[gentoo-dev] Re: ecompress heads up

2007-01-31 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: the new version of portage has customizable compression ... this is cool as now people can do bzip/gzip/whatever Auto compressing is nice, but I have a question for info files. The /usr/share/info/package/dir file must not be compressed but is with newer

Re: [gentoo-dev] tr1 dependencies

2007-01-31 Thread Phil Richards
On 2007-01-30, Matthias Langer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: nope ... let's hope c++-0x comes out soon and that compiler vendors are faster in implementing it than c++-98. It's actually officially called (skipping all the admin stuff): C++09 That gives a good indication of when it is likely to

[gentoo-dev] KDE herd hurting for help

2007-01-31 Thread Caleb Tennis
Hi, Unfortunately, most of the active KDE herd/group members are a bit unactive right now (self included), which means that bugs are really starting to pile up. If you have any interest in this at all, please by all means join the herd and start helping us out. Thanks! Caleb --

Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE herd hurting for help

2007-01-31 Thread Ioannis Aslanidis
DITTO, I'm currently only available on weekends, so guys, come kill some bugs for us ;-) On 1/31/07, Caleb Tennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately, most of the active KDE herd/group members are a bit unactive right now (self included), which means that bugs are really starting to pile

Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE herd hurting for help

2007-01-31 Thread Elias Probst
Hi, I'm not a Gentoo dev at all, but I'll try to kill as much KDE bugs as possible. .. currently working on bug#163051 Regards, Elias P. Original-Nachricht Datum: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:43:57 +0100 Von: Ioannis Aslanidis [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Betreff:

[gentoo-dev] Dropping keywords is bad, m'kay

2007-01-31 Thread Jason Wever
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Apparently people are starting to drop arch keywords again without notifying arch teams in any way, shape or form. As the developer handbook indicates, it is greatly appreciated and makes for much smoother workings with the arch teams if you'd at

Re: [gentoo-dev] make_desktop_entry in eutils.eclass

2007-01-31 Thread Jim Ramsay
Mike Frysinger wrote: On Tuesday 30 January 2007 16:10, Jim Ramsay wrote: In other words, I propose that this function should probably do 'basename' on $exec before using it for the .desktop filename. no ... the point of using $exec is to make sure the .desktop file is unique i'll

Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE herd hurting for help

2007-01-31 Thread Peter Lewis
Hi folks. I'm new here, so thought I'd say hello. On Wednesday 31 January 2007 13:07, Caleb Tennis wrote: Unfortunately, most of the active KDE herd/group members are a bit unactive right now (self included), which means that bugs are really starting to pile up. If you have any interest in

Re: [gentoo-dev] tr1 dependencies

2007-01-31 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:11:20 -0500 (EST) Caleb Tennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | * Hard dep upon boost. This sucks for g++-4.1 users. | | * Hard dep upon g++-4.1, which isn't available for all archs. This | doesn't even work because there's no guarantee that =4.1 is being | used even if it's

Re: [gentoo-dev] tr1 dependencies

2007-01-31 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:47:09 -0600 Grant Goodyear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | * Hard dep upon g++-4.1, which isn't available for all archs. This | doesn't even work because there's no guarantee that =4.1 is being | used even if it's installed. | | I haven't done my homework, so I'll just ask:

Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE herd hurting for help

2007-01-31 Thread Ioannis Aslanidis
We'd be rather more interested if you overlook a little that part and help us fix a few bugs ;) Peter Lewis wrote: Hi folks. I'm new here, so thought I'd say hello. On Wednesday 31 January 2007 13:07, Caleb Tennis wrote: Unfortunately, most of the active KDE herd/group members are a bit

Re: [gentoo-dev] tr1 dependencies

2007-01-31 Thread Rémi Cardona
Ciaran McCreesh a écrit : * Hard dep upon boost. This sucks for g++-4.1 users. * Hard dep upon g++-4.1, which isn't available for all archs. This doesn't even work because there's no guarantee that =4.1 is being used even if it's installed. * || ( ) deps, and hope that if the user has 4.1

Re: [gentoo-dev] tr1 dependencies

2007-01-31 Thread Stephen Bennett
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:36:33 +0100 Rémi Cardona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Newbie idea : g++ and boost both provide virtual/tr1 Newbie question : besides the fact that you would have to rebuild packages if you changed the virtual, is there anything painfully obvious why that would be a bad

Re: [gentoo-dev] tr1 dependencies

2007-01-31 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:24:31 + Stephen Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | And what exactly is required of a package providing virtual/tr1? If it | has to implement the entirity of the TR, then g++-4.1 can't provide | the virtual and the purpose is lost since the most used parts of the |

Re: [gentoo-dev] tr1 dependencies

2007-01-31 Thread Brian Harring
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 11:24:31PM +, Stephen Bennett wrote: On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:36:33 +0100 Rémi Cardona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Newbie idea : g++ and boost both provide virtual/tr1 Newbie question : besides the fact that you would have to rebuild packages if you changed the

Re: [gentoo-dev] tr1 dependencies

2007-01-31 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:32:03 -0800 Brian Harring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | You're ignoring that new style virtuals can have versions; thus | virtual/tr-[arbitrary version 1] | can be 'almost full 1 support'. Which means what, in terms of parts of tr1 that are and aren't supplied by various

Re: [gentoo-dev] tr1 dependencies

2007-01-31 Thread Brian Harring
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 11:38:04PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:32:03 -0800 Brian Harring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | You're ignoring that new style virtuals can have versions; thus | virtual/tr-[arbitrary version 1] | can be 'almost full 1 support'. Which means

Re: [gentoo-dev] tr1 dependencies

2007-01-31 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:00:49 -0800 Brian Harring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 11:38:04PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:32:03 -0800 Brian Harring | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | You're ignoring that new style virtuals can have versions; thus | |

[gentoo-dev] [treecleaner] package removals

2007-01-31 Thread Steve Dibb
media-video/dxr2-driver has been removed from the tree See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153365 Steve -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] make_desktop_entry in eutils.eclass

2007-01-31 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 31 January 2007, Jim Ramsay wrote: Personally I'd rather just add one line to my ebuild as opposed to creating and maintaining a .desktop file in the files directory. This would just add a useful feature for those who want that level of flexibility. which is rarely needed/wanted

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ecompress heads up

2007-01-31 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 01 February 2007, Zac Medico wrote: Portage does create the dir files for each of the directories listed in the INFOPATH and INFODIR environment variables. it should be removing the dir files in install_qa_check() from /usr/share/info/ -mike pgpWQ95qQaZY2.pgp Description: PGP

[gentoo-dev] eclass proposal - savedconfig.eclass

2007-01-31 Thread Daniel Black
Fellow devs, Many packages have far more options than are presented to gentoo users though an ebuild interface. By embracing the principles of choice[1] the gentoo developers have an obligation to provide a far range of choice on their installation. This is particularly important in: -

Re: [gentoo-dev] make_desktop_entry in eutils.eclass

2007-01-31 Thread Thomas de Grenier de Latour
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:30:53 -0500, Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: about the only thing that'd work is an additional parameter called cruft that'd be passed unfiltered into the .desktop file You can also imagine a -v switch, which would make this function print the full path (with its

Re: [gentoo-dev] eclass proposal - savedconfig.eclass

2007-01-31 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 01 February 2007, Daniel Black wrote: IMPLEMENTION thanks for putting this together store_config should only be called from pkg_preinst or src_install this is easy to check in the eclass via $EBUILD_PHASE Also creates the following symlinks to it i dont see much value in these

Re: [gentoo-dev] eclass proposal - savedconfig.eclass

2007-01-31 Thread Brian Harring
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 06:21:01PM +1100, Daniel Black wrote: Fellow devs, WARN_CONFIG warn_config (useflags) warns the user that the useflags have been overridden by savedconfig Anything else? overriding use flags by a secondary configuration is a mess waiting to happen... needs

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] Depending on active version

2007-01-31 Thread Vlastimil Babka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin F. Quinn wrote: On a general note, introducing dynamic dependencies into the depgraph worries me, although I'm not sure I can articulate why. Can you articulate metadata cache? :) - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -BEGIN PGP

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] Depending on active version

2007-01-31 Thread Stephen Bennett
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:06:51 +0100 Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The idea is to add a special category (let's call it active for now) that has the following properties: - this category doesn't exist in portdir or vdb (= no ebuilds) - when portage ($pkgmanager) encounters a active/foo

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] Depending on active version

2007-01-31 Thread Alec Warner
Stephen Bennett wrote: On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:06:51 +0100 Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The idea is to add a special category (let's call it active for now) that has the following properties: - this category doesn't exist in portdir or vdb (= no ebuilds) - when portage

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] Depending on active version

2007-01-31 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:27:10 -0500 Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm; one could get the same benefit by introducing a new interface (e.g. pkg_env_check()) which is defined to return true if the environment is ok, false otherwise (with some text to stdout, perhaps). The package

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] Depending on active version

2007-01-31 Thread Alec Warner
Kevin F. Quinn wrote: On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:27:10 -0500 Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm; one could get the same benefit by introducing a new interface (e.g. pkg_env_check()) which is defined to return true if the environment is ok, false otherwise (with some text to stdout,

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] Depending on active version

2007-01-31 Thread Marius Mauch
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:47:26 + Stephen Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:06:51 +0100 Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The idea is to add a special category (let's call it active for now) that has the following properties: - this category doesn't exist in