Re: [gentoo-dev] Marking of deprecated USE flags

2013-08-10 Thread Hans de Graaff
On Fri, 2013-08-09 at 19:57 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: Also, please note that we're being specifically talking about things that are not 'deprecated' but 'removed'. We mark implementations 'deprecated' while still supporting them, 'removed' goes after we drop the support. This is also true

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving COLLISION_IGNORE (and UNINSTALL_IGNORE?) to profiles/*/make.defaults

2013-08-10 Thread Zac Medico
On 08/09/2013 02:32 AM, Michał Górny wrote: Hello, Just a quick one. Currently, the two listed variables are set in make.globals (installed by portage ebuild); COLLISION_IGNORE=/lib/modules/* *.py[co] *\$py.class UNINSTALL_IGNORE=/lib/modules/* COLLISION_IGNORE specifies files that

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

2013-08-10 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 10/08/13 07:03, Walter Dnes wrote: On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 08:27:23AM +0800, Patrick Lauer wrote What makes this situation so difficult is that it's not a single random package, but one of the bigger desktop environments that has painted itself into a corner. (Plus an uncooperative

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving COLLISION_IGNORE (and UNINSTALL_IGNORE?) to profiles/*/make.defaults

2013-08-10 Thread Zac Medico
On 08/10/2013 12:48 AM, Michał Górny wrote: Are we sure that this thing really belongs in the profile, rather than something that's defined in ebuilds? Or maybe we should have both? Well, AFAICS we have three cases: 1. kernel modules that all are installed to a common location and

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving COLLISION_IGNORE (and UNINSTALL_IGNORE?) to profiles/*/make.defaults

2013-08-10 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2013-08-09, o godz. 11:32:12 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org napisał(a): Hello, Just a quick one. Currently, the two listed variables are set in make.globals (installed by portage ebuild); COLLISION_IGNORE=/lib/modules/* *.py[co] *\$py.class UNINSTALL_IGNORE=/lib/modules/* I've

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving COLLISION_IGNORE (and UNINSTALL_IGNORE?) to profiles/*/make.defaults

2013-08-10 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2013-08-10, o godz. 01:14:52 Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org napisał(a): On 08/10/2013 12:48 AM, Michał Górny wrote: Are we sure that this thing really belongs in the profile, rather than something that's defined in ebuilds? Or maybe we should have both? Well, AFAICS we have three

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

2013-08-10 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 08/09/2013 07:37 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 19:31:22 +0800 Patrick Lauer patr...@gentoo.org wrote: Somehow I get really confused by this selective perception (anyone remembering the KDE overlay getting paludised and the fallout from that?) That's a very selective

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

2013-08-10 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 08/09/2013 07:45 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 19:39:08 +0800 Patrick Lauer patr...@gentoo.org wrote: On 08/09/2013 07:26 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 19:31:22 +0800 Patrick Lauer patr...@gentoo.org wrote: You just removed the upgrade path for users. The

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

2013-08-10 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 08/09/2013 08:28 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 7:31 AM, Patrick Lauer patr...@gentoo.org wrote: You just removed the upgrade path for users. Just install systemd. There really isn't any practical alternative. Gentoo with systemd is as Gentooish a configuration as Gentoo

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

2013-08-10 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 08/09/2013 11:12 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 17:50:24 +0300 Alon Bar-Lev alo...@gentoo.org wrote: So users will have gnome working but not any other component? How can this a good service for users? Just like we can't ensure that everything builds with LLVM doesn't mean

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

2013-08-10 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Patrick Lauer patr...@gentoo.org wrote: not must, but if I choose to run the official supported configuration, well, then telling me to go to an unsupported state is quite confusing and sends the wrong signal. There is no one official supported configuration

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

2013-08-10 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 08/09/2013 10:59 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 17:22:38 +0300 Alon Bar-Lev alo...@gentoo.org wrote: There was no decision to support Gentoo using any other layout than openrc (baselayout). Was there the decision to only support a single layout on Gentoo? Where? You kids

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

2013-08-10 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Patrick Lauer patr...@gentoo.org wrote: not must, but if I choose to run the official supported configuration, well, then telling me to go to an unsupported state is quite confusing and sends

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

2013-08-10 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 6:55 AM, Patrick Lauer patr...@gentoo.org wrote: Lots of users ran into troubles, and like in the current situation they were unable to get support as they ran an actively unsupported configuration. Since when was installing half the packages on your system a supported

Re: [gentoo-dev] multilib conversion: Please keep building binaries for all target ABIs

2013-08-10 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Matt Turner schrieb: I think this is doable, and I think I have a good reason for wanting to be able to do it. I have no idea why Tommy[D] or AxS want to do it. I've never discussed my plans with them. The main reason seems indeed being able to build 32 bit software where a 32 bit toolchain

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

2013-08-10 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 18:50:49 +0800 Patrick Lauer patr...@gentoo.org wrote: On 08/09/2013 07:37 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 19:31:22 +0800 Patrick Lauer patr...@gentoo.org wrote: Somehow I get really confused by this selective perception (anyone remembering the KDE

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

2013-08-10 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 14:12:42 +0300 Alon Bar-Lev alo...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Patrick Lauer patr...@gentoo.org wrote: not must, but if I choose to run the official supported configuration,

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

2013-08-10 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 19:04:09 +0800 Patrick Lauer patr...@gentoo.org wrote: Using llvm doesn't imply removing gcc ... Using systemd doesn't imply removing openrc ... -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : tom...@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG

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

2013-08-10 Thread Michael Weber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/10/2013 01:42 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 19:04:09 +0800 Patrick Lauer patr...@gentoo.org wrote: Using llvm doesn't imply removing gcc ... Using systemd doesn't imply removing openrc ... Running systemd as PID=1 does

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

2013-08-10 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 19:03:10 +0800 Patrick Lauer patr...@gentoo.org wrote: On 08/09/2013 10:59 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 17:22:38 +0300 Alon Bar-Lev alo...@gentoo.org wrote: There was no decision to support Gentoo using any other layout than openrc (baselayout).

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

2013-08-10 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 18:55:03 +0800 Patrick Lauer patr...@gentoo.org wrote: Lots of users ran into troubles, and like in the current situation they were unable to get support as they ran an actively unsupported configuration. Support for it is given all over the place; like for instance in

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

2013-08-10 Thread Ben Kohler
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 6:59 AM, Tom Wijsman tom...@gentoo.org wrote: Support for it is given all over the place; like for instance in #gentoo and #gentoo-desktop on the FreeNode IRC network, on the Gentoo Forums, on the gentoo-user ML as well as for bugs on the Bugzilla bug tracker. The

Re: [gentoo-dev] multilib conversion: Please keep building binaries for all target ABIs

2013-08-10 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 09/08/13 11:28 PM, Matt Turner wrote: On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: ...so, allowing for the ability of 32bit userland with 64bit toolchain (via, say, setting ABI_X86=32 in make.conf) using the

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

2013-08-10 Thread William Hubbs
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 01:51:13PM +0200, Michael Weber wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/10/2013 01:42 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 19:04:09 +0800 Patrick Lauer patr...@gentoo.org wrote: Using llvm doesn't imply removing gcc ... Using

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving COLLISION_IGNORE (and UNINSTALL_IGNORE?) to profiles/*/make.defaults

2013-08-10 Thread Zac Medico
On 08/10/2013 02:22 AM, Michał Górny wrote: Dnia 2013-08-10, o godz. 01:14:52 Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org napisał(a): On 08/10/2013 12:48 AM, Michał Górny wrote: Are we sure that this thing really belongs in the profile, rather than something that's defined in ebuilds? Or maybe we should

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] repositories.xml now served via api.gentoo.org

2013-08-10 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Mon, 2013-07-29 at 16:09 -0700, Brian Dolbec wrote: On Mon, 2013-07-29 at 18:13 +0200, Alex Legler wrote: The overlays configuration file repositories.xml is the first file that is now being served via api.gentoo.org. New public URL: https://api.gentoo.org/overlays/repositories.xml

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

2013-08-10 Thread Steven J. Long
Rich Freeman wrote: In general I'd avoid any requirement to use a non-base profile. Obviously using the right arch/prefix profile makes sense as those are fundamental config changes and they're all minimalist profiles anyway. The issues come when you force users to use non-minimalist profiles

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

2013-08-10 Thread Steven J. Long
Tom Wijsman wrote: Let's say that I were to develop a system with some other Gentoo devs; that doesn't mean we are able to make everything in the tree support that system, making it an usable tool for everything is unrealistic This isn't just any tool though: it's the core init-system. Your

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

2013-08-10 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 20:34:58 +0100 Steven J. Long sl...@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk wrote: Tom Wijsman wrote: Let's say that I were to develop a system with some other Gentoo devs; that doesn't mean we are able to make everything in the tree support that system, making it an usable tool for

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

2013-08-10 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2013.08.07 13:45, Michael Weber wrote: Greetings, Gnome Herd decided to target stablilization of 3.8 [1] which requires systemd. [snip] Michael [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478252 -- Michael Weber Gentoo Developer web: https://xmw.de/ mailto: Michael Weber

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

2013-08-10 Thread viv...@gmail.com
On 08/09/13 15:54, Michał Górny wrote: Dnia 2013-08-09, o godz. 14:14:12 viv...@gmail.com viv...@gmail.com napisał(a): On 08/09/13 13:38, Pacho Ramos wrote: El vie, 09-08-2013 a las 19:39 +0800, Patrick Lauer escribió: On 08/09/2013 07:26 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 19:31:22

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

2013-08-10 Thread Wulf C. Krueger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09.08.2013 02:26, Mike Auty wrote: I could be a KDE developer, or a Gentoo documenter, or work on mplayer. All those people are open source contributors and necessary ones, but that doesn't mean that any of them necessarily has the skills or

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

2013-08-10 Thread Mike Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/08/13 23:42, Wulf C. Krueger wrote: On 09.08.2013 02:26, Mike Auty wrote: I could be a KDE developer, or a Gentoo documenter, or work on mplayer. All those people are open source contributors and necessary ones, but that doesn't mean that

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

2013-08-10 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Mike Auty ike...@gentoo.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/08/13 23:42, Wulf C. Krueger wrote: On 09.08.2013 02:26, Mike Auty wrote: I could be a KDE developer, or a Gentoo documenter, or work on mplayer. All those people are

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

2013-08-10 Thread Tom Wijsman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 00:10:29 +0100 Mike Auty ike...@gentoo.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/08/13 23:42, Wulf C. Krueger wrote: On 09.08.2013 02:26, Mike Auty wrote: I could be a KDE developer, or a Gentoo

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

2013-08-10 Thread Mike Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/08/13 00:45, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: They thought deeply about the changes that are being made to the desktop, and they discussed it and reached a consensus about what the direction of the project is; you can usually read about in the

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

2013-08-10 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Mike Auty ike...@gentoo.org wrote: Just because companies pour money into something does not mean they know what they're doing, or that they've done their market research into what their users want. I've tried several of the forks, and sadly Gnome, because of

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

2013-08-10 Thread Rich Freeman
On Aug 10, 2013 2:41 PM, Steven J. Long sl...@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk wrote: It's also easier for developers to handle, similar to the KDE profiles. Though I'm not sure why it's necessary to use a non-base profile. We have several non-minimalist profiles already, and the suggestion seems to fit

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

2013-08-10 Thread Duncan
Steven J. Long posted on Sat, 10 Aug 2013 19:42:11 +0100 as excerpted: That's the point though: given that certain decisions are forced if you want to use gnome3 (ie you must use systemd, which in turn forces a whole set of decisions about all the functionality you can no longer mix and

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

2013-08-10 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 09/08/13 12:51, Pacho Ramos wrote: El vie, 09-08-2013 a las 11:26 +0200, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn escribió: Pacho Ramos schrieb: If OpenBSD can do it, then Gentoo can do it, too. So would you accept ebuild patches that make it possible to install Gnome 3.8 without systemd again? Only