Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-19 Thread Ben de Groot
On 19 January 2013 04:49, Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org wrote: During the server profile discussion, it became clear that we could clean up the base profiles a bit. This is unrelated to the profile versions, as the change would affect all versions (well, at least without bigger

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-19 Thread Ben de Groot
On 19 January 2013 08:01, Christopher Head ch...@chead.ca wrote: I understand that enabling flags only affects packages if they’re installed. I’m just saying that, in my opinion, sane-but-minimal should have CUPS disabled because there are plenty of computers that would want LibreOffice and/or

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-19 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 3:26 AM, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: People who do have printers can always enable it themselves. I don't see any reason for cups to be enabled by default, especially not on a minimal profile, and that includes the simple desktop profile. The kde and gnome

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-19 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 3:18 AM, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: I'm not sure whether we need to keep cups at all. I haven't printed anything from my personal PC or laptop in years. And I'm sure I'm not the only one. Won't repeat my previous email, but this is the kind of situation where

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-19 Thread Ben de Groot
On 19 January 2013 18:26, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 3:26 AM, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: People who do have printers can always enable it themselves. I don't see any reason for cups to be enabled by default, especially not on a minimal profile, and

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new qt category

2013-01-19 Thread Ben de Groot
On 17 January 2013 22:45, Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu wrote: How many packages are we talking about? Especially if you don't want qwt to join there, I assume we're way below 50? If so I would vote nay to any new category at all, to be honest. Roughly 40 is the current estimate.

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new qt category

2013-01-19 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: The thing is you would practically never have to do this. Users install apps that have a number of qt modules as dependencies. These qt modules in turn cannot be updated individually (unless there is an ebuild revision

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new qt category

2013-01-19 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 7:43 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu wrote: Some of us, including me, are also wondering why a separate category is needed — while you might be over the median, it doesn't mean it's that much more compelling — indeed my feeling is that it would be an

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new qt category

2013-01-19 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: Maybe x11-qt, or dev-qt, or just qt, or qt-qt if we must have a hyphen for its own sake and we're just making senseless stuff up. qt-core just doesn't make sense if it applies to more than just qt-core. I actually love

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new qt category

2013-01-19 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 01/19/2013 09:39 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: Maybe x11-qt, or dev-qt, or just qt, or qt-qt if we must have a hyphen for its own sake and we're just making senseless stuff up. qt-core just doesn't make sense if it

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new qt category

2013-01-19 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Patrick Lauer patr...@gentoo.org wrote: Maybe lib-qt ? dev-qt sounds confusing to me too, what's dev about it? I was thinking about that. A lib-misc, lib-x11, lib-qt, and so on organization actually makes more sense to me than what we're doing with libs in

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new qt category

2013-01-19 Thread Ben de Groot
On 19 January 2013 21:46, Patrick Lauer patr...@gentoo.org wrote: Maybe lib-qt ? dev-qt sounds confusing to me too, what's dev about it? These are libraries and applications that are used by developers of end-user applications. If there is too much opposition to a simple qt category (at least

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new qt category

2013-01-19 Thread Michael Weber
On 01/19/2013 03:14 PM, Ben de Groot wrote: On 19 January 2013 21:46, Patrick Lauer patr...@gentoo.org wrote: Maybe lib-qt ? dev-qt sounds confusing to me too, what's dev about it? These are libraries and applications that are used by developers of end-user applications. And so is vim, which

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: new qt category

2013-01-19 Thread Duncan
Ben de Groot posted on Sat, 19 Jan 2013 22:14:48 +0800 as excerpted: On 19 January 2013 21:46, Patrick Lauer patr...@gentoo.org wrote: Maybe lib-qt ? dev-qt sounds confusing to me too, what's dev about it? These are libraries and applications that are used by developers of end-user

[gentoo-dev] Re: removing the server profiles...

2013-01-19 Thread Duncan
Ben de Groot posted on Sat, 19 Jan 2013 18:47:58 +0800 as excerpted: On 19 January 2013 18:26, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 3:26 AM, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: People who do have printers can always enable [USE=cups] themselves. Unless we plan on

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new qt category

2013-01-19 Thread Michał Górny
On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:57:16 +0800 Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: Presently we already have a good number of split qt-* library packages in x11-libs. With the arrival of Qt5 upstream has gone a lot further in modularization, so we expect the number of packages to grow much more. We,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: removing the server profiles...

2013-01-19 Thread Rick Zero_Chaos Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/19/2013 12:05 PM, Duncan wrote: Ben de Groot posted on Sat, 19 Jan 2013 18:47:58 +0800 as excerpted: On 19 January 2013 18:26, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 3:26 AM, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote:

[gentoo-dev] [review] adding first stable masks to the new profiles

2013-01-19 Thread Michał Górny
Hello, We -- the Python team -- would like to add the first masks to the new profiles. As a test target, I have chosen the python_targets_pypy1_9 flag. I have prepared and committed the necessary changes to my CVS checkout [1]. I would appreciate if you could review them and tell me if they are

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-19 Thread William Hubbs
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 10:07:42AM -0500, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 18/01/13 09:54 AM, William Hubbs wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 08:33:13AM -0500, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 18/01/13

Re: [gentoo-dev] Chromium system ffmpeg

2013-01-19 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 1/15/13 4:55 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:34:42 -0800 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. phajdan...@gentoo.org wrote: I'm trying to make Chromium be more compatible with more versions of ffmpeg: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/topic/chromium-dev/fm5Oe_AC3Sc/discussion

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-19 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 19/01/13 05:33 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 3:18 AM, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: I'm not sure whether we need to keep cups at all. I haven't printed anything from my personal PC or laptop in years. And I'm sure

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-19 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 19/01/13 05:47 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: Actually, that is what I would expect from the more basic oriented ones like Arch and Debian. Printer support should be an optional add-on, not part of the basic install. Maybe I'm too idealistic...

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new qt category

2013-01-19 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 19/01/13 05:56 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: And if you really must, is emerge qt/gui so much more difficult than emerge qt-gui? ..no, but having to specify media-libs/phonon now because qt/phonon conflicts (just one of probably many examples)

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new qt category

2013-01-19 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: Maybe x11-qt, or dev-qt, or just qt, or qt-qt if we must have a hyphen for its own sake and we're just making senseless stuff up. qt-core just doesn't make sense if it applies

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new qt category

2013-01-19 Thread Markos Chandras
On Jan 19, 2013 5:19 PM, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:57:16 +0800 Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: Presently we already have a good number of split qt-* library packages in x11-libs. With the arrival of Qt5 upstream has gone a lot further in

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-19 Thread Philip Webb
On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 3:18 AM, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: I'm not sure whether we need to keep cups at all. I haven't printed anything from my personal PC or laptop in years. As a user, I'ld say this wb a very unpopular move with some of us. I rarely use my 2nd-hand 1995 printer,

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new qt category

2013-01-19 Thread Philip Webb
130119 Ben de Groot wrote: On 19 January 2013 21:46, Patrick Lauer patr...@gentoo.org wrote: Maybe lib-qt ? dev-qt sounds confusing to me too, what's dev about it? These are libraries and applications that are used by developers of end-user applications. They are also encountered by users

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-19 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 03:53:25PM -0500, Philip Webb wrote: On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 3:18 AM, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: I'm not sure whether we need to keep cups at all. I haven't printed anything from my personal PC or laptop in years. As a user, I'ld say this wb a very

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-19 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Sat, 2013-01-19 at 21:04 +, Aaron W. Swenson wrote: On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 03:53:25PM -0500, Philip Webb wrote: On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 3:18 AM, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: I'm not sure whether we need to keep cups at all. I haven't printed anything from my personal PC

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new qt category

2013-01-19 Thread Francesco Riosa
2013/1/19 Michael Weber x...@gentoo.org But please don't double the qt. yay for lib-cute/qt-core

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new qt category

2013-01-19 Thread Francesco Riosa
2013/1/19 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:57:16 +0800 Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: Presently we already have a good number of split qt-* library packages in x11-libs. With the arrival of Qt5 upstream has gone a lot further in modularization, so we expect

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-19 Thread Francesco Riosa
2013/1/19 William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 10:07:42AM -0500, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 18/01/13 09:54 AM, William Hubbs wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 08:33:13AM -0500, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: -BEGIN PGP

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-19 Thread James Cloos
This question only matters if you expect there to be non-desktops where there are packages installed that IUSE dri. I'd note that there is no correlation between the use of the desktop profiles and the use of an X11 or wayland server on any given box. The (gui) world is much more than

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-19 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 07:40:56PM -0500, James Cloos wrote: This question only matters if you expect there to be non-desktops where there are packages installed that IUSE dri. I'd note that there is no correlation between the use of the desktop profiles and the use of an X11 or wayland

Re: How a proper server profile should look like (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...)

2013-01-19 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 07:09:29AM -0500, Michael Mol wrote On Jan 17, 2013 3:35 AM, Dirkjan Ochtman d...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:23 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: If someone wants a *REALLY* basic system, they can start off with USE=-* and add on