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

2014-01-14 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 14 January 2014 18:11, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 05:43:57PM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 01/14/2014 05:33 PM, William Hubbs wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 04:57:30PM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 01/14/2014 04:37 PM, William Hubbs wrote:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Recommend cronie instead of vixie-cron in handbook?

2013-12-10 Thread Jeff Horelick
I'm a nobody, but +1 from me. On 10 December 2013 16:33, Lars Wendler polynomia...@gentoo.org wrote: Am Tue, 10 Dec 2013 21:55:05 +0100 schrieb Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197625#c14 This has reminded me that maybe we should switch to cronie

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-kernel] Proper distribution integration of kernel *-sources, patches and configuration.

2013-07-01 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 1 July 2013 10:41, Tom Wijsman tom...@gentoo.org wrote: Hello Please reply to gentoo-dev in case ML daemon changes Reply-To. ### TL; DR ### By introducing feature patches which menu options are disabled by default to genpatches, we can deduplicate *-sources maintainers as well as

Re: [gentoo-dev] Evaluating a new malloc()

2013-02-26 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 26 February 2013 16:37, Maciej Mrozowski reave...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 26 of February 2013 11:44:31 Rich Freeman wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Alec Warner anta...@gentoo.org wrote: I see a *HUGE* reason. glibc ships with ptmalloc. If you think they should use

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] RFC: Graveyard project

2013-02-14 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 14 February 2013 16:55, Rick Zero_Chaos Farina zeroch...@gentoo.orgwrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/14/2013 04:31 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: Hi guys and girls, We hereby announce the formation of the Graveyard project [1]. It aims to provide users with an

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs for dagger lack of time

2013-02-05 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 5 February 2013 12:57, Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: sys-apps/paludis I'll take this one (paludis) (currently at work, can't edit metadata for ~7 hours)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Switching order of packages in virtual/pkgconfig

2013-01-02 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 1 January 2013 16:46, Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu wrote: On 01/01/2013 22:29, Tony Chainsaw Vroon wrote: That sounds like a clear win. If it has survived the tinderboxing there likely isn't much to hold you back. As non-contentious topics sometimes end up with no replies at

[gentoo-dev] Switching order of packages in virtual/pkgconfig

2013-01-01 Thread Jeff Horelick
I would like to propose a switch of the order of DEPENDs in virtual/pkgconfig to make dev-util/pkgconf[pkg-config] the default choice for new installations. dev-util/pkgconf has less external dependencies, is lighter and is faster than dev-util/pkgconfig while being now 100% compatible This

Re: [gentoo-dev] What did we achieve in 2012? What are our resolutions for 2013?

2012-12-31 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 31 December 2012 09:17, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: Happy New Year to all of you! Looking back at 2012, I wonder what we consider our achievements for this past year. What is the state of Gentoo? How have we brought it forward and improved it this past year? And what do we want

Re: [gentoo-dev] Cleaning tree of outdated packages

2012-12-13 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 13 December 2012 17:57, Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Jory A. Pratt anar...@gentoo.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/13/2012 12:48 PM, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: But there is one big ass but. We have some packages that

Re: [gentoo-dev] libxul.so in gentoo

2012-10-21 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 21 October 2012 18:14, Jauhien Piatlicki jpiatli...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, May be a stupid question, but Both firefox and thunderbird have xul library. Before there was a separate package xulrunner in the tree, but as Mozilla does not provide it as a separate package now (as far as I

Re: [gentoo-dev] CIA replacement

2012-10-01 Thread Jeff Horelick
Well nenolod has written a CIA - Irker proxy that (I believe) takes commit messages designed to go to CIA and makes irker read them and such, but i haven't looked into it: https://github.com/nenolod/irker-cia-proxy On 1 October 2012 11:21, Rafael Goncalves Martins rafaelmart...@gentoo.org wrote:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: prune_libtool_files() and pkg-config dependency

2012-08-31 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 31 August 2012 11:05, Ian Stakenvicius a...@gentoo.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 31/08/12 10:56 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: I believe that the more important direction here is to make development *easier*, not harder.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Any official position from Gentoo about systemd, mdev and udev-static ?

2012-08-28 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 28 August 2012 12:59, Matthew Thode prometheanf...@gentoo.org wrote: On 08/28/2012 10:35 AM, Sylvain Alain wrote: Hi everyone, I don't want to start a flamewar on that subject, but I would like to know if there's any official position about the current situation. I saw on the forum this

Re: [gentoo-dev] Opinion against /usr merge

2012-07-17 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 17 July 2012 21:17, Richard Yao r...@cs.stonybrook.edu wrote: On 07/17/2012 08:46 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: If we don't do anything, then lots of stuff moves to /usr. I think that is what you're missing. The /usr move basically starts happening on its own automatically if we DON'T do much.

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Manifest Hashes

2012-07-04 Thread Jeff Horelick
The change has been made. Please remember to cvs up metadata/layout.conf and update portage (if necessary) before committing. Thanks

[gentoo-dev] New Manifest Hashes

2012-07-01 Thread Jeff Horelick
As of Wednesday, July 4, 2012 at approximately 10:00 UTC, the manifest hashes used on the gentoo-x86 tree will change to SHA256 SHA512 WHIRLPOOL. To facilitate this change, developers MUST be using at least portage-2.1.10.49 (or portage-2.2_alpha89), or, if your dev-lang/python is built with

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due volkmar being unable to maintain them because of lack of time

2012-06-16 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 16 June 2012 03:52, Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: The following packages are now orphan: app-emulation/playonlinux app-emulation/vboxgtk dev-libs/xmlrpc-epi dev-util/bam media-libs/pnglite media-video/miro net-misc/plowshare Feel free to get them Thanks media-video/miro

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Enable FEATURES=userpriv usersandbox by default?

2012-05-29 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 29 May 2012 12:27, hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/29/2012 05:23 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 10:57 AM, hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org wrote: I am against too many defaults. It's documented and people can activate

Re: [gentoo-dev] news item: Portage's config-protect-if-modified feature is enabled by default

2012-05-17 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 17 May 2012 23:56, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, 17 May 2012 14:44:42 -0700 Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: I'd like to commit this news item on 2012-05-21. See previous discussion here: http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_7fe557809defad4faca2ee5c6e52d134.xml

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-05-05 Thread Jeff Horelick
I didn't mention this last night (probably because I was EXTREMELY tired), but the entire gentoo-x86 tree has been converted to the virtual (Y!!! *kermitflail*). As long as you don't use any overlays, you should now be able to switch your pkgconfig implementation to pkgconf[pkg-config] or

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-05-04 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 2 May 2012 12:06, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sunday 29 April 2012 18:11:58 Mike Frysinger wrote: the canonical pkg-config is getting fat.  it requires glib-2.  it runs pkg- we've got an implementation in perl (i'm not interested in), but there is also pkg-config-lite and

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-30 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 30 April 2012 02:16, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:08:34 -0400 Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sunday 29 April 2012 18:40:00 Jeff Horelick wrote: On 29 April 2012 18:11, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: the canonical pkg-config

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-30 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 30 April 2012 14:27, Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: On 04/30/2012 01:11 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: the canonical pkg-config is getting fat.  it requires glib-2.  it runs pkg- config when building.  glib-2 requires pkg-config.  whee. for our normal systems, this isn't a big

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-29 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 29 April 2012 18:11, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: the canonical pkg-config is getting fat.  it requires glib-2.  it runs pkg- config when building.  glib-2 requires pkg-config.  whee. for our normal systems, this isn't a big deal.  but we'd like to enable a lighter alternative

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-29 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 30 April 2012 00:08, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sunday 29 April 2012 18:40:00 Jeff Horelick wrote: On 29 April 2012 18:11, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: the canonical pkg-config is getting fat.  it requires glib-2.  it runs pkg- config when building.  glib-2

Re: [gentoo-dev] Unstabling a package

2012-02-23 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 19 February 2012 21:46, Doug Goldstein car...@gentoo.org wrote: Any specific procedure to unstable a package? Specifically MythTV. While there's a lot of user interest in the package, there's just not enough dev help with the package to really keep it up to snuff to what could be considered