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

2012-06-23 Thread Rafael Goncalves Martins
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 3:40 AM, Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 23:01:15 +0200 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org 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

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

2012-06-23 Thread Pacho Ramos
El jue, 21-06-2012 a las 08:39 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh escribió: 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

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

2012-06-23 Thread Pacho Ramos
El jue, 21-06-2012 a las 19:15 +0800, Patrick Lauer escribió: 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

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

2012-06-23 Thread Pacho Ramos
El jue, 21-06-2012 a las 11:27 +0200, Alec Warner escribió: 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

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

2012-06-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 09:53:37 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: Don't you see this way of handling things, with such and obscure way of getting things accepted for every EAPI is really hurting us? What is hurting is people demanding features without specifying what the problem is, how it

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

2012-06-23 Thread Peter Stuge
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: What is hurting is people demanding features without specifying what the problem is Part of enabling progress is to show a strong will to communicate, with the goal of extracting common understanding from discussion. In any project based on volunteer effort you must show

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

2012-06-23 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 23-06-2012 a las 11:53 +0200, Peter Stuge escribió: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: What is hurting is people demanding features without specifying what the problem is Part of enabling progress is to show a strong will to communicate, with the goal of extracting common understanding from

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

2012-06-23 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 23-06-2012 a las 12:24 +0200, Pacho Ramos escribió: El sáb, 23-06-2012 a las 11:53 +0200, Peter Stuge escribió: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: What is hurting is people demanding features without specifying what the problem is Part of enabling progress is to show a strong will to

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

2012-06-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 12:24:32 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: As Peter explains, I think it is now clear enough what I was demanding (about clarifying what is needed to get things in next EAPI to prevent issues like Tommy is suffering to get multilib stuff done), but I star to think

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

2012-06-23 Thread Duncan
Ciaran McCreesh posted on Sat, 23 Jun 2012 10:38:33 +0100 as excerpted: On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 09:53:37 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: Don't you see this way of handling things, with such and obscure way of getting things accepted for every EAPI is really hurting us? What is hurting

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

2012-06-23 Thread Duncan
Duncan posted on Sat, 23 Jun 2012 10:37:38 + as excerpted: Ciaran McCreesh posted on Sat, 23 Jun 2012 10:38:33 +0100 as excerpted: 3) Given the above, it would be of /great/ benefit to your argument if either Zac or Brian (or preferably both) stepped up from time to time and said yes,

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

2012-06-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 10:37:38 + (UTC) Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: 1) Fact: Unfortunately, your method of argument, Ciaran, doesn't endear you to a number of devs. Some may have the impulse to reject an argument simply because it comes from you. Perhaps Gentoo should be doing more to

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

2012-06-23 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 23-06-2012 a las 11:31 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh escribió: On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 12:24:32 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: As Peter explains, I think it is now clear enough what I was demanding (about clarifying what is needed to get things in next EAPI to prevent issues like

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

2012-06-23 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 6:44 AM, Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 10:37:38 + (UTC) Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: 1) Fact: Unfortunately, your method of argument, Ciaran, doesn't endear you to a number of devs.  Some may have the impulse to

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

2012-06-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 13:05:51 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_86b67d8ab51a24922a3d3be75d10f42b.xml That shows how things can be done and how shouldn't be done, it's not casual that you are always involved in this kind of discussions, Yes,

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

2012-06-23 Thread Peter Stuge
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Making constructive suggestions instead of others that can be easily interpreted as whims is the way to go. Uh huh, and that's what I've been doing the whole time when I've been asking for a patch for PMS, a GLEP etc. .. requests for a better description we're

[gentoo-dev] ewarn and package upgrades

2012-06-23 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 7:32 AM, portage@localhost wrote: WARN: postinst Please rebuild both libxcb and xcb-util if you are upgrading from version 1.6 I've read enough warnings like this (many packages use them) that it occurred to me that perhaps there should be some better way of dealing

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

2012-06-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 13:38:09 +0200 Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: If you don't understand something of what thus far has been written, then why not ask specific questions to fill those gaps, and move on? The multilib material isn't at the point where specific questions can be asked. Brian's

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

2012-06-23 Thread Peter Stuge
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: bring this to the point where we can say something other than huh?. You can accelerate by making one guess about each thing on the list and asking for confirmation of your guess. It sounds silly, but I realized that this actually happens all the time offline - at least to

Re: [gentoo-dev] ewarn and package upgrades

2012-06-23 Thread Ralph Sennhauser
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 07:40:02 -0400 Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 7:32 AM, portage@localhost wrote: WARN: postinst Please rebuild both libxcb and xcb-util if you are upgrading from version 1.6 I've read enough warnings like this (many packages use them)

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

2012-06-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 13:52:24 +0200 Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: bring this to the point where we can say something other than huh?. You can accelerate by making one guess about each thing on the list and asking for confirmation of your guess. It sounds

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

2012-06-23 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 23-06-2012 a las 12:37 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh escribió: On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 13:38:09 +0200 Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: If you don't understand something of what thus far has been written, then why not ask specific questions to fill those gaps, and move on? The multilib

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

2012-06-23 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 23-06-2012 a las 12:59 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh escribió: On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 13:52:24 +0200 Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: bring this to the point where we can say something other than huh?. You can accelerate by making one guess about each thing on

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

2012-06-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 14:11:28 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: Looks like you have now opted to use Brian's comment as a kind of shield of similar and discuss only about multilib, even when this thread was more general and we were talking to the problems shown in recent discussions

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

2012-06-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 14:16:13 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: What we *also* need is to document this requirements to let people present that work directly instead of losing days figuring out what is needed or what not The requirement is that the PMS team needs to be able to

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

2012-06-23 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 23-06-2012 a las 13:16 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh escribió: On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 14:11:28 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: Looks like you have now opted to use Brian's comment as a kind of shield of similar and discuss only about multilib, even when this thread was more general

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk3 useflag and support of older toolkits

2012-06-23 Thread Gilles Dartiguelongue
Le dimanche 10 juin 2012 à 21:55 +0200, Sebastian Pipping a écrit : On 06/10/2012 05:54 AM, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote: For libraries, if possible, try splitting gtk2 and gtk3 support into different slots (see net-libs/webkit-gtk for an example; the gtk2-based versions have -r2xx revision

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk3 useflag and support of older toolkits

2012-06-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 14:53:47 +0200 Gilles Dartiguelongue e...@gentoo.org wrote: Le dimanche 10 juin 2012 à 21:55 +0200, Sebastian Pipping a écrit : On 06/10/2012 05:54 AM, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote: For libraries, if possible, try splitting gtk2 and gtk3 support into different slots (see

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk3 useflag and support of older toolkits

2012-06-23 Thread Gilles Dartiguelongue
Le lundi 11 juin 2012 à 19:48 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh a écrit : On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:41:37 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: No, your goal is to provide a distribution. Gentoo has repeatedly shot itself in the foot, leg, groin etc by favouring short-term hacks over a well

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk3 useflag and support of older toolkits

2012-06-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 15:02:41 +0200 Gilles Dartiguelongue e...@gentoo.org wrote: It is handled better by working out what exactly the problem is, and if you can't implement it nicely using existing features, then not implementing it at all until you have suitable features. Sorry to make

[gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots

2012-06-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
There's been a move towards using slots for clever things that don't fit the traditional way of how slots worked. Examples include the new gtk2 / gtk3 handling and Ruby gems virtuals. Aside from being abusive, this screws things up for Paludis users. Paludis tends to bring in newer versions when

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk3 useflag and support of older toolkits

2012-06-23 Thread Gilles Dartiguelongue
Le samedi 23 juin 2012 à 14:08 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh a écrit : On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 15:02:41 +0200 Gilles Dartiguelongue e...@gentoo.org wrote: It is handled better by working out what exactly the problem is, and if you can't implement it nicely using existing features, then not

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk3 useflag and support of older toolkits

2012-06-23 Thread Gilles Dartiguelongue
Forgot to mention that, at least for webkit, this is really a case for slots usage as this is the same software, built for another toolkit. This applies to a couple other ebuilds in this gtk2/gtk3 discussion, but admittedly not all of them. We have at least three cases that Alexandre summed up:

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk3 useflag and support of older toolkits

2012-06-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 15:33:47 +0200 Gilles Dartiguelongue e...@gentoo.org wrote: Well the problem is simple, we need to ship webkit with gtk2 and gtk3 support. This is needed because gentoo has gtk2 based desktop/apps and because we want to ship gnome3 for example. Cool thing is that webkit

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots

2012-06-23 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: There's been a move towards using slots for clever things that don't fit the traditional way of how slots worked. Examples include the new gtk2 / gtk3 handling and Ruby gems virtuals. Aside from being

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots

2012-06-23 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: There's been a move towards using slots for clever things that don't fit the traditional way of how slots worked. Examples include the

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots

2012-06-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 10:06:58 -0400 Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org wrote: I don't quite understand why this would be necessary. Would funky-slots just be used in situations where ebuilds with the same PV but different PVR have different slots? Taking the gtk2/gtk3 example, I think the

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots

2012-06-23 Thread Mart Raudsepp
On L, 2012-06-23 at 15:10 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 10:06:58 -0400 Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org wrote: I don't quite understand why this would be necessary. Would funky-slots just be used in situations where ebuilds with the same PV but different PVR have

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk3 useflag and support of older toolkits

2012-06-23 Thread Gilles Dartiguelongue
Le samedi 23 juin 2012 à 14:40 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh a écrit : I'd like to know why using USE flags until a nicer solution is available is sufficiently terrible that it warrants a hackaround. remember qt3/qt4, gtk/gtk2. We want to avoid repeating these mistakes hence the guidelines already

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots

2012-06-23 Thread Michał Górny
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 15:10:01 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 10:06:58 -0400 Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org wrote: I don't quite understand why this would be necessary. Would funky-slots just be used in situations where ebuilds with

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk3 useflag and support of older toolkits

2012-06-23 Thread Michał Górny
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 21:19:19 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 23:54:21 -0400 Alexandre Rostovtsev tetrom...@gentoo.org wrote: For libraries, if possible, try splitting gtk2 and gtk3 support into different slots (see net-libs/webkit-gtk for an

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots

2012-06-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 17:51:01 +0200 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: I think you should start by describing the problem so we all could understand it, and then we can start thinking about a solution. It's simple: abusing versions and slots invalidates what is otherwise sensible logic. Thus

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots

2012-06-23 Thread Justin
On 23.06.2012 15:21, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: There's been a move towards using slots for clever things that don't fit the traditional way of how slots worked. Examples include the new gtk2 / gtk3 handling and Ruby gems virtuals. Aside from being abusive, this screws things up for Paludis

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk3 useflag and support of older toolkits

2012-06-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 16:45:09 +0200 Gilles Dartiguelongue e...@gentoo.org wrote: Le samedi 23 juin 2012 à 14:40 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh a écrit : I'd like to know why using USE flags until a nicer solution is available is sufficiently terrible that it warrants a hackaround. remember

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots

2012-06-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 17:20:23 +0300 Mart Raudsepp l...@gentoo.org wrote: The 'standard' behaviour (which can be changed by the user) for Paludis when doing complete resolutions is that whenever there's a slot of something installed, it will try to bring in the newest version of that

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots

2012-06-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 18:13:23 +0200 Justin j...@gentoo.org wrote: Did you read what you wrote and thought about what you request from others? Probably you better should. Uh huh, and I think we all know there's a huge difference between knowing what versions and slots are and knowing what a

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots

2012-06-23 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 06/23/12 21:21, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: There's been a move towards using slots for clever things that don't fit the traditional way of how slots worked. Examples include the new gtk2 / gtk3 handling and Ruby gems virtuals. Aside from being abusive, No, it solves a real problem. this

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots

2012-06-23 Thread Justin
On 23.06.2012 18:17, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 18:13:23 +0200 Justin j...@gentoo.org wrote: Did you read what you wrote and thought about what you request from others? Probably you better should. Uh huh, and I think we all know there's a huge difference between knowing

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots

2012-06-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 18:47:26 +0200 Justin j...@gentoo.org wrote: On 23.06.2012 18:17, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 18:13:23 +0200 Justin j...@gentoo.org wrote: Did you read what you wrote and thought about what you request from others? Probably you better should. Uh

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots

2012-06-23 Thread Justin
On 23.06.2012 18:53, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 18:47:26 +0200 Justin j...@gentoo.org wrote: On 23.06.2012 18:17, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 18:13:23 +0200 Justin j...@gentoo.org wrote: Did you read what you wrote and thought about what you request from

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots

2012-06-23 Thread Alec Warner
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 18:13:23 +0200 Justin j...@gentoo.org wrote: Did you read what you wrote and thought about what you request from others? Probably you better should. Uh huh, and I think we all know

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots

2012-06-23 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 23-06-2012 a las 17:53 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh escribió: On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 18:47:26 +0200 Justin j...@gentoo.org wrote: On 23.06.2012 18:17, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 18:13:23 +0200 Justin j...@gentoo.org wrote: Did you read what you wrote and thought about

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots

2012-06-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 10:16:42 -0700 Alec Warner anta...@gentoo.org wrote: I don't think the documentation forbids what these developers are doing. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2chap=1 This means that counting goes as follows: 1.0 (initial version), 1.0-r1,

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots

2012-06-23 Thread Kent Fredric
On 24 June 2012 05:16, Alec Warner anta...@gentoo.org wrote: That's covered in the devmanual and in the user documentation, so there's no need to repeat it here. http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/slotting/index.html

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots

2012-06-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:23:57 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: Did you send this proposal seriously or only to troll comparing it with what you think tommy did with multilib thread? Uhm, this proposal is exactly in line with dozens of others that have been made for EAPI 5. It's simple,

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots

2012-06-23 Thread Alec Warner
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 10:16:42 -0700 Alec Warner anta...@gentoo.org wrote: I don't think the documentation forbids what these developers are doing.

[gentoo-dev] Patch: Linguas USE support for cmake-utils.eclass

2012-06-23 Thread Michael Palimaka
Hi, A number of package using cmake and qmake currently do something like this: LANGS=en de fr for x in ${LANGS}; do IUSE=${IUSE} linguas_${x} done This is ugly, so for some time the loop has been included in qt4-r2, and I'd also like to add it to cmake-utils. As far as I can see,

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots

2012-06-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 10:35:36 -0700 Alec Warner anta...@gentoo.org wrote: I don't think portage has the behavior that paludis does, so most users are not likely to experience this particular problem. You know as well as I that the marking isn't necessarily trivial. But this time it is trivial.

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots

2012-06-23 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 23-06-2012 a las 18:30 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh escribió: On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:23:57 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: Did you send this proposal seriously or only to troll comparing it with what you think tommy did with multilib thread? Uhm, this proposal is exactly in

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots

2012-06-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:43:10 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: It treats -r300 as being newer than -r200, and so will treat the gtk3 version or the jruby version as being newer versions of the gtk2 version or the ruby 1.8 version, just as it tries to bring in a newer GCC and so on.

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots

2012-06-23 Thread Michał Górny
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 18:45:46 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:43:10 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: It treats -r300 as being newer than -r200, and so will treat the gtk3 version or the jruby version as being newer versions of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Patch: Linguas USE support for cmake-utils.eclass

2012-06-23 Thread Michał Górny
On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 03:37:59 +1000 Michael Palimaka kensing...@gentoo.org wrote: --- cmake-utils.eclass +++ cmake-utils.eclass @@ -20,0 +21,29 @@ +# @ECLASS-VARIABLE: LANGS Please prefix. +# @DEFAULT_UNSET +# @DESCRIPTION: +# In case your application provides various translations, use

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots

2012-06-23 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 23-06-2012 a las 18:45 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh escribió: On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:43:10 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: It treats -r300 as being newer than -r200, and so will treat the gtk3 version or the jruby version as being newer versions of the gtk2 version or the

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots

2012-06-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:54:13 +0200 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 18:45:46 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:43:10 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: It treats -r300 as being newer than -r200, and so will

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots

2012-06-23 Thread Michał Górny
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 18:56:42 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:54:13 +0200 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 18:45:46 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:43:10 +0200

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots

2012-06-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 20:09:03 +0200 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: That's just it, though -- this no longer holds. -r300 is now being used for something that is exactly the same version as -r200. Did you look at SONAME? Look at SONAME before deciding what package to install? Kindly

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots

2012-06-23 Thread Michał Górny
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:06:38 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 20:09:03 +0200 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: That's just it, though -- this no longer holds. -r300 is now being used for something that is exactly the same version as

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk3 useflag and support of older toolkits

2012-06-23 Thread Michał Górny
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 14:40:50 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 15:33:47 +0200 Gilles Dartiguelongue e...@gentoo.org wrote: Well the problem is simple, we need to ship webkit with gtk2 and gtk3 support. This is needed because gentoo has gtk2

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots

2012-06-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 20:23:13 +0200 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:06:38 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 20:09:03 +0200 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: That's just it, though -- this no longer holds. -r300

Re: [gentoo-dev] Patch: Linguas USE support for cmake-utils.eclass

2012-06-23 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 23 June 2012 13:37:59 Michael Palimaka wrote: +for x in ${LANGS}; do + IUSE+= linguas_${x} +done if you don't want to make it into an array: IUSE+= $(printf 'linguas_%s ' ${LANGS}) -mike signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk3 useflag and support of older toolkits

2012-06-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 20:26:01 +0200 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: You could just have gtk2 and gtk3 use flags in the ebuild, use REQUIRED_USE to ensure that at least one is enabled, and build things twice in the ebuild if necessary. Ah, so because a few paludis users may be

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk3 useflag and support of older toolkits

2012-06-23 Thread hasufell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/11/2012 07:08 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: No, your goal is to provide a distribution. Gentoo has repeatedly shot itself in the foot, leg, groin etc by favouring short-term hacks over a well thought out, validated, self-enforcing design. Right

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots

2012-06-23 Thread Michał Górny
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:22:37 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 20:23:13 +0200 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:06:38 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 20:09:03 +0200

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots

2012-06-23 Thread Alex Alexander
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 9:22 PM, Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 20:23:13 +0200 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:06:38 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 20:09:03 +0200 Michał

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots

2012-06-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 21:35:47 +0300 Alex Alexander wi...@gentoo.org wrote: The package mangler does not know that 1.1-r300 is not a better version than 1.1-r200, or that 1.2-r200 is not a better version than 1.1-r300. Indicating packages where this kind of strangeness happens allows

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots

2012-06-23 Thread Alex Alexander
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 21:35:47 +0300 Alex Alexander wi...@gentoo.org wrote: The package mangler does not know that 1.1-r300 is not a better version than 1.1-r200, or that 1.2-r200 is not a better version

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots

2012-06-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 22:14:32 +0300 Alex Alexander wi...@gentoo.org wrote: If it is a package without reverse dependencies, updating to the most recent slot and/or version should be expected unless the user has the slot defined in the world file. That's the part that no longer holds. The

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots

2012-06-23 Thread Alex Alexander
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 10:16 PM, Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 22:14:32 +0300 Alex Alexander wi...@gentoo.org wrote: If it is a package without reverse dependencies, updating to the most recent slot and/or version should be expected unless the user

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots

2012-06-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 22:27:03 +0300 Alex Alexander wi...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 10:16 PM, Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 22:14:32 +0300 Alex Alexander wi...@gentoo.org wrote: If it is a package without reverse dependencies,

[gentoo-dev] Bugzilla whine mail spam

2012-06-23 Thread Christian Ruppert
Guys, that was a test. I didn't expect it to write You will get this message once a day until you've dealt with these so don't take it too serious. I'm sorry about that but i just saw that *a lot* of bugs have been changed from CONFIRMED to IN_PROGRESS.. sorry.. but *that* is more than just

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla whine mail spam

2012-06-23 Thread Christian Ruppert
On 06/23/12 at 09:37PM +0200, Christian Ruppert wrote: Guys, that was a test. I didn't expect it to write You will get this message once a day until you've dealt with these so don't take it too serious. I'm sorry about that but i just saw that *a lot* of bugs have been changed from

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla whine mail spam

2012-06-23 Thread Michael Weber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/23/2012 09:59 PM, Christian Ruppert wrote: Again: Don't take it too serious, if it helps to remind you that's fine but ignore anything else. It'd be cool to exclude STABLEREQs, but I support the reminder characteristic. - -- Gentoo Dev

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots

2012-06-23 Thread Marien Zwart
On za, 2012-06-23 at 17:08 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Is it that Paludis installs a newer SLOT even if a reverse dependency explicitly requests another SLOT? Sounds like a bug to me. No, it's that if a user requests a complete resolution, Paludis installs the newest version of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla whine mail spam

2012-06-23 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Michael Weber schrieb: On 06/23/2012 09:59 PM, Christian Ruppert wrote: Again: Don't take it too serious, if it helps to remind you that's fine but ignore anything else. It'd be cool to exclude STABLEREQs, but I support the reminder characteristic. I think STABLEREQs should not be treated

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots

2012-06-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 22:36:14 +0200 Marien Zwart mari...@gentoo.org wrote: On za, 2012-06-23 at 17:08 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Is it that Paludis installs a newer SLOT even if a reverse dependency explicitly requests another SLOT? Sounds like a bug to me. No, it's that if a user

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots

2012-06-23 Thread Gilles Dartiguelongue
Le samedi 23 juin 2012 à 18:30 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh a écrit : It treats -r300 as being newer than -r200, and so will treat the gtk3 version or the jruby version as being newer versions of the gtk2 version or the ruby 1.8 version, just as it tries to bring in a newer GCC and so on. I'm

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

2012-06-23 Thread Duncan
Rich Freeman posted on Sat, 23 Jun 2012 07:12:29 -0400 as excerpted: You can't fix it by beating people up. Volunteers do it on their own terms... or don't do it. The outliers can be moderated to some degree and thankfully the list isn't what it once was, but get too strict and people simply

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About using USE flags to pull in needed RDEPENDs being discouraged by devmanual

2012-06-23 Thread Zac Medico
On 06/16/2012 02:56 PM, Duncan wrote: Meanwhile, one coming solution to this, in portage 2.2 anyway, is sets. Since I've been working with kde4 since it was overlay-only and sets- only, no meta-packages, I've been using sets for quite awhile and it's now entirely integrated into how I work

Re: [gentoo-dev] About forcing rebuilds of other packages issue

2012-06-23 Thread Zac Medico
On 06/10/2012 11:18 AM, Zac Medico wrote: On 06/10/2012 05:25 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 13:55:53 -0700 Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: A dependency atom will have optional SLOT and ABI_SLOT parts. Using the dbus-glib depedency on glib:2 as an example [1], the

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk3 useflag and support of older toolkits

2012-06-23 Thread Doug Goldstein
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 1:31 PM, hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/11/2012 07:08 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: No, your goal is to provide a distribution. Gentoo has repeatedly shot itself in the foot, leg, groin etc by favouring short-term

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk3 useflag and support of older toolkits

2012-06-23 Thread Doug Goldstein
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 14:40:50 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 15:33:47 +0200 Gilles Dartiguelongue e...@gentoo.org wrote: Well the problem is simple, we need to ship webkit

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk3 useflag and support of older toolkits

2012-06-23 Thread Doug Goldstein
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Gilles Dartiguelongue e...@gentoo.org wrote: Le samedi 23 juin 2012 à 14:40 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh a écrit : I'd like to know why using USE flags until a nicer solution is available is sufficiently terrible that it warrants a hackaround. remember qt3/qt4,

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gcc-native-flags() proposal addition to toolchain-funcs.eclass

2012-06-23 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 20 June 2012 11:56:58 viv...@gmail.com wrote: Meeting with bug: #409471 suggested that some ebuilds could benefit from expanding -march=native to the actual flags the compiler use. i can't really see how. if packages can't handle certain flags, then fix those. so NAK on adding