Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages

2010-03-13 Thread Doktor Notor
On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:34:22 +0100 Matti Bickel wrote: > I have found 4 bugs assigned to treeclea...@gentoo.org, but i'm sure i > missed something. > If you have time to spare, bugs assigned to maintainer-needed@ and often rotting in bugzilla for ages despite having patches included will give y

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages pulling in python-3*, also they dont require it

2010-03-18 Thread Doktor Notor
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:27:50 +0100 Ben de Groot wrote: > > Since the last option will take time in any case, I guess the first > > option is the best to achieve the desired goal: make sure Python 3 > > stays as far away as possible from any system that doesn't need it. > > And the best way to do

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages pulling in python-3*, also they dont require it

2010-03-19 Thread Doktor Notor
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:02:44 -0500 Dale wrote: > Because in my opinion, portage is the first thing in line to keep a > system sane. Installing packages that are not needed means that > portage fails on that. So in your example, portage fails to do its > due diligence and it falls to the users

[gentoo-dev] Add LDFLAGS="-Wl,--hash-style=gnu" to developer profile's make.defaults

2010-03-20 Thread Doktor Notor
The amount of bugs concerning ebuilds that ignore LDFLAGS suggests that this would be a good idea, b/c it seems a many maintainers are completely unaware that their ebuilds do not respect LDFLAGS - so I guess this needs more visibility. P.S. If you wonder why this flag then check /usr/lib/portage/

Re: [gentoo-dev] Add LDFLAGS="-Wl,--hash-style=gnu" to developer profile's make.defaults

2010-03-20 Thread Doktor Notor
On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:52:36 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote: > remind me again why this matters ? binutils has been defaulting to > hash- style=both for quite a while now. > -mike Well, I already tried in my P.S. but let me try again: I'm not suggesting that devs should have more optimized binaries

Re: [gentoo-dev] Add LDFLAGS="-Wl,--hash-style=gnu" to developer profile's make.defaults

2010-03-21 Thread Doktor Notor
On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:04:01 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote: > forcing gnu-only hashes breaks some systems, and is a relatively > "newish" flag, so it isnt a candidate for global enabling. > -mike Well... am I really so difficult to understand? I do *NOT* want it globally enabled... I want it enabl

Re: [gentoo-dev] Add LDFLAGS="-Wl,--hash-style=gnu" to developer profile's make.defaults

2010-03-21 Thread Doktor Notor
On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:28:18 +0100 justin wrote: > I am probably the only one, but I really don't like the way you are > talking! Please change that, otherwise I feel to do something against > it! > > Having good ideas or pointing out correct things, doesn't give anybody > the right to talk and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-24 Thread Doktor Notor
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:35:21 +0100 Ben de Groot wrote: > I'll take that as a yes then, you are indeed disregarding the concerns > and recommendations of your fellow Gentoo developers. > > CC'ing devrel because this is getting out of hand. Looks like an extremely "productive" thread... /me poin