Re: [gentoo-dev] Update on the 23.0 profiles

2024-04-07 Thread Alex Boag-Munroe
On Sun, 7 Apr 2024 at 22:09, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > What I am saying is that I want the freedom to not have things > pointlessly enabled on my systems, because similar problems (and worse) > happen all day every day. The less exposure I have, the better. The > liblzma backdoor was timely

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: games-util/heroic-bin

2024-03-11 Thread Alex Boag-Munroe
On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 at 12:31, Maciej Barć wrote: > > The following packages are now looking for a new maintainer: > > - games-util/heroic-bin - 0 open bugs, binary package, needs manual testing > > -- > Have a great day! > > ~ Maciej XGQT Barć > > x...@gentoo.org > Gentoo Linux developer >

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo

2024-02-27 Thread Alex Boag-Munroe
On Tue, 27 Feb 2024 at 15:21, Kenton Groombridge wrote: > > On 24/02/27 03:45PM, Michał Górny wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Given the recent spread of the "AI" bubble, I think we really need to > > look into formally addressing the related concerns. In my opinion, > > at this point the only

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Setting default HOME_MODE in /etc/login.defs

2024-02-10 Thread Alex Boag-Munroe
On Sun, 11 Feb 2024 at 02:12, Eli Schwartz wrote: > - someone who added another account to their user group probably did so > with the expectation that they'd be sharing files with that other > account, and 700 mode in particular feels like going against that This change of default would

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Setting default HOME_MODE in /etc/login.defs

2024-02-10 Thread Alex Boag-Munroe
On Sat, 10 Feb 2024 at 23:52, John Helmert III wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 05:57:08PM +0100, Daniel Simionato wrote: > > Hello, > > I'd like to start a discussion regarding setting HOME_MODE by default in > > the /etc/login.defs file (owned by sys-apps/shadow package). > > > > Upstream

Re: [gentoo-dev] Update on 23.0 profiles

2023-11-26 Thread Alex Boag-Munroe
On Sat, 25 Nov 2023 at 23:27, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > * A draft upgrade document exists. > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Toolchain/23.0_update_instructions I can't edit the draft so just to mention here, there's references made to an update table at

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Standard parsable format for profiles/package.mask file

2023-09-23 Thread Alex Boag-Munroe
On Sat, 23 Sept 2023 at 08:03, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > This seems rather restrictive, adds unnecessary redundancy, and would > make it hard to type an entry without the aid of special tools. > > Also, there are other files like use.mask which probably shouldn't have > a completely different

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Standard parsable format for profiles/package.mask file

2023-09-22 Thread Alex Boag-Munroe
On Fri, 22 Sept 2023 at 15:37, Sam James wrote: > > > Alex Boag-Munroe writes: > > > Any reason for the parseable parts to not be in an established human > > readable/editable format? e.g. the config ini style format, or TOML? > > The only issue really is that dep

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Standard parsable format for profiles/package.mask file

2023-09-22 Thread Alex Boag-Munroe
Any reason for the parseable parts to not be in an established human readable/editable format? e.g. the config ini style format, or TOML? To crib from the OP example with something configparser understands: [PREAMBLE] Timestamp: 2023-09-21 15:07:42+00:00 Author: Arthur Zamarin Justification:

Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: sys-fs/eudev

2023-09-14 Thread Alex Boag-Munroe
On Thu, 14 Sept 2023 at 19:39, Alexe Stefan wrote: > > Gentoo is about choice, and we should keep it that way. It's about viable choice. > So what is the problem with keeping the package in ::gentoo. You mean other than all the reasons/problems given? You not liking them doesn't make them less

Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: sys-fs/eudev

2023-09-14 Thread Alex Boag-Munroe
On Thu, 14 Sept 2023 at 18:40, Eddie Chapman wrote: > > Rich Freeman wrote: > > Not aiming this at you personally but this argument has been made more > than once in this thread and I personally don't think it carries any > weight, because it can be levelled at anyone who raises an issue about >

Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: sys-fs/eudev

2023-09-14 Thread Alex Boag-Munroe
On Thu, 14 Sept 2023 at 18:20, Eddie Chapman wrote: > However, I believe what I'm proposing would not have > the result you're predicting as it would no longer be falsely promising > something it cannot deliver, > So you propose to uncouple it as a provider of virtual/libudev? What's your plan

Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: sys-fs/eudev

2023-09-14 Thread Alex Boag-Munroe
On Thu, 14 Sept 2023 at 17:50, Eddie Chapman wrote: > No one is telling anyone not to use it. The question has been asked "why use it" to ascertain reasons for keeping it in ::gentoo. Something not being in ::gentoo isn't a decree to not use it, it's a statement that it's a pain to keep

Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: sys-fs/eudev

2023-09-14 Thread Alex Boag-Munroe
On Thu, 14 Sept 2023 at 16:30, Eddie Chapman wrote: > > Alex Boag-Munroe wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Sept 2023 at 15:17, Eddie Chapman wrote: > > > >> Andrew Ammerlaan wrote: > >> > >> > >>> If someone were to step up and say they are willi

Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: sys-fs/eudev

2023-09-14 Thread Alex Boag-Munroe
On Thu, 14 Sept 2023 at 15:17, Eddie Chapman wrote: > > Andrew Ammerlaan wrote: > > > If someone were to step up and say they are willing to spend their time > > and effort maintaining eudev and fixing the open issues then sure we can > > keep it, I never said otherwise. However this package has

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: last rites: sys-fs/eudev

2023-09-13 Thread Alex Boag-Munroe
On Thu, 14 Sept 2023 at 01:20, Madhu wrote: > > * Rich Freeman > : > Wrote on Tue, 12 Sep 2023 05:18:51 -0400: > > On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 10:34 PM orbea wrote: > >> Regardless the disappointment is a valid concern when Gentoo is willing > >> to pull the rug up from under users feet under

Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: sys-fs/eudev

2023-09-13 Thread Alex Boag-Munroe
On Wed, 13 Sept 2023 at 10:34, Alexe Stefan wrote: > > It seems like the discussion got way off-topic. > To see where where at, I'll try to summarize what was said so far. > > The claims are that eudev is unmaintained upstream, downstream and has > open bugs. > Upstream, last commit was 3 weeks

Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: sys-fs/eudev

2023-09-12 Thread Alex Boag-Munroe
On Wed, 13 Sept 2023 at 02:23, Alex Boag-Munroe wrote: > > >Matt Turner wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 5:23 PM Eddie Chapman wrote: > >> > >>> Why would you think that by having an alternative in tree it means that > >>> everyone else

Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: sys-fs/eudev

2023-09-12 Thread Alex Boag-Munroe
>Matt Turner wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 5:23 PM Eddie Chapman wrote: >> >>> Why would you think that by having an alternative in tree it means that >>> everyone else is then forced into doing work that they don't want to >>> and it will inconvenience everyone? >> >> Because it's already