Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposed future EAPI feature: FILES whitelist

2016-09-16 Thread Kent Fredric
On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 20:34:49 +0200 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > That is, similar syntax as for SRC_URI? That would make parsing of the > FILES variable by ebuilds practically impossible. So presumably, one > would need another variable similar to A then, containing the files > from

[gentoo-dev] Re: Package up for grabs: skencil

2016-09-16 Thread Duncan
Kristian Fiskerstrand posted on Fri, 16 Sep 2016 14:58:22 +0200 as excerpted: > On 09/16/2016 02:31 PM, Hanno Böck wrote: >> media-gfx/skencil is a python-written vector graphics tool. It was once >> popular before inkscape became the de-facto-standard. It hasn't seen >> any upstream activity for

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposed future EAPI feature: FILES whitelist

2016-09-16 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Fri, 16 Sep 2016, Zac Medico wrote: > If FILES supports USE conditionals, That is, similar syntax as for SRC_URI? That would make parsing of the FILES variable by ebuilds practically impossible. So presumably, one would need another variable similar to A then, containing the files from

Re: [gentoo-dev] [gentoo-proxy-maint] Package up for grabs

2016-09-16 Thread Manuel Rüger
On 11.09.2016 20:57, Nick Vinson wrote: > Hi, > > I am the former maintainer of net-print/hplip-plugin, and because I have > removed myself as the package maintainer, there are no other maintainers > listed in metadata.xml. > > Thus, the net-print/hplip-plugin package is now up for grabs. > > -

[gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: skencil

2016-09-16 Thread Hanno Böck
media-gfx/skencil is a python-written vector graphics tool. It was once popular before inkscape became the de-facto-standard. It hasn't seen any upstream activity for a decade(!), but surprisingly it still seems to work. I haven't used it for many years myself. There are 4 open bugs in bugzilla.

[gentoo-dev] Proposed future EAPI feature: FILES whitelist

2016-09-16 Thread Kent Fredric
Just an idea that seemed obvious enough and obviously missing. 1. Have, in a future EAPI, a variable (I'm going to call it "FILES" as a stand-in for now ). 2. FILES contains an array (or perhaps whitespace delimited string) of entries (or perhaps expressions) relative to

[gentoo-dev] Arch testers need themselves an IRC channel so I can love them more

2016-09-16 Thread Kent Fredric
If you're an arch tester reading this, I love you. Your job is mostly thankless and how important it is seems relatively un-reflected in our regular conversations, and this needs to be rectified. Often, I see a stable request get done, and I know what got stabilized was a monumental amount of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: skencil

2016-09-16 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
On 09/16/2016 02:31 PM, Hanno Böck wrote: > media-gfx/skencil > is a python-written vector graphics tool. It was once popular before > inkscape became the de-facto-standard. It hasn't seen any upstream > activity for a decade(!), but surprisingly it still seems to work. > > I haven't used it for

Re: [gentoo-dev] Arch testers need themselves an IRC channel so I can love them more

2016-09-16 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 9:00 AM, Kent Fredric wrote: > > As such, I believe Arch Testers should have themselves an IRC channel, > where Arch testers are OP, and membership of arch testers is voluntary > ( but encouraged ). > The history here is that ATs typically hung out in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposed future EAPI feature: FILES whitelist

2016-09-16 Thread Mart Raudsepp
Ühel kenal päeval, R, 16.09.2016 kell 17:20, kirjutas Ulrich Mueller: > How does a file in FILESDIR get stale? The typical scenario is that a > patch will no longer be needed after a version bump and pruning of > old > ebuild versions. I fear that with FILES the problem would simply be > shifted:

[gentoo-dev] Proposed future EAPI feature: FILES whitelist

2016-09-16 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Sat, 17 Sep 2016, Kent Fredric wrote: > Just an idea that seemed obvious enough and obviously missing. > 1. Have, in a future EAPI, a variable (I'm going to call it "FILES" as > a stand-in for now ). > 2. FILES contains an array (or perhaps whitespace delimited string) of > entries (or

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposed future EAPI feature: FILES whitelist

2016-09-16 Thread Kent Fredric
On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 17:20:28 +0200 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > 3. Each entry in FILES dictates that the given file is "Used by" the > > ebuild. > > Do you mean "file" in its Unix meaning here, i.e. including > directories? Or only regular files? I'd say regular files for now.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposed future EAPI feature: FILES whitelist

2016-09-16 Thread Zac Medico
On 09/16/2016 08:20 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> On Sat, 17 Sep 2016, Kent Fredric wrote: >> 4. Due to referential integrity, it should be trivial to identify which >> files are needed by a given ebuild, and which files are now redundant, >> assisting with keeping the tree pruned. > > How

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposed future EAPI feature: FILES whitelist

2016-09-16 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
On 16/09/16 11:20 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > AFAICS that proposal goes into a direction which is somewhat opposite > to what we have pursued in EAPI 6. There, we have allowed directories > as arguments to eapply, in order to simplify application of patchsets. > Now maintainers would have to