Re: [gentoo-dev] Self-circular dependencies

2006-02-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 20:22:05 -0500 Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Sunday 05 February 2006 17:11, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > Another not-so-uncommon issue that crops up: packages DEPENDing upon | > themselves. Sometimes this is legit -- one of the Ada compilers, for | > example, DEPEN

Re: [gentoo-dev] Self-circular dependencies

2006-02-05 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 05 February 2006 17:11, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Another not-so-uncommon issue that crops up: packages DEPENDing upon > themselves. Sometimes this is legit -- one of the Ada compilers, for > example, DEPENDs upon || ( itself another-compiler ). Sometimes, > however, it's the result of ecl

[gentoo-dev] Self-circular dependencies

2006-02-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
Another not-so-uncommon issue that crops up: packages DEPENDing upon themselves. Sometimes this is legit -- one of the Ada compilers, for example, DEPENDs upon || ( itself another-compiler ). Sometimes, however, it's the result of eclass screwups. Typical example: you're coding a foo.eclass, that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Depend syntax

2006-02-05 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 05 February 2006 16:46, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Just a reminder that all of the following are either illegal or > strongly deprecated, so please don't use them even if Portage currently > lets you get away with it: > > DEPEND="blah" > You should always use the full foo-bar/blah spec insi

[gentoo-dev] Depend syntax

2006-02-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
Just a reminder that all of the following are either illegal or strongly deprecated, so please don't use them even if Portage currently lets you get away with it: DEPEND="blah" You should always use the full foo-bar/blah spec inside ebuilds. DEPEND=">=foo-bar/blah" If you specify an operator, you

Re: [gentoo-dev] env pollution

2006-02-05 Thread Chris PeBenito
On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 16:07 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Sunday 05 February 2006 15:49, Christopher J. PeBenito wrote: > > But looking at 02kth-krb in its files directory we have: > > > > PATH=/usr/athena/bin > > ROOTPATH=/usr/athena/sbin > > LDPATH=/usr/athena/lib > > MANDIR=/usr/athena/man >

Re: [gentoo-dev] IUSE and LINGUAS?

2006-02-05 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Sunday 05 February 2006 22:04, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > You can remove them, but then it's your turn with Mr_Bones_ about them. > done Thanks :) -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/ Gentoo/ALT lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, AMD64, Sound, PAM, KDE pgp88DTyI0EEz.pgp

Re: [gentoo-dev] env pollution

2006-02-05 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 05 February 2006 15:49, Christopher J. PeBenito wrote: > But looking at 02kth-krb in its files directory we have: > > PATH=/usr/athena/bin > ROOTPATH=/usr/athena/sbin > LDPATH=/usr/athena/lib > MANDIR=/usr/athena/man > INFODIR=/usr/athena/info then, as Donnie said, kth-krb is wrong it s

Re: [gentoo-dev] IUSE and LINGUAS?

2006-02-05 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 05 February 2006 15:43, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Sunday 05 February 2006 21:34, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > that's retarded, please remove all such linguas_* crap from use.desc > > files > > I can, but then Mr_Bones_ will come back to me again and we're stuck in > this loop. M

Re: [gentoo-dev] IUSE and LINGUAS?

2006-02-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 21:43:58 +0100 "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Sunday 05 February 2006 21:34, Mike Frysinger wrote: | > that's retarded, please remove all such linguas_* crap from | > use.desc files | | I can, but then Mr_Bones_ will come back to me again and we're st

Re: [gentoo-dev] IUSE and LINGUAS?

2006-02-05 Thread Alec Warner
Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Sunday 05 February 2006 09:51, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > >>On Thursday 02 February 2006 20:55, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> >>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>| Yeah that would help. But in the mean time what should we do? >>> >>>What you should always do. Do the rig

Re: [gentoo-dev] env pollution

2006-02-05 Thread Chris PeBenito
On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 15:33 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Sunday 05 February 2006 12:17, Chris PeBenito wrote: > > I have two bugs [1][2] with installs failing due to some environmental > > variables being set, which end up overriding the settings in the > > packages' makefiles, causing sandbox

Re: [gentoo-dev] IUSE and LINGUAS?

2006-02-05 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Sunday 05 February 2006 21:34, Mike Frysinger wrote: > that's retarded, please remove all such linguas_* crap from use.desc files I can, but then Mr_Bones_ will come back to me again and we're stuck in this loop. You can remove them, but then it's your turn with Mr_Bones_ about them. So here

Re: [gentoo-dev] IUSE and LINGUAS?

2006-02-05 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 05 February 2006 09:51, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Thursday 02 February 2006 20:55, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > | Yeah that would help. But in the mean time what should we do? > > > > What you should always do. Do the right thing, even if repoman >

Re: [gentoo-dev] env pollution

2006-02-05 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 05 February 2006 12:17, Chris PeBenito wrote: > I have two bugs [1][2] with installs failing due to some environmental > variables being set, which end up overriding the settings in the > packages' makefiles, causing sandbox violations. While this is a simple > enough to work around with

Re: [gentoo-dev] env pollution

2006-02-05 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Chris PeBenito wrote: > I have two bugs [1][2] with installs failing due to some environmental > variables being set, which end up overriding the settings in the > packages' makefiles, causing sandbox violations. While this is a simple > enough to work around with some unsets, how much do we reall

[gentoo-dev] env pollution

2006-02-05 Thread Chris PeBenito
I have two bugs [1][2] with installs failing due to some environmental variables being set, which end up overriding the settings in the packages' makefiles, causing sandbox violations. While this is a simple enough to work around with some unsets, how much do we really want to work to fix polluted

Re: [gentoo-dev] IUSE and LINGUAS?

2006-02-05 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Thursday 02 February 2006 20:55, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > but also make sure that there's a bug > filed describing how repoman is broken. FWIW, I've filed that bug and attached a patch that solves the issue by letting repoman load the *.desc files in profiles dir for the use-expanded variables

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Dev: antarus (Alec Warner)

2006-02-05 Thread Marcelo Góes
On 2/5/06, Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am currently a senior, going after a Computer Science Bachelors > with a cognate ( minor basically ) in Japanese. > GO gentoo-jp :) Yay, nihongo++! Welcome aboard Alec! -- Marcelo Góes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-dev@gen

Re: [gentoo-dev] IUSE and LINGUAS?

2006-02-05 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Thursday 02 February 2006 20:55, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | Yeah that would help. But in the mean time what should we do? > > What you should always do. Do the right thing, even if repoman > disagrees. Seems like repoman is actually our boss in this case, so I was f

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Dev: zmedico (Zac Medico)

2006-02-05 Thread Francesco Riosa
Brian Harring wrote: > Hola all- > > Well looky here, we've got another new portage dev to report- Zac > Medico (zmedico). Areas of focus thus far are general stable work, > and work on the rewrite (you can thank him and marienz for the test > framework work). > > Additionally, Zac is the mai

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Dev: antarus (Alec Warner)

2006-02-05 Thread Joshua Jackson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian Harring wrote: > Hola all- > > We've got a new portage dev; Alec Warner, aka antarus- aside from > doc work, he'll be doing repoman work and the usual random bug > squashing. Welcome antarus, might I also mention that he helps out the x86 team as