Re: [gentoo-dev] Dissolving project desktop-misc

2020-11-30 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 29/11/2020 à 16:48, Andreas K. Hüttel a écrit : x11-misc/i855crt I'm fairly certain this package cannot work with post-KMS kernel drivers, so anything after 2010 or so. And the laptops that sport this chip are probably all dead by now (mine is anyway). I'd say, let's push this one to

[gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH 3/5] xdg.eclass: move deps to RDEPEND

2018-09-30 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 01/10/2018 à 00:50, Mike Gilbert a écrit : > update-desktop-database and update-mime-database are called from ROOT in > pkg functions, so the related dependenices belong in RDEPEND. > > Signed-off-by: Mike Gilbert As far as the eclass goes, this is correct. But AFAIR, this was needed because

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Reverted python3.4 defaults

2015-07-20 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 19/07/2015 18:42, Ben de Groot a écrit : I would like to note that we only have around 50 packages that require python3, while the majority requires python2, and the remainder will function with either. How far are we from building a python3-only stage3? Are there any major blockers? Would

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Service relaunch: archives.gentoo.org

2015-02-28 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 26/02/2015 09:39, Markos Chandras a écrit : Excellent! Looks great. Thank you very much for your hard work Seconded, this is a huge improvement over the old site. Thanks to all involved, this is fantastic work! Rémi

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: USE=libav as replacement for broken || ( libav:= ffmpeg:= )

2015-01-19 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 19/01/2015 23:40, Michał Górny a écrit : 1. Compatibility. USE=ffmpeg is already used for || ( libav ffmpeg ) in a lot of packages. If we changed the meaning, libav users will end up switching '-ffmpeg libav' per-package. Ugly. 2. Feature-oriented flags. USE=ffmpeg represents the generic

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: USE=libav as replacement for broken || ( libav:= ffmpeg:= )

2015-01-19 Thread Rémi Cardona
Why not : libav? ( media-libs/libav:= ) ffmpeg? ( media-libs/ffmpeg:= ) + REQUIRED_USE=^^ ( libav ffmpeg ) I for one would never expect USE=-libav to enable ffmpeg (nor USE=-ffmpeg to enable libav FWIW). Rémi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Running repoman on the portage tree

2014-11-18 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 19/11/2014 03:17, Alec Ten Harmsel a écrit : Hey devs, Hi Alec, This is my first mail to this list. If this is out of line, let me know. Not out of line on the topic/content, but try to avoid sending 3MB attachments to hundreds (thousands?) of people. * 9233 ebuilds that use a deprecated

Re: [gentoo-dev] typo in scrypt USE-Flag

2014-11-02 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 02/11/2014 17:48, Alex Xu a écrit : so... instead of emailing 4 people (three bug-wranglers plus one maintainer), you email around 300 people (assuming that subscriber count is around the same as #gentoo-dev users, which is probably a severe underestimate). Alex: no need for a snarky

Re: [gentoo-dev] packages masked for removal in 30 days

2014-05-23 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le vendredi 23 mai 2014 à 22:57 +0700, gro...@gentoo.org a écrit : # Google closed free usage of the translate api # Masked for removal in 30 days app-text/qgoogletranslator # openmcl has been renamed to clozurecl # Masked for removal in 30 days dev-lisp/openmcl

Re: [gentoo-dev] Akamai secure memory allocator for OpenSSL?

2014-04-14 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le lundi 14 avril 2014 à 10:48 +0200, Tiziano Müller a écrit : Not really, no. I would rather wait until other people have reviewed and/or it has been pulled into openssl. To cite the Akamai dev who posted the patch [1]: Let me restate that: *do not just take this patch and put it into

Re: [gentoo-dev] Maintainer-needed on many of my packages

2013-12-31 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le dimanche 29 décembre 2013 à 00:19 +, Robin H. Johnson a écrit : sys-apps/vbetool Is this still remotely useful with KMS-enabled kernels ? Cheers, Rémi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy-level discussion for minimum versions on dependencies

2013-11-07 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le jeudi 07 novembre 2013 à 10:44 +0100, Alexis Ballier a écrit : in short: if a package requires version X then the ebuild should require version X; it can be forgotten but it's a bug. That _is_ our policy. Ebuilds should - at the very least - mirror what upstream's build script requires. So,

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer features in portage: cgroup, network-sandbox, ipc-sandbox

2013-08-24 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le mardi 20 août 2013 à 12:26 +0200, Michał Górny a écrit : 3. FEATURES=ipc-sandbox Requires: CONFIG_NAMESPACES, CONFIG_IPC_NS Applies to: src_* This one separates the ebuild's *nix IPC stuff from host. This includes semaphores, shared memory etc. Similarly to network-sandbox, this

Re: [gentoo-dev] Autobuilds go to /experimental and to /releases only when someone actually tests them

2013-07-27 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le vendredi 26 juillet 2013 à 21:19 -0700, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. a écrit : The real question is, how realistic can we make a process of testing and moving to stable? We have arch teams, we have users... when several users say it's OK I think it is OK. As compared to a script pushing it to the

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

2013-02-18 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le dimanche 17 février 2013 à 22:47 -0600, Ryan Hill a écrit : Even after you do that it's hard to figure out what firmware files you actually need. I know I need iwl6000 firmware for Intel Ultimate-N 6300 wifi, but linux-firmware contains: iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode iwlwifi-6000g2a-5.ucode

Re: [gentoo-dev] Getting the general dev opinion (Meinungsbild) on some feature

2013-01-21 Thread Rémi Cardona
Hi Andreas, Le dimanche 20 janvier 2013 à 16:20 +0100, Andreas K. Huettel a écrit : So, a thread like Should we enable useflag Z by default would then include Please discuss here, vote on ... with a link to the count page (updated via cron every 1h). On login to ..., a message similar to the

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new eclass - pkgconfig.eclass

2012-11-28 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le mercredi 28 novembre 2012 à 22:49 +0100, Justin a écrit : Solution: Create them by hand. The solution is to tell *upstream* how to build and ship .pc files with their build system. If we start shipping .pc files no one else has, projects that use such libraries will have only 2 choices: -

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH python-r1] Move common utility functions to python-utils-r1.

2012-11-22 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le jeudi 22 novembre 2012 à 20:59 +0100, Michał Górny a écrit : You could say it's an algo like this: 1) if you want phase functions for distutils all other automagic, use distutils-r1; 2) if you don't want phase functions but want PYTHON_TARGETS and other metadata stuff, use

Re: [gentoo-dev] The problem with new dev-python/argparse and REQUIRED_USE

2012-11-02 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le jeudi 01 novembre 2012 à 23:30 +0100, Michał Górny a écrit : Do you have any ideas how to solve that kind of stalemate? How about a carefully crafted news item inviting users to enable the latest python version and to emerge -C argparse afterwards? We've already asked users to handle more

Re: [gentoo-dev] package graveyard

2011-08-17 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 17/08/2011 21:57, Matthew Summers a écrit : +1 on this. It saves the ebuild for posterity AND prevents users hitting nasty bits. This seems to me to beg for a proper well-defined policy, in any case. We already have a policy for this and it's called portage. If a package is broken (and I

Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc-0.8.1 stable candidate

2011-04-13 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 12/04/2011 16:56, William Hubbs a écrit : All, at long last, we have an openrc stable candidate. Thanks to all of you who worked on this over the years, your efforts are _really_ appreciated. This means we need more testers. Openrc being so central to Gentoo, may I suggest a bigger

Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: USE=hal masked in base/use.mask and related

2011-03-27 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 27/03/2011 10:36, Samuli Suominen a écrit : Also, both udisks and upower now have blockers for sys-apps/hal to prevent overlapping features. Samuli, I know you want to kill HAL with a vengeance. I don't disagree with the ultimate goal but I think you've gone too far. HAL and u{power,disks}

Re: [gentoo-dev] rejecting unsigned commits

2011-03-24 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 24/03/2011 22:59, Mike Frysinger a écrit : is there any reason we should allow people to commit unsigned Manifest's anymore ? generating/posting/enabling a gpg key is ridiculously easy and there's really no excuse for a dev to not have done this already. I, for one, have never signed my

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: libpng-1.5 smooth upgrade

2011-02-27 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 26/02/2011 17:08, Enrico Weigelt a écrit : I could imagine a way like that: [...] Or we can do it like distributions always do (at least we do) : 1) find packages that don't work out of the box with libpng 1.5 2) work with upstream to fix them Really, libpng15 is to libpng14 what gtk3 is to

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Stabilisation exceptions

2011-01-24 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 24/01/2011 13:31, Christian Faulhammer a écrit : Hi, over the course of the years the x86 (and other architectures as well) has given away permissions to maintainers/teams to mark packages stable themselves. As there never was a definitive list what exceptions exist, I compiled a list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Deprecate EAPIs 0 and 1?

2011-01-02 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 31/12/2010 17:04, Brian Harring a écrit : Quick scan of the tree via `pinspect eapi_usage`, the percentile is eapi: '0' 13934 pkgs found, 50.43% of the repository eapi: '2' 8679 pkgs found, 31.41% of the repository eapi: '3' 4432 pkgs found, 16.04% of the repository eapi: '1' 583

Re: [gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2010-12-05 23h59 UTC

2010-12-05 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 06/12/2010 01:25, Robin H. Johnson a écrit : Removals: media-libs/libresample2010-12-01 19:06:41 chainsaw Additions: media-libs/libresample2010-12-01 16:59:41 chainsaw A glitch in the matrix? Rémi

Re: [gentoo-dev] .la files and their future on Gentoo

2010-10-04 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 04/10/2010 08:35, Michał Górny a écrit : On Mon, 04 Oct 2010 00:00:22 +0200 Rémi Cardona r...@gentoo.org wrote: #2a) pkg-config is one solution (what upstream Xorg says: if you want a static libX11, use pkg-config --static), other teams/herds could fix their packages' .pc files

Re: [gentoo-dev] .la files and their future on Gentoo

2010-10-03 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 03/10/2010 16:29, Luca Barbato a écrit : I think the simpler solution is that if it needs .la, before reaching the tree it has to be fixed... Using libltdl (libtool's dlopen wrapper) is a *legitimate* use of .la files. Those programs do not need to be fixed as they are not broken. The

Re: [gentoo-dev] .la files and their future on Gentoo

2010-10-02 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 02/10/2010 21:54, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto a écrit : With that goal in mind, I'd like to ask anyone with arguments about this issue to present them as a reply to this thread. [putting on my X11 cap] As far as X11 packages are concerned (libX11, libXext, cairo, etc), we can remove .la

Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-06-27 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 26/06/2010 21:39, Enrico Weigelt a écrit : #2 One point i don't agree is the dont add -Werror rule. actually, i'm thinking of making -Wall and -Werror mandatory. if some package doenst build fine, it's simply broken. period. You're obviously new here... Just take a stroll through bugzilla

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-python/traits: traits-3.4.0.ebuild

2010-06-10 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 10/06/2010 22:45, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis a écrit : 2010-06-10 22:20:44 Nirbheek Chauhan napisał(a): On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 1:30 AM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org wrote: 2010-06-10 21:27:40 Jeremy Olexa napisał(a): I see no reason to *not* add a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Actions of python team, especially Arfrever wrt python eclass and python-3*

2010-06-06 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 06/06/2010 02:08, Sebastian Pipping a écrit : can you explain how that happens? Standard dependency resolution for packages with slots, there's nothing specific about python. Cheers, Rémi

Re: [gentoo-dev] autotools.eclass eautomake update

2010-05-25 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 25/05/2010 00:17, Mike Frysinger a écrit : so prove me wrong and post some useful feedback on the change. i'm simply being realistic. Even if you think no one will ever comment on your patches, I've seen enough projects where posting patches and doing reviews generated interest and got

Re: [gentoo-dev] autotools.eclass eautomake update

2010-05-25 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 25/05/2010 09:23, Mike Frysinger a écrit : Even if you think no one will ever comment on your patches, I've seen enough projects where posting patches and doing reviews generated interest and got people to contribute. i'm just asking for proof that it's useful here And I'm asking you to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Does anyone use the VERIFIED status in bugzilla?

2010-05-15 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 14/05/2010 14:45, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto a écrit : Please share your thoughts on this so we can decide how to act on this case. X11 team doesn't use it. While some of our users do come back and close bugs as VERIFIED every now and then, it just doesn't mean anything in the team's

Re: [gentoo-dev] ccache causing problems

2010-04-29 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 29/04/2010 09:06, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. a écrit : What actions would you suggest? Don't use ccache. We (speaking as a former gnome herd member) have had countless unexplained bugs due to ccache. Now, the gnome procedure for build failures is to ask users to first disable distcc and ccache before

Re: [gentoo-dev] Requiring two sets of eyes for all eclass commits

2010-04-27 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 24/04/2010 19:40, Petteri Räty a écrit : What do you think about not allowing commits to eclasses without mentioning an another developer who has reviewed and approved the diff in the commit message? There's enough people on gentoo-dev for urgent stuff too. More bureaucracy and policies

Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy regarding the inactive members

2010-04-11 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 11/04/2010 15:16, Markos Chandras a écrit : How about the participation to the discussions which took place every day on our mailing lists or in IRC? I, for one, am actually glad that the council (as such) isn't involved in every troll fest we have on -dev, and I hope we keep it that way.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Should we disable RESOLVED LATER from bugzilla?

2010-04-05 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 03/04/2010 11:50, Petteri Räty a écrit : I don't think later is valid resolution. If there's a valid bug it just means it's never looked at again. If the bug is not valid then a different resolution should be used. So what do you think about disabling later? I would like to avoid things

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New eclass for x11 packages

2010-03-07 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 01/03/2010 11:38, Samuli Suominen a écrit : I'd prefer EAUTORECONF (as it's already used in xfconf.eclass for the same purpose, and has no reason to differ) or even SNAPSHOT, but XORG_ prefix seems redudant We decided to put the prefix to make things clearer for ebuild writers and to make

Re: [gentoo-dev] Calling unknown commands in an ebuild

2010-02-07 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 08/02/2010 03:24, Mike Frysinger a écrit : if we wanted to specifically target semi-common errors (and i think 'epatch' w/out eutils.eclass falls into this category), then a repoman check would be good. it might also be useful to add a default epatch() to the initial env that would be

[gentoo-dev] Re: LibGL.la removal news item for =eselect-opengl-1.1.1-r2 going stable

2010-01-18 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 17/01/2010 12:26, Tomáš Chvátal a écrit : Howdy guys, please review the attached file and suggest updates to in. I was asked for this thing going stable due to its being dependency of new nvidia-drivers. Also this thing is probably blocker for the bug on eselect-opengl i just opened:

Re: [gentoo-dev] x11-libs/lib*: wrong RDEPENDs bug

2009-12-29 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 29/12/2009 14:43, Henry Gebhardt a écrit : 4) add a USE-flag, say devel, that, when enabled, allows compiling programs against the package. x11-libs/libXtst would have an RDEPEND like this: RDEPEND=devel? x11-libs/inputproto This doesn't solve anything. It will just annoy users as they

Re: [gentoo-dev] Non-free software in Gentoo

2009-12-28 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 28/12/2009 06:36, Vincent Launchbury a écrit : Hi, I recently emailed the Gentoo PR team, voicing my concerns about the amount of non-free software within Gentoo. I got an interesting response from Sebastian Pipping, who said that while Gentoo is all about choice, including the choice to

Re: [gentoo-dev] x11-libs/lib*: wrong RDEPENDs bug

2009-12-28 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 28/12/2009 10:10, lx...@gentoo.org a écrit : List of Gentoo bugs: 298616 298618 298620 298621 298623 298624 298626 298627 298629 298631 298633 298634 298636 298638 298640 298642 298644 298645 298646 298648 298649 298653 298654 298656 298657 298658 298659 RESOLVED -

Re: [gentoo-dev] x11-libs/lib*: wrong RDEPENDs bug

2009-12-28 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 28/12/2009 22:04, Fabio Erculiani a écrit : On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 9:51 PM, David Leverton levert...@googlemail.com wrote: On Monday 28 December 2009 20:50:17 Fabio Erculiani wrote: What all this has to do with the fact that they are just build dependencies? Just wondering. They're not

Re: [gentoo-dev] x11-libs/lib*: wrong RDEPENDs bug

2009-12-28 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 28/12/2009 23:53, Fabio Erculiani a écrit : Interesting, eventually somebody gave me a detailed and technical explanation without [bla bla snip]. Thanks Rémi. Yes, I agree with you that the best (and the one I would go for, too) solution is adding support to a new *DEPEND, perhaps one that

Re: [gentoo-dev] metdata.dtd should require herd/

2009-12-16 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 15/12/2009 16:19, Peter Volkov a écrit : we will force all metadata.xml files have strict order of tags: first herd/ then other tags. Currently there are about 200 ebuilds with different order http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279206#c4 . Others and I actually make use of the order in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: QA last rites for x11-wm/ion

2009-12-15 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 15/12/2009 08:09, Ulrich Mueller a écrit : On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Peter Hjalmarsson wrote: On the other hand this may be something for treecleaners? A package that has not been bumped for 7 years? With at least three releases since, and a bumprequest open for at least one year? A link to a

[gentoo-dev] X license cleaning spree

2009-12-15 Thread Rémi Cardona
Dear all, I've started working on one of my to-do items that is usually very low-priority : cleaning up X-related licenses in portage. This is one of the last remains of the Xorg split from a few years ago. X being a big hairy mess, those who managed the transition a few years ago decided

Re: [gentoo-dev] X license cleaning spree

2009-12-15 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 15/12/2009 10:35, Ulrich Mueller a écrit : On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Rémi Cardona wrote: And here's a list of packages that use one or more of these licenses. Please let me know if/when you've fixed them. app-editors/emacs app-editors/emacs-cvs x11-libs/openmotif x11-libs/openmotif-compat

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: x11-apps/{ttmkfdir,xfs,xfsinfo}

2009-12-14 Thread Rémi Cardona
# Rémi Cardona r...@gentoo.org (13 Dec 2009) # ttmkfdir had multiple QA issues and bugs (bugs #209616, #235354 and #262945) # xfs is completely useless, even on thin clients # and xfsinfo is useless if xfs goes x11-apps/ttmkfdir x11-apps/xfs x11-apps/xfsinfo Cheers, Rémi

Re: [gentoo-dev] ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~amd64 emerge -avDNut world

2009-12-10 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 10/12/2009 17:22, Samuli Suominen a écrit : In perfect world ~amd64 shouldn't be much different from amd64, so here's a list generated from up-to-date system (stable chroot) from today. If you maintain some of these packages, and it could go stable, please open a stablereq for it. :-) If

Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc stabilization todo

2009-12-04 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 04/12/2009 11:41, Mike Frysinger a écrit : On Wednesday 02 December 2009 20:22:07 Jeremy Olexa wrote: Can parallel init script startup be made the default yet? I've been running with it for months and never noticed a problem.. not for stable. no point in proactively shooting our

Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc stabilization todo

2009-12-03 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 03/12/2009 02:22, Jeremy Olexa a écrit : Can parallel init script startup be made the default yet? I've been running with it for months and never noticed a problem.. I've been running it for more than a year on half a dozen boxes, without any issues as well. +1 for making it the default.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Deprecated eclasses

2009-11-30 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 30/11/2009 05:26, Jonathan Callen a écrit : gst-plugins.eclass ACK on this one, Gilles and I have been meaning to remove it a long time ago. Thanks for cleaning it all up :) Rémi

Re: [gentoo-dev] global USE flag description change: css

2009-11-15 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 15/11/2009 00:16, Doug Goldstein a écrit : The css USE flag currently says: Enables ripping of encrypted DVDs But that really doesn't describe the usage correctly. It enables the ability to READ encrypted DVDs. I'm going to make the change if no one objects. +1, makes perfect sense. Rémi

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: xf86-video-imstt and xf86-video-vermilion

2009-11-15 Thread Rémi Cardona
# Rémi Cardona r...@gentoo.org (15 Nov 2009) # Broken since xorg-server 1.5 stabilization # see bugs #248529 and #248531 # Masked for removal in 7 days x11-drivers/xf86-video-imstt x11-drivers/xf86-video-vermilion 'nuff said :) Rémi

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA is unimportant?

2009-11-10 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 09/11/2009 17:30, Patrick Lauer a écrit : Ok, here's the real problem; Unmaintained stuff is unmaintained Patrick, Just piping in to say that dropping a package from portage isn't the end of the world, we have a very good process for it and it has proven to be very effective. Dead

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Splitting desktop profile to KDE and GNOME

2009-10-26 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 24/10/2009 15:42, Maciej Mrozowski a écrit : If you have any comments, suggestions, important notices regarding this change, please keep discussion in gentoo-desktop mailing list. IMHO, we shouldn't even have desktop/server subprofiles to begin with. I've always considered Gentoo to be an

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Splitting desktop profile to KDE and GNOME

2009-10-26 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 26/10/2009 22:58, Richard Freeman a écrit : Gentoo is about choice. No it isn't. Gentoo is about empowering users, giving them the ability and tools to _change_ the distro to _their_ needs. Gentoo does _not_ cater to all the possible needs. This is somewhat off-topic, but it irks me

Re: [gentoo-dev] New ebuild metadata to mark how robust the package is?

2009-10-16 Thread Rémi Cardona
Hi Daniel, Le 17/10/2009 01:29, Daniel Bradshaw a écrit : So as I say, it occurs to me that most people probably follow some variation of this selective upgrade method. It might be handy to have some kind of metadata in the ebuilds that can be used to indicate a package that is demanding. Then

Re: [gentoo-dev] News Item: GNOME 2.26 upgrade

2009-10-06 Thread Rémi Cardona
this change Reviewed-by: Rémi Cardona r...@gentoo.org Cheers

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Xorg 1.6/libxcb 1.4 stabilization news item

2009-10-02 Thread Rémi Cardona
Thanks for the wording, I've somewhat made it a bit stronger. @Dev, please ACK or NAK or whatever. Thanks Title: Migration to X.org Server 1.6 and libxcb 1.4 Author: Remi Cardona r...@gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain Posted: 2009-10-02 Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 1.0

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Xorg 1.6/libxcb 1.4 stabilization news item

2009-10-02 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 02/10/2009 09:43, Ulrich Mueller a écrit : On Fri, 02 Oct 2009, Rémi Cardona wrote: We're pleased to announce the stabilization of xorg-server-1.6. Users are strongly encouraged to read the following two guides before upgrading: GLEP 42 says that you should wrap lines at 72 columns

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Xorg 1.6/libxcb 1.4 stabilization news item

2009-10-02 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 02/10/2009 10:22, Petteri Räty a écrit : Thus, at least 72 hours before a proposed news item is committed, it must be posted to the gentoo-dev mailing list and Cc:ed to p...@gentoo.org (exceptions may be made in exceptional circumstances). Any complaints — for example regarding wording,

[gentoo-dev] Xorg 1.6/libxcb 1.4 stabilization news item

2009-10-01 Thread Rémi Cardona
Hi guys, Could anyone write up a one-liner news item for the xorg-server 1.6 stabilization with there 2 upgrade guides : http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.6-upgrade-guide.xml http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/libxcb-1.4-upgrade-guide.xml I tried figuring out

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-python/pyxf86config and dev-python/rhpxl

2009-09-24 Thread Rémi Cardona
# Rémi Cardona r...@gentoo.org (24 Sep 2009) # Both require xorg-server's libxf86config library which is busted # and they both have no maintainer. See bug #222683 # Masked for removal in 30 days dev-python/pyxf86config dev-python/rhpxl Cheers, Rémi

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: opengl-manpages, xorg-docs, xorg-sgml-doctools

2009-09-22 Thread Rémi Cardona
# Rémi Cardona r...@gentoo.org (19 Sep 2009) # Outdated and useless X doc packages # Masked for removal in 30 days app-doc/opengl-manpages app-doc/xorg-sgml-doctools app-doc/xorg-docs Before anyone asks, opengl-manpages is a snapshot for Dec '00. The online documentation at opengl.org is much

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI and system packages

2009-09-20 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 20/09/2009 02:31, Ryan Hill a écrit : If not, when can we drop support for old EAPIs? Your opinions please. Let's drop it now. We've waited long enough. Portage with EAPI=2 has been stable for more than a year. Rémi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Add operator + for licenses (EAPI-4 ?)

2009-09-06 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 06/09/2009 02:34, Thomas Anderson a écrit : Ciaran's really not making homework up for gentoo. Why, remi stated himself that we have homework to do(and we sometimes don't do that homework) I did, but I also stated upstream might have some homework to do themselves. Here's a list of things

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: www-plugins/gnash

2009-09-05 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 05/09/2009 11:25, Duncan a écrit : [...] This is off-topic for gentoo-dev. Please continue this discussion in private. Thanks Rémi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Add operator + for licenses (EAPI-4 ?)

2009-09-04 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 03/09/2009 23:27, Mounir Lamouri a écrit : But the content of the license is the same. That only means you can use a newer one. I mean we do not need a new license file for that. It's up to upstream to write somewhere if it's GPL-2 or GPL-2+, am I right ? Yes, that's for upstream to figure

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Add operator + for licenses (EAPI-4 ?)

2009-09-04 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 04/09/2009 20:52, David Leverton a écrit : Is that really a problem? To me, it's not. :) I admit to not being around for the original design decisions, but I would assume that the purpose of having LICENSE in ebuilds is to tell users what licence the package is under (whether or not it's

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-plugins/gnash

2009-09-04 Thread Rémi Cardona
# Rémi Cardona r...@gentoo.org (04 Sep 2009) # Masked for removal in 60 days, old and unmaintained in Gentoo # Uses removed VIDEO_CARDS flag (see bug #282981) www-plugins/gnash Cheers, Rémi

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: www-plugins/gnash

2009-09-04 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 04/09/2009 22:41, Andrew John Hughes a écrit : So there'll be no Free Flash support in Gentoo any more? I hope someone will pick this up, this is a high priority FSF project after all. There's media-libs/swfdec that's still offically maintained by the Gnome herd. As far as gnash is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Add operator + for licenses (EAPI-4 ?)

2009-09-03 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 03/09/2009 23:10, Mounir Lamouri a écrit : Duncan wrote: Sebastian Pipping posted on Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:21:49 +0200 as excerpted: However I do notice that GPL-2+ could make things easier. Why not introduce a license group for it like @GPL-2+ or so, instead? That would be transparent and

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Add operator + for licenses (EAPI-4 ?)

2009-08-31 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 01/09/2009 00:12, Mounir Lamouri a écrit : Hi, As you should know, GLEP 23 [1] introduced USE flags conditions in LICENSE variable and || operator in addition of licenses groups and ACCEPT_LICENSE variable. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0023.html /me still thinks LICENSE

Re: [gentoo-dev] New 10.0 LiveDVD release enhancements

2009-08-23 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 23/08/2009 11:02, Chip Parker a écrit : On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Alexey Shvetsovale...@gentoo.org wrote: Hi all! Also i think it wil be good idea to include parted into liveDVD since its only tool that support gpt partition tables =) +1 On this one. Since parted comes with

Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag mp4

2009-08-21 Thread Rémi Cardona
Samuli Suominen a écrit : description: Support for MP4 container format [+ C ] mp4 (media-sound/amarok): Build the TagLib plugin for writing tags in Mp4 container files (m4a). Please note that by enabling this USE flag, the resulting package will not be redistributable, as it links to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Unmasking of libxcb 1.4 and related libs in !2008.0 profiles

2009-08-19 Thread Rémi Cardona
Paul de Vrieze a écrit : As a service to users, you might want to create an empty library: touch foo.c gcc -shared foo.c -o libxcb-x11.so.0.0.0 That's all Like Samuli said, it's a hack and doing that would be wrong. I will not trade short-term peace of mind for a long term hell for whoever

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: RFC: Make 10.0 profiles EAPI-2 'compliant'

2009-08-18 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 18/08/2009 03:30, Steven J Long a écrit : [snip] Steven, This thread was dead for more than 4 days. Yet you pick it up and you try to pick a fight with Ciaran. I for one am tired of your behavior on this list and I will not hesitate to contact UserRel to get you out of this list if you

[gentoo-dev] Unmasking of libxcb 1.4 and related libs in !2008.0 profiles

2009-08-18 Thread Rémi Cardona
Hi all, Just a quick heads up that I have just unmasked x11-libs/libxcb-1.4 and its companion libraries in all profiles _except_ 2008.0. As some of you have already found out, since 1.2, libxcb stopped shipping a very specific library: libxcb-xlib.so. This library was only ever meant to be

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: 14 X input drivers

2009-07-14 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 13/07/2009 19:22, Robert Buchholz a écrit : We're using the x11-drivers/xf86-input-microtouch for a cash register. It works fine, but I think the machine is still on Xorg Server 1.3. I don't have the capacity to maintain this driver myself, but it seems bug #276615 has a patch, so I wonder

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: 14 X input drivers

2009-07-13 Thread Rémi Cardona
# Rémi Cardona r...@gentoo.org (13 Jul 2009) # broken and unmaintained by upstream, masked for removal in 30 days # see bug #277521 for more info x11-drivers/xf86-input-calcomp x11-drivers/xf86-input-digitaledge x11-drivers/xf86-input-dmc x11-drivers/xf86-input-dynapro x11-drivers/xf86-input

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: 14 X input drivers

2009-07-13 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 13/07/2009 16:56, Marijn Schouten (hkBst) a écrit : Why were they marked unsupported by upstream? Is there a replacement, are they no longer needed, some other reason? Some are now supported by the kernel. For the rest, nobody owns the hardware anymore. (ur98 is for a head-tracker... does

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: A Little Council Reform Anyone?

2009-07-07 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 07/07/2009 18:20, Ciaran McCreesh a écrit : I would be entirely happy if you could get the people whose stated aim is to disrupt PMS and / or third party package managers to stop poisoning the atmosphere. Then _please_ for the love of God just _ignore_ him. Thank you

Re: [gentoo-dev] About time to unify cdda and cdaudio USE flags and make the remaining one global?

2009-07-05 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 05/07/2009 03:12, Sebastian Pipping a écrit : Lars Wendler wrote: So what do you think? Should we convert the bug into a tracker and open bugs for any package using the USE-flag that should be converted into the other one? +1 from me, sounds reasonable. Ditto, sounds good. And now for

Re: [gentoo-dev] A Little Council Reform Anyone?

2009-07-02 Thread Rémi Cardona
Ned Ludd a écrit : [snip, lots of insightful stuff I either agree with or don't really understand] So lets have some damn fun again !...@#$ _That_ I whole heartedly agree with. Please, all of you in the new council, try to keep this in mind :) Thanks Rémi

[gentoo-dev] Enough about GLEP5{4,5}

2009-06-07 Thread Rémi Cardona
Seriously, let's stop. This endless debate has gone on for waaay too long and it is just plain spam now. I'm just too tired of reading those endless discussions that are going _nowhere_. Let's just all agree we've failed to reach a consensus and let's spend time on something else.

Re: [gentoo-dev] New app-eselect category?

2009-05-26 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 26/05/2009 22:43, Sérgio Almeida a écrit : Hello, There isn't yet. The code is still pretty ugly and I'm still refactoring to the new architecture before I can make it public (or even officially git it). I will post it on this mailing list as soon as experimentations are possible. Please

Re: [gentoo-dev] about gold bugs

2009-05-15 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 15/05/2009 23:20, Ryan Hill a écrit : Could I ask that people stop closing bugs against the gold linker with such classy witticisms as patches welcome. Honestly, a little heads up before gold hit portage would have been nice too. I already had 2 bugs with gold-related issues even before

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: a bunch of X stuff no one should be using since 1994

2009-05-10 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 09/05/2009 13:05, Marijn Schouten (hkBst) a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 � wrote: # R�mi Cardonar...@gentoo.org (09 May 2009) # XPrint is dead, long live XPrint For kings I understand this comment, but can you explain how it applies to XPrint? The replacement

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project summaries

2009-05-10 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 06/05/2009 08:49, Christian Faulhammer a écrit : Hi, any project lead/member can post an answer to this mail for a status report: X11 Herd Status Update Short term or recently done : - 1.5.3-r5 went stable (I'm sure y'all noticed) - there will be another 1.5 stable server within a few

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project summaries

2009-05-10 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 10/05/2009 23:43, Gokdeniz Karadag a écrit : It seems like you have forgotten the link. [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=267769 Thanks

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: a bunch of X stuff no one should be using since 1994

2009-05-08 Thread Rémi Cardona
# Rémi Cardona r...@gentoo.org (09 May 2009) # Low-Bandwidth X and the X Proxy Management stuff has been declared # dead since last century. All of those will be gone in 30 days x11-apps/lbxproxy x11-apps/proxymngr x11-apps/xfindproxy x11-apps/xfwp x11-apps/xrx x11-proto/xproxymanagementprotocol

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Training points for users interested in helping out with ebuild development

2009-05-06 Thread Rémi Cardona
Petteri Räty a écrit : Currently we really don't need to fail that many people as those who end up at that point in the process almost always have good enough skills as they have contributed via overlays for quite a while. Ditto on that. Most recruits I've been actively watching these past few

Re: [gentoo-dev] On git and pushing official gentoo branches

2009-04-26 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 26/04/2009 23:55, Gilles Dartiguelongue a écrit : Hello list, As many of you might already know, gnome switched to git about 2 weeks ago so I'd like to take a pick at what people do concerning upstream using git. How do you present patches you maintain for gentoo to upstream ? Own maintained

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI-3 draft: slot operator support

2009-04-09 Thread Rémi Cardona
Mart Raudsepp a écrit : Hello, This thread is for any discussion about the slot operator support item in EAPI-3 draft. Could anyone actually give a good reason for slot operators? What packages would have a _clear_ benefit from using them? I'm asking for an actual list of packages, not

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