Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI spec (was Re: Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
(Everything here is meant to be educational, not really commenting on anything else.) On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 12:04 -0800, Brian Harring wrote: > Said spec covers profiles also; mentioning at least the existance of > the misc STAGE* settings isn't a horrible idea, even if not going into > detail-

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reliance upon || ( use? ( ) ) behaviour

2007-02-22 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Freitag, 23. Februar 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Because the solution doesn't generalise. Consider: > || ( a? ( a ) b ) a? ( a2 ) I didn't imply it to be a solution to the || ( use? ) problem you started the thread with. > And because it makes things more rather than less complicated...

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] custom-cflags global USE

2007-02-22 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Mittwoch, 21. Februar 2007, Timothy Redaelli wrote: > What do you think about custom-cflags global USE? I'd be pleased to see the flag removed. I think it's up to the maintainers, if they accept bug reports due to custom cflags, even though upstream doesn't or restrict them for other reasons.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reliance upon || ( use? ( ) ) behaviour

2007-02-22 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 01:30:14 +0100 Carsten Lohrke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | What about the use && has_version double check!? Apart from being | ugly and still needed in some cases, it isn't slot safe. Why don't we | let the package manager unset the use flags corresponding to stripped | optional

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reliance upon || ( use? ( ) ) behaviour

2007-02-22 Thread Georgi Georgiev
Quoting Georgi Georgiev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Quoting "Kevin F. Quinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:08:48 + Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The example given in ebuild(5) is: || ( sdl? ( media-libs/libsdl ) svga? ( media-libs/svgalib ) op

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reliance upon || ( use? ( ) ) behaviour

2007-02-22 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Donnerstag, 22. Februar 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Inside || ( ) blocks, the package manager first removes any use? ( ) > blocks that are *immediate* (that is to say, not inside ( ) themselves) > children if the use flag is not enabled (or disabled for !use?). Then, > if the || ( ) block is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI spec (was Re: Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-22 Thread Carsten Lohrke
If that, what you stated in your last three paragraphs - and I do agree with it - will be the case, this proposed PMS will be dismissed and Paludis remains with a more or less accurate description, of what isn't a Gentoo package manager. Carsten pgpf4jh4lkHfG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reliance upon || ( use? ( ) ) behaviour

2007-02-22 Thread Georgi Georgiev
Quoting "Kevin F. Quinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:08:48 + Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The example given in ebuild(5) is: || ( sdl? ( media-libs/libsdl ) svga? ( media-libs/svgalib ) opengl? ( virtual/opengl ) ggi? ( med

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reliance upon || ( use? ( ) ) behaviour

2007-02-22 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:08:48 + Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The example given in ebuild(5) is: > > || ( > sdl? ( media-libs/libsdl ) > svga? ( media-libs/svgalib ) > opengl? ( virtual/opengl ) > ggi? ( media-libs/libggi ) > virtu

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI spec (was Re: Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-22 Thread Daniel Robbins
On 2/22/07, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And if you want a perfect example of reverting to ad hominem rather than technical discussion, I suggest you reread your own email. I did. I don't see any ad hominem attacks. I was very careful not to say anything nasty. Even assuming I am

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI spec (was Re: Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-22 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 22:35:59 +0100 Paul de Vrieze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Thursday 22 February 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:04:37 + Steve Long | > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | > I'm saying that until there is an independent implementation, | > | > the spec

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI spec (was Re: Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-22 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Thursday 22 February 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > By that same argument, anybody who ever had to deal with abuse from bug > wranglers wouldn't be using Gentoo. Which would mean a whole lot > fewer users. Grow up. -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI spec (was Re: Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-22 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Thursday 22 February 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:04:37 + Steve Long > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | > I'm saying that until there is an independent implementation, the > | > specification is worthless and will contain huge numbers of errors. > | > | Seriously? Wi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reliance upon || ( use? ( ) ) behaviour

2007-02-22 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 22:02:27 +0100 Simon Stelling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > || ( | > sdl? ( media-libs/libsdl ) | > svga? ( media-libs/svgalib ) | > opengl? ( virtual/opengl ) | > ggi? ( media-libs/libggi ) | > virtual/x

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reliance upon || ( use? ( ) ) behaviour

2007-02-22 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 22:05:56 +0100 Thomas de Grenier de Latour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:08:48 +, Ciaran McCreesh | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > As has been discussed in the past, the only correct way of handling | > this from an ebuild perspective is lots of use &&

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reliance upon || ( use? ( ) ) behaviour

2007-02-22 Thread Simon Stelling
Simon Stelling wrote: [snip crap] Actually, ignore me, there's a fundamental flaw in my thinking. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reliance upon || ( use? ( ) ) behaviour

2007-02-22 Thread Thomas de Grenier de Latour
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:08:48 +, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As has been discussed in the past, the only correct way of handling > this from an ebuild perspective is lots of use && has_version calls Which sounds like trying to mimic whatever the deps solver logic may have been

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reliance upon || ( use? ( ) ) behaviour

2007-02-22 Thread Simon Stelling
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > || ( > sdl? ( media-libs/libsdl ) > svga? ( media-libs/svgalib ) > opengl? ( virtual/opengl ) > ggi? ( media-libs/libggi ) > virtual/x > ) > As has been discussed in the past, the only correct way of handling > this from

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI spec (was Re: Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-22 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:04:58 -0800 Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Said spec covers profiles also; mentioning at least the existance of | the misc STAGE* settings isn't a horrible idea, even if not going | into detail- anyone digging through the profiles will see them, and | likely wond

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI spec (was Re: Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-22 Thread Brian Harring
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 08:11:34PM +0100, Danny van Dyk wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 22. Februar 2007 17:41 schrieb Brian Harring: > > Further, getting away from the daft FUD we're trying to 'replace the > > ebuild format' that was leveled. > > > > > Also have a look at our statements regarding overlays

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI spec (was Re: Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-22 Thread Danny van Dyk
Am Donnerstag, 22. Februar 2007 17:41 schrieb Brian Harring: > On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 05:07:22PM +0100, Danny van Dyk wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 22. Februar 2007 14:26 schrieb Brian Harring: > > > On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 04:13:11AM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > > On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:04:37

[gentoo-dev] Reliance upon || ( use? ( ) ) behaviour

2007-02-22 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
Is the current || ( use? ( ) ) behaviour something that is desirable? As far as I know, every package manager currently implements it, but it's also one of those things that's a nuisance to explain and it appears to exist only because of how early Portage versions did flattening. More specifically

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI spec (was Re: Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-22 Thread Marien Zwart
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 06:42:39PM +0100, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:10:38 +0100 > Marien Zwart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The > > idea was to not get any messy portage quirks documented as required > > standard behaviour, the risk here is that we'll now get paludis quirk

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last Rites: All gkrellm-1 plugins

2007-02-22 Thread Jim Ramsay
Jim Ramsay wrote: > x11-plugins/gkrellmitime My mistake, this should not have been masked, and is no longer masked. -- Jim Ramsay Gentoo/Linux Developer (rox) signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] Last Rites: All gkrellm-1 plugins

2007-02-22 Thread Jim Ramsay
# Jim Ramsay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (22 Feb 2007) # Pending removal 24 Mar 2007, bug 151446 # These gkrellm-1 plugins have no gkrellm-2 equivalent x11-plugins/gkrellm-console x11-plugins/gkrellmitime x11-plugins/gkrellm-logwatch x11-plugins/gkrellmouse x11-plugins/gkrellm-sensors x11-plugins/gkrellmwh

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI spec (was Re: Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-22 Thread Stephen Bennett
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:10:38 +0100 Marien Zwart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am a bit unsure about what the goal for PMS is here. It does not > seem to be to document what a certain (the current?) version of > portage does, as the defacto standard. Instead you want to document > what portages *i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI spec (was Re: Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-22 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:10:38 +0100 Marien Zwart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I am a bit unsure about what the goal for PMS is here. It does not | seem to be to document what a certain (the current?) version of | portage does, as the defacto standard. Instead you want to document | what portages *in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Manifest2 Transition -- remaining packages

2007-02-22 Thread Piotr Jaroszyński
I have fixed some more packages today and made a cron(run every hour) to generate transition status: http://dev.gentooexperimental.org/~peper/mf2/mf2-status.txt -- Best Regards, Piotr Jaroszyński -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI spec (was Re: Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-22 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 05:26:56 -0800 Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | Seriously? Without an implementation, your spec of what should | > | happen will have loads of errors? | > | > Yes. It will describe what people think is allowed, rather than what | > really is. | | If you're writin

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI spec (was Re: Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-22 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:10:38 +0100 Marien Zwart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The > idea was to not get any messy portage quirks documented as required > standard behaviour, the risk here is that we'll now get paludis quirks > documented as required standard behaviour. Well, that'll come out in re

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI spec (was Re: Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-22 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:42:47 -0700 "Daniel Robbins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Also, talk about derailing Paludis - *your behavior* is what's | derailing the future of Paludis and making people uncomfortable with | your solo development style. I will not use Paludis, contribute to it, | or sugges

Re: EAPI spec (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-22 Thread Stephen Bennett
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:20:47 -0500 Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This I understand. However, your previous comments (and spb's saying > he's busy with some other things) has made some people, myself > included, wonder if you could possibly use some more help. We aren't > talking

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI spec (was Re: Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-22 Thread Brian Harring
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 05:07:22PM +0100, Danny van Dyk wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 22. Februar 2007 14:26 schrieb Brian Harring: > > On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 04:13:11AM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:04:37 + Steve Long > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > | In process

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI spec (was Re: Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-22 Thread Marien Zwart
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 04:13:11AM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:04:37 + Steve Long > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | In process terms, I can't understand why the team working on it isn't > | a pkgcore dev (eg marienz if you can't communicate with ferringb) > > Because

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI spec (was Re: Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-22 Thread Danny van Dyk
Am Donnerstag, 22. Februar 2007 14:26 schrieb Brian Harring: > On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 04:13:11AM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:04:37 + Steve Long > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > | > I'm saying that until there is an independent implementation, > > | > the spec

Re: EAPI spec (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 16:59 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 07:31:44 +0100 Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | Now, I think we could wait even a bit more, but there is much interest > | in seeing it complete so is natural that more people are willing to > | help speedi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI spec (was Re: Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 21:33 -0800, antarus wrote: > I think the whole deal is blown out of proportion, mostly because many > people dislike Ciaran, and unfortunately Ciaran dislikes (or distrusts, > may be a better word) many other people (myself and Brian Harring > included). If the aim is to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI spec (was Re: Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 04:13 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > | and Gianelloni for the infrastructure. > > And what on earth do infrastructure have to do with a package manager > specification? Especially considering that I am not an infrastructure guy. I'll be honest. I'm not concerned personall

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI spec (was Re: Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-22 Thread Stephen Bennett
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:18:13 +0100 "Ioannis Aslanidis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As for Ciaran bashing Jakub, I can't help but nod (and gasp at > > some of Jakub's comments) - for quite some time now. > > Bashing on someone is always wrong. > Bashing on someone gets you banned. Tell that to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI spec (was Re: Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-22 Thread Anthony Metcalf
Brian Harring wrote: | Seriously? Without an implementation, your spec of what should happen | will have loads of errors? Yes. It will describe what people think is allowed, rather than what really is. > Don't think so; making the point that if attempting to write the spe

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Global ebuild variables and pkg_setup

2007-02-22 Thread Brian Harring
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 09:04:04AM +0100, Christian Faulhammer wrote: > Stefan Schweizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Sadly this feature was removed from portage again - nice to see it > > coming up again. Please fix or point out ebuilds that are broken. > > Yep. Could someone compile a list (wi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI spec (was Re: Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-22 Thread Brian Harring
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 02:43:57PM +0100, Thomas R??sner wrote: > Brian Harring schrieb: > >On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 04:13:11AM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > >>On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:04:37 + Steve Long > >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>| > I'm saying that until there is an independent i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI spec (was Re: Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-22 Thread Thomas Rösner
Brian Harring schrieb: On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 04:13:11AM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:04:37 + Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > I'm saying that until there is an independent implementation, the | > specification is worthless and will contain huge numbers o

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI spec (was Re: Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-22 Thread Brian Harring
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 04:13:11AM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:04:37 + Steve Long > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | > I'm saying that until there is an independent implementation, the > | > specification is worthless and will contain huge numbers of errors. > | > | Se

Re: [gentoo-dev] Manifest2 Transition -- remaining packages

2007-02-22 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On 2/22/07, Markus Ullmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So after peper and myself have been on fixing most stuff related to this topic yesterday, here now is a list with remaining packages and their respective maintainers. http://dev.gentoo.org/~jokey/manifest2/manifest2-20070222.txt

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI spec (was Re: Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-22 Thread Ioannis Aslanidis
As for Ciaran bashing Jakub, I can't help but nod (and gasp at some of Jakub's comments) - for quite some time now. Bashing on someone is always wrong. Bashing on someone gets you banned. -- Ioannis Aslanidis 0xB9B11F4E -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI spec (was Re: Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-22 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 21:48:49 -0700 "Daniel Robbins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/21/07, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are you insane? What on earth could Jakub possibly contribute? If > > you want a rough indication of Jakub's level of ebuild > > understanding, take a look at

Re: [gentoo-dev] Manifest2 Transition -- remaining packages

2007-02-22 Thread Robin H. Johnson
fest2/manifest2-20070222.txt Fixed my stuff there: sys-block/tw_cli sys-block/scsiping net-misc/nstx -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux Developer E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85 pgpGIopR5qMjO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Manifest2 Transition -- remaining packages

2007-02-22 Thread Jakub Moc
Markus Ullmann napsal(a): > So after peper and myself have been on fixing most stuff related to this > topic yesterday, here now is a list with remaining packages and their > respective maintainers. > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~jokey/manifest2/manifest2-20070222.txt > >

[gentoo-dev] Manifest2 Transition -- remaining packages

2007-02-22 Thread Markus Ullmann
So after peper and myself have been on fixing most stuff related to this topic yesterday, here now is a list with remaining packages and their respective maintainers. http://dev.gentoo.org/~jokey/manifest2/manifest2-20070222.txt Greetz Jokey -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI spec (was Re: Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-22 Thread Daniel Robbins
On 2/21/07, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm perfectly polite when I'm not replying to the dozenth deliberate attempt to derail something into which I have put a lot of effort... Look, I don't want to waste everyone's time by dismantling in painful detail the foolishness of what y

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI spec (was Re: Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-22 Thread Ioannis Aslanidis
On 2/22/07, Daniel Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2/21/07, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you insane? What on earth could Jakub possibly contribute? If you > want a rough indication of Jakub's level of ebuild understanding, take > a look at bug 160328. Is there any proce