[gentoo-dev] [typo] Re: Re: Multiple implementations shouldn't block Gentoo's progress.

2013-08-08 Thread Steven J. Long
wrote: > It would seem to make sense if the packages are unmasked conditionally s/ conditionally// > in the parent, or the linux profile, and then unmasked in the profiles > that need them. Sorry if I'm misunderstanding. And for noise. -- #friendly-coders -- We're friendly, but we're not /that

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Multiple implementations shouldn't block Gentoo's progress. Stabilize package combinations?

2013-08-08 Thread Steven J. Long
On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 08:39:20AM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: > I've always disliked unnecessary profiles, a lot, but this whole > selecting of init plus packages supporting it plus the /usr-move issue > the systemd maintainers are bundling together with it by forcing the > unstandard systemd

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Pacho Ramos
El vie, 09-08-2013 a las 08:29 +0300, Samuli Suominen escribió: > On 09/08/13 03:25, Michael Weber wrote: > > Citing from Pachos blog, > > > > "[...] we are now forcing people to *run* systemd to be able to properly > > run Gnome 3.8, otherwise power management and multiseat support are > > lost, [

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Pacho Ramos
El vie, 09-08-2013 a las 02:25 +0200, Michael Weber escribió: > Citing from Pachos blog, > > "[...] we are now forcing people to *run* systemd to be able to properly > run Gnome 3.8, otherwise power management and multiseat support are > lost, [...]" [1]. > Pacho, would you accept patches and USE

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Pacho Ramos
El vie, 09-08-2013 a las 02:26 +0200, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn escribió: > Pacho Ramos schrieb: > > - openBSD is simply supplying the "semibroken" Gnome stuff running with > > their setup (without multiseat working, neither power management, gdm > > service handling, and any new issues that cou

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Multiple implementations shouldn't block Gentoo's progress. Stabilize package combinations?

2013-08-08 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 09/08/13 04:05, Zac Medico wrote: On 08/08/2013 12:11 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Thu, 8 Aug 2013 21:57:37 +0300 Alon Bar-Lev wrote: Multiple implementations shouldn't block Gentoo going forward. We need to come up with a solution similar to the above to avoid this... This is called a 'pr

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 09/08/13 03:25, Michael Weber wrote: Citing from Pachos blog, "[...] we are now forcing people to *run* systemd to be able to properly run Gnome 3.8, otherwise power management and multiseat support are lost, [...]" [1]. Pacho, would you accept patches and USE flags to make gdm an optional c

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 8:27 PM, Patrick Lauer wrote: >>> On 08/08/2013 05:26 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> It's not a regression; actually, it's quite common to drop features >> that can no longer be supported. I don't see us blocking stabilization >> for other cases in the Portage tree where a featu

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread William Hubbs
The decision to depend on systemd for part of its functionality is with gnome upstream, not the gnome team of Gentoo. Pacho wrote a good summary of what is going on. I can see why OpenBSD would provide the missing functionality of systemd for gnome (systemd does not, and will not, exist on the *BS

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Multiple implementations shouldn't block Gentoo's progress. Stabilize package combinations?

2013-08-08 Thread Dustin C. Hatch
On 8/8/2013 20:05, Zac Medico wrote: On 08/08/2013 12:11 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Thu, 8 Aug 2013 21:57:37 +0300 Alon Bar-Lev wrote: Multiple implementations shouldn't block Gentoo going forward. We need to come up with a solution similar to the above to avoid this... This is called a 'pr

[gentoo-dev] Re: Multiple implementations shouldn't block Gentoo's progress. Stabilize package combinations?

2013-08-08 Thread Zac Medico
On 08/08/2013 12:11 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Thu, 8 Aug 2013 21:57:37 +0300 > Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > >>> Multiple implementations shouldn't block Gentoo going forward. >>> >>> We need to come up with a solution similar to the above to avoid >>> this... >> >> This is called a 'profile'. >> >> Yo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Pacho Ramos schrieb: > - openBSD is simply supplying the "semibroken" Gnome stuff running with > their setup (without multiseat working, neither power management, gdm > service handling, and any new issues that could rise from logind not > being running) If OpenBSD can do it, then Gentoo can do it

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Mike Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/08/13 00:19, Greg KH wrote: > Become upstream developers and create fixes to remove the > dependancy either by working on openrc features to emulate the same > things that systemd has that GNOME requires, or split things out of > GNOME so that it

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Michael Weber
Citing from Pachos blog, "[...] we are now forcing people to *run* systemd to be able to properly run Gnome 3.8, otherwise power management and multiseat support are lost, [...]" [1]. Pacho, would you accept patches and USE flags to make gdm an optional component to gnome virtual? Power managemen

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Patrick Lauer
[snip] >> On 08/08/2013 05:26 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >>> OpenRC is just one init system that Gentoo supports. Gentoo does >>> not require the use of OpenRC any more than it requires the use of >>> portage as the package manager. >> >> So would you stabilize a package that works with paludis, but

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Mike Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/08/13 22:06, Pacho Ramos wrote: > Anyway, are you sure openRC is better than systemd for desktop > systems (for deserving the effort to keep maintaining consolekit, > that is currently orphan, cgroups stuff and any other things I am > probably fo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Vanilla sources stabilization policy change

2013-08-08 Thread Peter Stuge
Greg KH wrote: > > > See above for why it is not easy at all, and, why even if we do know > > > some fixes are security ones, we would not tag them as such anyway. > > > > I think this supports the argument that the better kernel is always > > the one with the most fixes. > > That's what us kerne

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 09:40:00PM +0100, Mike Auty wrote: > On 08/08/13 11:38, Samuli Suominen wrote: > > i'm not volunteering but I never really got why our GNOME > > maintainers insisted on staying with it instead of going with the > > distribution after it was clear logind is a dead end on non-

Re: [gentoo-dev] Vanilla sources stabilization policy change

2013-08-08 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 04:37:32AM +0200, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Wed, 7 Aug 2013 15:44:34 -0700 > Greg KH wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 11:37:21AM +0200, Tom Wijsman wrote: > > > > > Some kind of annotation with tags would make this kind of thing > > > easy; I'm not saying it is your task

Re: [gentoo-dev] Vanilla sources stabilization policy change

2013-08-08 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 04:43:09AM +0200, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Wed, 7 Aug 2013 16:19:43 -0700 > Greg KH wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 12:50:32AM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: > > > Greg KH wrote: > > > > See above for why it is not easy at all, and, why even if we do > > > > know some fixes

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Pacho Ramos
El jue, 08-08-2013 a las 21:40 +0100, Mike Auty escribió: [...] > Ok, > > So there's lots of people that don't want systemd. Can't we group > together and have some kind of an affect on upstream? Upstream > appears to be suffering the same split we found with portage, in that > the specification

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Mike Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/08/13 11:38, Samuli Suominen wrote: > i'm not volunteering but I never really got why our GNOME > maintainers insisted on staying with it instead of going with the > distribution after it was clear logind is a dead end on non-systemd > systemd O

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Thu, 8 Aug 2013 15:02:55 -0400 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > > Package updates that break other packages is not an issue unique to > the stable tree - we just have less tolerance for it there. If > libfoo-5 breaks stable systemd, then there needs

Re: Multiple implementations shouldn't block Gentoo's progress. Stabilize package combinations? (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8)

2013-08-08 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Thu, 8 Aug 2013 21:57:37 +0300 Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > > Multiple implementations shouldn't block Gentoo going forward. > > > > We need to come up with a solution similar to the above to avoid > > this... > > This is called a 'profile'. > > You can have systemd and openrc profiles, and then ab

Re: Multiple implementations shouldn't block Gentoo's progress. Stabilize package combinations? (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8)

2013-08-08 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > This is called a 'profile'. > > You can have systemd and openrc profiles, and then able to mask > specific packages... > > It is a technical solution, but won't make lives much easier in this regard. ++ I don't think that this is really susta

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Thu, 8 Aug 2013 21:38:55 +0300 Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 9:26 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > > > Not necessarily, one can opt to mask this combination and stabilize > > this combination later by removing the mask; it's an implementation > > detail, but certainly there's no need t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> > Stability is about the quality of the ebuilds and the user >> > experience in general. It is not a statement that all Gentoo >> > developers think that the package is useful. Many woul

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 9:58 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 08/08/13 21:23, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: >> >> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 9:08 PM, Samuli Suominen >> wrote: >>> >>> On 08/08/13 20:57, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > > Stab

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 08/08/13 21:23, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 9:08 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 08/08/13 20:57, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: Stability is about the quality of the ebuilds and the user experience in general. It is not a statement

Re: Multiple implementations shouldn't block Gentoo's progress. Stabilize package combinations? (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8)

2013-08-08 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 9:47 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Thu, 8 Aug 2013, 20:57:18 +0300 > Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > >> If from now on, a bug with systemd of new version of a package blocks >> that package stabilization, it means that all developers must support >> systemd. So having systemd stable is

Multiple implementations shouldn't block Gentoo's progress. Stabilize package combinations? (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8)

2013-08-08 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Thu, 8 Aug 2013, 20:57:18 +0300 Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > If from now on, a bug with systemd of new version of a package blocks > that package stabilization, it means that all developers must support > systemd. So having systemd stable is a decision that should be made by > the entire community, a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 9:26 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Thu, 8 Aug 2013 20:57:15 +0300 > Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> > Stability is about the quality of the ebuilds and the user >> > experience in general. It is not a statement that all Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Thu, 8 Aug 2013 20:57:15 +0300 Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > Stability is about the quality of the ebuilds and the user > > experience in general. It is not a statement that all Gentoo > > developers think that the package is useful. Many woul

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 9:08 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 08/08/13 20:57, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: >> >> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >>> >>> Stability is about the quality of the ebuilds and the user experience >>> in general. It is not a statement that all Gentoo developers

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Thu, 8 Aug 2013 13:41:02 -0400 Rich Freeman wrote: > > This isn't a good example, because the PMS compliance governs over > > this. > > PMS really only covers the format of the ebuilds themselves, and stuff > like built-in functions that these rely on - the interface between > ebuilds and pac

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: KDE/semantic-desktop

2013-08-08 Thread Chris Reffett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/08/2013 01:52 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Martin Vaeth > wrote: >> Sorry for reposting: Somehow the first line got lost making the >> whole posting not understandable... >> >> Andreas K. Huettel wrote: >>> >>> a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 08/08/13 20:57, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: Stability is about the quality of the ebuilds and the user experience in general. It is not a statement that all Gentoo developers think that the package is useful. Many would say that nobody should be

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 12:52 PM, hasufell wrote: > On 08/08/2013 06:48 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: >> El jue, 08-08-2013 a las 18:36 +0200, hasufell escribió: >> [...] >>> I am only talking about stabilization here, maybe that wasn't clear enough? >>> >>> The virtual is in @system and the default pre-i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > Stability is about the quality of the ebuilds and the user experience > in general. It is not a statement that all Gentoo developers think > that the package is useful. Many would say that nobody should be > using MySQL/MariaDB for production

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: KDE/semantic-desktop

2013-08-08 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Martin Vaeth wrote: > Sorry for reposting: Somehow the first line got lost > making the whole posting not understandable... > > Andreas K. Huettel wrote: >> >> answer is about 10 additional megs of ram at idle >> and about 2 extra seconds to boot. > > ..and two hug

[gentoo-dev] Re: KDE/semantic-desktop

2013-08-08 Thread Martin Vaeth
Sorry for reposting: Somehow the first line got lost making the whole posting not understandable... Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > answer is about 10 additional megs of ram at idle > and about 2 extra seconds to boot. ..and two huge database servers which lots of disk and ram space and a huge was

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Thu, 08 Aug 2013 18:36:24 +0200 > hasufell wrote: >> On 08/08/2013 05:26 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> > OpenRC is just one init system that Gentoo supports. Gentoo does >> > not require the use of OpenRC any more than it requires the use of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Pacho Ramos
El jue, 08-08-2013 a las 18:52 +0200, hasufell escribió: > On 08/08/2013 06:48 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > El jue, 08-08-2013 a las 18:36 +0200, hasufell escribió: > > [...] > >> I am only talking about stabilization here, maybe that wasn't clear enough? > >> > >> The virtual is in @system and the d

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/08/13 12:24 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > El jue, 08-08-2013 a las 12:20 -0400, Ian Stakenvicius escribió: > [...] >> Somewhat related question -- a new(?) profile was mentioned as >> being required for gnome-3 ; if this is definitely happening, >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Thu, 08 Aug 2013 18:36:24 +0200 hasufell wrote: > On 08/08/2013 05:23 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > > Look into stage3. > Not sure which bits or bytes of stage3 you are referring to; but it coming as default doesn't mean that it advertises it. What's so problematic about replacing something that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread hasufell
On 08/08/2013 06:48 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > El jue, 08-08-2013 a las 18:36 +0200, hasufell escribió: > [...] >> I am only talking about stabilization here, maybe that wasn't clear enough? >> >> The virtual is in @system and the default pre-installed implementation >> is INCOMPATIBLE with gnome-3.8

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Pacho Ramos
El jue, 08-08-2013 a las 18:36 +0200, hasufell escribió: [...] > I am only talking about stabilization here, maybe that wasn't clear enough? > > The virtual is in @system and the default pre-installed implementation > is INCOMPATIBLE with gnome-3.8. Until that is solved (in what way I > don't care

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread hasufell
On 08/08/2013 05:23 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Thu, 08 Aug 2013 16:56:16 +0200 > hasufell wrote: > >> Gentoo supports systemd, fine. Still, OpenRC is our default >> implementation and I don't think something should be called stable _on >> gentoo_ that doesn't work with the system tools we have d

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Pacho Ramos
El jue, 08-08-2013 a las 12:20 -0400, Ian Stakenvicius escribió: [...] > Somewhat related question -- a new(?) profile was mentioned as being > required for gnome-3 ; if this is definitely happening, would it be a > good idea to mask gnome in the other profiles? Would that help with > the migratio

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/08/13 12:13 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > El jue, 08-08-2013 a las 12:02 -0400, Rich Freeman escribió: >> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Ian Stakenvicius >> wrote: >>> It may be pertinent for this reason (a "smoother" upgrade path) >>> and this r

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Pacho Ramos
El jue, 08-08-2013 a las 12:02 -0400, Rich Freeman escribió: > On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > > It may be pertinent for this reason (a "smoother" upgrade path) and > > this reason alone, to stabilize gnome-3.6 first -- just to get into > > gnome3 (and get gnome-2 remove

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread William Hubbs
On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 12:05:02PM -0400, Alex Xu wrote: > On 08/08/13 11:26 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > Honestly, we're probably getting to the point where we should offer a > > choice of init systems in our handbook. It doesn't make sense for > > Gnome users to go configuring openrc in the handb

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Alex Xu
On 08/08/13 11:26 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > Honestly, we're probably getting to the point where we should offer a > choice of init systems in our handbook. It doesn't make sense for > Gnome users to go configuring openrc in the handbook only to throw out > all that work and start over with systemd

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > It may be pertinent for this reason (a "smoother" upgrade path) and > this reason alone, to stabilize gnome-3.6 first -- just to get into > gnome3 (and get gnome-2 removed) without having to also deal with the > systemd migration at the sa

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Pacho Ramos
El jue, 08-08-2013 a las 11:40 -0400, Ian Stakenvicius escribió: [...] > That makes a lot of sense, and on that basis keeping gnome-3.8+ in > ~arch is probably not warranted. HOWEVER, part of keeping things > stable is also a stable upgrade path, and -at least at this point- it > is -not- trivial

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Tom Wijsman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 08 Aug 2013 11:40:58 -0400 Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 08/08/13 11:16 AM, Damien Levac wrote: > > Just a user point of view: > > > > When a user decide to restrict the packages on his s

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/08/13 11:16 AM, Damien Levac wrote: > Just a user point of view: > > When a user decide to restrict the packages on his system to > "stable", I think the user expect stability in the sense works > properly under most (if not all) situations.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Thu, 08 Aug 2013 16:56:16 +0200 hasufell wrote: > Gentoo supports systemd, fine. Still, OpenRC is our default > implementation and I don't think something should be called stable _on > gentoo_ that doesn't work with the system tools we have designed and > advertise. Gentoo advertises choice [

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 10:56 AM, hasufell wrote: > Gentoo supports systemd, fine. Still, OpenRC is our default > implementation and I don't think something should be called stable _on > gentoo_ that doesn't work with the system tools we have designed and > advertise. If a package requires libav s

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Damien Levac
Just a user point of view: When a user decide to restrict the packages on his system to "stable", I think the user expect stability in the sense works properly under most (if not all) situations. Therefore, for a user, if real stability demand a lot of restriction, it is a price to pay. I think it

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread William Hubbs
On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 01:19:34AM -0500, Daniel Campbell wrote: > On 08/07/2013 10:16 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > Also, I think we should stop spending a lot of time trying to keep it > > working with openrc, we simply don't have resources to do that at the > > moment (even Debian/Ubuntu people are

[gentoo-dev] Re: KDE/semantic-desktop

2013-08-08 Thread Martin Vaeth
Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > answer is about 10 additional megs of ram at idle > and about 2 extra seconds to boot. huge waste of compile time (not so much for KDE but more for the databases), opening to all sort of possible attacks by bugs in these databases whose servers need to be running etc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread hasufell
On 08/08/2013 04:34 PM, Ben Kohler wrote: > > As for the stabilization issue-- it seems like most people against > stabilization just want ~arch as a barrier or "whoa, wait up a sec" warning > to stable users don't stumble upon systemd, which makes sense. But I think > there are better ways to ac

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2013-08-08, o godz. 17:10:24 Alon Bar-Lev napisał(a): > On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Fabio Erculiani wrote: > > Moreover, the lvm problem is caused by a very ancient and ill decision > > about doing what upstream tells you to avoid: have mdev in the > > initramfs and udev on the final pi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Ben Kohler
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 9:17 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote: > > > Any users trying this sidegrade will be left without support and risk > being ridiculed by annoyed bystanders. > > There are many of us supporting systemd + gnome 3.8 in #gentoo right now today, and I am strongly discouraging this "ridicul

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Fabio Erculiani
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Fabio Erculiani wrote: >> Moreover, the lvm problem is caused by a very ancient and ill decision >> about doing what upstream tells you to avoid: have mdev in the >> initramfs and udev on the final pivot rooted

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 08/08/2013 10:01 PM, Fabio Erculiani wrote: > On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 1:49 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote: >> >> Seeing the noise in #gentoo from people getting whacked in the kidney by >> the systemd sidegrade ... that's a very optimistic decision. > > Yes it is, because our policy has always been to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Fabio Erculiani wrote: > Moreover, the lvm problem is caused by a very ancient and ill decision > about doing what upstream tells you to avoid: have mdev in the > initramfs and udev on the final pivot rooted system. This was just > looking for troubles but the smart

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Fabio Erculiani
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 1:49 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote: > > Seeing the noise in #gentoo from people getting whacked in the kidney by > the systemd sidegrade ... that's a very optimistic decision. Yes it is, because our policy has always been to follow upstream as much as possible. So your sarcasm is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Thu, 8 Aug 2013 07:19:39 -0400 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 5:43 AM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > > On Thu, 08 Aug 2013 11:29:06 +0200 > > hasufell wrote: > > > >> Leave it in ~arch forever, because it is incompatible with system > >> packages. (virtual/service-manager) > > > > But c

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 5:45 AM, hasufell wrote: > On 08/08/2013 08:21 AM, Duncan wrote: >> >> None-the-less, I do understand the problem of a gentoo project supporting >> an option no devs on the project are actually interested in running. > > I do not. If that is the policy, then the project is d

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 5:43 AM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Thu, 08 Aug 2013 11:29:06 +0200 > hasufell wrote: > >> Leave it in ~arch forever, because it is incompatible with system >> packages. (virtual/service-manager) > > But compatible with virtual/service-manager[-prefix,kernel_linux]. > > Jokes

Re: [gentoo-dev] renaming gentoo-oldnet

2013-08-08 Thread Marc Schiffbauer
Am Mittwoch, 7. August 2013, 12:00:57 schrieb William Hubbs: > On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 11:26:16AM -0500, William Hubbs wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 10:09:54PM +, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > > > I'm replying the start of this thread, rather than picking a single > > > person to respond to. I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 08/08/13 12:39, Ben de Groot wrote: On 7 August 2013 20:45, Michael Weber wrote: Greetings, Gnome Herd decided to target stablilization of 3.8 [1] which requires systemd. What are the reasons to stable 3.8 and not 3.6, a version w/o this restriction, enabling all non systemd users to profi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 08/08/13 13:05, Michał Górny wrote: Dnia 2013-08-08, o godz. 11:29:06 hasufell napisał(a): On 08/08/2013 01:49 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote: Seeing the noise in #gentoo from people getting whacked in the kidney by the systemd sidegrade ... that's a very optimistic decision. It'll cause lots of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2013-08-08, o godz. 11:29:06 hasufell napisał(a): > On 08/08/2013 01:49 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote: > > Seeing the noise in #gentoo from people getting whacked in the kidney by > > the systemd sidegrade ... that's a very optimistic decision. > > > > It'll cause lots of pain for users that sudd

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Thu, 8 Aug 2013 17:39:25 +0800 Ben de Groot wrote: > On 7 August 2013 20:45, Michael Weber wrote: > > Gnome Herd decided to target stablilization of 3.8 [1] which > > requires systemd. > > > > What are the reasons to stable 3.8 and not 3.6, a version w/o this > > restriction, enabling all non

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Thu, 08 Aug 2013 11:29:06 +0200 hasufell wrote: > Leave it in ~arch forever, because it is incompatible with system > packages. (virtual/service-manager) But compatible with virtual/service-manager[-prefix,kernel_linux]. Jokes aside; I'm not aware of any requirement to be compatible with thi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread hasufell
On 08/08/2013 08:21 AM, Duncan wrote: > > None-the-less, I do understand the problem of a gentoo project supporting > an option no devs on the project are actually interested in running. I do not. If that is the policy, then the project is doing something wrong.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Ben de Groot
On 7 August 2013 20:45, Michael Weber wrote: > Greetings, > > Gnome Herd decided to target stablilization of 3.8 [1] which requires > systemd. > > What are the reasons to stable 3.8 and not 3.6, a version w/o this > restriction, enabling all non systemd users to profit from this > eye-candy as wel

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Response to a "friendly note" about changing bug reports

2013-08-08 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Thu, 08 Aug 2013 16:30:50 +1000 Michael Palimaka wrote: > On 8/08/2013 07:52, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote: > > Guys, please, if you want to bikeshed about bug summary, please do > > it in a constructive way and get the automated bug assignment > > project going. > I think at least one bug wran

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread hasufell
On 08/08/2013 01:49 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote: > On 08/07/2013 09:14 PM, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote: >> On Wed, 2013-08-07 at 14:45 +0200, Michael Weber wrote: >>> Greetings, >>> >>> Gnome Herd decided to target stablilization of 3.8 [1] which requires >>> systemd. >>> >>> What are the reasons to sta

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Duncan
Duncan posted on Thu, 08 Aug 2013 08:27:58 + as excerpted: > Daniel Campbell posted on Thu, 08 Aug 2013 01:26:47 -0500 as excerpted: > >> [Duncan wrote...] Ooopps! That too... WAS intended to be sent privately. I goofed! Sorry everyone! (Note to self, change the followup BEFORE you start

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Duncan
Daniel Campbell posted on Thu, 08 Aug 2013 01:26:47 -0500 as excerpted: > [Duncan wrote...] >> Gentoo/gnome is simply working with what upstream gnome gives them, >> which for gentoo/gnome users now means a choice between gnome with >> systemd and if no systemd, no gnome either. Upstream decision

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removing support for Python 2.5, 3.1 and PyPy 1.9

2013-08-08 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2013-08-08, o godz. 00:26:26 "Robin H. Johnson" napisał(a): > On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 01:56:58AM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > > Hello, fellow developers. > > > > On behalf of Python team, I would like to announce that we're > > officially discontinuing support for Python 2.5, Python 3.1 > >

KDE/semantic-desktop, was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Donnerstag, 8. August 2013, 08:21:47 schrieb Duncan: > ... > > [Those uninterested in gentoo/kde can stop reading here, as the rest of > the post is a complaint about that project not taking the same position.] > > Gentoo/kde users would be so lucky! > > As a gentoo/kde-er, I *WISH* the gento