[gentoo-dev] Re: Progress on Universal Select Tool

2009-07-23 Thread Duncan
Nirbheek Chauhan nirbh...@gentoo.org posted 8b4c83ad0907222009sba2c36fu59d2caf68ebcf...@mail.gmail.com, excerpted below, on Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:39:00 +0530: 2009/7/23 Sérgio Almeida: I'm still not doing any commits as uselect can still break your python environment while testing and i don't

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About time to unify 'cdda' and 'cdaudio' USE flags and make the remaining one global?

2009-07-23 Thread Samuli Suominen
Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: Pacho Ramos wrote: Have you think about enabling cdda USE flag by default in *desktop* profiles? I think that most of desktop users will want to get cdaudio support by default Please don't. I wasn't going to. Maybe not for the reasons expected; I just tend

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About time to unify 'cdda' and 'cdaudio' USE flags and make the remaining one global?

2009-07-23 Thread Pacho Ramos
El jue, 23-07-2009 a las 03:06 +, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto escribió: Please don't. Instead of having an ever larger collection of default use flags in the desktop profile, we should be taking advantage of EAPI-1 IUSE defaults and EAPI-2 use dependencies. It's other way to go, of course,

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-soc] Re: Progress on Universal Select Tool

2009-07-23 Thread Sérgio Almeida
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 11:02 +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: 2009/7/23 Sérgio Almeida meph...@gmail.com: A child process cannot (or shouldn't be able to) change parent's process environment. uprofile will need to change env var's on-the-fly. For instance tag $PS1 with the current profile

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-soc] Re: Progress on Universal Select Tool

2009-07-23 Thread Sérgio Almeida
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 13:17 +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote: 2009/7/23 Nirbheek Chauhan nirbh...@gentoo.org: 2009/7/23 Sérgio Almeida meph...@gmail.com: A child process cannot (or shouldn't be able to) change parent's process environment. uprofile will need to change env var's on-the-fly.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About time to unify 'cdda' and 'cdaudio' USE flags and make the remaining one global?

2009-07-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:06:36 + Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto jmbsvice...@gentoo.org wrote: Does everyone using the desktop profile really need all of the following? Not the question to be asking. The question to ask is, for those people who use

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-soc] Re: Progress on Universal Select Tool

2009-07-23 Thread Robert Buchholz
On Thursday 23 July 2009, Sérgio Almeida wrote: You changedir, you call uprofile, and voila, new profile. You login again, default profile. Most shells have the ability to execute a command when a new prompt is generated. Users do not need to call uprofile themselves, they could set up their

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-soc] Re: Progress on Universal Select Tool

2009-07-23 Thread Sérgio Almeida
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 17:28 +0200, Robert Buchholz wrote: On Thursday 23 July 2009, Sérgio Almeida wrote: You changedir, you call uprofile, and voila, new profile. You login again, default profile. Most shells have the ability to execute a command when a new prompt is generated. Users do

[gentoo-portage-dev] ebuild/emerge lookup category differently?

2009-07-23 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
Hi. In my overlay, I can have packages assigned to a private category, and have that category specified in profiles/categories, under the overlay itself. However, in-order to ebuild such a package I have to append the category to /etc/portage/categories, else I get an error message: !!!

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] ebuild/emerge lookup category differently?

2009-07-23 Thread Drake Wyrm
Amit Dor-Shifer ami...@oversi.com wrote: Hi. In my overlay, I can have packages assigned to a private category, and have that category specified in profiles/categories, under the overlay itself. However, in-order to ebuild such a package I have to append the category to

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] ebuild/emerge lookup category differently?

2009-07-23 Thread Zac Medico
Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: Hi. In my overlay, I can have packages assigned to a private category, and have that category specified in profiles/categories, under the overlay itself. However, in-order to ebuild such a package I have to append the category to /etc/portage/categories, else I get an