Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: GLEP 64: Standardize contents of VDB and establish and API for exporting this information.

2014-08-31 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
ce out > linking so as to migrate PaX flags between ELF objects. VDB is completely non-standard, undocumented, and hard to read correctly. There's no point in having information if you aren't allowed to use it. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: GLEP 64: Standardize contents of VDB and establish and API for exporting this information.

2014-08-31 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
ng too vague. We should also consider > carefully the list of items we want cached although we could always > update this list later. This isn't a specification... -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] The future of dohtml

2014-08-27 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 00:37:48 +0200 Michał Górny wrote: > What do you think? Kill it! With fire! And blood! -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] minimalistic emerge

2014-08-09 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 09 Aug 2014 11:12:46 -0400 Chris Reffett wrote: > Then write it. Portage's source is available to anyone. It's quicker to start from scratch than to try to add things to Portage's source... -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] minimalistic emerge

2014-08-08 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 8 Aug 2014 17:12:27 +0400 Igor wrote: > Is there any option in emerge to pull MINIMUM packages to > get the result - install the application you need, leaving everything > else AS IS untouched and stable? cave resolve --lazy :P -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Descrip

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-30 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
ce a decent error message, given the limited information that ebuilds supply and the unnecessary pseudocleverness they employ to do it. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: USE flags in virtuals, to allow a specific provider to be determined

2014-07-29 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 28 Jul 2014 23:23:04 -0500 James Potts wrote: > Paludis has an elegant solution for this situation (-F/-A), but afaik > portage doesn't. I'd not call -F / -A elegant... It's a nasty trick that we only added because || dependencies are such a pain. They shouldn't

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 28 Jul 2014 10:30:15 -0400 Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > On 26/07/14 11:22 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > > Let's start with the easiest issue: please point us all to the > > place where you "proved" how dynamic dependencies still work in the > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-27 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
how it can work both in the case you describe, and in the case where an overlay has a substantially different ebuild for the same package. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-27 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 22:51:13 +0200 Peter Stuge wrote: > To me it seems like a simple data model bug that vdb does not get > updated to reflect the new situation after step 2 above. Rewriting VDB won't help if the user doesn't sync at the right time. -- Ciaran McCreesh

Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-27 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 19:16:58 +0200 Peter Stuge wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > Peter Stuge wrote: > > > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > > Rich Freeman wrote: > > > > > What would you do away with? Being able to virtualize > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-27 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 19:02:05 +0200 Peter Stuge wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > Rich Freeman wrote: > > > What would you do away with? Being able to virtualize packages > > > without recompiling everything that depends on them? > > > > Well that

Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-27 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 11:09:05 -0400 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Ciaran McCreesh > wrote: > > On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 16:56:17 +0200 > > ""Paweł Hajdan, Jr."" wrote: > >> It seems really tricky to correctly reason about de

Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-27 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
he complexity is self-inflicted. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-27 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
nd removing ebuilds. And this is the problem: you need to think carefully about dynamic dependencies and fully understand the problem. Superficial testing won't give you the whole story. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-26 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 18:36:27 + (UTC) Martin Vaeth wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > >> > * Overlays > >> Not an issue: Exactly the information of that ebuild > >> which *would* be used if you reemerge contains > >> the relevant data. > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-26 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 12:36:45 -0400 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Ciaran McCreesh > wrote: > > On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 15:59:58 + (UTC) > > Martin Vaeth wrote: > >> > And what if the match for :=3D is > >> > incompatible with

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-26 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 12:28:27 -0400 Rich Freeman wrote: > Sure, it might cause a "few" unnecessary ebuilds but whether your > package manager attempts to support dynamic deps or not you'll > certainly have an up-to-date dependency cache. VDB is not a cache. This is importa

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-26 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 16:05:58 + (UTC) Martin Vaeth wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > Your solution fails spectacularly in the following ways: > > > > * Ebuild removal > > Already discussed as to fail with static deps, too. Uh, static dependencies don'

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-26 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
> This is simple: The dependency is not satisfied. That isn't simple at all... It means you can't uninstall or upgrade the package... -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-26 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
be met when they aren't. So in summary, dynamic dependencies are broken, and static dependencies are correct, and the only issue you think you have with static dependencies isn't a problem specific to static dependencies and isn't reliably solved by dynamic dependencies. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-26 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
tuations with any approach. Your solution fails spectacularly in the following ways: * Ebuild removal * Overlays * Introduction of := dependencies * pkg_*rm Which brings us back to the "all people with enough knowledge already know that this is technically impossible" thing... -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-26 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 15:11:36 + (UTC) Martin Vaeth wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > Martin Vaeth wrote: > > The problems are of a different kind. Static dependencies don't do > > something that you want them to do. Dynamic dependencies are > > outrigh

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-26 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
e spec. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-26 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
been explained. However, you continue to ignore them, and you continue to refuse to read what PMS actually says on the matter. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-26 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
choose the one > with unnecessary rebuilds? We are picking the *correct* solution, not the one that sometimes hides an occasional inconvenience (but unreliably) at the expense of being utterly broken. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-26 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 14:33:38 + (UTC) Martin Vaeth wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > >> No. PMS does not specify which dependency information has > >> to be taken. > > > > Yes it does. Please read PMS, and do not guess as to what it says. > > Looki

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-26 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 14:09:44 + (UTC) Martin Vaeth wrote: > > PMS defines a static dependency model > > No. PMS does not specify which dependency information has > to be taken. Yes it does. Please read PMS, and do not guess as to what it says. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-26 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
ckage depends upon your package with [selinux], and the dependency is mistakenly treated as met... -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-26 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
es too. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-26 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 13:00:31 + (UTC) Martin Vaeth wrote: > Both, dynamic and static deps are broken. > They are broken in different ways, but both are broken. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Descriptio

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-26 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 12:54:08 + (UTC) Martin Vaeth wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > Jeroen Roovers wrote: > >> On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 23:06:07 +0200 > >> Pacho Ramos wrote: > >> > Maybe this could be solved by having two kinds of revisions: > &g

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-26 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
ecified how they are to be stored in the tree. Incorrect. > Quite the opposite, PMS claims that one cannot rely on > anything stored in /var/db Incorrect. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: USE flags in virtuals, to allow a specific provider to be determined

2014-07-26 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 10:53:21 +0200 Michał Górny wrote: > USE_EXPAND are global by definition. Naah. They're global by a Portage configuration file limitation. In the old days, USE flags were global too... -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-26 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 12:32:20 + (UTC) Martin Vaeth wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > User installs foo-1.1-r1 > > Developer makes foo-1.1-r1.1 > > foo-1.1* is removed from the tree > > User syncs > > How is this different from your suggestion >

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: USE flags in virtuals, to allow a specific provider to be determined

2014-07-25 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 16:46:07 -0500 William Hubbs wrote: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 10:25:57PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 16:23:23 -0500 > > William Hubbs wrote: > > > I think this could get complicated really quick though. > > > For

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: USE flags in virtuals, to allow a specific provider to be determined

2014-07-25 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
ator I don't know about, that > is going to need a lot of nesting etc to get right. You don't want xor. You want addition. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: USE flags in virtuals, to allow a specific provider to be determined

2014-07-25 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
and user-tested prototype. REQUIRED_USE was shoehorned in at the last minute without an implementation. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: USE flags in virtuals, to allow a specific provider to be determined

2014-07-25 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
al auto-building systems. (Incidentally, Exherbo has a both human- and machine-readable implementation, which *is* used by an auto-building system, but the syntax won't meet Gentoo approval...) -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: USE flags in virtuals, to allow a specific provider to be determined

2014-07-25 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
erienced users -- much more so than the error generated by a > blocker dep. ...and the fix for that is to scrap REQUIRED_USE and use pkg_pretend instead. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-25 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
you suggest? Can the VDB be fixed in another way to avoid > such rebuilds? There are ways of doing it, if you're prepared to make ebuild authors put in an awful lot of work for very little gain. But it shouldn't be a priority, and we need to fix existing breakages before doing something ambitious like that. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-25 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
at's not really helpful advice: dynamic dependencies can't be fixed. Instead, you should say that anyone who thinks they have an idea on how to fix dynamic deps should think about it until they understand why it's wrong... -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-25 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
ed so much "good enough" and "not thinking your cunning plan all the way through" that nothing is actually correct any more. It's one thing to get away with this occasionally, but quite another to build an entire system upon it. We can't afford more mistakes, and we h

Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-24 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
.1) > > But I am not sure if it could be viable from a "technical" point of > view :( This in no way solves the problem. Consider the following course of events: User installs foo-1.1-r1 Developer makes foo-1.1-r1.1 foo-1.1* is removed from the tree User syncs -- Ciaran McCre

Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-24 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
bility is a handy feature. ...but it doesn't actually solve the problem. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-24 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 22:05:54 +0300 Samuli Suominen wrote: > The quality of the distribution doesn't improve by killing one of the > most important features the package manager has. Uh, that's a bit of an odd claim, given that dynamic deps often doesn't do what you're a

Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-24 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
on't really visit Forums often. Users are so used to broken dependency resolution that they don't complain about it very much, and even when they do, they're rarely able to identify the actual cause of the problem. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-22 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
that with dynamic dependencies leads to packages depending upon selinux that don't actually use selinux, right? Thus triggering lots of totally unnecessary rebuilds on an ABI change. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-21 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
y when overlays are involved, and that the change wasn't a change where a saved pkg_prerm uses the old dependency, not the new one, or all the other ways this breaks. You need to think your cunning plan the whole way through. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-21 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 23:13:06 +0200 Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 22:06:08 +0100 > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 23:01:58 +0200 > > Jeroen Roovers wrote: > > > So you suggest we work around a bug in the PM which would be a &

Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-21 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 23:01:58 +0200 Jeroen Roovers wrote: > So you suggest we work around a bug in the PM which would be a single > fix. Everywhere. Dynamic dependencies is not fixable. It's an irredeemably broken concept. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-21 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 23:06:22 +0300 Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 21/07/14 22:50, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 22:42:23 +0300 > > Samuli Suominen wrote: > >> people are revbumping packages for the simplest things like > >> EAPI4->5 > &

Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-21 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
vernight just because you protest. Policy used to be that you'd do a revbump when you wanted users to reinstall stuff, and you wouldn't otherwise. The only complication is that sometimes you want users to reinstall stuff so that there's accurate dependency information available, rather

Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps

2014-07-21 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 22:42:23 +0300 Samuli Suominen wrote: > people are revbumping packages for the simplest things like EAPI4->5 EAPI changing to 5 should always get a revbump, since it causes confusion if anyone has a USE dependency upon your package. -- Ciaran McCreesh signatu

Re: [gentoo-dev] Default HOMEPAGE for packages with unavailable website

2014-07-21 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 18:22:22 +0200 Manuel Rüger wrote: > currently there is no default link, when the website of a package > becomes unavailable or never existed at all. What's wrong with HOMEPAGE="()" ? -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Prevent to need to change all keywords at the same time

2014-07-17 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
so it's an oddity. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Prevent to need to change all keywords at the same time

2014-07-17 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
icy. The PMS issue is what exactly happens if two eclasses and an ebuild all set KEYWORDS. (With current EAPIs, there's no merging done.) -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Prevent to need to change all keywords at the same time

2014-07-17 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 20:28:47 +0200 Pacho Ramos wrote: > El jue, 17-07-2014 a las 17:03 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh escribió: > > On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 10:23:20 -0400 > > Rich Freeman wrote: > > > I think that sticking KEYWORDS in an eclass is something that > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Prevent to need to change all keywords at the same time

2014-07-17 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 10:23:20 -0400 Rich Freeman wrote: > I think that sticking KEYWORDS in an eclass is something that should > probably never happen. It used to be banned by PMS, for other reasons... -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is || ( Atom... ) broken?

2014-07-07 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
ried to give them that. Unfortunately, getting software to do "what you expect" sometimes looks OK in the short term. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Multilib project newsletter #n

2014-07-01 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 2 Jul 2014 00:38:53 +0200 Michał Górny wrote: > || ( > amd64? ( I thought we were trying to discourage that abomination... -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Multilib dependencies need to have >= on least version having EAPI=5 or multilib support

2014-06-19 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
|| ( > >=foo/bar-3.5:3[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] > >=foo/bar-4.5:4[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] > >=foo/bar-5.2:5[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] > )" > > would solve such a problem correctly. No it wouldn't... Best version first in a || block. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Eclass vs EAPI For Utility Functions (Patching/etc)

2014-06-15 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
give good error messages when it breaks. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Subslots: should they be bumped like SONAME or on any ABI changes?

2014-06-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 14 Jun 2014 12:17:52 -0400 Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote: > On Sat, 2014-06-14 at 16:56 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Jun 2014 11:50:29 -0400 > > Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote: > > > On Sat, 2014-06-14 at 16:13 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > &g

Re: [gentoo-dev] Subslots: should they be bumped like SONAME or on any ABI changes?

2014-06-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 14 Jun 2014 16:16:20 + hasufell wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh: > > On Sat, 14 Jun 2014 15:32:56 + > > hasufell wrote: > >> Ciaran McCreesh: > >>> On Sat, 14 Jun 2014 16:41:51 +0200 > >>> Michał Górny wrote: > >>>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Subslots: should they be bumped like SONAME or on any ABI changes?

2014-06-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 14 Jun 2014 11:50:29 -0400 Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote: > On Sat, 2014-06-14 at 16:13 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Jun 2014 16:41:51 +0200 > > Michał Górny wrote: > > > However, this means that we force much more rebuilds than > > > nece

Re: [gentoo-dev] Subslots: should they be bumped like SONAME or on any ABI changes?

2014-06-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 14 Jun 2014 15:32:56 + hasufell wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh: > > On Sat, 14 Jun 2014 16:41:51 +0200 > > Michał Górny wrote: > >> However, this means that we force much more rebuilds than > >> necessary. > > > > This shouldn't be conside

Re: [gentoo-dev] Subslots: should they be bumped like SONAME or on any ABI changes?

2014-06-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 14 Jun 2014 16:41:51 +0200 Michał Górny wrote: > However, this means that we force much more rebuilds than necessary. This shouldn't be considered to be a problem. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: UPower upstream (git master) and 0.99 release -> No sys-power/pm-utils support anymore

2014-06-03 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
ans just leads to things intermittently going horribly wrong. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Anyone with access to genkernel repository? Or should genkernel be p.masked on amd64 profiles?

2014-05-30 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
o add a new wrong line must previously fix an existing wrong line. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: enabling ipc-sandbox & network-sandbox by default

2014-05-15 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 15 May 2014 14:44:58 -0400 Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Ciaran McCreesh > wrote: > > On Thu, 15 May 2014 17:15:32 + > > hasufell wrote: > >> Ciaran McCreesh: > >> > Sandboxing isn't about security. > >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: enabling ipc-sandbox & network-sandbox by default

2014-05-15 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 15 May 2014 20:35:41 +0200 "Thomas D." wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > Sandboxing isn't about security. It's about catching mistakes. > > From Wikipedia > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbox_%28computer_security%29): > > In computer sec

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: enabling ipc-sandbox & network-sandbox by default

2014-05-15 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 15 May 2014 17:15:32 + hasufell wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh: > > Sandboxing isn't about security. > > > > Sure it is. Then where do the bug reports for all the "security violations" possible with sandbox go? -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: enabling ipc-sandbox & network-sandbox by default

2014-05-15 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
t is a good behavior to automatically disable > something you can call a "security feature"? At least there should be > a warning, not? Sandboxing isn't about security. It's about catching mistakes. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: enabling ipc-sandbox & network-sandbox by default

2014-05-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 12 May 2014 12:44:38 -0400 Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Ciaran McCreesh > wrote: > > On Mon, 12 May 2014 17:46:57 +0200 > > Alexander Berntsen wrote: > >> On 12/05/14 17:23, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > >> > A flag being p

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: enabling ipc-sandbox & network-sandbox by default

2014-05-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 12 May 2014 17:46:57 +0200 Alexander Berntsen wrote: > On 12/05/14 17:23, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > A flag being present or not in FEATURES does not mean anything, and > > if you're assuming that it does then you have a bug. > Please try to stay on topic, and don

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: enabling ipc-sandbox & network-sandbox by default

2014-05-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
assuming that it does then you have a bug. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2014-04-27 23h59 UTC

2014-04-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
side the Qt team without > permission. Since it's not ready for the tree yet, it was immediately > removed again. So the Qt team is overriding the QA team now? Is it alphabetical? -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stable masks on multilib packages

2014-04-02 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
t; for accepting it whenever it is convenient, while silently adding > > the competing method in-tree so it's all decided now anyway ... > > Conditions for accepting it? What are those, and how have they > changed? The conditions have always been "someone has to be able to ex

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC GLEP 1005: Package Tags

2014-03-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 15:46:49 -0400 Wyatt Epp wrote: > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Ciaran McCreesh > wrote: > > On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 03:53:47 +0100 > > yac wrote: > >> What I was describing is the difference between fundamental > >> properties of categor

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC GLEP 1005: Package Tags

2014-03-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
categories aren't just "a label" for a package. They're fundamentally part of a package's name. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Future EAPI Idea: post source hook for eclasses

2014-03-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
; KMNAME="kde-workspace" > inherit systemd kde4-meta flag-o-matic user > > ^ from kdm-4.11.7.ebuild These look a lot like they're just parameters to an eclass... An alternative approach is to make this explicit, rather than having zillions of environment variables: http://exherbo.org/docs/exheres-for-smarties.html#exlib_parameters -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC GLEP 1005: Package Tags

2014-03-24 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
e current lack of intuitive GUI and the lack of statistical analysis both have absolutely nothing to do with not having tags... -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC GLEP 1005: Package Tags

2014-03-24 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 10:55:38 -0400 Damien Levac wrote: > A lot of people already replied to this question: package search. Sure, but can you point to prior examples of this kind of stuff actually working? -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC GLEP 1005: Package Tags

2014-03-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 00:04:08 + hasufell wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh: > > On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 15:33:27 -0700 Alec Warner > > wrote: > >> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Package_Tags > > > > And do what with them? Right now this is a solution without a >

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC GLEP 1005: Package Tags

2014-03-22 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 15:33:27 -0700 Alec Warner wrote: > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Package_Tags And do what with them? Right now this is a solution without a problem. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: new global USE flag gtk3

2014-02-20 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 16:41:58 + hasufell wrote: > But the question is... what sane alternative to REQUIRED_USE? That > will also have impact on a lot of eclasses. Either pkg_pretend, or Exherbo's MYOPTIONS. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: new global USE flag gtk3

2014-02-20 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
message that's produced. So really we should just scrap REQUIRED_USE in EAPI 6, and migrate any ebuilds currently using it to a sane alternative. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
it's suggesting how to deal with an unsatisfiable resolution. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Tightening EAPI rules

2014-02-10 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
d in those > checks are no longer used. It's currently reasonable to have this > amount of checks, but imagine it growing to what you would need for > 10 versions; that'd be a different story, but perhaps it is too early > to wonder about this now. Removing EAPIs doesn't help you: you still need to be able to uninstall things. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
; QA team's decisions require more than a flip of a dime; it takes a > little more involvement, as well as solid evidence and reasoning. Why? -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] games.eclass: move /etc/env.d/90games to a separate package

2014-02-02 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 02 Feb 2014 14:45:12 +0100 hasufell wrote: > On 02/02/2014 02:43 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Sun, 02 Feb 2014 14:36:54 +0100 hasufell > > wrote: > >> * set homepage to games project page > > > > Why? Eclasses setting a homepage was never a go

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] games.eclass: move /etc/env.d/90games to a separate package

2014-02-02 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 02 Feb 2014 14:36:54 +0100 hasufell wrote: > * set homepage to games project page Why? Eclasses setting a homepage was never a good idea... -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dealing with XDG directories in ebuild environment

2014-01-26 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 22:59:59 +0100 Michał Górny wrote: > Dnia 2014-01-26, o godz. 21:35:27 > Ciaran McCreesh napisał(a): > > On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 13:21:44 -0800 > > Alec Warner wrote: > > > Sorry, I work on Portage. What I'm saying is that We are free to >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dealing with XDG directories in ebuild environment

2014-01-26 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
XDG_*, well that is someone else's can of worms. Changing Portage to hide the issue is a bad idea, since it makes it harder for developers to notice that that's a problem they need to fix. Although maybe you could set XDG_* to something that will give a big noisy sandbox violation fo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dealing with XDG directories in ebuild environment

2014-01-26 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
hat people would know what it meant. Maybe we need a bit more text to clear up the misconception we see every now and again that "undefined" somehow means "it's ok to assume what some version of Portage happens to do, since the specification doesn't say you can't do

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: formally allow qa to suspend commit rights

2014-01-22 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
t; (And people not using repoman will have some extra fun!) Well couldn't QA start focusing on non-cosmetic issues? I can provide a list if you need it. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-17 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
get confused by "stable use masks". This is going to be even worse: users aren't going to understand why a noarch package isn't available for them. Thirdly, you have to decide how to deal with long chains and cycles in noarch dependencies. Fourthly, the interaction with

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
nfigs and the like. The way around that is to allow communication via pipes, still in a Unix-friendly manner. This can be implemented nearly transparently. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)

2014-01-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
orrific abuses commonly used in the tree...), and the well-documented REQUIRED_USE screwup. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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