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

2010-03-08 Thread Matti Bickel
Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 09:08:14PM -0600, Ryan Hill wrote: A stable user who doesn't want python 3 installed shouldn't have it forced on them. If something is pulling in python-3 then that package needs to have its dependencies fixed. IIRC Portage isn't greedy

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

2010-03-08 Thread Antoni Grzymala
Matti Bickel dixit (2010-03-08, 10:39): A stable user who doesn't want python 3 installed shouldn't have it forced on them. If something is pulling in python-3 then that package needs to have its dependencies fixed. IIRC Portage isn't greedy wrt. SLOTs like it was before (unless you use

[gentoo-dev] Low hanging bug fruit patterns

2010-03-08 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Hello! There are a few patterns for potentially low hanging fruits among Gentoo bugs: SRC_URI errors Missing depencies ... What else? Anything you look after repeatedly that doesn't take days to get it fixed? Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-dev] Low hanging bug fruit patterns

2010-03-08 Thread Róbert Čerňanský
On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:06:40 +0100 Sebastian Pipping sp...@gentoo.org wrote: There are a few patterns for potentially low hanging fruits among Gentoo bugs: SRC_URI errors Missing depencies (Sorry for answering a developer targeted question while I'm not one.) - Minor version bumps

Re: [gentoo-dev] Low hanging bug fruit patterns

2010-03-08 Thread Markos Chandras
On Monday 08 March 2010 12:06:40 Sebastian Pipping wrote: Hello! There are a few patterns for potentially low hanging fruits among Gentoo bugs: SRC_URI errors Missing depencies ... What else? Anything you look after repeatedly that doesn't take days to get it fixed?

[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

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

2010-03-08 Thread Petteri Räty
On 8.3.2010 16.23, Peter Hjalmarsson wrote: AFAICS you are right (and that is also why I have a hard time understanding the flames here, are people so against fixing the deps in their packages and/or filing bugs and/or contacting devrel about those maintainers who refuse to fix their

Re: [gentoo-dev] Low hanging bug fruit patterns

2010-03-08 Thread Angelo Arrifano
On Seg, 2010-03-08 at 11:06 +0100, Sebastian Pipping wrote: Hello! There are a few patterns for potentially low hanging fruits among Gentoo bugs: SRC_URI errors Missing depencies ... What else? Anything you look after repeatedly that doesn't take days to get it fixed?

Re: [gentoo-dev] Low hanging bug fruit patterns

2010-03-08 Thread Mark Loeser
Sebastian Pipping sp...@gentoo.org said: Hello! There are a few patterns for potentially low hanging fruits among Gentoo bugs: SRC_URI errors Missing depencies ... What else? Anything you look after repeatedly that doesn't take days to get it fixed? What is this even in

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

2010-03-08 Thread Mart Raudsepp
Hello, On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 16:52 +0200, Theo Chatzimichos wrote: Hello I have managed to split the desktop profile to gnome and kde submenus. The result can be found in kde-crazy overlay (not in layman) [1] I think this whole approach of adding yet more subprofiles is highly suboptimal.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Low hanging bug fruit patterns

2010-03-08 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 03/08/10 18:08, Mark Loeser wrote: What is this even in reference to? Its not at all clear what you are trying to do. Okay, sorry. I was wondering what classes of bugs there are that are - reoccuring (therefore beloning to a class or pattern) - relatively easy to fix - ideally suited

Re: [gentoo-dev] Low hanging bug fruit patterns

2010-03-08 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 03/08/10 14:27, Markos Chandras wrote: Documentation installation There are few packages that call missing documents on dodoc commands any idea how to find all these bugs? sebastian

Re: [gentoo-dev] Low hanging bug fruit patterns

2010-03-08 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 03/08/10 14:13, Róbert Čerňanský wrote: On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:06:40 +0100 Sebastian Pipping sp...@gentoo.org wrote: There are a few patterns for potentially low hanging fruits among Gentoo bugs: SRC_URI errors Missing depencies (Sorry for answering a developer targeted question

Re: [gentoo-dev] Low hanging bug fruit patterns

2010-03-08 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 08 March 2010 05:06:40 Sebastian Pipping wrote: There are a few patterns for potentially low hanging fruits among Gentoo bugs: work with the bugday guys to get this incorporated into their documentation SRC_URI errors Missing depencies ... What else? incorrect LICENSE /

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving packages to dev-vcs

2010-03-08 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 04-03-2010 22:08:06 +0100, Sebastian Pipping wrote: 3. Remove = - Remove package dev-util/${PN} from CVS (as in [2]) cd dev-util cvs rm -Rf ${PN} cvs ci -m dev-util/${PN}: Remove (renamed to dev-vcs/${PN}) ${PN}

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

2010-03-08 Thread William Hubbs
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 04:19:36PM -0800, Zac Medico wrote: No, it won't. To prove it, I've just tested with a stable stage3 containing portage-2.1.7.x. Here are the steps: 1) extract stable stage3 and chroot into it 2) mkdir /etc/portage echo dev-lang/python ~*

[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

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

2010-03-08 Thread Alec Warner
Hehe, http://dev.gentoo.org/~antarus/essays/mixin-profiles.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 antarus users 2653 Jun 4 2006 mixin-profiles.txt -A On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Peter Hjalmarsson x...@rymdraket.net wrote: mån 2010-03-08 klockan 19:13 +0200 skrev Mart Raudsepp: Instead I think we should be

Re: [gentoo-dev] Low hanging bug fruit patterns

2010-03-08 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:13:30 +0100 Róbert Čerňanský hslis...@zoznam.sk wrote: - Minor version bumps (After examination what upstream changed and after confirmation with mantainer, if any.) The stuff you put in brackets is exactly the sort of stuff that tends to make version bumps hard to

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

2010-03-08 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 07:13:20PM +0200, Mart Raudsepp wrote: Hello, On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 16:52 +0200, Theo Chatzimichos wrote: Hello I have managed to split the desktop profile to gnome and kde submenus. The result can be found in kde-crazy overlay (not in layman) [1] I think this

[gentoo-dev] Google Summer of Code 2010

2010-03-08 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Hey folks, We're applying to be in Google's 2010 Summer of Code, and we need your project ideas! If you've got a todo list a mile long and no chance of ever getting to them all, now's your chance to have someone else spend a summer working full-time on your idea. We're looking for things that