Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo's plan to remove .la files: eutils function

2010-10-31 Thread Christopher Schwan
Hi, I followed this discussion quietly until now - I wonder why no one (?) has mentioned the autotool-utils.eclass which is dedicated for this purpose (la- file removal, static-libs USE-flag, etc), I think. This eclass also provides a function "remove_libtool_files" which does what "delete_libto

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo's plan to remove .la files

2010-10-31 Thread Pacho Ramos
El dom, 31-10-2010 a las 03:25 -0100, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto escribió: > 3. Add a page to the QA project space (unless they're not interested) > about la files and how to deal with them > > I think we can ask Diego to use large parts of his blog posts and charts > about .la files[1], [2], [3],

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo's plan to remove .la files: QA document

2010-10-31 Thread Pacho Ramos
El dom, 31-10-2010 a las 03:32 -0100, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto escribió: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi. > > As outlined in the global email about this issue, this email is to start > a thread about the QA document. Please reply to this thread if you > have any comment

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changes in server profiles

2010-10-31 Thread Markos Chandras
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 10:59:08PM -0400, Richard Freeman wrote: > On 10/30/2010 08:10 AM, Thomas Sachau wrote: > > If i remember it right, the server profile was created for those people, > > who only want a minimum > > amount of default profile enabled USE flags (so no desktop profile because >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo's plan to remove .la files: eutils function

2010-10-31 Thread Thomas Sachau
Am 31.10.2010 09:28, schrieb Christopher Schwan: > Hi, > > I followed this discussion quietly until now - I wonder why no one (?) has > mentioned the autotool-utils.eclass which is dedicated for this purpose (la- > file removal, static-libs USE-flag, etc), I think. This eclass also provides > a

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo's plan to remove .la files: eutils function

2010-10-31 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
Il giorno dom, 31/10/2010 alle 13.26 +0100, Thomas Sachau ha scritto: > > > The line should exclude those .la files, which contain > "shouldnotlinkto=yes" or directly use the > autotools-utils eclass as suggested, since it already contains this > functionality together with a > nice USE flag (sta

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo's plan to remove .la files: wording about when and how to drop .la files

2010-10-31 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
Il giorno dom, 31/10/2010 alle 03.30 -0100, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto ha scritto: > As agreed in the meeting, as a first draft, we have that "the motion > is > to drop la files, when appropriate, through the use of a function in > eutils that will only be called if the static-libs use flag is not

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo's plan to remove .la files: QA document

2010-10-31 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
Il giorno dom, 31/10/2010 alle 03.32 -0100, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto ha scritto: > > I think we can ask Diego to use large parts of his blog posts and > charts > about .la files[1], [2], [3], [4] as a source for the document. I'll relicense the lafiles posts under CC-BY-SA for compatibility wi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo's plan to remove .la files: wording about when and how to drop .la files

2010-10-31 Thread Pacho Ramos
El dom, 31-10-2010 a las 14:56 +0100, Diego Elio Pettenò escribió: > Il giorno dom, 31/10/2010 alle 03.30 -0100, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto > ha scritto: > > As agreed in the meeting, as a first draft, we have that "the motion > > is > > to drop la files, when appropriate, through the use of a func

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changes in server profiles

2010-10-31 Thread Alex Alexander
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 11:50:02AM +, Markos Chandras wrote: > On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 10:59:08PM -0400, Richard Freeman wrote: > > On 10/30/2010 08:10 AM, Thomas Sachau wrote: > > > If i remember it right, the server profile was created for those people, > > > who only want a minimum > > > am

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changes in server profiles

2010-10-31 Thread Markos Chandras
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 04:38:09PM +0200, Alex Alexander wrote: > On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 11:50:02AM +, Markos Chandras wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 10:59:08PM -0400, Richard Freeman wrote: > > > On 10/30/2010 08:10 AM, Thomas Sachau wrote: > > > > If i remember it right, the server profi

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Gentoo's plan to remove .la files: wording about when and how to drop .la files

2010-10-31 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
Il giorno dom, 31/10/2010 alle 15.31 +0100, Pacho Ramos ha scritto: > In that case, I think the work on these cases should start as soon as > possible, I have said that before. > but I think that getting bugs reported (probably from your > next tinderbox run if possible) would help. Search for "

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Gentoo's plan to remove .la files

2010-10-31 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: > As decided in the last council's meeting, following the recent > discussions about .la files removal, I'm sending an email to this list > with a proposal for a plan to address this issue. 1- Why is a proposal sent to gentoo-dev

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-analyzer/tcpreplay: ChangeLog tcpreplay-3.4.5_beta2.ebuild

2010-10-31 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 18:11:32 + (UTC) Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > Jeroen Roovers posted on Sat, 30 Oct 2010 19:40:45 +0200 as excerpted: > > > On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 09:44:42 +0400 > > Peter Volkov wrote: > > > >> Also speaking about this specific package: I've maintained this > >> p

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Gentoo's plan to remove .la files: wording about when and how to drop .la files

2010-10-31 Thread Thomas Beierlein
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 15:52:51 +0100 Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > > For example, I have just > > seen in my system that packages like dev-python/pyorbit and > > dev-libs/libgamin are installing these .la files that should not be > > needed, but I am su

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Gentoo's plan to remove .la files: wording about when and how to drop .la files

2010-10-31 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
Il giorno dom, 31/10/2010 alle 20.09 +0100, Thomas Beierlein ha scritto: > > If I read the discussion correctly we will still need to keep > these .la > files around. > Most likely, yes… you can go a bit deeper about them (for instance PulseAudio can load its plugins with libltdl even if the .la

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changes in server profiles

2010-10-31 Thread Alec Warner
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 7:38 AM, Alex Alexander wrote: > On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 11:50:02AM +, Markos Chandras wrote: >> On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 10:59:08PM -0400, Richard Freeman wrote: >> > On 10/30/2010 08:10 AM, Thomas Sachau wrote: >> > > If i remember it right, the server profile was crea

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changes in server profiles

2010-10-31 Thread Markos Chandras
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 12:47:32PM -0700, Alec Warner wrote: > On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 7:38 AM, Alex Alexander wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 11:50:02AM +, Markos Chandras wrote: > >> On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 10:59:08PM -0400, Richard Freeman wrote: > >> > On 10/30/2010 08:10 AM, Thomas Sac

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Gentoo's plan to remove .la files: wording about when and how to drop .la files

2010-10-31 Thread Thomas Beierlein
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 20:15:17 +0100 Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > Il giorno dom, 31/10/2010 alle 20.09 +0100, Thomas Beierlein ha > scritto: > > > > If I read the discussion correctly we will still need to keep > > these .la > > files around. > > > Mo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Gentoo's plan to remove .la files

2010-10-31 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 31-10-2010 15:31, Denis Dupeyron wrote: > On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto > wrote: >> As decided in the last council's meeting, following the recent >> discussions about .la files removal, I'm sending an email to this l

[gentoo-dev] RFC: mesa.eselect

2010-10-31 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Hi, media-libs/mesa-7.9 has been sitting in the X11 overlay for some time and the X11 team are planning to move it to portage soon. The new release brings a number of improvements, including much better Gallium3D support. One feature that we would like to add to Mesa in Gentoo is the ability t

[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2010-10-31 23h59 UTC

2010-10-31 Thread Robin H. Johnson
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2010-10-31 23h59 UTC. Removals: net-libs/libjingle 2010-10-27 12:40:43 ssuominen net-voip/telepathy-stream-engine2010-10-27 12:43:32 ssuominen media-libs/f