Re: [gentoo-dev] FEATURES to cut the excess in portage

2006-11-05 Thread Brian Jackson
Look into INSTALL_MASK. --Brian Jackson On Nov 5, 2006, at 12:02 PM, John Jawed wrote: Two patches which allow a user to bypass files created with doman and dodoc in FEATURES: FEATURES=noman nodoc emerge -av foo http://jawed.name/dev/gentoo/nodoc.patch http://jawed.name/dev/gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Developer retirement

2006-10-16 Thread Brian Jackson
Or better yet, get the hint that someone was making fun of you for bitching about someone else's top posting when you replied to the wrong list. --Iggy On Oct 16, 2006, at 2:28 PM, Donnie Berkholz wrote: Jakub Moc wrote: Andrej Kacian napsal(a): Fix your mail client, and don't lay the

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42?

2006-10-11 Thread Brian Jackson
On Oct 11, 2006, at 12:37 PM, Zac Medico wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stuart Herbert wrote: Whatever happened to the work to implement GLEP 42? Is there anyone actively working on this atm? It's been on my todo list, but I haven't gotten around to it yet due to

Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuilds creating mountpoints

2006-01-07 Thread Brian Jackson
You could handle it the way the baselayout ebuild does. --Iggy Stefaan wrote: Hi! I'm having an issue with the openafs-ebuild, and I don't see a solution for the moment. I wondered if someone on the list would: Prerequisite: The ebuild needs to create the /afs directory, and remove that same

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Say no to static libraries!

2005-09-23 Thread Brian Jackson
Ervin Nemeth wrote: snip I've got no full solution. The EXTRA_ECONF way works only for automake packages. Using INSTALL_MASK='*.a' makes me really, really terrified if I think about sys-devel/gcc. /Ervin Solar had a nifty per package INSTALL_MASK in his bashrc at one point I think.

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE=minimal for kernel sources

2005-09-08 Thread Brian Jackson
At one time we had a problem with gentoo sources having way too many use flags and patches which lead to there being an incalculable number of ways that gentoo -sources could turn out. It was a pita to maintain. A pita to troubleshoot. There were weird bugs that we couldn't reproduce easily.

Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild design issue regarding some {I need the lib and api only}-DEPENDs

2005-08-18 Thread Brian Jackson
Use INSTALL_MASK to keep /usr/bin/mysqld or whatever from getting installed. We aren't generally in the habit of splitting packages into a bunch of different ebuilds. There are exceptions, but --Iggy Christian Parpart wrote: Hi all, well, regarding the request on bug 88490 [1] (and my

Re: [gentoo-dev] splitting build deps out from depends

2005-07-05 Thread Brian Jackson
Martin Schlemmer wrote: On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 15:59 -0700, Drake Wyrm wrote: Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 01 July 2005 12:25 pm, Brian D. Harring wrote: Currently, we pretty much leave out the big dogs of build depends from ebuilds- basically we rely on the profile to

Re: [gentoo-dev] splitting build deps out from depends

2005-07-05 Thread Brian Jackson
Martin Schlemmer wrote: snip Big picture here: * BDEPEND does nothing now, so don't worry about it if you don't want to * in the future it will make other things possible * give the man problems you see with the proposal, not just tell him that portage doesn't handle it right now... I think out

Re: [gentoo-dev] Software patents

2005-07-04 Thread Brian Jackson
If someone removes something that belongs to me, software patents or not, I'll be asking for removal of (at the very least) their cvs access. If not, I'll be asking for their total removal from the project. You can have all the views you want on the world. I do. This is a technical project, not

Re: [gentoo-dev] splitting one source package into many binaries

2005-06-16 Thread Brian Jackson
Rafael Espndola wrote: I am using Gentoo to build some small systems. While things like the minimal useflag is a joy, the monolithic nature of most gentoo packages is a headache. Kde has been spit and libstdc++ can be installed without gcc but there are many other packages that don't have this

Re: [gentoo-dev] Keywording, for the umpteenth time

2005-05-20 Thread Brian Jackson
Jason Wever wrote: snip From my perspective, if a package maintainer asks for testing and the ability to keyword (i.e. Spanky asking me if it was OK to bump binutils to 2.16, to which I said yes) then that is fine. However adding or changing keywords in an ebuild for which you cannot test

Re: [gentoo-dev] Using OpenAFS volumes as storage for various portage directories

2005-05-09 Thread Brian Jackson
Kevin wrote: snip Does anyone have any thoughts to share on: a) general advisability of this (seems like a good thing to me---lots of savings on space across machines, oafs has a good authentication system in kerberos, seems better to me than running a local rsync server alone and also

Re: [gentoo-dev] new glep draft: Portage as a secondary package manager

2005-05-02 Thread Brian Jackson
Michael Haubenwallner wrote: Hi ebuild devs, Here's a glep draft now for (a part of) the long-term portage-goal act as a secondary package manager ... Comments welcome, haubi It's fancy, but what about ROOT? You don't like it just because you'd have /usr/local/usr/bin/foo? --

Re: [gentoo-dev] new glep draft: Portage as a secondary package manager

2005-05-02 Thread Brian Jackson
On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 20:58 -0400, Alec Warner wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian Jackson wrote: Michael Haubenwallner wrote: Hi ebuild devs, Here's a glep draft now for (a part of) the long-term portage-goal act as a secondary package manager