[gentoo-dev] pkg_{pre,post}inst misusage

2005-12-23 Thread Jason Stubbs
Here's what we have: app-office/qhacc/qhacc-3.4.ebuild: [ -n ${PF} ] rm -rf /usr/share/doc/${PF} net-fs/samba/samba-3.0.14a-r2.ebuild: rm -rf ${ROOT}/usr/share/doc/${PF} net-fs/samba/samba-3.0.14a-r3.ebuild: rm -rf ${ROOT}/usr/share/doc/${PF}

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing description for the xml global use flag

2005-12-23 Thread Petteri Räty
Stuart Herbert wrote: I can see where you're coming from, but I'm not sure it's worth the potential disruption that this will cause our users. Unless I'm missing something, won't every user who has any form of USE=xml, USE=-xml, USE=xml2, or USE=-xml2 in make.conf and packages.use get a

[gentoo-dev] checdeps.rb for getting deps out of elf files

2005-12-23 Thread Petteri Räty
http://dev.gentoo.org/~betelgeuse/scripts/checkdeps.rb Some people will probably find this useful. Basically it does ldd on all the elf files in a package and then checks to which packages those libraries belong. I think portage people are working on integrating something like this to portage in

Re: [gentoo-dev] pkg_{pre,post}inst misusage

2005-12-23 Thread Stefan Schweizer
Well, you should know that those are because of portage bugs or some portage peculiarity, read the corresponding bugs for example for cups to find out more. Regards, Stefan -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] pkg_{pre,post}inst misusage

2005-12-23 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Friday 23 December 2005 20:19, Stefan Schweizer wrote: Well, you should know that those are because of portage bugs or some portage peculiarity, read the corresponding bugs for example for cups to find out more. Can you point me to a bug? There's no mention in the ChangeLog that I can see

Re: [gentoo-dev] pkg_{pre,post}inst misusage

2005-12-23 Thread Harald van Dijk
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 08:31:06PM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Friday 23 December 2005 20:19, Stefan Schweizer wrote: Well, you should know that those are because of portage bugs or some portage peculiarity, read the corresponding bugs for example for cups to find out more. Can you

Re: [gentoo-dev] checdeps.rb for getting deps out of elf files

2005-12-23 Thread Thomas de Grenier de Latour
On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 13:09:08 +0200 Petteri Räty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basically it does ldd on all the elf files in a package and then checks to which packages those libraries belong. I don't think ldd alone is the way to go, because it doesn't make distinction beetween direct and indirect

Re: [gentoo-dev] pkg_{pre,post}inst misusage

2005-12-23 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Friday 23 December 2005 21:39, Harald van Dijk wrote: On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 08:31:06PM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Friday 23 December 2005 20:19, Stefan Schweizer wrote: Well, you should know that those are because of portage bugs or some portage peculiarity, read the corresponding

Re: [gentoo-dev] pkg_{pre,post}inst misusage

2005-12-23 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Friday 23 December 2005 21:39, Harald van Dijk wrote: On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 08:31:06PM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Friday 23 December 2005 20:19, Stefan Schweizer wrote: Well, you should know that those are because of portage bugs or some portage peculiarity, read the corresponding

Re: [gentoo-dev] pkg_{pre,post}inst misusage

2005-12-23 Thread Harald van Dijk
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 10:00:20PM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Friday 23 December 2005 21:39, Harald van Dijk wrote: On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 08:31:06PM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Friday 23 December 2005 20:19, Stefan Schweizer wrote: Well, you should know that those are because of

Re: [gentoo-dev] another global use flag...

2005-12-23 Thread Marcus D. Hanwell
On Thursday 22 December 2005 21:52, Carsten Lohrke wrote: On Thursday 22 December 2005 20:14, Drake Wyrm wrote: Query: Which would be more appropriate in this case? jasper for the library it pulls in as a depend, or jpeg2k for the functionality that library provides? There's nothing else in

Re: [gentoo-dev] another global use flag...

2005-12-23 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 02:03:39PM +, Marcus D. Hanwell wrote: That is why I don't quite understand why Mozilla based browsers use the mozsvg use flag when there is already a global svg use flag available and if you enable svg you can pretty much guarantee you will want it in mozilla

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing description for the xml global use flag

2005-12-23 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 10:58:03PM +, Stuart Herbert wrote: On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 23:48 +0200, Petteri R??ty wrote: /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc:xml - Check/Support flag for XML library (version 1) I think the xml use flag should be more generic. There are after all other

[gentoo-dev] sanity checking libtool versions portability

2005-12-23 Thread erik . nolf
Hello, We recently switched development platform from RedHat/Fedora to Gentoo. Great you'd say. However, now our users (most notably on Solaris) complain that our small utility's ./configure bails out with the dreadful message: *** [Gentoo] sanity check failed! *** ***

Re: [gentoo-dev] checdeps.rb for getting deps out of elf files

2005-12-23 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 01:09:08PM +0200, Petteri R??ty wrote: Basically it does ldd on all the elf files in a package and then checks to which packages those libraries belong. ldd is garbage for this purpose use `readelf -d ELF | grep NEEDED` or just `scanelf -n ELF` -mike --

Re: [gentoo-dev] sanity checking libtool versions portability

2005-12-23 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 03:52:37PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In other words, it breaks portability. And let this be the one thing people expect from using GNU's ubiquitous autotools. Our comments follow: this has been fixed already, you should update to libtool-1.5.20-r1 c) follow

Re: [gentoo-dev] pkg_{pre,post}inst misusage

2005-12-23 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Friday 23 December 2005 22:13, Harald van Dijk wrote: On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 10:00:20PM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Friday 23 December 2005 21:39, Harald van Dijk wrote: On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 08:31:06PM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Friday 23 December 2005 20:19, Stefan Schweizer

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Optimizing performance

2005-12-23 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Thursday 15 December 2005 16:50, Donnie Berkholz wrote: Patrick Lauer wrote: | On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 07:43 -0700, Duncan wrote: |This really belongs on user, or perhaps on the appropriate purposed list, |desktop or hardened or whatever, not on devel. That said, some |comments... (I can't

Re: [gentoo-dev] Optimizing performance

2005-12-23 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Thursday 15 December 2005 19:38, John Myers wrote: On Thursday 15 December 2005 04:48, Patrick Lauer wrote: Hi all, I was wondering if there are any sane ways to optimize the performance of a Gentoo system. Overoptimization (the well known -O9 -fomgomg CFLAGS etc.) tends to make

[gentoo-dev] Unified nVidia Driver Ebuild ready for testing

2005-12-23 Thread Peter
To Gentoo nVidia users: We are in the process of developing and testing a unified nVidia driver ebuild. When implemented, it will replace the nvidia-kernel, nvidia-glx, and nvidia-settings ebuilds. It will also add the utility nvidia-xconfig. We would like your help in evaluating, testing, and

Re: [gentoo-dev] pkg_{pre,post}inst misusage

2005-12-23 Thread Harald van Dijk
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 02:22:06AM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: Symlinks are handled within portage differently to regular files. Regular files get an mtime check and are removed if it matches. Symlinks don't get an mtime check (even thought the mtime is stored) and are only removed if the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support

2005-12-23 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Friday 16 December 2005 18:54, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:00:02 +0100 Danny van Dyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Just one remark: What about making the syntax a bit more familiar to | C++ users: | | ~ DEPENDS=gentoo-foo::foo-bar/baz-2.1 That was my original thought

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Optimizing performance

2005-12-23 Thread Lares Moreau
On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 09:36 -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul de Vrieze wrote: | On Thursday 15 December 2005 16:50, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |gentoo-performance Discussions about improving the performance of Gentoo | |Although it

[gentoo-dev] state of ebooks

2005-12-23 Thread Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-
I'm not at all pleased with the current state of the ebooks. I guess I missed the discussion about it on this list before. I looked at the archives and I didn't see any response to vapier's question about *why* ebookmerge was happening. I don't want to be forced to use the ebookmerge script.

Re: [gentoo-dev] pkg_{pre,post}inst misusage

2005-12-23 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 24 December 2005 02:52, Harald van Dijk wrote: On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 02:22:06AM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: Symlinks are handled within portage differently to regular files. Regular files get an mtime check and are removed if it matches. Symlinks don't get an mtime check (even

Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support

2005-12-23 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 24 December 2005 02:57, Paul de Vrieze wrote: On Friday 16 December 2005 18:54, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:00:02 +0100 Danny van Dyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Just one remark: What about making the syntax a bit more familiar to | C++ users: | | ~

Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support

2005-12-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 18:57:44 +0100 Paul de Vrieze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | That was my original thought when I started playing with it. I | switched to postfix to make it more consistent with the way :slot | and [use] restrictions work. *shrug* I guess it's down to whether | you consider a |

Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support

2005-12-23 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Friday 23 December 2005 19:12, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 18:57:44 +0100 Paul de Vrieze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | That was my original thought when I started playing with it. I | switched to postfix to make it more consistent with the way :slot | and [use] restrictions

Re: [gentoo-dev] pkg_{pre,post}inst misusage

2005-12-23 Thread Thomas de Grenier de Latour
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 02:22:06 +0900 Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PackageA is installed, PackageB is installed, PackageB is uninstalled - PackageA is broken. Does this case exist? Found two on my system: * /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults - /etc/X11/app-defaults is installed by several X11

Re: [gentoo-dev] glep 42 (news) round six

2005-12-23 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Sunday 18 December 2005 05:15, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: You are encouraged to reply to this thread saying I agree with ciaranm that repository IDs should not be allowed to contain spaces. I agree with ciaranm that repository IDs should not be allowed to contain spaces. Paul ps. Thanks for

[gentoo-dev] Re: pkg_{pre,post}inst misusage

2005-12-23 Thread Duncan
Jason Stubbs posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 24 Dec 2005 02:22:06 +0900: A quick patch makes symlinks handled similarly to regular files and solves the issue. I'll put it into testing unless anybody can come up with a reason not to. The case that will be broken by the patch

Re: [gentoo-dev] pkg_{pre,post}inst misusage

2005-12-23 Thread Harald van Dijk
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 03:09:47AM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Saturday 24 December 2005 02:52, Harald van Dijk wrote: On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 02:22:06AM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: Symlinks are handled within portage differently to regular files. Regular files get an mtime check and are

Re: [gentoo-dev] Unified nVidia Driver Ebuild ready for testing

2005-12-23 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 12:41:45PM -0500, Peter wrote: We are in the process of developing and testing a unified nVidia driver ebuild. When implemented, it will replace the nvidia-kernel, nvidia-glx, and nvidia-settings ebuilds. It will also add the utility nvidia-xconfig. issues: - people

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: pkg_{pre,post}inst misusage

2005-12-23 Thread Simon Stelling
Duncan wrote: It just sounds like it /could/ be dangerous to me. For some reason, I don't like the idea of something that could hose a system that badly! =8^\ It won't hose your system badly, since you've got /usr/lib64 listed in /etc/ld.so.conf. I agree it wouldn't be very nice though.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: pkg_{pre,post}inst misusage

2005-12-23 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 24 December 2005 03:43, Duncan wrote: Jason Stubbs posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 24 Dec 2005 02:22:06 +0900: A quick patch makes symlinks handled similarly to regular files and solves the issue. I'll put it into testing unless anybody can come up with a

[gentoo-dev] Re: Unified nVidia Driver Ebuild ready for testing

2005-12-23 Thread Peter
On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 18:47:40 +, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 12:41:45PM -0500, Peter wrote: We are in the process of developing and testing a unified nVidia driver ebuild. When implemented, it will replace the nvidia-kernel, nvidia-glx, and nvidia-settings ebuilds. It

Re: [gentoo-dev] pkg_{pre,post}inst misusage

2005-12-23 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 24 December 2005 03:42, Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 02:22:06 +0900 Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PackageA is installed, PackageB is installed, PackageB is uninstalled - PackageA is broken. Does this case exist? Found two on my system: *

Re: [gentoo-dev] Viability of other SCM/version control systems for big repo's

2005-12-23 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Thursday 22 December 2005 08:13, Bret Towe wrote: On 12/21/05, Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Donnie Berkholz wrote: I know some of you have done research on how gentoo-x86 converts over to other systems besides CVS such as SVN, arch, etc. But I can't find the info

Re: [gentoo-dev] Unified nVidia Driver Ebuild ready for testing

2005-12-23 Thread Stephen P. Becker
Since nobody else has asked, I will. What is the point? What problem are you trying to solve with this ebuild? As far as I can tell, there is no point, other than trying to sound like you are doing something important. I can tell you that I would be disappointed if this replaces the

[gentoo-dev] Re: Unified nVidia Driver Ebuild ready for testing

2005-12-23 Thread Peter
On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:43:59 -0500, Stephen P. Becker wrote: Since nobody else has asked, I will. What is the point? What problem are you trying to solve with this ebuild? As far as I can tell, there is no point, other than trying to sound like you are doing something important.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Unified nVidia Driver Ebuild ready for testing

2005-12-23 Thread Stuart Herbert
Hi Peter, On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 14:05 -0500, Peter wrote: in any case. By unifying the ebuilds, we are merely duplicating what nvidia provides in its install packages. We're not doing anything they aren't. Who is we please? As you're a non-dev, it would be polite to introduce yourself at the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Unified nVidia Driver Ebuild ready for testing

2005-12-23 Thread Stephen P. Becker
Sigh...The point was to take 3, potentially 4, ebuilds and make 1. Well, nvidia-xconfig should probably be part of hte nvidia-settings ebuild, but I really don't think the drivers and kernel module should be included. Why not create a meta-ebuild which pulls all of these ebuilds in, so that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stepping aside...

2005-12-23 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Friday 23 December 2005 16:44, Sven Vermeulen wrote: It is with deep regret that I want to inform you about my decision to step down from the position of Gentoo Documentation lead. May I with this email thank you for the marvelous job you inspired the docs team to during your leadership.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Viability of other SCM/version control systems for big repo's

2005-12-23 Thread Spider (DmD Lj)
On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 20:34 +0100, Paul de Vrieze wrote: On Thursday 22 December 2005 08:13, Bret Towe wrote: On 12/21/05, Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Donnie Berkholz wrote: I know some of you have done research on how gentoo-x86 converts over to other systems besides

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Unified nVidia Driver Ebuild ready for testing

2005-12-23 Thread Peter
On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 20:13:45 +, Stuart Herbert wrote: Hi Peter, On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 14:05 -0500, Peter wrote: in any case. By unifying the ebuilds, we are merely duplicating what nvidia provides in its install packages. We're not doing anything they aren't. Who is we please?

Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support

2005-12-23 Thread Spider (DmD Lj)
On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 03:37 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Saturday 24 December 2005 03:23, Paul de Vrieze wrote: On Friday 23 December 2005 19:12, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 18:57:44 +0100 Paul de Vrieze [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do those already work then? I'd like to be able

Re: [gentoo-dev] Unified nVidia Driver Ebuild ready for testing

2005-12-23 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Friday 23 December 2005 18:41, Peter wrote: We would like your help in evaluating, testing, and commenting on this approach. Please locate the latest nvidia ebuild at: I thought that we (gentoo devs) were trying to split the modules from ebuilds, so that people don't need to waste time with

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stepping aside...

2005-12-23 Thread Roy Marples
On Friday 23 December 2005 20:17, Paul de Vrieze wrote: On Friday 23 December 2005 16:44, Sven Vermeulen wrote: It is with deep regret that I want to inform you about my decision to step down from the position of Gentoo Documentation lead. May I with this email thank you for the marvelous

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: Peter Volkov

2005-12-23 Thread sanchan
Mike Doty wrote: Please take a moment to welcome our newest developer, pva. Peter is joining to help out with netmon. Welcome Peter! -- Sandro (Sanchan) - Gentoo Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: pkg_{pre,post}inst misusage

2005-12-23 Thread Duncan
Jason Stubbs posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 24 Dec 2005 04:06:05 +0900: You are /sure/ the new code won't screw anything of that sort up, right? Maybe that's the reason nobody seems to have been around to know about. It just sounds like it /could/ be dangerous to me. For

Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support

2005-12-23 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Friday 23 December 2005 21:45, Spider (DmD Lj) wrote: Erm.. No, I don't think he is. We've been asking / waiting for the [use] syntax to appear since before you joined the project. It's been on the list for so long that many of us have given up... ; ) He - and I thought I just missed the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Viability of other SCM/version control systems for big repo's

2005-12-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 20:33:13 +0100 Paul de Vrieze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | - Checkout time of a full new tree (no load, and with load) Do we really care about this? SVN will do really really badly here, but does it matter? | - Concurrency performance (how do multiple simultaneous commits and |

[gentoo-dev] X.Org 7.0 Release

2005-12-23 Thread Joshua Baergen
As many of you no doubt have noticed, spyderous and I finished bumping the modular packages to the newly released 7.0, which includes many changes and bug fixes since 6.8.2. Over the next few weeks we'll be finalizing licenses and other necessities. To whoever has been using modular for

Re: [gentoo-dev] X.Org 7.0 Release

2005-12-23 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 03:40:57PM -0700, Joshua Baergen wrote: As many of you no doubt have noticed, spyderous and I finished bumping the modular packages to the newly released 7.0, which includes many changes and bug fixes since 6.8.2. Over the next few weeks we'll be finalizing licenses

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stepping aside...

2005-12-23 Thread Michiel de Bruijne
On Friday 23 December 2005 16:44, Sven Vermeulen wrote: Hi all It is with deep regret that I want to inform you about my decision to step down from the position of Gentoo Documentation lead. I just want to say thank you very much for the outstanding work you (and the rest of the GDP-team)

Re: [gentoo-dev] X.Org 7.0 Release

2005-12-23 Thread Dan Meltzer
http://dev.gentoo.org/~spyderous/xorg-x11/migrating_to_modular_x_howto.txt followed it this morning :) On 12/23/05, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 03:40:57PM -0700, Joshua Baergen wrote: As many of you no doubt have noticed, spyderous and I finished bumping the

Re: [gentoo-dev] X.Org 7.0 Release

2005-12-23 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Friday 23 December 2005 23:50, Greg KH wrote: For those of us who want to try modular now, where's the pointer to how to do this (I can't seem to find it in the archives, sorry...) google for spyderous migrating guide site:dev.gentoo.org :) -- Diego Flameeyes Pettenò -

Re: [gentoo-dev] Optimizing performance

2005-12-23 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Friday 23 December 2005 18:35, Paul de Vrieze wrote: Just to add. This is not so much related to debugging information in the library files (what gdb can use). That information never makes it from disk so is not that much of a speed issue (esp. if it is split out). Actually, if the binaries

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stepping aside...

2005-12-23 Thread Dale
Roy Marples wrote: On Friday 23 December 2005 20:17, Paul de Vrieze wrote: On Friday 23 December 2005 16:44, Sven Vermeulen wrote: It is with deep regret that I want to inform you about my decision to step down from the position of Gentoo Documentation lead. May I with this

Re: [gentoo-dev] X.Org 7.0 Release

2005-12-23 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Greg KH wrote: For those of us who want to try modular now, where's the pointer to how to do this (I can't seem to find it in the archives, sorry...) I've been meaning to get it into guidexml and make it a real project doc for a while now (and the accompanying porting guide), but haven't had

Re: [gentoo-dev] X.Org 7.0 Release

2005-12-23 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Joshua Baergen wrote: As many of you no doubt have noticed, spyderous and I finished bumping the modular packages to the newly released 7.0, which includes many changes and bug fixes since 6.8.2. Over the next few weeks we'll be finalizing licenses and other necessities. To whoever has been

Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support

2005-12-23 Thread Brian Harring
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 10:30:09PM +0100, Carsten Lohrke wrote: On Friday 23 December 2005 21:45, Spider (DmD Lj) wrote: Erm.. No, I don't think he is. We've been asking / waiting for the [use] syntax to appear since before you joined the project. It's been on the list for so long that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support

2005-12-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 17:04:32 -0800 Brian Harring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | kde-libs/kde:3 | ^^^ need any kde, with slotting enabled. | | kde-libs/kde:3,4 | ^^^ need any kde, slotting 3 or 4. Will foo-bar/baz:3* or foo-bar/baz:3.* work? -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] iconv and libintl virtuals

2005-12-23 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Sunday 11 December 2005 18:02, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: Okay now that virtual/x11 introduced the new generation's virtuals, the decision of waiting to have virtuals for iconv and libintl can be considered concluded, and we might start adding them, right? :D I'm still waiting for

Re: [gentoo-dev] Optimizing performance

2005-12-23 Thread John Myers
On Friday 23 December 2005 15:52, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: On Friday 23 December 2005 18:35, Paul de Vrieze wrote: Just to add. This is not so much related to debugging information in the library files (what gdb can use). That information never makes it from disk so is not that much

Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support

2005-12-23 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 24 December 2005 05:45, Spider (DmD Lj) wrote: On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 03:37 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Saturday 24 December 2005 03:23, Paul de Vrieze wrote: On Friday 23 December 2005 19:12, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 18:57:44 +0100 Paul de Vrieze [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support

2005-12-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 12:50:33 +0900 Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | SLOT is currently an arbitrary string (without spaces) so general | matching of * might be useful. Of course, there's no restriction of | not using * in SLOTs at the moment either... *shrug* SLOT will have to be tightened

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stepping aside...

2005-12-23 Thread Curtis Napier
Sven Vermeulen wrote: Hi all It is with deep regret that I want to inform you about my decision to step down from the position of Gentoo Documentation lead. I can't believe this. I am very sad. Swift is my mentor and one of a few people whos work inspired me to donate my time to Gentoo to

how to contribute to use/slot deps: was Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support

2005-12-23 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 12:40:35PM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Saturday 24 December 2005 05:45, Spider (DmD Lj) wrote: On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 03:37 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Saturday 24 December 2005 03:23, Paul de Vrieze wrote: On Friday 23 December 2005 19:12, Ciaran McCreesh