Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding dev-lang/perl version to emerge --info

2014-10-07 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 10/4/14 12:05 AM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
 since Perl is a fairly central package and it's hard to debug problems 
 without 
 the exact version, the perl team would like to add dev-lang/perl to 
 profiles/info_pkgs. 
 
 This has the effect that the installed version of dev-lang/perl is by default 
 included in every emerge --info output.
 
 Opinions, encouragement, opposition, flamewars? :)

Encouragement.

Paweł




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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Deprecating and killing herds in metadata.xml

2014-10-07 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sun, 5 Oct 2014 22:53:13 +0200
Jeroen Roovers j...@gentoo.org wrote:

 On Sun, 5 Oct 2014 18:30:04 +0200
 Tom Wijsman tom...@gentoo.org wrote:
 
  On Sat, 4 Oct 2014 09:18:55 +0200
  Jeroen Roovers j...@gentoo.org wrote:
  
   herdemailf...@gentoo.org/email/herd
  
  herdname.../nameemail.../email/herd
  to keep willikins' !meta -v functionality working.
 
 You mean we should design our organisational structures around an IRC
 bot now?

We should design metadata for our consumers; which include IRC bots, an
often used interface through which herd member list information is read.

If the name is omitted, then we lose that; that is not the way forward.