Re: [gentoo-dev] desktop experience on smartphone: thoughts and plans against Ubuntu edge

2013-08-17 Thread Arun Raghavan
On 17 August 2013 16:28, heroxbd hero...@gentoo.org wrote: Arun Raghavan ford_pref...@gentoo.org writes: There are images available for this, btw, if you want to see how it works and poke around. I'd seen some repositories, but don't know if there's enough public to do your own build. I am

Re: [gentoo-dev] desktop experience on smartphone: thoughts and plans against Ubuntu edge

2013-08-16 Thread Arun Raghavan
enthusiasm for this. I look forward to seeing the solutions that emerge to solve all of these, and am happy to offer to test on a device or two. Cheers, -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) (arunsr | GNOME)

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

2013-08-09 Thread Arun Raghavan
configuration. He did not say that everyone should install systemd, nor that you need to support such a configuration. So users will have gnome working but not any other component? How can this a good service for users? What do you mean by any other component here? -- Arun Raghavan http

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: devmanual moved to github

2013-05-12 Thread Arun Raghavan
? Cheers, -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) (arunsr | GNOME)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to normal users

2013-05-08 Thread Arun Raghavan
On 8 May 2013 21:51, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: [...] Where upstreams ship systemd units, I don't think there is any issue. The problem is you are asking Gentoo maintainers to add unit files that upstream is not shipping. In this case we should test and maintain these ourselves,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Global useflags zeroconf and avahi

2013-04-01 Thread Arun Raghavan
On 2 April 2013 08:17, Alex Xu alex_y...@yahoo.ca wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kill zeroconf and use dnssd, upnp, ssdp. Problem solved? I'm not too enthusiastic about that. USE=zeroconf on pulseaudio is a bit easier to understand than USE=ssdp, for example. -- Arun

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due lack of time

2013-02-05 Thread Arun Raghavan
On 5 February 2013 23:58, Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: [...] media-sound/dbmeasure [...] I'll keep this one. Cheers, -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) (arunsr | GNOME)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Time based retirements

2012-12-21 Thread Arun Raghavan
of an argument, regardless of whether it is justified or not. I find that Markos' objection is not unfounded and your argument is irrelevant here. -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) (arunsr | GNOME)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Time based retirements

2012-12-21 Thread Arun Raghavan
On 21 December 2012 18:02, Arun Raghavan ford_pref...@gentoo.org wrote: On 21 December 2012 17:36, Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 09:21:57 + Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: Your tone is not appropriate for discussion. If you don't like

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: open season on robbat2's packages

2012-11-18 Thread Arun Raghavan
On 18 November 2012 16:41, Robin H. Johnson robb...@gentoo.org wrote: [...] media-sound/dbmeasure I'll take this one, since it's tangentially related to PulseAudio. Cheers, -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) (arunsr | GNOME)

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-14 Thread Arun Raghavan
a 'company' that can pay Microsoft to sign our bootloader? is one aspect from the non-technical side that I've been wondering about. Sounds like something the Gentoo Foundation could do. -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) (arunsr | GNOME)

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-14 Thread Arun Raghavan
On 15 June 2012 10:26, Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:15:28AM +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote: On 15 June 2012 09:58, Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: So, anyone been thinking about this?  I have, and it's not pretty. Should I worry about this and how it affects

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-14 Thread Arun Raghavan
On 15 June 2012 10:33, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: On 15 June 2012 12:45, Arun Raghavan ford_pref...@gentoo.org wrote: On 15 June 2012 09:58, Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: So, anyone been thinking about this?  I have, and it's not pretty. Minor details like, do we have a 'company

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Git migration - clean cut or git-cvsserver

2012-05-23 Thread Arun Raghavan
I, for one, think we should stay with CVS and leave all this git Linusware to the new-fangled Fedora kids with their fancy init systems and tight coupling. CVS was good enough for my grandfather, and it's good enough for you. -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stability of /sys api

2012-05-15 Thread Arun Raghavan
nothing at all to do with systemd. -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) (arunsr | GNOME)

Re: [gentoo-dev] epatch_user usage

2012-04-23 Thread Arun Raghavan
which touch autoconf files but my existing patch set doesn't so I'm not calling eautoreconf. Does anyone have a suggested way to handle this? grub2 checks for a DO_AUTORECONF env. var. to decide whether to run eautoreconf. This does cause some QA warnings, though. -- Arun Raghavan http

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-05 Thread Arun Raghavan
not be modifying as a sysadmin anyway. I'd hope that the things that you really do want to muck around with are provided as configuration, and if they're not, you talk to upstream and make a case for this being useful to users. Just like with every other open source project. -- Arun Raghavan http

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-04 Thread Arun Raghavan
/msg_bc91b392ee0f76376104591cdf7dc5f0.xml Executive summary... look Ma; no udev! Does mdev support all the rules we have in /lib/udev/rules.d/? The Internet is surprisingly mute on this subject, but a quick grep through the busybox source doesn't turn up anything that suggests that it might. -- Arun Raghavan http

Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for getting rid of udev

2011-10-13 Thread Arun Raghavan
framework. For example, if someone cares enough, why not write a wrapper script to track down the programs and libraries at runtime that actually do use /usr so it's easier to say these packages install rules that need / and /usr on the same partition. -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-im/qutecom: metadata.xml ChangeLog qutecom-2.2_p20110210.ebuild

2011-10-02 Thread Arun Raghavan
masking it till it was fixed not suffice? Seems like a bit unjustified to me (from information on this thread alone). Cheers, -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) (arunsr | GNOME)

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev and /usr

2011-09-19 Thread Arun Raghavan
mind should deign to mimic/copy. I didn't get that from either of the links you posted. Seems to me the systemd developers are looking at the split as a host-specific / vs host-independent /usr. -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) (arunsr | GNOME)

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] subprofiles for ARM architecture

2011-08-12 Thread Arun Raghavan
if upstream doesn't explicitly specify what sub-arches are supported? Just enable on all till someone says it doesn't work or test on all of them first or ...? Cheers, -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) (arunsr | GNOME)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Ohloh statistics updated

2011-07-22 Thread Arun Raghavan
(such as Decreasing year-over-year development activity). Updates are faster of course so our stats shouldn't be outdated anymore. So go claim your commits, Nice! Thanks for taking this up! -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) (arunsr | GNOME)

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in media-sound/pulseaudio: ChangeLog pulseaudio-0.9.23.ebuild

2011-07-09 Thread Arun Raghavan
On 9 July 2011 12:58, Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: On 07/09/2011 10:54 PM, Arun Raghavan (ford_prefect) wrote: ford_prefect    11/07/09 19:54:34 -             --with-udev-rules-dir=${EPREFIX}/$(get_libdir)/udev/rules.d \ +             --with-udev-rules-dir=${EPREFIX

Re: [gentoo-dev] Make sound a global USE flag?

2011-02-24 Thread Arun Raghavan
though I believe it's a horribly unintuitive name to foist on users). [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=354585 Cheers, -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) (arunsr | GNOME)

Re: [gentoo-dev] [enhancement proposal] Per-file Manifest GPG signatures

2010-10-03 Thread Arun Raghavan
Manifest signing, the signature from Dev A is lost. If we make the GPG signatures mandatory at some point of time, that addresses the second of your concerns. I do not understand why the first a problem - could you clarify? Cheers, -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Adding --as-needed to LDFLAGS in profiles/default/linux/make.defaults

2010-07-05 Thread Arun Raghavan
to take this threat as far off-topic as I can, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_%2B_2_%3D_5 :p Cheers, -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) (arunsr | GNOME)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council manifesto of sping

2010-07-02 Thread Arun Raghavan
, but saying it doesn't work is unfair, IMO). I don't see how your proposal would deal with this fallout. Cheers, -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) (arunsr | GNOME)

Re: [gentoo-dev] [git migration] The problem of ChangeLog generation

2010-06-25 Thread Arun Raghavan
mistakes are unavoidable. He didn't say don't make mistakes. He said, be careful and if mistakes happen, so be it. -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) (arunsr | GNOME)

Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: introspection

2010-06-22 Thread Arun Raghavan
On 21 June 2010 21:23, Arun Raghavan ford_pref...@gentoo.org wrote: [...] I'm still trying to think of a good name. I understand the concerns about introspection being too generic and non GNOME-y, but gir is likely to cause confusion. gir is not good because it gives near-zero information. I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Council manifesto of sping

2010-06-22 Thread Arun Raghavan
On 22 June 2010 15:32, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Arun Raghavan posted on Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:43:42 +0530 as excerpted: b) For questions like - Should Python 3.x be stable?, isn't that for team leads to decide? And for the council to resolve in case of conflicts? Wouldn't the point

[gentoo-dev] Re: New global USE flag: introspection

2010-06-22 Thread Arun Raghavan
On 20 June 2010 20:12, Arun Raghavan ford_pref...@gentoo.org wrote: [...] Any objections? I'll wait till Wed (June 23rd) before adding this if there aren't any. Is anyone here vehemently against introspection. -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) (arunsr | GNOME)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New global USE flag: introspection

2010-06-22 Thread Arun Raghavan
-introspection). -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) (arunsr | GNOME)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New global USE flag: introspection

2010-06-22 Thread Arun Raghavan
use_enable line. Mostly because I don't want to coin a new term if it's not absolutely necessary. That said, you're right - more people seem to be comfortable with gintrospection than plain introspection. If no further objections arise, we'll go with gintrospection. Thanks, -- Arun Raghavan http

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New global USE flag: introspection

2010-06-21 Thread Arun Raghavan
to me (yes, I know we have longer USE flags, and I find them too long as well). -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) (arunsr | GNOME)

Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: introspection

2010-06-21 Thread Arun Raghavan
figure that now that we've started this way, and there /is/ a benefit to it, we might as well carry it through. I'm still trying to think of a good name. I understand the concerns about introspection being too generic and non GNOME-y, but gir is likely to cause confusion. -- Arun Raghavan http

Re: [gentoo-dev] My council manifesto

2010-06-21 Thread Arun Raghavan
for people to recognize how they can contribute, and improving Gentoo as a whole, are all things that the Council should be taking an active role in, and I want to be a part of making that happen. Do you have any concrete ideas on how you will be doing these things? Cheers, -- Arun Raghavan http

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council manifesto of sping

2010-06-21 Thread Arun Raghavan
elaborate? (w.r.t. git migration) I hope to see Robin integrate me with the conversion process. How have you contributed to the effort thus far? Regards, -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) (arunsr | GNOME)

Re: [gentoo-dev] My council manifesto

2010-06-21 Thread Arun Raghavan
On 22 June 2010 00:57, Mark Loeser halc...@gentoo.org wrote: [...] Hope that helps, Indeed - thanks for the detailed response. Cheers, -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) (arunsr | GNOME)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council manifesto of sping

2010-06-21 Thread Arun Raghavan
On 22 June 2010 03:06, Sebastian Pipping sp...@gentoo.org wrote: Arun, On 06/21/10 21:25, Arun Raghavan wrote: My manifesto up here now: http://dev.gentoo.org/~sping/council-manifesto-2010-sping.txt For all your points where you do not have a concrete proposal of how you intend to tackle

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council manifesto of sping

2010-06-21 Thread Arun Raghavan
project (and I believe this holds for a team in Gentoo as well) is not - You're doing it wrong, let me show you how. It's a combination of, How can I help? and Why don't we try to do things this other way? Regards, -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) (arunsr | GNOME)

[gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: introspection

2010-06-20 Thread Arun Raghavan
this if there aren't any. Cheers! -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) (arunsr | GNOME)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-20 Thread Arun Raghavan
If this thread started out at some point as being constructive, it's certainly stopped being so now. Please kill this, take some cool-off time, and come back if there is something *constructive* to be said. -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) (arunsr | GNOME)

Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: introspection

2010-06-20 Thread Arun Raghavan
2010/6/21 Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo.org: On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 20:12 +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote: I'd like to propose a new global USE-flag: introspection. ... Any objections? I'll wait till Wed (June 23rd) before adding this if there aren't any. Do we really want it to be a USE flag ? I

[gentoo-dev] Re: New global USE flag: introspection

2010-06-20 Thread Arun Raghavan
On 20 June 2010 20:12, Arun Raghavan ford_pref...@gentoo.org wrote: [...] We already have 13 packages using this flag, with several more to come. The current description being used in packages' metadata.xml sucks - I'll put something more descriptive in the final flag. Here's the description

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] (infra) rsync updates and distfile fetching offline for next 12-18 hours.

2010-05-20 Thread Arun Raghavan
, -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) (arunsr | GNOME)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Requiring two sets of eyes for all eclass commits

2010-04-24 Thread Arun Raghavan
this necessary? Cheers, -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) (arunsr | GNOME)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Gentoo Wiki Project

2010-04-12 Thread Arun Raghavan
litigation when trying to protect it's logo. I think the argument is that the wiki is not always accurate, and if perceived as the official documentation, can put is in bad light. -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) (arunsr | GNOME)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Gentoo Wiki Project

2010-04-12 Thread Arun Raghavan
On 12 April 2010 18:49, George Prowse george.pro...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/04/2010 14:17, Arun Raghavan wrote: On 12 April 2010 18:43, George Prowsegeorge.pro...@gmail.com  wrote: [...] If you are arguing that the name is ambiguous then I think you are wrong. Gentoo knows about

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council meeting 19 April 2010

2010-04-07 Thread Arun Raghavan
as examples, do you want them to: a) Decide that this should be done? b) Call for volunteers? (they obviously cannot force anyone to do it) c) Do it themselves? d) What you probably mean that I fail to see Regards, -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) (arunsr | GNOME)

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Phoenix] an official Gentoo wiki

2010-04-04 Thread Arun Raghavan
sufficient review and formatting to make sure we maintain the quality of documentation that we have had so far. Cheers, -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) (arunsr | GNOME)

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Phoenix] an official Gentoo wiki

2010-04-04 Thread Arun Raghavan
, the only real way to do that is join the team, prove that you are dedicated and committed, and promote change from the inside. Cheers, -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) (arunsr | GNOME)

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Phoenix] an official Gentoo wiki

2010-04-04 Thread Arun Raghavan
On 5 April 2010 10:34, Arun Raghavan ford_pref...@gentoo.org wrote: On 5 April 2010 08:13, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: On 5 April 2010 03:13, Joshua Saddler nightmo...@gentoo.org wrote: [...] You guys should take a while to cool off at this stage. Never mind me. I missed Ben's last

Re: [gentoo-dev] proxy maintainership and gentoo-x86 scm

2010-01-19 Thread Arun Raghavan
by the weekend. Cheers, -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) (arunsr | GNOME)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Farewell, Gentoo.

2010-01-04 Thread Arun Raghavan
2010/1/2 David Shakaryan o...@gentoo.org: [...] Once again, thank you for everything, but my time has come. Adieu! Nomp! All the best for the future, and hope the irresistible urge to omp just one more ebuild brings you back. :) Cheers, -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect

Re: [gentoo-dev] About udev-145: new features / extras and kernel requirements

2009-08-30 Thread Arun Raghavan
of the above? Rationale being (1) is required to check against the kernel you're supposedly using, (2) for the kernel you definitely are using, and (3) to make sure people remember. An alternative to (2) and (3), though is to add a check to the udev initscript. Cheers, -- Arun Raghavan http

Re: [gentoo-dev] Multimedia overlay

2009-08-11 Thread Arun Raghavan
of the infrastructure on which it (the official Gentoo project) is hosted. -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) (arunsr | GNOME)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Multimedia overlay

2009-08-11 Thread Arun Raghavan
(I volunteer to help, btw) might be, on the whole, a lower-effort and more secure option. That said, Robin -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) (arunsr | GNOME)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Multimedia overlay

2009-08-11 Thread Arun Raghavan
, (at least) that part of the project which is hosted on is negatively affected. The 1-2 times that I asked for access to overlays, time taken was a non-issue. If others have had problems, let's fix that instead. -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) (arunsr | GNOME)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Multimedia overlay

2009-08-11 Thread Arun Raghavan
2009/8/12 Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org: Arun Raghavan wrote: This still does not address the original problem - if $external_service shuts down, is bought out, has arbitrary terms about content that are not immediately clear as being unfavourable to us, (at least) that part of the project

Re: [gentoo-dev] Jun 11th, 2009 Council Meeting Format

2009-06-01 Thread Arun Raghavan
Hello, I haven't been able to attend a council meeting for a bit since it occurs at ~2:30 am my time, but for what it's worth: On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 23:15 -0500, Doug Goldstein wrote: [...] 1) Agenda Topics are posted to the appropriate mailing lists at a MINIMUM 7 days prior to the meeting.

Re: [gentoo-dev] The fallacies of GLEP55

2009-05-17 Thread Arun Raghavan
On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 07:40 -0400, Thomas Anderson wrote: [...] The difference is that putting the EAPI in the filename has backwards compatibility because package managers not knowing about this change won't even look at the those ebuilds. Putting EAPI as the fifth line completely loses this,

Re: [gentoo-dev] The fallacies of GLEP55

2009-05-16 Thread Arun Raghavan
On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 16:49 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 16 May 2009 17:43:32 +0200 Tobias Klausmann klaus...@gentoo.org wrote: That doesn't let us do version format changes. Or are we talking about the *ebuild* versions? I see that as different matter. Plus: You could change

Re: [gentoo-dev] The fallacies of GLEP55

2009-05-16 Thread Arun Raghavan
On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 12:39 -0400, Thomas Anderson wrote: [...] For one, there's the restriction that all *-alpha/*-rc has to be represented _rc/_alpha. I plan on doing more research into perhaps lifting this restriction in a future EAPI, but this would of course require glep 55's solution.

Re: [gentoo-dev] The fallacies of GLEP55

2009-05-16 Thread Arun Raghavan
On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 17:47 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Ok, what are all the things requiring format-break changes that we'll want in the next ten years? Please provide a complete list. Don't care. Let's fix the problems we have *now* using solutions that we can agree upon, rather than try

Re: [gentoo-dev] The fallacies of GLEP55

2009-05-16 Thread Arun Raghavan
On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 17:59 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: [...] Don't care. Let's fix the problems we have *now* using solutions that we can agree upon, rather than try to foist solutions that a reasonably large population of developers *don't* like (even after extended debate) to solve

Re: [gentoo-dev] The fallacies of GLEP55

2009-05-16 Thread Arun Raghavan
On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 18:55 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: [...] You have yet to provide an alternative for fixing the arbitrary and pointless version format restrictions that are currently in place. Create an EAPI for the required changes, fast track inclusion to a stable portage. If this is

Re: [gentoo-dev] The fallacies of GLEP55

2009-05-16 Thread Arun Raghavan
On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 20:21 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: [...] Can't do that. The package manager has to barf on unrecognised .ebuild files. I assume the reasons are the same as below. If this is not viable, make an unrecognised version string cause the same fallback as an unsupported

Re: [gentoo-dev] The fallacies of GLEP55

2009-05-15 Thread Arun Raghavan
On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 00:44 +0200, Patrick Lauer wrote: [...] So if you were a lazy Unix coder you'd just restrict the current rules a bit so that there's only one line starting with EAPI= allowed (or maybe you just take the first or last one, but that's annoying) and if no such line matches

Re: [gentoo-dev] license issue with fretsonfire

2009-05-03 Thread Arun Raghavan
On Sat, 2009-05-02 at 18:17 +0200, Mounir Lamouri wrote: [...] I think the code can be considered GPL-2 (i will check if there is no header specifying something else) and for the fonts, I will have to add 2 licenses not in the tree at the moment. But what to do with the songs ? I suppose it's

Re: [gentoo-dev] New eclass proposal: auto-export

2009-04-22 Thread Arun Raghavan
On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 16:35 +0300, Petteri Räty wrote: Here's an eclass proposal to wrap EXPORT_FUNCTIONS with auto detection of functions. This way all eclasses don't have to duplicate the EAPI detection code. If people find this useful, I will document it properly with eclass-manpages etc.

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLI Officially Deprecated

2009-01-17 Thread Arun Raghavan
On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 17:05 +, Mike Auty wrote: I realize it might be a bit obvious to us, but from reading it people might wonder how they're supposed to carry out installs now. When the notice finally goes out, it might be worth mentioning that just the LiveCDs are no longer supported,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-lang/python: ChangeLog python-2.6.ebuild python-2.5.2-r6.ebuild

2008-10-15 Thread Arun Raghavan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Long wrote: [...] for ((i=0;i10;i++)); do echo /usr/share/doc/${P}/examples /dev/null; real 11.25 real 9.24 So that's what, on the order of 20 microseconds faster for each iteration? Or ~18%. (You shouldn't use the first iteration in

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Ability to pass arguments to src_configure/src_compile

2008-09-12 Thread Arun Raghavan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Donnie Berkholz wrote: On 12:46 Sun 07 Sep , Marcus D. Hanwell wrote: I personally agree with several others who have replied to this thread. The reduction in lines of code/characters seems to introduce an uglier syntax which is harder to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] What features should be included in EAPI 2?

2008-08-19 Thread Arun Raghavan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: [...] The benefit is that it's a logically separate action, and will avoid all the silliness of people repeatedly changing their minds about which phase should do the eautoreconf calls and so on. a) Is this really an issue

Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion: remove app-office/borg from portage.

2008-08-16 Thread Arun Raghavan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Bridge wrote: On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:42:35 +0200 Aniruddha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've filed the bugreport (version bump) a year ago. It looks like borg has no maintainer. So maintain it. You don't need to be a dev to write an

Re: [gentoo-dev] metadata.xml USE flag descriptions

2008-07-28 Thread Arun Raghavan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Doug Goldstein wrote: [...] Ford_Prefect is taking gnome-base And gnome-extra. Cheers, Arun -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkiN/FIACgkQ+Vqt1inD4uyqkACghaEJjvUKUeNS1EFHUpoWih9M

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] metadata.xml USE flag descriptions

2008-07-28 Thread Arun Raghavan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Doug Goldstein wrote: Please make sure you commit any changes to use.local.desc to metadata.xml otherwise you risk the chance of having your changes lost. I'm currently in the process of converting use.local.desc to metadata.xml. After a category

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

2008-06-19 Thread Arun Raghavan
the communication channels as open as possible, but a line must be drawn *somewhere*. -- Arun Raghavan (http://nemesis.accosted.net) v2sw5Chw4+5ln4pr6$OFck2ma4+9u8w3+1!m?l7+9GSCKi056 e6+9i4b8/9HTAen4+5g4/8APa2Xs8r1/2p5-8 hackerkey.com -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

2008-06-12 Thread Arun Raghavan
it? Nobody can magically spot every single bug in any piece of code presented to them. In fact it's why the given enough eyes ... adage is one of the bases of open source development. I _honestly_ do not understand why there is so much trouble in simple cooperation amongst adults. Regards, -- Arun

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 55

2008-06-11 Thread Arun Raghavan
-value pairs rather than one-slot-per-key, and would be relatively trivial to add to paludis. Regards, -- Arun Raghavan (http://nemesis.accosted.net) v2sw5Chw4+5ln4pr6$OFck2ma4+9u8w3+1!m?l7+9GSCKi056 e6+9i4b8/9HTAen4+5g4/8APa2Xs8r1/2p5-8 hackerkey.com -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 55

2008-06-10 Thread Arun Raghavan
comments have meaning Just as much as #!/bin/bash and # vim: ... do Regards, -- Arun Raghavan (http://nemesis.accosted.net) v2sw5Chw4+5ln4pr6$OFck2ma4+9u8w3+1!m?l7+9GSCKi056 e6+9i4b8/9HTAen4+5g4/8APa2Xs8r1/2p5-8 hackerkey.com -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 55

2008-06-10 Thread Arun Raghavan
share more details on the experiment that showed this kind of performance degradation and the numbers, if possible? Thanks, -- Arun Raghavan (http://nemesis.accosted.net) v2sw5Chw4+5ln4pr6$OFck2ma4+9u8w3+1!m?l7+9GSCKi056 e6+9i4b8/9HTAen4+5g4/8APa2Xs8r1/2p5-8 hackerkey.com -- gentoo-dev

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 55

2008-06-10 Thread Arun Raghavan
. It's just a header. !-- EAPI=3 -- Do we want to keep the spec so wide open that we support any format under the Sun that we fancy? Seems like overgeneralizing to me. Regards, -- Arun Raghavan (http://nemesis.accosted.net) v2sw5Chw4+5ln4pr6$OFck2ma4+9u8w3+1!m?l7+9GSCKi056 e6+9i4b8/9HTAen4+5g4

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 55

2008-06-10 Thread Arun Raghavan
. Does the cache format _really_ need to be extensible the extent that we're jumping hoops to support arbitrary cache formats? -- Arun Raghavan (http://nemesis.accosted.net) v2sw5Chw4+5ln4pr6$OFck2ma4+9u8w3+1!m?l7+9GSCKi056 e6+9i4b8/9HTAen4+5g4/8APa2Xs8r1/2p5-8 hackerkey.com -- gentoo-dev

Re: [gentoo-dev] die/QA notice for do* failure?

2008-06-08 Thread Arun Raghavan
it a QA notice to start with and make it default behaviour after 3-6 months or whatever time period is suitable. BTW, do you have any examples of packages relying on non-fatal behaviour for do* stuff? It'd be interesting to see why it might be necessary. Regards, -- Arun Raghavan (http

Re: [gentoo-dev] die/QA notice for do* failure?

2008-06-08 Thread Arun Raghavan
and should be mandatory for all ebuilds. Regards, -- Arun Raghavan (http://nemesis.accosted.net) v2sw5Chw4+5ln4pr6$OFck2ma4+9u8w3+1!m?l7+9GSCKi056 e6+9i4b8/9HTAen4+5g4/8APa2Xs8r1/2p5-8 hackerkey.com -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] die/QA notice for do* failure?

2008-06-08 Thread Arun Raghavan
otherwise. -- Arun Raghavan (http://nemesis.accosted.net) v2sw5Chw4+5ln4pr6$OFck2ma4+9u8w3+1!m?l7+9GSCKi056 e6+9i4b8/9HTAen4+5g4/8APa2Xs8r1/2p5-8 hackerkey.com -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] die/QA notice for do* failure?

2008-06-08 Thread Arun Raghavan
it forward. Cheers, -- Arun Raghavan (http://nemesis.accosted.net) v2sw5Chw4+5ln4pr6$OFck2ma4+9u8w3+1!m?l7+9GSCKi056 e6+9i4b8/9HTAen4+5g4/8APa2Xs8r1/2p5-8 hackerkey.com -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] merging two packages - upgrade path?

2008-06-05 Thread Arun Raghavan
of this now? Cheers, -- Arun Raghavan (http://nemesis.accosted.net) v2sw5Chw4+5ln4pr6$OFck2ma4+9u8w3+1!m?l7+9GSCKi056 e6+9i4b8/9HTAen4+5g4/8APa2Xs8r1/2p5-8 hackerkey.com -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Eclass for gnome-python* split

2008-05-24 Thread Arun Raghavan
Hello! 2008/5/24 Ali Polatel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Attached is a patch for two minor issues with the eclass. First try to remove py-compile only if it exists. Second, python_mod_optimize is ROOT aware (since recently). Thanks for the feedback ... I've checked in your patch. Best, -- Arun

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Eclass for gnome-python* split

2008-05-24 Thread Arun Raghavan
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Christian Faulhammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arun Raghavan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Feedback and comments (and even brickbats ;)) on the eclass are invited. * Don't install the COPYING file via the DOCS variable. * The LICENSE should be kept per ebuild in my

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] Eclass for gnome-python* split

2008-05-23 Thread Arun Raghavan
] http://gitorious.org/projects/g-py-split/repos/mainline/blobs/g-py-split/eclass/gnome-python-common.eclass Cheers! -- Arun Raghavan (http://nemesis.accosted.net) v2sw5Chw4+5ln4pr6$OFck2ma4+9u8w3+1!m?l7+9GSCKi056 e6+9i4b8/9HTAen4+5g4/8APa2Xs8r1/2p5-8 hackerkey.com -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About herds and their non-existant use

2008-05-22 Thread Arun Raghavan
on [1]). I really do like the herds terminology because it is unique and has become a Gentoo-ism of sorts. It also is reminiscent of Larry, in some sense (herds - grazing - moo - cow - larry). :) [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/metastructure/herds/ Just my ${currency} 0.02, -- Arun Raghavan (http

Re: [gentoo-dev] why not player/stage/gazebo

2008-05-17 Thread Arun Raghavan
, and so on -- more information at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/?catid=gentoodev and http://devmanual.gentoo.org/) 3. Once you have established your interest and ability to help, find a mentor 4. Your mentor will guide you through the recruitment process Regards, -- Arun Raghavan (http