Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo is and will remain Free Software

2009-03-12 Thread Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Luke-Jr wrote: I have been reporting bugs over the past few months regarding licensing issues, and inappropriate dependencies on non-Free software. Someone recommended I begin a thread on -dev, however, seeing as it may be of greater concern in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo is and will remain Free Software

2009-03-12 Thread Rémi Cardona
Luke-Jr a écrit : The xorg-x11 7.4 metapackage also added a number of dependencies on non-Free fonts. There have been a number of other similar issues I've encountered over the past year. I'll reply to that. The xorg-x11 meta package contains everything upstreams considers important,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo is and will remain Free Software

2009-03-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo is and will remain Free Software

2009-03-12 Thread Luke-Jr
On Thursday 12 March 2009 06:53:21 am Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote: Luke-Jr wrote: I have been reporting bugs over the past few months regarding licensing issues, and inappropriate dependencies on non-Free software. Someone recommended I begin a thread on -dev, however, seeing as it may be

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo is and will remain Free Software

2009-03-12 Thread Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 � wrote: Luke-Jr a �crit : The xorg-x11 7.4 metapackage also added a number of dependencies on non-Free fonts. There have been a number of other similar issues I've encountered over the past year. I'll reply to that. The xorg-x11 meta package

Re: [gentoo-dev] Collecting opinions about GLEP 55 and alternatives

2009-03-12 Thread Alistair Bush
Michael Haubenwallner wrote: Hi, Reminder (for myself): As long as we want/have to support PMs lacking EAPI detection in '*.ebuild' to mask ebuilds with unknown EAPI, each approach to add EAPI to an '*.ebuild' must be hackish. So we can try to find the least ugly hack, or we need to change

Re: [gentoo-dev] Ideas for a (fast) EAPI=3

2009-03-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 22:53 Mon 09 Mar , Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 15:39:41 -0700 Donnie Berkholz dberkh...@gentoo.org wrote: * Calling unpack on an unrecognised extension should be fatal, unless --if-compressed is specified. The default src_unpack needs to use this. Why?

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in eclass: rpm.eclass

2009-03-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 04:29 Thu 12 Mar , Mike Frysinger (vapier) wrote: Modified: rpm.eclass Log: add a func to automatically process patches in rpm specs +# @FUNCTION: rpm_spec_epatch +# @USAGE: [spec] +# @DESCRIPTION: +# Read the specified spec (defaults to ${PN}.spec) and attempt to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Ideas for a (fast) EAPI=3

2009-03-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:43:58 -0700 Donnie Berkholz dberkh...@gentoo.org wrote: Currently, if a package does an explicit 'unpack foo.bar', where .bar is an unsupported archive format, unpack just does nothing. This isn't a good default behaviour; if a package really wants something to be

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo is and will remain Free Software

2009-03-12 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 12/03/2009 17:21, Marijn Schouten (hkBst) a écrit : Do you mean: 1) don't use the xorg-x11 meta if you don't want not-completely-free fonts or 2) don't ever use the xorg-x11 meta ? A little bit of both. :) Unlike the Gnome or KDE meta, most of the stuff in the xorg-x11 meta is useless

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Developer Retirements

2009-03-12 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
tis 2009-03-10 klockan 08:29 -0700 skrev Alec Warner: With some devs reviewing gentoo-commits@, I highly doubt that this commit could go unnoticed more than a few hours. really? cause I bet I could slip something in; now I'm motivated to try ;p Looking inside of package.mask this morning

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Developer Retirements

2009-03-12 Thread Tomáš Chvátal
Dne čtvrtek 12 Březen 2009 09:25:17 Peter Hjalmarsson napsal(a): tis 2009-03-10 klockan 08:29 -0700 skrev Alec Warner: With some devs reviewing gentoo-commits@, I highly doubt that this commit could go unnoticed more than a few hours. really? cause I bet I could slip something in; now

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gems.eclass review

2009-03-12 Thread Alex Legler
On Fr, 2009-03-06 at 21:03 -0600, Ryan Hill wrote: In the case that USE_RUBY is set to something funky, it never gets handled. The eclass basically just does nothing. This might be what you want, but if not, how about something like: Actually, this is what we want. ;) I noticed after

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in eclass: rpm.eclass

2009-03-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 12 March 2009 14:44:21 Donnie Berkholz wrote: On 04:29 Thu 12 Mar , Mike Frysinger (vapier) wrote: Modified: rpm.eclass Log: add a func to automatically process patches in rpm specs +# @FUNCTION: rpm_spec_epatch +# @USAGE: [spec] +# @DESCRIPTION:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Ideas for a (fast) EAPI=3

2009-03-12 Thread Maciej Mrozowski
No idea whether it's fast idea, but: - USE flags aliases This could solve problems with USE flag name changes and breaking dependency tree because of it. Placed, let's say in profiles/{use.aliases,use.local.aliases} example - use.aliases: (no idea whether global aliases are really needed) #

Re: [gentoo-dev] Ideas for a (fast) EAPI=3

2009-03-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:05:54 +0100 Maciej Mrozowski reave...@poczta.fm wrote: No idea whether it's fast idea, but: - USE flags aliases Aliases for anything aren't fast or easy. The big problem is this: the interactions between installed packages and the main repository, and between the main