Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-db/qdbm: ChangeLog qdbm-1.8.77.ebuild

2008-02-05 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 07:13 Tue 05 Feb , Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 23:05:18 -0800 Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What happens if the make process changes directories? In a different process? It's pretty unlikely make will ever become a shell builtin... You're absolutely right.

Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-commit messages for SVN

2008-02-05 Thread Ioannis Aslanidis
The KDE list was created to be used in a near future for patches and so on, but the moment is not ripe yet. Once we need it, we'll contact you or fill in a bug to regain RW access. Thanks :) On Feb 4, 2008 11:51 PM, Robin H. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 02:38:57PM

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: I want to steal your tools

2008-02-05 Thread Santiago M. Mola
On Feb 5, 2008 4:21 AM, Ryan Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heath N. Caldwell wrote: On 2008-02-04 14:51, Ryan Hill wrote: Can someone provide a tool that given a package name simply prints the category or cat/pkg, or if ambiguous, prints the multiple cat/pkgs or returns an error code? I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: VDB access

2008-02-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 08:43:55 +0100 Christian Faulhammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This will let package managers use a format other than VDB. A well designed replacement can shave a minute off cold cache command times. How much gain can be expected? There're two common operations that're

Re: [gentoo-dev] VDB access

2008-02-05 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: * Modify built_with_use so that it calls native_built_with_use if such a function exists, and falls back to its own implementation otherwise. * Allow package managers that implement native_built_with_use to sandbox off vdb

Re: [gentoo-dev] How to get more involved?

2008-02-05 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 08:54 +0100, Luca Barbato wrote: William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/java/getting-involved.xml Maybe could we get it moved on the top level? Sure, there is some Java specific stuff in there. Likely need to remove that first, but is a pretty

Re: [gentoo-dev] VDB access

2008-02-05 Thread Vlastimil Babka
Zac Medico wrote: If the package manager exposes a slightly lower level interface to the USE flags then build_with_use can use that instead, and the package manager won't have to implement the full build_with_use interface. For example, portageq currently supports a metadata command that can be

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: VDB access

2008-02-05 Thread Petteri Räty
Ciaran McCreesh kirjoitti: Incidentally, if anyone is still thinking that built_with_use is fine... It doesn't handle IUSE defaults, which means package managers have to store a hacked version of IUSE in VDB for EAPI 1. This isn't documented anywhere and is highly unobvious. I don't

Re: [gentoo-dev] VDB access

2008-02-05 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vlastimil Babka wrote: Zac Medico wrote: If the package manager exposes a slightly lower level interface to the USE flags then build_with_use can use that instead, and the package manager won't have to implement the full build_with_use interface.