[gentoo-dev] Re: `paludis --info' is not like `emerge --info'

2009-04-13 Thread Duncan
Richard Freeman posted 49e3d8dc.7090...@gentoo.org, excerpted below, on Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:29:16 -0400: > It does seem a bit odd to ask somebody to imitate the emerge formatting > of the output just to say that it matches. If somebody wants to create > a script to do it they can post it online

Re: [gentoo-dev] `paludis --info' is not like `emerge --info'

2009-04-13 Thread Richard Freeman
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: This isn't a usability request. Making the "use paludis --info cat/pkg" text stand out more was a usability request, and I was happy to make that change. This is a few noxious trolls whining in an attempt to cause trouble. For those who have concerns with the paludis out

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removing .la files...

2009-04-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 13 April 2009 17:17:36 Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote: > So we are now a year later, > > some people are getting excited at getting rid of .la files again but no > decent solution has been presented yet that I am aware of. We've had two > situations recently: > * https://bugs.gentoo.or

Re: [gentoo-dev] `paludis --info' is not like `emerge --info'

2009-04-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:50:07 +0200 Sebastian Pipping wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > Taking any of it out would be > > removing things that are required to determine the cause of a bug. > > I doubt that's true in most cases: The information needed to > finding the bug is a (possibly small) s

Re: [gentoo-dev] `paludis --info' is not like `emerge --info'

2009-04-13 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Taking any of it out would be > removing things that are required to determine the cause of a bug. I doubt that's true in most cases: The information needed to finding the bug is a (possibly small) subset of the whole. I don't see how additionally providing a stripped do

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removing .la files...

2009-04-13 Thread Gilles Dartiguelongue
So we are now a year later, some people are getting excited at getting rid of .la files again but no decent solution has been presented yet that I am aware of. We've had two situations recently: * https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=264249 which got reverted * https://bugs.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Ideas for a (fast) EAPI=3

2009-04-13 Thread Peter Volkov
В Чтв, 09/04/2009 в 15:32 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh пишет: > Please provide a list of packages that use custom configure scripts, > that currently work with econf (including all the weird things it > already passes), that would break with this change and whose ebuilds > are using econf. I have yet to

Re: [gentoo-dev] `paludis --info' is not like `emerge --info'

2009-04-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:21:37 +0200 Sebastian Pipping wrote: > Just an idea without knowing all the details: > Could > > - "--emerge-info" and "--emerge-info-verbose" >options be added to paludis or > > - a converter script be written to convert >paludis output to feel like emerge outpu

Re: [gentoo-dev] `paludis --info' is not like `emerge --info'

2009-04-13 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Just an idea without knowing all the details: Could - "--emerge-info" and "--emerge-info-verbose" options be added to paludis or - a converter script be written to convert paludis output to feel like emerge output to solves this issue? Would that technically be possible? Is paludis ret