 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
mån 2010-05-10 klockan 23:52 -0400 skrev Mike Frysinger: On Monday 10 May 2010 23:10:48 Markos Chandras wrote: provide a user friendly way to migrate to the new libpng without the need to spend so many hours digging around on which packages to rebuild. if you're digging around then clearly

[gentoo-dev] Re: ccache causing problems

2010-05-03 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
fre 2010-04-30 klockan 16:34 + skrev Robin H. Johnson: Note however, that while I have a high level of trust in ccache, I do think there are more latent bugs in distcc. Heh, yeah. I have had problems with ccache having broken cache (i.e. stuff breaks, removing the cache and it unbreaks)

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC][NEW] Utility to find orphaned files

2010-05-03 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
fre 2010-04-30 klockan 18:24 +0200 skrev Enrico Weigelt: * Daniel Pielmeier bil...@gentoo.org schrieb: What about searching the complete file system but using an exclude file where you can put directories and files which should not be searched. It is tedious to tell every path on

[gentoo-dev] Re: Should we disable RESOLVED LATER from bugzilla?

2010-04-05 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
mån 2010-04-05 klockan 03:54 +0300 skrev Mart Raudsepp: The problem is really the RESOLVED connotation and the hiding that goes along with that on searches, etc. The LATER status itself can be useful when used properly (more as ASSIGNED LATER). In the lack of that some bigger teams might

[gentoo-dev] when to use a function and an implementation use flag.

2010-03-24 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
I took a look at qemu-kvm and found something I percieve as funny: It had a gnutls use-flag, but no ssl useflag. As I see it is I want ssl/tls support it should be sufficient to enable USE=ssl and let the maintainer of said ebuild decide which implementation (if more then one) I am better off

[gentoo-dev] Re: Packages pulling in python-3*, also they dont require it

2010-03-20 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
fre 2010-03-19 klockan 05:13 -0500 skrev Dale: Because, when I installed gcc 4.3, I could then unmerge the old gcc. That's why I didn't complain about that. With python, we still have to have the current version plus the new version which is not being used at all. That was if you did

[gentoo-dev] Re: Packages pulling in python-3*, also they dont require it

2010-03-20 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
I have a question related to this: If I have package X which supports python2 and python 3, and I install it without python3 installed it will only install python2-files (i.e. /usr/lib/python2.x/*), right? What happens if I later install packages Y that is only python3, and relies on the python3

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-08 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
mån 2010-03-08 klockan 10:53 +0100 skrev Antoni Grzymala: Sorry guys if I missed something crucial in this lengthy thread, but from what I'm understanding: if python-3 goes stable (and unmasked): - it is a separate, slotted version - it generally shouldn't get pulled in (current portage

[gentoo-dev] Re: Reorganizing handling of target specific profiles (Was: Split desktop profile patches news item for review)

2010-03-08 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
mån 2010-03-08 klockan 19:13 +0200 skrev Mart Raudsepp: Instead I think we should be improving eselect profile to support multiple inheriting /etc/make.profile files in a user friendly fashion, and in the end removing 249 subprofiles, instead of adding 28+. I vote for this one. A profile

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Deprecation of python_version(), python_mod_exists(), python_tkinter_exists(), distutils_python_version() and distutils_python_tkinter() in EAPI =2

2010-03-05 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
ons 2010-03-03 klockan 17:46 +0200 skrev Petteri Räty: On 03/03/2010 02:47 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:47:37 +0100 Tomáa Chvátal scarab...@gentoo.org wrote: Removing eclass functions like this is not allowed by current policy. If you want to do it, you should discuss

[gentoo-dev] Re: [rfc] layman storage location (again)

2010-01-18 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
mån 2010-01-18 klockan 06:27 +0100 skrev Ulrich Mueller: On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Sebastian Pipping wrote: isn't a package tree somehow having system-wide implications? i'm not really sure about /var/db - doesn't seem to be in FHS. is a package tree a database? This depends on your

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: [rfc] layman storage location (again)

2010-01-18 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
mån 2010-01-18 klockan 12:40 +0100 skrev Michael Haubenwallner: Alex Alexander wrote: On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 09:05:58AM +0100, Peter Hjalmarsson wrote: I sometimes think the main problem is the tree itself. Portage really should had a directory of its own, but maybe with anoher structure

[gentoo-dev] Re: [rfc] layman storage location (again)

2010-01-16 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
lör 2010-01-16 klockan 19:16 +0100 skrev Sebastian Pipping: On 01/16/10 05:39, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Friday 15 January 2010 20:55:18 Sebastian Pipping wrote: On 01/16/10 02:45, Mike Frysinger wrote: the better idea though would be to split your stuff along the proper lines. cache

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: QA last rites for x11-wm/ion

2009-12-15 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
mån 2009-12-14 klockan 19:03 -0500 skrev Mike Frysinger: On Monday 14 December 2009 18:38:36 Ryan Hill wrote: On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:46:18 +0100 Diego E. Pettenò wrote: # Diego E. Pettenò flamee...@gentoo.org (13 Dec 2009) # on behalf of QA team # # Pre-strip files (bug #241534),

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Enable userpriv by default? Support RESTRICT=userpriv? Interaction with prefix in EAPI 3?

2009-12-11 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
fre 2009-12-11 klockan 12:11 -0800 skrev Zac Medico: Should we enable FEATURES=userpriv by default? If we do that then do we also need to support RESTRICT=userpriv? Maybe RESTRICT=userpriv should not be supported on the grounds that it is never justified? What about prefix support (in EAPI 3),

[gentoo-dev] Re: A parting gift

2009-12-03 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
ons 2009-12-02 klockan 17:55 + skrev Jacob Todd: On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 09:15:10AM +0100, Gunnar Wrobel wrote: ... I did buy the rights to my book back. Wait, you don't keep the 'rights' to *your* book when it's published? No this is a common thing with books. Remember some time ago in

[gentoo-dev] Re: FEATURES use or misuse?

2009-11-04 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
tis 2009-11-03 klockan 16:48 +0100 skrev Patrick Lauer: Hi there, All of these bugs were for the use of the FEATURES variable in ebuilds, which is a very convenient thing to work around issues. For example known failures with FEATURE=distcc or funky things like test failures with

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: USE=qa-test

2009-10-11 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
Sorry for reviving an old thread, but was there any progress on this topic? With packages as dbus that breaks with FEATURES/USE=test hand in hand with packages like dev-libs/gmp[1] there would really be nice to know if you are supposed to be screwed or helped by FEATURES/USE=test... [1](from

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: USE=qa-test

2009-10-07 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
ons 2009-10-07 klockan 16:46 +0200 skrev Gilles Dartiguelongue: Le mardi 06 octobre 2009 à 20:38 -0600, Ryan Hill a écrit : Some packages, like dbus[1], have testing features that, while useful for developers and arch-testers, aren't something that should be foisted on users. Dbus' case is

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: LD_AS_NEEDED=1 in profiles/targets/developer/make.defaults?

2009-10-04 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
or something of just restricted? My 2 cents. [1] http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/dbus/dbus-1.3.0.ebuild?rev=1.5view=markup and scroll to the bottom. //Peter Hjalmarsson

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Developer Retirements

2009-03-12 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
tis 2009-03-10 klockan 08:29 -0700 skrev Alec Warner: With some devs reviewing gentoo-commits@, I highly doubt that this commit could go unnoticed more than a few hours. really? cause I bet I could slip something in; now I'm motivated to try ;p Looking inside of package.mask this morning