Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: useflag policies

2015-08-11 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 11/08/15 03:13 PM, Gregory Woodbury wrote: Is a possible solution something like an eselect module to indicate the preferred interface kit? It could default to any package that is available with a sequential set of preferred order. Then

[gentoo-dev] Portage-2.2.20.1 released straight to stable

2015-08-11 Thread Brian Dolbec
I've cherry-picked the recent repoman changes for the new git tree onto a new branch starting at the 2.2.20 release. This should take care of all the recent flood of emails about the new workflow. I also included a few man page corrections and improvements. Future: I hope to get the repoman

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: useflag policies

2015-08-11 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 23:30:31 +1000 Michael Palimaka kensing...@gentoo.org wrote: I invite you to reproduce the problem yourself then make the judgement. Using REQUIRED_USE like this makes the affected packages unusable. Can't we all (except for the usual suspect) just agree that REQUIRED_USE

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce ppc64le architecture into gentoo ! please share your comments

2015-08-11 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 11 Aug 2015 10:45, Anthony G. Basile wrote: On 8/11/15 10:33 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: On 11/08/15 06:11 AM, Leno Hou wrote: I think ppc64le would become popular, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ppc64. 1. enable porting x86 Linux based application with minimal effort. 2. Some

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce ppc64le architecture into gentoo ! please share your comments

2015-08-11 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 11 Aug 2015 10:49, James Le Cuirot wrote: If ppc64le does become popular then I would suggest that we drop 32-bit ppc first. Others may disagree though. :) ppc isn't being dropped, and ppc64le is entirely orthogonal to support for it -mike signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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