Re: [gentoo-dev] Current unavoidable use of xz utils in Gentoo

2024-04-03 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 4/3/24 11:30 AM, Eddie Chapman wrote: > Just to report I've been able to remove app-arch/xz-utils from my own > workstation, with 2412 packages installed and running kde. I'm going to > roll it out to my other gentoo systems which have a lot less stuff on them > so am confident will be fine.

[gentoo-dev] Re: Current unavoidable use of xz utils in Gentoo

2024-04-03 Thread Duncan
Michael Orlitzky posted on Wed, 03 Apr 2024 12:40:26 -0400 as excerpted: > On Wed, 2024-04-03 at 16:30 +0100, Eddie Chapman wrote: >> It does involve a relatively small hack and functionality previously >> provided by xz-utils is replaced by app-arch/p7zip. > > I did the same thing with

[gentoo-dev] Re: Current unavoidable use of xz utils in Gentoo

2024-04-03 Thread Duncan
Kévin GASPARD DE RENEFORT posted on Wed, 3 Apr 2024 14:22:18 +0200 as excerpted: > Fork Gentoo, or any other distros, start a LFS… In fact, Gentoo has been forked in this way at least three times. The first time was over 20 years ago, before 2004 as I remember researching it before I switched

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2024-04-03 Thread Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier
[2024-04-03 12:01:24+0200] Michał Górny: The following packages are up for grabs due to the inactivity of their maintainers: dev-python/pygame_sdl2 Taking this, it's basically part of renpy anyway (both masked due to cython-3 incompatibility). app-arch/unrpa Taking this, third-party

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2024-04-03 Thread Alexey Sokolov
> media-sound/apulse I'm using this one, can take.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Current unavoidable use of xz utils in Gentoo

2024-04-03 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Wed, 2024-04-03 at 16:30 +0100, Eddie Chapman wrote: > It does involve a > relatively small hack and functionality previously provided by xz-utils is > replaced by app-arch/p7zip. I did the same thing with app-arch/unzip a long time ago. You caught a lot of shit for your post, but I don't

Re: [gentoo-dev] Current unavoidable use of xz utils in Gentoo

2024-04-03 Thread Eddie Chapman
Just to report I've been able to remove app-arch/xz-utils from my own workstation, with 2412 packages installed and running kde. I'm going to roll it out to my other gentoo systems which have a lot less stuff on them so am confident will be fine. It's not completely trivial but not as difficult as

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH 2/2] elisp-common.eclass: Drop test for existence of ${T}

2024-04-03 Thread Ulrich Müller
This was the remnant of a 2008 workaround for Paludis (bug #517), which didn't define T in the postrm phase. Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller --- eclass/elisp-common.eclass | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/eclass/elisp-common.eclass b/eclass/elisp-common.eclass index

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/2] elisp-common.eclass: Use EROOT instead of ROOT+EPREFIX

2024-04-03 Thread Ulrich Müller
This was a leftover of pre-EAPI-3 compatibility. Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller --- eclass/elisp-common.eclass | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/eclass/elisp-common.eclass b/eclass/elisp-common.eclass index bab7250a6818..1ea2aa111d7e 100644 ---

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Current unavoidable use of xz utils in Gentoo

2024-04-03 Thread Kévin GASPARD DE RENEFORT
Sorry but I wanted to add something to what is written below: I'll insist as other did before: An other alternative would be to start your own overlay, push something to help Gentoo's dev, anything, because saying more or less "Do that because actually it's bad" is something rarely

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Current unavoidable use of xz utils in Gentoo

2024-04-03 Thread Kévin GASPARD DE RENEFORT
Helping with any of these three would certainly be reasonable. But demanding a *LOT* of work to alternative-force an already attack-reverted package, when we actually KNOW about that one, it's reverted to pre-attack and there's likely to be no more mischief there /because/ everybody's looking

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Current unavoidable use of xz utils in Gentoo

2024-04-03 Thread Sam James
Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> writes: > Eddie Chapman posted on Tue, 2 Apr 2024 20:32:41 +0100 as excerpted: > >> Yes, I have no issue with the format at all, just with the xz utils >> project. > > FWIW, feel free to do that bug-fix or package-bump if you'd rather instead > of reading this long

[gentoo-dev] Re: Current unavoidable use of xz utils in Gentoo

2024-04-03 Thread Duncan
Eddie Chapman posted on Tue, 2 Apr 2024 20:32:41 +0100 as excerpted: > Yes, I have no issue with the format at all, just with the xz utils > project. FWIW, feel free to do that bug-fix or package-bump if you'd rather instead of reading this long thing! I won't complain! =:^) IMO... The thing

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2024-04-03 Thread Michał Górny
The following packages are looking for a new home: net-irc/limnoria net-irc/limnoria-plugins-chantracker net-irc/limnoria-plugins-jlu5 net-irc/limnoria-plugins-progval sys-apps/kcheck sys-apps/the_silver_searcher x11-wm/jwm -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: This is a

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2024-04-03 Thread Michał Górny
The following packages are up for grabs due to the inactivity of their maintainers: acct-group/oprofile acct-group/privoxy acct-group/sobexsrv acct-user/oprofile acct-user/privoxy acct-user/sobexsrv app-admin/apg app-admin/clsync app-admin/cpulimit app-arch/unrpa app-doc/e16-docs

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2024-04-03 Thread Michał Górny
The following packages are now looking for a new maintainer due to the previous maintainer being inactive: acct-group/zeppelin acct-user/zeppelin app-admin/pydf app-doc/diveintopython app-misc/cpipe app-misc/i2bits app-misc/pfm app-misc/screenfetch app-misc/sl app-misc/ttyrec app-misc/vifm

[gentoo-dev] maintainer-needed: dev-python/thrift

2024-04-03 Thread Fabian Groffen
I do not have any means to test/use this anymore, so I'm forced to drop it to maintainer-needed. It has bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/928502 open for an update and ebuild improvements. Fabian On 01-04-2022 14:56:15 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote: > Dropped this mask again, I missed a dep in the