Re: [gentoo-dev] My wishlist for EAPI 5

2012-06-21 Thread Pacho Ramos
El mié, 20-06-2012 a las 23:43 +0200, Justin escribió: On 20.06.2012 22:35, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:25:30 -0400 Richard Yao r...@gentoo.org wrote: Multilib (and/or multiarch) support The current binaries cause a great deal of pain, particularly when a user does

Re: [gentoo-dev] My wishlist for EAPI 5

2012-06-21 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 23:43:36 +0200 Justin j...@gentoo.org wrote: On 20.06.2012 22:35, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:25:30 -0400 Richard Yao r...@gentoo.org wrote: Multilib (and/or multiarch) support The current binaries cause a great deal of pain, particularly when a

Re: [gentoo-dev] My wishlist for EAPI 5

2012-06-21 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:08:55 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: Also, if I remember correctly, Tommy asked for this some months ago, you asked for what he sent some days ago and now you require more and more work to delay things to be implemented. I still haven't seen a clear

Re: [gentoo-dev] My wishlist for EAPI 5

2012-06-21 Thread justin
On 21/06/12 08:41, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 23:43:36 +0200 Justin j...@gentoo.org wrote: On 20.06.2012 22:35, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:25:30 -0400 Richard Yao r...@gentoo.org wrote: Multilib (and/or multiarch) support The current binaries cause a

Re: [gentoo-dev] My wishlist for EAPI 5

2012-06-21 Thread Pacho Ramos
El jue, 21-06-2012 a las 08:00 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh escribió: On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:08:55 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: Also, if I remember correctly, Tommy asked for this some months ago, you asked for what he sent some days ago and now you require more and more work to

Re: [gentoo-dev] [pre-GLEP] Optional runtime dependencies via runtime-switchable USE flags

2012-06-21 Thread Michał Górny
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:24:33 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 19:11:33 +0200 hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org wrote: On 06/20/2012 07:07 PM, Michał Górny wrote: Please read the rationale. Again. The whole thing. Three times. Please read my

Re: [gentoo-dev] [pre-GLEP] Optional runtime dependencies via runtime-switchable USE flags

2012-06-21 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:29:49 +0200 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:24:33 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 19:11:33 +0200 hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org wrote: On 06/20/2012 07:07 PM, Michał Górny wrote: Please

Re: [gentoo-dev] [pre-GLEP] Optional runtime dependencies via runtime-switchable USE flags

2012-06-21 Thread Michał Górny
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:30:24 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:29:49 +0200 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:24:33 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 19:11:33 +0200

Re: [gentoo-dev] My wishlist for EAPI 5

2012-06-21 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:25:10 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: Then, looks clear to me that the way to get things approved in newer EAPIs is not clear enough as looks like a lot of devs (like me) don't know them (for example, when things to be added to EAPI need also a GLEP and a PMS

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-misc/lightdm: lightdm-1.2.2-r2.ebuild ChangeLog

2012-06-21 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 06/21/2012 10:37 AM, Ben de Groot (yngwin) wrote: yngwin 12/06/21 07:37:15 Modified: lightdm-1.2.2-r2.ebuild ChangeLog Log: Re-tidy. Restore glib slot. Drop unnecessary gobject-introspection minimal version (there is nothing lower in tree). Restore useful comments.

Re: [gentoo-dev] [pre-GLEP] Optional runtime dependencies via runtime-switchable USE flags

2012-06-21 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:42:36 +0200 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: You just volunteered to write portage patches. Cheers. Both were already implemented in Paludis, if you're looking for a reference implementation to try it out. There are also examples of use of SDEPEND in the old

[gentoo-dev] Re: Killing UEFI Secure Boot

2012-06-21 Thread Duncan
Richard Yao posted on Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:16:23 -0400 as excerpted: 3. How does getting a x86 system to boot differ from getting a MIPS system or ARM system to boot? Does it only work because the vendors made it work or is x86 fundamentally harder? I can answer this one. x86 is harder at the

[gentoo-dev] Re: My wishlist for EAPI 5

2012-06-21 Thread Duncan
Richard Yao posted on Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:50:33 -0400 as excerpted: On 06/20/2012 04:35 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:25:30 -0400 Richard Yao r...@gentoo.org wrote: POSIX Shell compliance So far as I know, every PM relies heavily upon bash anyway (and can't easily be

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-misc/lightdm: lightdm-1.2.2-r2.ebuild ChangeLog

2012-06-21 Thread Ben de Groot
On 21 June 2012 15:39, Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: On 06/21/2012 10:37 AM, Ben de Groot (yngwin) wrote: yngwin      12/06/21 07:37:15   Modified:             lightdm-1.2.2-r2.ebuild ChangeLog   Log:   Re-tidy. Restore glib slot. Drop unnecessary gobject-introspection

Re: [gentoo-dev] [pre-GLEP] Optional runtime dependencies via runtime-switchable USE flags

2012-06-21 Thread Michał Górny
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:41:23 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:42:36 +0200 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: You just volunteered to write portage patches. Cheers. Both were already implemented in Paludis, if you're looking for a

Re: [gentoo-dev] [pre-GLEP] Optional runtime dependencies via runtime-switchable USE flags

2012-06-21 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 10:54:19 +0200 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: And since when was Implemented in Portage a requirement for an EAPI feature? Remember EAPI4 and features which had reference implementation not in portage? Actually, yes, since that was most of them. Nearly all of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-misc/lightdm: lightdm-1.2.2-r2.ebuild ChangeLog

2012-06-21 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 06/21/2012 11:42 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: Please don't fix things that aren't broken. ditto :)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: My wishlist for EAPI 5

2012-06-21 Thread Richard Yao
On 06/21/2012 04:29 AM, Duncan wrote: Richard Yao posted on Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:50:33 -0400 as excerpted: On 06/20/2012 04:35 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:25:30 -0400 Richard Yao r...@gentoo.org wrote: POSIX Shell compliance So far as I know, every PM relies heavily upon

Re: [gentoo-dev] My wishlist for EAPI 5

2012-06-21 Thread Alec Warner
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: El jue, 21-06-2012 a las 08:00 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh escribió: On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:08:55 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: Also, if I remember correctly, Tommy asked for this some months ago, you asked for what

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Killing UEFI Secure Boot

2012-06-21 Thread Richard Yao
On 06/21/2012 04:08 AM, Duncan wrote: Richard Yao posted on Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:16:23 -0400 as excerpted: 3. How does getting a x86 system to boot differ from getting a MIPS system or ARM system to boot? Does it only work because the vendors made it work or is x86 fundamentally harder? I

Re: [gentoo-dev] My wishlist for EAPI 5

2012-06-21 Thread Ben de Groot
On 21 June 2012 05:33, Alec Warner anta...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Richard Yao r...@gentoo.org wrote: Here is my wishlist for EAPI 5: [...] POSIX Shell compliance        There has been a great deal of work done to give the user full control of what is on his system

Re: [gentoo-dev] My wishlist for EAPI 5

2012-06-21 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 06/21/12 15:25, Pacho Ramos wrote: El jue, 21-06-2012 a las 08:00 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh escribió: On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:08:55 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: Also, if I remember correctly, Tommy asked for this some months ago, you asked for what he sent some days ago and now

Re: [gentoo-dev] My wishlist for EAPI 5

2012-06-21 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:15:02 +0800 Patrick Lauer patr...@gentoo.org wrote: Then, looks clear to me that the way to get things approved in newer EAPIs is not clear enough as looks like a lot of devs (like me) don't know them (for example, when things to be added to EAPI need also a GLEP and

Re: [gentoo-dev] My wishlist for EAPI 5

2012-06-21 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 5:27 AM, Alec Warner anta...@gentoo.org wrote: There is this vague idea that you can just propose something; get consensus on the ML, everyone goes to implement it, and then it works just as designed. That is usually called the 'waterfall' model and its really hard to

Re: [gentoo-dev] About what would be included in EAPI5

2012-06-21 Thread Homer Parker
On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 17:50 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Then there are ebuilds that don't call eautoreconf, in the first place. Should we require that all of them inherit autotools now, just for the unlikely case that user patches could be applied? If the aim is to provide a working

[gentoo-dev] Authorship of app-doc/pms

2012-06-21 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Dear all, according to git blame, this is the distribution of authorship across the current git master of the pms tex source. 2 Pierre-Yves Aillet 5 Fernando J. Pereda 6 Mark Loeser 7 Richard Brown 8 Thomas Anderson 25 NotCommittedYet (???) 27 Bo Ørsted

Re: [gentoo-dev] My wishlist for EAPI 5

2012-06-21 Thread Homer Parker
On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 08:00 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: In case you're not aware, the first time Gentoo did multilib, it was done as a series of random changes to Portage that no-one really thought through or understood. As you can see, that didn't work... No, but paved the way

Re: [gentoo-dev] My wishlist for EAPI 5

2012-06-21 Thread Homer Parker
On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 09:24 +0200, justin wrote: Won't it be a good thing, if you instead of showing all of us, that you can tell where people fail to present something in the right way, help and guide them to write the necessary things like PMS patches, GLEPs etc., so that we can proceed in

Re: [gentoo-dev] About what would be included in EAPI5

2012-06-21 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 07:04:41 -0500 Homer Parker hpar...@gentoo.org wrote: Damnit, let the user shoot themself in the foot but let them learn from it. Remember back in the day when you had no clue? You learned from it. You can only protect them so much. If they want to use custom patches

Re: [gentoo-dev] My wishlist for EAPI 5

2012-06-21 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 07:11:27 -0500 Homer Parker hpar...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 08:00 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: In case you're not aware, the first time Gentoo did multilib, it was done as a series of random changes to Portage that no-one really thought through or

Re: [gentoo-dev] My wishlist for EAPI 5

2012-06-21 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 07:14:49 -0500 Homer Parker hpar...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 09:24 +0200, justin wrote: Won't it be a good thing, if you instead of showing all of us, that you can tell where people fail to present something in the right way, help and guide them to write

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-misc/lightdm: lightdm-1.2.2-r2.ebuild ChangeLog

2012-06-21 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:42:11 +0800 Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: And users might still have older gobject-introspection installed, with nothing forcing the upgrade now. Regular maintenance should take care of that. We are not in the habit of specifying minimal versions for all

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: [gentoo-pms] Authorship of app-doc/pms

2012-06-21 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Dear all, according to git blame, this is the distribution of authorship across the current git master of the pms tex source. Not that I particularly mind either way, but your stats are way off due to reformatting. If you just use git blame, someone who changes a \t to a \em in a

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-pms] Authorship of app-doc/pms

2012-06-21 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:46:39 +0200 Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org wrote: Not that I particularly mind either way, but your stats are way off due to reformatting. If you just use git blame, someone who changes a \t to a \em in a paragraph gets measured as writing that line and

Re: [gentoo-dev] My wishlist for EAPI 5

2012-06-21 Thread Homer Parker
On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 13:30 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 07:11:27 -0500 Homer Parker hpar...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 08:00 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: In case you're not aware, the first time Gentoo did multilib, it was done as a series of random

Re: [gentoo-dev] About what would be included in EAPI5

2012-06-21 Thread Homer Parker
On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 13:25 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 07:04:41 -0500 Homer Parker hpar...@gentoo.org wrote: Damnit, let the user shoot themself in the foot but let them learn from it. Remember back in the day when you had no clue? You learned from it. You can

Re: [gentoo-dev] My wishlist for EAPI 5

2012-06-21 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:13:50 -0500 Homer Parker hpar...@gentoo.org wrote: And what did Gentoo get out of it? What I remember is Gentoo putting in lots of work randomly changing things until things worked, and ending up not knowing what most of those changes were or why they were done.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Killing UEFI Secure Boot

2012-06-21 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 21/06/12 05:33 AM, Richard Yao wrote: On 06/21/2012 04:08 AM, Duncan wrote: Richard Yao posted on Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:16:23 -0400 as excerpted: 3. How does getting a x86 system to boot differ from getting a MIPS system or ARM system to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Killing UEFI Secure Boot

2012-06-21 Thread Richard Yao
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/21/2012 11:00 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: A firmware replacement for the BIOS does not need to worry about floppy drives, hard drives, optical drives, usb devices, isa devices, pci devices and pci express drives, etcetera, because those

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Killing UEFI Secure Boot

2012-06-21 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2012.06.21 16:05, Richard Yao wrote: On 06/21/2012 11:00 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: A firmware replacement for the BIOS does not need to worry about floppy drives, hard drives, optical drives, usb devices, isa devices, pci devices and pci express drives, etcetera, because those live

Re: [gentoo-dev] [pre-GLEP] Optional runtime dependencies via runtime-switchable USE flags

2012-06-21 Thread David Leverton
Michał Górny wrote: Hello, A simple solution to a program long-unsolved. In GLEP form. Just a couple of minor points/nitpicks: 1) If an installed package has both IUSE_RUNTIME and REQUIRED_USE, should REQUIRED_USE be re-verified: a) for every dep resolution b) when the package is involved

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Killing UEFI Secure Boot

2012-06-21 Thread Peter Stuge
Roy Bamford wrote: I take it the above statement is based on the kernel being directly placed within the BIOS/firmware/nvram on the board, This is sometimes called Linux-as-bootloader (LAB/lab for short) in the coreboot project. such that you couldn't boot anything else but that

Re: [gentoo-dev] [pre-GLEP] Optional runtime dependencies via runtime-switchable USE flags

2012-06-21 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 21/06/12 03:05 PM, David Leverton wrote: Michał Górny wrote: Hello, A simple solution to a program long-unsolved. In GLEP form. Just a couple of minor points/nitpicks: [ Snip! ] 2) It's not forbidden for package A to depend on an

Re: [gentoo-dev] [pre-GLEP] Optional runtime dependencies via runtime-switchable USE flags

2012-06-21 Thread Michał Górny
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:05:46 +0100 David Leverton levert...@googlemail.com wrote: Michał Górny wrote: Hello, A simple solution to a program long-unsolved. In GLEP form. Just a couple of minor points/nitpicks: 1) If an installed package has both IUSE_RUNTIME and REQUIRED_USE, should

Re: [gentoo-dev] [pre-GLEP] Optional runtime dependencies via runtime-switchable USE flags

2012-06-21 Thread David Leverton
Michał Górny wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:05:46 +0100 David Leverton levert...@googlemail.com wrote: 1) If an installed package has both IUSE_RUNTIME and REQUIRED_USE, should REQUIRED_USE be re-verified: a) for every dep resolution b) when the package is involved in the resolution for some

Re: [gentoo-dev] My wishlist for EAPI 5

2012-06-21 Thread Homer Parker
On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 14:20 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:13:50 -0500 Homer Parker hpar...@gentoo.org wrote: And what did Gentoo get out of it? What I remember is Gentoo putting in lots of work randomly changing things until things worked, and ending up not

Re: [gentoo-dev] [pre-GLEP] Optional runtime dependencies via runtime-switchable USE flags

2012-06-21 Thread Michał Górny
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 21:26:26 +0100 David Leverton levert...@googlemail.com wrote: Michał Górny wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:05:46 +0100 David Leverton levert...@googlemail.com wrote: 1) If an installed package has both IUSE_RUNTIME and REQUIRED_USE, should REQUIRED_USE be re-verified:

[gentoo-dev] A friendly reminder: Ciaran McCreesh is not a Gentoo dev

2012-06-21 Thread Michał Górny
Just a short note as it seems some confusion arises lately: Ciaran McCreesh is not a Gentoo dev and his words don't represent the position of Gentoo development team. -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [pre-GLEP] Optional runtime dependencies via runtime-switchable USE flags

2012-06-21 Thread David Leverton
Michał Górny wrote: No, of course not. Otherwise, every package manager run would practically require it to re-validate all packages in the tree (possibly not only installed ones). Package manager must ensure the flags are valid when package is in the graph. I would think of IUSE_RUNTIME as a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due wormo taking care of bug wrangling only

2012-06-21 Thread Christian Ruppert
On 06/17/12 at 12:02AM +0200, Christian Ruppert wrote: On 06/16/12 at 11:39AM +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote: app-admin/ulogd app-arch/pdv Feel free to get them Thanks I'll take app-admin/ulogd. -- Regards, Christian Ruppert Role: Gentoo Linux developer, Bugzilla

Re: [gentoo-dev] My wishlist for EAPI 5

2012-06-21 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Homer Parker hpar...@gentoo.org wrote:        In the beginning there was a method...        And now it needs revamped.. I see no problem with re-investigating the problem to make it better/easier/whatever. ++ I for one am happy to have had a working amd64

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Killing UEFI Secure Boot

2012-06-21 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Roy Bamford wrote: So when you build a dud kernel and flash your BIOS with it, and we all build the odd dud, your motherboard is bricked. Any firmware modification has potential to brick, and shouldn't be done unless you are

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Killing UEFI Secure Boot

2012-06-21 Thread Richard Yao
On 06/21/2012 06:51 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Roy Bamford wrote: So when you build a dud kernel and flash your BIOS with it, and we all build the odd dud, your motherboard is bricked. Any firmware modification has potential to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: My wishlist for EAPI 5

2012-06-21 Thread Richard Yao
On 06/21/2012 04:29 AM, Duncan wrote: Richard Yao posted on Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:50:33 -0400 as excerpted: On 06/20/2012 04:35 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:25:30 -0400 Richard Yao r...@gentoo.org wrote: POSIX Shell compliance So far as I know, every PM relies heavily

Re: [gentoo-dev] A friendly reminder: Ciaran McCreesh is not a Gentoo dev

2012-06-21 Thread Homer Parker
On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 23:01 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: Just a short note as it seems some confusion arises lately: Ciaran McCreesh is not a Gentoo dev and his words don't represent the position of Gentoo development team. Amen. -- Homer Parker hpar...@gentoo.org signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-dev] A friendly reminder: Ciaran McCreesh is not a Gentoo dev

2012-06-21 Thread Sylvain Alain
Amen to that too, but can you post the actual comments that he said ? 2012/6/21 Homer Parker hpar...@gentoo.org On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 23:01 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: Just a short note as it seems some confusion arises lately: Ciaran McCreesh is not a Gentoo dev and his words don't

Re: [gentoo-dev] [pre-GLEP] Optional runtime dependencies via runtime-switchable USE flags

2012-06-21 Thread Zac Medico
On 06/21/2012 02:32 PM, David Leverton wrote: Michał Górny wrote: But in the current form, the spec doesn't allow passing IUSE_RUNTIME flags to has_version() so we're on the safe side :P. True. Do we want to keep it that restrictive? Shouldn't has_version allow any atom that would be

Re: [gentoo-dev] A friendly reminder: Ciaran McCreesh is not a Gentoo dev

2012-06-21 Thread Doug Goldstein
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Sylvain Alain d2racing...@gmail.com wrote: Amen to that too, but can you post the actual comments that he said ? 2012/6/21 Homer Parker hpar...@gentoo.org On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 23:01 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: Just a short note as it seems some confusion

[gentoo-dev] Re: Killing UEFI Secure Boot

2012-06-21 Thread Duncan
Richard Yao posted on Thu, 21 Jun 2012 05:33:22 -0400 as excerpted: A firmware replacement for the BIOS does not need to worry about floppy drives, hard drives, optical drives, usb devices, isa devices, pci devices and pci express drives, etcetera, because those live on buses, which the

Re: [gentoo-dev] [pre-GLEP] Optional runtime dependencies via runtime-switchable USE flags

2012-06-21 Thread Doug Goldstein
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 2:42 AM, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:30:24 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:29:49 +0200 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:24:33 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Killing UEFI Secure Boot

2012-06-21 Thread Richard Yao
On 06/22/2012 01:02 AM, Duncan wrote: Richard Yao posted on Thu, 21 Jun 2012 05:33:22 -0400 as excerpted: A firmware replacement for the BIOS does not need to worry about floppy drives, hard drives, optical drives, usb devices, isa devices, pci devices and pci express drives, etcetera,

[gentoo-dev] Re: My wishlist for EAPI 5

2012-06-21 Thread Duncan
Richard Yao posted on Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:38:17 -0400 as excerpted: Would you (or someone else) elaborate on the specific features of bash that people find attractive? For me (not a gentoo dev), in simplest terms it's just that I don't like having to keep track of what's a bashism and what's

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Killing UEFI Secure Boot

2012-06-21 Thread Richard Yao
On 06/22/2012 01:10 AM, Richard Yao wrote: On 06/22/2012 01:02 AM, Duncan wrote: Richard Yao posted on Thu, 21 Jun 2012 05:33:22 -0400 as excerpted: A firmware replacement for the BIOS does not need to worry about floppy drives, hard drives, optical drives, usb devices, isa devices, pci

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: My wishlist for EAPI 5

2012-06-21 Thread Michał Górny
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:38:17 -0400 Richard Yao r...@gentoo.org wrote: On 06/21/2012 04:29 AM, Duncan wrote: Richard Yao posted on Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:50:33 -0400 as excerpted: On 06/20/2012 04:35 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:25:30 -0400 Richard Yao r...@gentoo.org