Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ban use of base-4 casemods in ebuilds due to locale collation instability

2015-11-10 Thread René Neumann
Am 11.11.2015 um 05:16 schrieb Ulrich Mueller: >> On Tue, 10 Nov 2015, Mike Frysinger wrote: > >> Arfrever highlights these are not even safe to use. bash is locale aware, >> so it'll apply LC_COLLATE rules when processing the ^/, casemods. while >> you can fix this with external programs

Re: [gentoo-dev] multilib amd64 news item for review

2015-03-17 Thread René Neumann
Am 17.03.2015 um 16:33 schrieb Michał Górny: However, some users may prefer setting ABI_X86 globally to enable 32-bit libraries in all packages that support building them. This can be done using the following package.use entry: */* abi_x86_32 I'm confused: Has this a different

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Portage QOS

2014-01-10 Thread René Neumann
Am 10.01.2014 13:10, schrieb Igor: Hello Chris, Friday, January 10, 2014, 1:08:39 AM, you wrote: Right here is the big problem: you're not looking at this from the perspective of the average Gentoo developer. We don't care about market share. We don't care whether we're on top for another

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage QOS

2014-01-10 Thread René Neumann
Am 10.01.2014 13:23, schrieb Igor: You could make fast and correct decisions. There is no such thing as the single correct decision. Management people often think there is, but this is because management people often have no clue what they are talking about. Why not to get rid of Python at

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Portage QOS

2014-01-10 Thread René Neumann
Am 10.01.2014 13:52, schrieb Igor: And you belive that you're outside competition. It looks unreal. Gentoo is in competition with other distros - it's real and happens right now. Again, just because this science called 'Economics' believes, everything is in competition, does not change

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage QOS

2014-01-10 Thread René Neumann
Am 10.01.2014 14:05, schrieb Igor: Hello Patrick, Friday, January 10, 2014, 4:39:59 PM, you wrote: No, Python isn't slow. Bad code is bad. You can write bad code in any language. Are you sure? Take a look here:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage QOS

2014-01-10 Thread René Neumann
Am 10.01.2014 19:19, schrieb Ciaran McCreesh: On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 14:18:24 +0100 René Neumann li...@necoro.eu wrote: And again: What is needed is streamlining the algorithms (discussion on that already started as far as I could notice). An algorithm in O(n³) is always¹ worse than O(n

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] make.conf.5: Document PYTHON_TARGETS, bug #493180

2013-12-03 Thread René Neumann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 03.12.2013 17:05, schrieb Mike Frysinger: as for the patch, i'm of the opinion that make.conf is not for documenting random USE_EXPAND-ed variables. this sort of thing should go into the relevant eclass, python-r1.eclass in this case. then

Re: [gentoo-dev] Over-reliance of Gentoo projects on overlays

2013-06-13 Thread René Neumann
Am 13.06.2013 07:44, schrieb Michał Górny: Dnia 2013-06-12, o godz. 13:23:04 Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com napisał(a): We need worse support for overlays, i.e. no. Having to use 3 overlays defeats the purpose of a QA'd tree. Everything in an (official) overlay should be in

Re: [gentoo-dev] New USE_EXPAND flag for www-servers/monkeyd

2013-05-28 Thread René Neumann
Am 27.05.2013 22:38, schrieb Anthony G. Basile: Hi everyone, I was about to add a use expand flag for monkeyd (a tiny web server) and there is a notice in base/make.default to discuss use expand flags on the list first. There are about 9 plugins for monkeyd similar to apache which can be

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: CPU use flag detection

2013-05-19 Thread René Neumann
Am 19.05.2013 18:03, schrieb viv...@gmail.com: On 05/19/13 17:47, Alexis Ballier wrote: On Sat, 18 May 2013 22:31:11 -0400 Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: [...] ...shouldn't mmxext be moved out of use.local.desc into use.desc? all the cpu flags should be global IMHO, regardless of

[gentoo-dev] USE_EXPAND is not an IUSE replacement [was: New USE_EXPAND: CLAWS_MAIL_PLUGINS]

2013-05-03 Thread René Neumann
Am 24.04.2013 11:51, schrieb René Neumann: As more and more packages seem to (mis)use USE_EXPAND: Can we get the possibility to set this directly in package.use? Having to write 'claws_mail_plugins_foo' does not help readability, and setting it in make.conf is also not the right way

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE_EXPAND is not an IUSE replacement [was: New USE_EXPAND: CLAWS_MAIL_PLUGINS]

2013-05-03 Thread René Neumann
Am 03.05.2013 22:20, schrieb Zac Medico: Is it worth changing? Nope. What's worth changing is the excessive use of USE_EXPAND for no reason (your described usecase makes sense for reasonable USE_EXPAND stuff like VIDEO_CARDS). But seems like I'm the only one concerned by this, so I should

Re: [gentoo-dev] Add HEXCHAT_PLUGINS to USE_EXPAND

2013-03-27 Thread René Neumann
Am 21.03.2013 14:09, schrieb Denis M.: Hello, I'd want to ask if it's possible and a good idea to add HEXCHAT_PLUGINS to the global USE_EXPAND var. I personally don't think this is a good idea. Imho USE_EXPAND should be used for flags that will be used by multiple (5?) packages -- for the

[gentoo-dev] base.eclass

2012-07-08 Thread René Neumann
Hi all, I'd like just to receive a short clarification about the 'status' of base.eclass: Is this eclass expected to be available everywhere, i.e. should each eclass make sure it imports and incorporates it. Or is it just an eclass like the others and ebuilds should make sure they inherit it if

Re: [gentoo-dev] Undocumented and unused USE variables

2012-03-16 Thread René Neumann
* Undocumented use flags: -- pango % euse -i pango global use flags (searching: pango) no matching entries found local use flags (searching: pango) [+ D ]