Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: /etc/hostname on gentoo

2016-08-24 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 08/24/2016 04:17 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 08/24/2016 03:12 AM, Daniel Campbell wrote: >>> >> That seems like a fair compromise. Those who want /etc/hostname get to >> use it, those who don't won't need to change anything. >> > > Does anyone want it

Re: Recruiting process (Re: [gentoo-dev] base-system needs developers who care)

2016-08-25 Thread Daniel Campbell
nt teams are dedicated, but small. They do an awesome job (that I am not cut out for) so they deserve a lot of respect. But it does indeed seem that scheduling and workloads are not in sync. -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 05

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: /etc/hostname on gentoo

2016-08-31 Thread Daniel Campbell
be to delete (or update) /etc/hostname and all is good in the world again. Supporting kernel-level hostname as a side effect is even better. No complaints here! -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

2016-09-13 Thread Daniel Campbell
screwing up and/or have written guidelines they can check periodically. Integration with repoman would be the single most effective way to make that happen, but I have to wonder if repoman should be taking on that much responsibility. It's not unreasonable to expect maintainers to actually visit the package's URL to make sure upstream is doing well. -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: newsitem: OpenRC 0.22 updates

2016-09-25 Thread Daniel Campbell
onf ? Not sure) It's pretty standard for most pieces of software, so it's bound to be a welcome change that will avoid some potential config bugs. -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Dead project cleanup - Merging Presentation with Public Relations

2016-10-09 Thread Daniel Campbell
g the PDF files that Robin was > recently looking for...I'll have to dig them out of the Wayback Machine, > but that shouldn't take me too long. > > Your wiki warrior, > > Maffblaster > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Presentation > > > Sounds good to

Re: #wg-stable: Reservations about a "STABLE" & "NeedsStable" bugzilla keywords (re: [gentoo-dev] New Working Group established to evaluate the stable tree)

2016-10-06 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 10/04/2016 10:25 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > On 20/08/16 08:30 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote: >> On 08/15/2016 12:42 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >>> On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 3:30 PM, Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfri...@gentoo.org> >>> wrote: >>>> 1) Stabil

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

2016-09-19 Thread Daniel Campbell
ade to automate this, and as you can see are closely > related to ebuilds, and thus fit perfectly next to them. > Why are those ebuilds not live? If upstream doesn't do real releases and can't even be bothered to tag the commit that marks a release, then why are you (or someone else) doing all th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Code complexity survey

2016-09-22 Thread Daniel Campbell
te in University of Gothenburg, Sweden > > Tel: 0046317725707 > > > What type of metadata will be collected? Google Forms and Facebook don't strike me as the privacy-respecting type. Is there any guarantee of anonymizing the data? -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenP

Re: [gentoo-dev] Working Group meeting 18th of September

2016-09-22 Thread Daniel Campbell
over such an unsecure channel, if you find any > information controversial or un-expected send a response and request a > signed confirmation] > It's a bit late, but were any transcripts or summaries written wrt the meeting that (I hope) was held? I'd be interested in reading it. -- Daniel

Re: [gentoo-dev] Developers, please work on underlinking issues!

2016-08-17 Thread Daniel Campbell
ng better? I read the blog post and all but nobody's explaining what gold does better than standard ld. That said, if it's that simple and then just requires some DEPEND updating, doesn't sound all that bad to me. -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] libpcre.so.3 - Compatibility with Debian

2016-08-17 Thread Daniel Campbell
copy > them and build a libpcre like they do for interop. > > Essentially, the point here is to see debians libpcre is a competing > implementation, even though we can locally pretend they're not at the > technical level, it works as " conceptual model " for the problem we

Re: [gentoo-dev] libpcre.so.3 - Compatibility with Debian

2016-08-18 Thread Daniel Campbell
SteamOS which is basically Ubuntu), we should probably use a Debian/Ubuntu-specific compat dir so we can address all future kludges instead of just PCRE. But really, we should be able to make it so users can `emerge -a steam`, wait a few minutes, and be able to type "steam" into a

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Working Group established to evaluate the stable tree

2016-08-18 Thread Daniel Campbell
s fast as what's reasonable. (That said I have a busy weekend ahead of me with lighttpd...) -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: /etc/hostname on gentoo

2016-08-28 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 08/27/2016 11:48 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Sat, 27 Aug 2016 23:30:09 -0700 > Daniel Campbell <z...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> On 08/24/2016 09:42 AM, Zac Medico wrote: >>> On 08/24/2016 09:33 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >>>> * no benefit put forth

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: /etc/hostname on gentoo

2016-08-28 Thread Daniel Campbell
nits need it, then they should install the file and guess the initial value by sourcing /etc/conf.d/hostname. It's none of OpenRC's concern what other inits need. -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] base-system needs developers who care

2016-08-28 Thread Daniel Campbell
outcome from this email either ;-). > > > Count me in then. > > What's the "official" way of joining these days ? > afaict add yourself to the project on the wiki and then the usual mail alias deal. -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: /etc/hostname on gentoo

2016-08-24 Thread Daniel Campbell
uation I brought > up. Whether or not a docker container should be able to access the > hostname of the host it is running on is a separate question. > > William > That seems like a fair compromise. Those who want /etc/hostname get to use it, those who don't won't need to change anyt

Re: [gentoo-dev] SRC_URI="gogdownloader://..."

2016-10-02 Thread Daniel Campbell
or some other location and have their own set of problems like bundled-libs and so on. None of this is aimed at you specifically, chewi. I think your idea here is good and I'm sure the pickier people among us can find a good way to make GOG games packageable while also retaining quality ebuilds. I would join you in the games team if there were docs or guidelines, or even a group of people who could give solid, _constructive_ criticism on game ebuilds. -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] tmpfiles: call for testers

2016-11-08 Thread Daniel Campbell
un. > > You might want to take a look at either just creating a split ebuild, > or tweaking it to work standalone if necessary. > Is that including any headers and/or libraries shared by the systemd umbrella? -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Future EAPI version operator changes

2016-11-09 Thread Daniel Campbell
we should go through some particularly tricky ebuilds and "try out" the new ideas, to see what the final product looks like. -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Local workarounds with no reported bugs

2016-10-19 Thread Daniel Campbell
n are great starts, and answer a bunch of questions. When/if QA comes across new situations and comes up with 'blessed' solutions, we need a way to check them out instead of waiting for it to hit Git and be smacked with a "this is wrong" e-mail. Just my 2¢. ~zlg -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] New project: Handbook

2016-10-14 Thread Daniel Campbell
gentoo-doc/message/892f335a04fb7e372116ca3e6b2d0c84 > [2] > https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-doc/message/944b4b36ab3883c6b223a240feb42fb8 > > Whatever structure that will allow wiki building to continue and reduce any possible confusion is a win in my book. Devs interested would need t

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Dead project cleanup - Merging Presentation with Public Relations

2016-10-15 Thread Daniel Campbell
y/etc. > > MJE > I think the 'canonical' copies should be stored on Gentoo infra (and linked to first) with archive.org, Youtube, et al as mirrors. If we're going to push media, it shouldn't be closed media, imo. -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Package file name requirement for binary ebuilds

2016-10-23 Thread Daniel Campbell
e-by side is a usecase I can't see > being useful to anybody. > +1 It sounds like a good intention, but users who don't check that sort of thing likely don't care or won't know which decision is "right" for them. Metadata makes the most sense, as that's the entire point of _met

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dealing with GitHub Pull Requests the easy way

2016-10-23 Thread Daniel Campbell
y" for Gentoo is "I am a developer who looked at the code and tested it, confirming it works on my system". If an AT signs off, they are certifying that it passes their test muster. It's a more formal "looks good to me", and provides a point of accountability if the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Contributed ebuilds and copyright questions

2016-10-24 Thread Daniel Campbell
t on Google's overlay. The only question at that point would be Google's own copyright policy and whether or not its employees own any of what they produce on company time. -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Userkit.eclass

2016-11-25 Thread Daniel Campbell
ps can be worked with, and iirc we recently patched the initscript so it handles that use case. I could see a use-case for someone wanting to install a given daemon or server with a specific user and/or group. I'm not sure this is the right approach (nor do I know what is), but I think we have room

Re: [gentoo-dev] Developer GitHub usernames

2016-11-26 Thread Daniel Campbell
ard to guess which branch of conversation you're on. Of course sometimes you *want* to focus strictly on the code, but that's not how real-world organizations work. They're made of people, and most people end up talking about things *around* the code that are still important, like the various RFCs

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Stabilisation procedure

2016-11-25 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 11/22/2016 12:06 AM, Alice Ferrazzi wrote: > On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 12:55:09AM -0800, Daniel Campbell wrote: >> On 11/17/2016 01:07 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: >>> On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 03:05:41PM +0100, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: >>>>> Isn't it implied t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Stabilisation procedure

2016-11-19 Thread Daniel Campbell
t don't care can use whatever means we agree upon to indicate that they don't care. This creates a "contact first" practice, which it seems we want to encourage. If someone isn't responsive and/or away, that complicates things, but if it's a security concern or the last blocker in a big

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dealing with GitHub Pull Requests the easy way

2016-10-27 Thread Daniel Campbell
things. Would my right to keep my contributions in an overlay be infringed upon? What would change if we switch to this? It's just odd to me that in one case (the comrel deal) we're aiming to simplify, but with copyright we're seemingly complicating things for -- through my perspective -- litt

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP RFC: Third-party contributions

2016-10-28 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 10/27/2016 11:51 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Thu, 27 Oct 2016 21:49:55 -0700 > Daniel Campbell <z...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> On 10/27/2016 06:13 AM, Michał Górny wrote: >>> [snip] >>> >>> To be honest, after writing it all down, I started to

Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: important fstab update

2016-10-27 Thread Daniel Campbell
which method is most future-proof? I saw mention of UUIDs; is that what we should switch to? In my case, it's a removable drive so it may be assigned to something besides sdc at times. -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP RFC: Third-party contributions

2016-10-27 Thread Daniel Campbell
's even in my watch list), and accepting/pushing contributions seems like it's right in line with our expected git workflow. Just a thought. I like where you're going with the idea. -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C

Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: important fstab update

2016-10-27 Thread Daniel Campbell
you use, so this is the safer >> route. >> >> William >> > > I take it us museum relics still using jurassic-era device names like > /dev/sd* or /dev/md* aren't affected by this? Cthulhu-forbid Linux device > naming gets any more complicated than using UUID's.

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP RFC: Third-party contributions

2016-10-29 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 10/28/2016 06:53 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 12:49 AM, Daniel Campbell <z...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> On 10/27/2016 06:13 AM, Michał Górny wrote: >>> >>> So yes, it would probably be enough to put such a simple statement >>> somewhe

Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: important fstab update

2016-10-29 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 10/28/2016 06:00 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 12:56 AM, Daniel Campbell <z...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> On 10/25/2016 10:01 AM, William Hubbs wrote: >>> All, >>> >>> this item is about an important fstab update. In short, p

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Problems and limitations of the current version dependency specs

2016-11-02 Thread Daniel Campbell
s legible and understandable. Superficially, I understand slot dependencies, but manipulating them in an older ebuild is different than a fresh ebuild you're looking to bring to the main tree. Thanks for bringing up the discussion. -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Ban dolib and libopts in EAPI 7

2016-10-13 Thread Daniel Campbell
instead. > > Comments? > > Ulrich > Appears sane to me, though I don't work directly on any library packages as of yet. -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] New portage git sync behavior

2016-10-12 Thread Daniel Campbell
in the release notes. > Wasn't it in a news message? I recall seeing it somewhere, and made the appropriate changes before upgrading. -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Cross Post due to technical component - Thanks for all the fish

2016-12-11 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 12/11/2016 02:00 AM, Markos Chandras wrote: > On 12/11/2016 08:05 AM, Daniel Campbell wrote: >> On 12/07/2016 07:36 AM, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: >>> On Wed, 7 Dec 2016, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Cross Post due to technical component - Thanks for all the fish

2016-12-11 Thread Daniel Campbell
t if others have further questions, we should route them to the person you spoke with. -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Cross Post due to technical component - Thanks for all the fish

2016-12-11 Thread Daniel Campbell
om and yes, it'd be nice if we could all just use Gentoo. But reality (read: volunteering) doesn't work that way. If you have any issues with overlays, please, use the ML or #gentoo so somebody can help you out. -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] rdp vs rdesktop vs freerdp USE flags

2016-12-11 Thread Daniel Campbell
gt; implementation. This allows one to later replace the dependency with > an any-of or virtual, without needing to change the useflag. > > -Doug > dwfreed > +1 here. -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] tinfo flag

2016-12-11 Thread Daniel Campbell
e anything prebuilt > will work as-is, and anything compiled will be built to work with it) > to remove the tinfo flag but force libtinfo to be built and installed > -- simply make it non-optional. Additionally, we can set > SLOT="0/6tinfo" which will trigger subslot r

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Cross Post due to technical component - Thanks for all the fish

2016-12-13 Thread Daniel Campbell
nd branch off. It's at the "host"'s discretion whether they want to pull from the fork, and I don't think pressuring or forcing either of those groups to work together would be a good idea. I'm applying this in a general sense, to clarify. It's true that it can create a maintenance

Re: [gentoo-dev] tinfo flag

2016-12-06 Thread Daniel Campbell
The USE flag introduces needless complexity for zero benefit. Please > explain to me why this is a good idea. > As an onlooker, I don't see anything in favor of getting rid of it, and otherwise it seems like a normal USE flag. All that's been said in favor of removing it is just statements that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tinderboxing efforts in Gentoo

2016-12-02 Thread Daniel Campbell
ge on one of them last night... > I second that. I have a hexcore CPU and 16 GB of RAM, most of which I don't use unless I'm compiling. If there's a guide that can get me up and running with a VM within an hour or so, I'd be more than willing to pitch in some cycles. mgorny mentioned PR

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Userkit.eclass

2016-12-03 Thread Daniel Campbell
e's also our downstream neighbors: Funtoo, Pentoo, Sabayon, Calculate, Exherbo, etc As for communities, lots of places from 4chan to lainchan, various mesh network users, security-conscious communities, OCD support groups (kidding), etc. I'm sure I'm missing some mentions here; this is just off the to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Uppercase characters in package names

2016-12-02 Thread Daniel Campbell
ldn't it make sense to follow upstream's naming convention? > > I'd say keeping things lowercase makes sense for end user packages. For > pure dependencies with consistent conventions (e.g. perl), it makes > sense to keep upstream's naming. > What is a pure dependency? Do we handle t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Uppercase characters in package names

2016-12-03 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 12/02/2016 11:59 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Fri, 2 Dec 2016 23:26:53 -0800 > Daniel Campbell <z...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> On 12/02/2016 10:47 AM, Michał Górny wrote: >>> On Fri, 2 Dec 2016 13:02:48 -0500 >>> Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.or

Re: [gentoo-dev] Uppercase characters in package names

2016-12-02 Thread Daniel Campbell
e to just type everything > lowercase. I expect that's the primary reason it's discouraged. > > > > That seems the most likely to me as well. We could make a more "user friendly" feature by setting up bash completion for package names, but that sounds a) daunting, b) error-prone, and c) probably not worth the time spent writing the script(s) necessary. -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Revision bumps vs git commits atomicity

2016-12-02 Thread Daniel Campbell
of forgetting to put the fixes into all the correct ebuilds. It results in the appropriate fixes in the older package, and the new version comes with the old one's fixes (plus any changes the new ebuild might need due to upstream changes). Does that make any sense? -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Uppercase characters in package names

2016-12-03 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 12/02/2016 11:55 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Fri, 2 Dec 2016 23:21:34 -0800 > Daniel Campbell <z...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> On 12/02/2016 10:45 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: >>> On 02/12/16 01:31 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >>>> On Fri, 2 Dec 2

Re: [gentoo-dev] Uppercase characters in package names

2016-12-02 Thread Daniel Campbell
iar with Wii homebrew knows they're different, but I see your point. :) -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please retain authorship of contributed patches

2016-12-01 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 12/01/2016 02:13 PM, Andrey Utkin wrote: > On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 12:50:42PM -0800, Daniel Campbell wrote: >> I completely agree that we should credit (and thank) contributors. I'm >> not sure if I'm doing things correctly, but when I'm dealing with a bug >> and use

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please retain authorship of contributed patches

2016-12-01 Thread Daniel Campbell
patches or edits to ebuilds, I try to credit them in my commit message, often asking them which nickname they'd prefer so I can give credit to the "right" name. Is this a practice you find adequate? Thanks for bringing this to attention. It's somewhat related to another discussion we've been

Re: [gentoo-dev] OT Who runs Gentoo was -> RFC: Userkit.eclass

2016-12-03 Thread Daniel Campbell
bove. > > [2] Invoice submitted 2012/11/29, payment NET30 period ends 2016/12/29 > I just wanted to point this e-mail out and thank you for the effort spent to share information like this. This is a great step, and once we get the books in order, sharing this information using automate

Re: [gentoo-dev] Uppercase characters in package names

2016-12-03 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 12/03/2016 07:00 AM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > On Saturday, December 3, 2016 8:59:09 AM EST Michał Górny wrote: >> On Fri, 2 Dec 2016 23:26:53 -0800 >> >> Daniel Campbell <z...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>> On 12/02/2016 10:47 AM, Michał Górny wrote: >&g

Re: [gentoo-dev] Review request: Ruby 2.0 removal news item

2016-12-04 Thread Daniel Campbell
he "MRI" part, but as a non-Rubyist I don't feel qualified to determine whether it's important or not. I felt that the base profile variable mention and the bit about MRI being the best interpreter were better left out, but it also doesn't actively hurt it. Someone more experienced

Re: [gentoo-dev] Developer GitHub usernames

2016-11-30 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 11/26/2016 01:08 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Sat, 26 Nov 2016 00:03:59 -0800 > Daniel Campbell <z...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> >> A funny deficiency of GitHub is it doesn't allow for open conversations. >> You're always forced to talk about something dire

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Proposal for addition of distribution variables

2016-12-05 Thread Daniel Campbell
distros of changes like these. Sounds like a good idea to me. We could even allow technical support there ala -user, but with a focus on 'remixing' or otherwise forking/copying Gentoo. It makes sense for a meta distro to assist in the 'meta' part, if only for informational reasons. -- Daniel Cam

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Proposal for addition of distribution variables

2016-12-04 Thread Daniel Campbell
er-distro relations, since bugs would be going to the correct places. To OP: This idea looks good to me; do you have any proofs of concept for use in common places like ebuilds, metadata.xml (if you intend for it to be used there), etc? If we had a more visual idea of how it worked, maybe more p

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Proposal for addition of distribution variables

2016-12-04 Thread Daniel Campbell
r whatever will be used to update the entire tree, then submit a PR. -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] OT Who runs Gentoo was -> RFC: Userkit.eclass

2016-12-04 Thread Daniel Campbell
FOSS software; much better than Quickbooks as many > on the discussion lists attest to on a routine basis. It is in portage > and it runs on windows and other platforms. > > > hth, > James > > >> https://www.apache.org/foundation/records/ >> >> I draw

Re: [gentoo-dev] (OT) Accounting systems: Ledger-CLI vs GNUcash

2016-12-04 Thread Daniel Campbell
gt; social contract to allow us better compliance if deemed worthwhile! > > :] > Compliance with what? If others desire Quickbook support, they can make a tool to convert from ledger. There's no good reason for a non-profit, libre software organization to use and depend on proprietary sof

Re: [gentoo-dev] Developer GitHub usernames

2016-12-01 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 11/30/2016 01:19 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 01:33:24 -0800 > Daniel Campbell <z...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> On 11/26/2016 01:08 AM, Michał Górny wrote: >>> On Sat, 26 Nov 2016 00:03:59 -0800 >>> Daniel Campbell <z...@gentoo.org>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due to retirement

2017-01-05 Thread Daniel Campbell
we've got a few people who are eager to clean the tree -- and their goal is admirable -- but until we can get metrics on who's using what, it's hard to say how much damage removing a package will do for users. A thread on gentoo-user re: lastrites might not be a bad idea. Thanks for the laugh Michał. :) -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Project: Gentoostats

2017-01-05 Thread Daniel Campbell
>> -- >> ,,,^..^,,, >> >> > > -- > gokturk > > Is it too late to suggest more standard flags? `--c` for example doesn't make sense to me since '--' is used more for GNU long options. So it should be '--category' and '-c' instead. Of course that's just my op

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Global USE cuda

2017-01-05 Thread Daniel Campbell
olmod: Use nvidia cuda toolkit for speeding up >>> computations >>> sci-libs/flann: Enable support for nVidia CUDA >>> sci-libs/pcl: Adds support for NVIDIA CUDA. >>> sci-libs/suitesparse: Enable nvidia cuda toolkit for speeding >>> up >>&

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Project: Gentoostats

2017-01-06 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 01/06/2017 08:08 AM, Gokturk Yuksek wrote: > Hi, > > Daniel Campbell: >> On 01/02/2017 09:27 AM, Gokturk Yuksek wrote: >>> Alexander Shorin: >>>> Hi! >>>> >>>> Thanks for sharing. Would be nice see updated README file (it contains >

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/1] kernel-2.eclass: Point user to additional kernel removal, instructions. See bug #581522.

2016-12-27 Thread Daniel Campbell
ot; > echo > + ewarn "For more detailed kernel removal instructions, please see: " > + ewarn "https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel/Removal; > + echo > } > +1 -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google Code shutdown requires 524 ebuilds to be fixed before end of 2016

2016-12-24 Thread Daniel Campbell
kturk > > Hey, thanks for that script; it helped me find the one package I needed to sort out my gcode stuff. I had a feeling there was at least one I needed to take care of. -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] toolchain.eclass: set CHOST for gcc-config calls

2016-12-27 Thread Daniel Campbell
OST="${CHOST}" ROOT="${ROOT}" > gcc-config -S ${curr_config} | awk '{print $2}') > > local curr_branch_ver=$(get_version_component_range 1-2 > ${curr_config_ver}) > > Seems like an obvious bug and fix; is there any reason passing CHOST around

Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] New global USE flag: rbd

2016-12-26 Thread Daniel Campbell
/ceph > use.local.desc:sys-block/tgt:rbd - Add support for ceph block devices > > Suggested description: > rbd - Enable rados block device support via sys-cluster/ceph > > Best regards, > Andrew Savchenko > Do we expect the list of packages using RBD to grow? If so then s

Re: [gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2016-12-18 23:59 UTC

2016-12-19 Thread Daniel Campbell
d3bd351 >> dev-php/composer 20161124-08:09 mjo[1] d273046 >> ... >> >> [1] Author: Guillaume Seren > > +1 > Agreed. Easy to read and credits the appropriate people. -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ h

Re: [gentoo-dev] New package neomutt

2017-08-16 Thread Daniel Campbell
it would work for this scenario. >> > > The move is against orphaned files in /usr that are randomly changed by > runtime tools rather than the package manager. > Then how do we explain the reasoning for the other 50 or so eselect modules? No doubt at least a handful of them modify symlinks in /usr, and have similarly few options to choose from, such as eselect-vi. Should we remove those as well? -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] taking a break from arches stabilization

2017-07-11 Thread Daniel Campbell
in stabilization. I try to make it a point to thank people like you and Toralf since stabilization and arch testing are both time-consuming, and probably frustrating to get the tooling correct. Take some time off! I'm sure Gentoo won't implode. :) -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Ke

Re: [gentoo-dev] Auto adding packages to world was -> Sets vs Meta ebuilds

2017-07-11 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 07/11/2017 01:27 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote: > On 07/10/2017 04:37 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: >> On Mon, 10 Jul 2017 19:22:47 -0400 >> "William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt...@o-sinc.com> wrote: >>> >>> That part does not require it to resolve deps

Re: [gentoo-dev] Auto adding packages to world was -> Sets vs Meta ebuilds

2017-07-11 Thread Daniel Campbell
. The tool can help clean up unneeded entries in /etc/portage files, and would be a good fit for this particular issue. That said, having helpful messages is a good addition, but needs to be done in a way that is unambiguous and gives the user a clear solution. Hope this helps, zlg -- Daniel Cam

Re: [gentoo-dev] Auto adding packages to world was -> Sets vs Meta ebuilds

2017-07-11 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 07/11/2017 01:57 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jul 2017 13:27:57 -0700 > Daniel Campbell <z...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> On 07/10/2017 04:37 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: >>> On Mon, 10 Jul 2017 19:22:47 -0400 >> >>> A rule fo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Sets vs Meta ebuilds

2017-07-09 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 07/09/2017 06:53 AM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > On Sun, 9 Jul 2017 00:42:46 -0700 > Daniel Campbell <z...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >>> - Sets used in profiles cannot have use expansion, versions or >>> anything beyond cat/pkg. >> This would break

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pre-GLEP RFC: Automated enforcing of REQUIRED_USE constraints

2017-07-08 Thread Daniel Campbell
ed the GLEP page for "log", "einfo", and "output" with no results. If I've missed something please let me know. Thanks for the work that's been put into this so far. ~zlg -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pre-GLEP RFC: Automated enforcing of REQUIRED_USE constraints

2017-07-08 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 07/08/2017 03:29 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > On sob, 2017-07-08 at 15:21 -0700, Daniel Campbell wrote: >> On 07/08/2017 02:43 AM, Michał Górny wrote: >>> Hi, everyone. >>> >>> I think the affairs have settled enough and I've finished filling >>> in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Sets vs Meta ebuilds

2017-07-09 Thread Daniel Campbell
packages you want in a set instead of a mask. ">=" or "<=" may be adequate if you only want one slot or version installed, but the entire point of slots is to allow multiple versions to be installed simultaneously. Versioned package names in sets achieve this. > > - Sets should not have the same file listed, in that case inherit the > other set if using overlapping packages or split into smaller > -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] vim-syntax USE flag

2017-07-22 Thread Daniel Campbell
the help, I'd be glad to lend a hand where needed. (also cc'ing vim@ to get an official opinion) -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Future of gentoo's stable and unstable trees: what are your thoughts?

2017-07-25 Thread Daniel Campbell
intainers also manage their packages in various ways, could we extend this to a general element? Maintainers can specify how they'd prefer bugs or commits to be done, and an additional element to indicate hand-testing. This would solve two problems instead of just one: indicate a package is ready

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC pre-GLEP] Gentoo Git Workflow

2017-07-27 Thread Daniel Campbell
ough use cases, tooling shouldn't be too difficult to write to make up for it. I already use a `bgo` keyworded shortcut in Pale Moon to make bug searching faster; adding another to navigate straight to a bug wouldn't be much trouble. -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @

Re: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs

2017-07-30 Thread Daniel Campbell
have a machine using certbot (Rpi 3 Model B) now that I might be switching to Gentoo in the future. I'd be willing to co-maintain app-crypt/certbot with other interested developers. The catch is I don't use Apache or nginx; others would need to maintain certbot-apache and certbot-nginx. Anyone interested? -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs

2017-07-30 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 07/19/2017 02:33 AM, Amy Liffey wrote: > The following package is up for grabs: > > dev-lang/gforth > > Best regards, > Amy Liffey > I can take this one; I'd hate to see Forth support go missing on Gentoo. I'm open to co-maintainers as well. ~zlg -- Daniel Campbe

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Future of gentoo's stable and unstable trees: what are your thoughts?

2017-07-28 Thread Daniel Campbell
velopers -- stable is only a letter away from "stale", and that's fine. Some run mixed keywords, or go full ~arch. One of the core values of Gentoo is choice; why take away the stable choice? -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Revisions for USE flag changes

2017-08-16 Thread Daniel Campbell
aste, as we stand to lose functionality rather than improve or gain it. ~zlg -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing PMS to Portage Manager Specification

2017-08-16 Thread Daniel Campbell
tter or worse. It's good to see you taking part in constructive discussions! That's not intended as sarcasm. I mean it. Thanks for taking part. ~zlg -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] New package neomutt

2017-08-17 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 08/17/2017 12:48 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > W dniu śro, 16.08.2017 o godzinie 22∶07 -0700, użytkownik Daniel > Campbell napisał: >> On 08/10/2017 01:10 AM, Michał Górny wrote: >>> On czw, 2017-08-10 at 09:54 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote: >>>> On 10-08-2017 0

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/2] app-portage/eclass-manpages: Add @SUPPORTED_EAPIS tag for eclass

2017-05-03 Thread Daniel Campbell
regarding _ vs. -; do you mean the variable name? I think _ makes a bit more sense there since we use INSTALL_MASK, PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET, or other variable names with underscores. Using a hyphen would make it stick out from other similarly structured variable names. -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removal of rxvt

2017-05-11 Thread Daniel Campbell
I know anyone who used rxvt migrated to rxvt-unicode once it was stable. -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Should Sphinx really depends on PYTHON_COMPAT/PYTHON_USEDEP for `dev-python/*` ebuilds?

2017-05-12 Thread Daniel Campbell
d up with foo+1 packages, one extra for any package that has documentation. Neither are particularly good solutions; Debian has done the latter and it results in a huge number of packages for little gain. -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: A

Re: [gentoo-dev] Should Sphinx really depends on PYTHON_COMPAT/PYTHON_USEDEP for `dev-python/*` ebuilds?

2017-05-17 Thread Daniel Campbell
On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 09:32:46AM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > On pią, 2017-05-12 at 17:42 -0700, Daniel Campbell wrote: > > On 05/11/2017 12:51 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > > > In fact, I'm personally leaning towards not building docs at all > > > in ebuilds. It's practi

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] fdo-mime.eclass: Mark the eclass as deprecated

2017-06-19 Thread Daniel Campbell
an eclass, all ebuilds getting updated by the developer or team that prompted the removal of the eclass? My apologies if this is answered elsewhere. I want to be sure what's expected, just in case I need to touch an eclass. -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

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