Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: trimming the @system set [was: adding sys-apps/iproute2 to the @system set]

2014-09-07 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Sun, 07 Sep 2014, Joshua Kinard wrote: > On 09/07/2014 16:45, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> There's neither nano nor any other specific editor in the system set, >> to start with. There is virtual/editor which I think is the best >> choice, unless we would decide that no editor is needed at al

Re: [gentoo-dev] Does the scm ebuild masking policy make sense for git?

2014-09-07 Thread Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
On 09/07/2014 09:03 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > Right now the general policy is that we don't allow unmasked (hard or > via keywords) ebuilds in the tree if they use an scm to fetch their > sources. There are a bunch of reasons for this, and for the most part > they make sense. Hard masking is a re

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: GLEP 64: Export Package Manager Cached Information. (Was: RFC: GLEP 64: Standardize contents of VDB and establish and API for exporting this information.)

2014-09-07 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Saturday 06 September 2014 16:22:46 hasufell wrote: > Anthony G. Basile: > > On 09/06/14 12:12, hasufell wrote: > >> Anthony G. Basile: > And when you do ask, is a package that's "provided" installed, and if > so, what's its metadata? > >>> > >>> When the package is installed, that da

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: trimming the @system set [was: adding sys-apps/iproute2 to the @system set]

2014-09-07 Thread Joshua Kinard
On 09/07/2014 17:57, Joshua Kinard wrote: > > As for net-tools itself, I'll see if I can get Fedora's patches to apply to > it and update it. If not, I dunno whether to import their version as a > separate package or as an alternate version (net-tools-2.0?). No point in > ignoring it when there'

[gentoo-dev] Does the scm ebuild masking policy make sense for git?

2014-09-07 Thread Rich Freeman
Right now the general policy is that we don't allow unmasked (hard or via keywords) ebuilds in the tree if they use an scm to fetch their sources. There are a bunch of reasons for this, and for the most part they make sense. I was wondering if this policy still made sense in the case of scm ebuil

[gentoo-dev] Re: maintainer-needed@ packages need you!

2014-09-07 Thread Duncan
J. Roeleveld posted on Sun, 07 Sep 2014 17:51:46 +0200 as excerpted: > On Sunday, September 07, 2014 01:16:57 AM Andrew Savchenko wrote: >> Hello, >> >> On Mon, 01 Sep 2014 07:15:53 +0800 Patrick Lauer wrote: >> > On Sunday 31 August 2014 11:39:22 hasufell wrote: >> > > Martin Vaeth: >> > > > has

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: trimming the @system set [was: adding sys-apps/iproute2 to the @system set]

2014-09-07 Thread Joshua Kinard
On 09/07/2014 17:04, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Joshua Kinard wrote: >> And thus, I was referring only to @system, not a stage3. I think an editor >> should be in @system, but as much as I like nano, I know the ncurses >> dependency won't sit well with everyone. If @sy

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: trimming the @system set [was: adding sys-apps/iproute2 to the @system set]

2014-09-07 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Joshua Kinard wrote: > And thus, I was referring only to @system, not a stage3. I think an editor > should be in @system, but as much as I like nano, I know the ncurses > dependency won't sit well with everyone. If @system is supposed to be a > minimal-working sys

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: trimming the @system set [was: adding sys-apps/iproute2 to the @system set]

2014-09-07 Thread Joshua Kinard
On 09/07/2014 16:45, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> On Sun, 07 Sep 2014, Joshua Kinard wrote: > >> And thus, I was referring only to @system, not a stage3. I think an >> editor should be in @system, but as much as I like nano, I know the >> ncurses dependency won't sit well with everyone. If @system

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: trimming the @system set [was: adding sys-apps/iproute2 to the @system set]

2014-09-07 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Sun, 07 Sep 2014, Joshua Kinard wrote: > And thus, I was referring only to @system, not a stage3. I think an > editor should be in @system, but as much as I like nano, I know the > ncurses dependency won't sit well with everyone. If @system is > supposed to be a minimal-working system, a

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: trimming the @system set [was: adding sys-apps/iproute2 to the @system set]

2014-09-07 Thread Joshua Kinard
On 09/07/2014 16:01, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Joshua Kinard wrote: >> IMHO, I think @system should maintain at least one editor and include >> some kind of networking diagnostic package. > > Why is it important that we not be able to parallel build an editor? Is > i

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: trimming the @system set [was: adding sys-apps/iproute2 to the @system set]

2014-09-07 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Joshua Kinard wrote: > IMHO, I think @system should maintain at least one editor and include some > kind of networking diagnostic package. Why is it important that we not be able to parallel build an editor? Is it such a frequent build-time dependency that we woul

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: adding sys-apps/iproute2 to the @system set

2014-09-07 Thread Joshua Kinard
On 09/06/2014 08:41, Patrick Lauer wrote: > On Friday 05 September 2014 12:34:11 William Hubbs wrote: >> All, >> >> there is a bug open requesting that we add sys-apps/iproute2 to the >> system set [1]. Originally the request was to drop net-tools, but it has >> become just adding iproute2. > > I

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: trimming the @system set [was: adding sys-apps/iproute2 to the @system set]

2014-09-07 Thread Joshua Kinard
On 09/05/2014 13:34, William Hubbs wrote: > All, > > there is a bug open requesting that we add sys-apps/iproute2 to the > system set [1]. Originally the request was to drop net-tools, but it has > become just adding iproute2. > > If no one objects, I would like to do this sometime in the next 72

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: maintainer-needed@ packages need you!

2014-09-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sunday, September 07, 2014 01:16:57 AM Andrew Savchenko wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, 01 Sep 2014 07:15:53 +0800 Patrick Lauer wrote: > > On Sunday 31 August 2014 11:39:22 hasufell wrote: > > > Martin Vaeth: > > > > hasufell wrote: > > > >> On 08/30/2014 02:35 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > >>> F

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2014-09-07 Thread Pacho Ramos
As discussed at: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=460780 dev-db/firebird dev-db/flamerobin