[gentoo-dev] has_version etc parallelisability

2007-12-30 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
Is it legal for ebuilds to call has_version and friends in parallel? Is it legal for ebuilds to call has_version and friends after the ebuild process has terminated? Discuss. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2007-12-30 23h59 UTC

2007-12-30 Thread Robin H. Johnson
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2007-12-30 23h59 UTC. Removals: dev-libs/libcpml2007-12-27 11:56:48 armin76 dev-libs/libcxml2007-12-27 11:56:50 armin76 dev-lang/ccc

[gentoo-dev] USE flag documentation

2007-12-30 Thread Mark Loeser
This is a very very rough draft/question about how we should move forward with USE flag documentation and specification. The entire idea of a single USE flag having different meanings will need to be revisted later. I just want to get an idea of how we can document these different meanings.

Re: [gentoo-dev] has_version etc parallelisability

2007-12-30 Thread Petteri Räty
Ciaran McCreesh kirjoitti: Is it legal for ebuilds to call has_version and friends in parallel? Is it legal for ebuilds to call has_version and friends after the ebuild process has terminated? Discuss. Do you/anybody know if they are used in parallel in the tree at the moment? Regards,

Re: [gentoo-dev] has_version etc parallelisability

2007-12-30 Thread Alec Warner
On 12/30/07, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it legal for ebuilds to call has_version and friends in parallel? Is it legal for ebuilds to call has_version and friends after the ebuild process has terminated? Discuss. If the pm implements read/write locking on the underlying

[gentoo-dev] Re: Random items I'd like to discuss

2007-12-30 Thread Steve Long
Luca Barbato wrote: Some items I have in wishlist - LRDEPEND link runtime dep (I need to link against that in order to run) I heartily concur with a link dependency, since it's such a fundamental relationship between packages: if A links to B we need to recompile A when the ABI for B