[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: media-gfx/splashutils

2018-04-07 Thread Jonas Stein
Dear all, The following packages are up for grabs: media-gfx/splashutils after retirement of the proxied maintainer due to inactivity. https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/media-gfx/splashutils There are 16 open bugs and patches.

[gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] _pkg_str: add _db attribute (bug 640318)

2018-04-07 Thread Zac Medico
In order to propagate information from dbapi to Package instance, it's useful for each _pkg_str instance to have a _db attribute which references the dbapi instance that instantiated it. Use a new dbapi._iuse_implicit_cnstr method to delegate implicit IUSE logic to the dbapi instance, in order to

Re: [gentoo-dev] berkdb and gdbm in global USE defaults

2018-04-07 Thread William Hubbs
On Sat, Apr 07, 2018 at 02:55:53PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 04/07/2018 02:44 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > > > > I'm with floppym on this one. Is there a specific reason we enable them > > globally? > > It's a relic from before we had IUSE defaults. > > > > Since there has been so

Re: [gentoo-dev] berkdb and gdbm in global USE defaults

2018-04-07 Thread Lars Wendler
On Sat, 7 Apr 2018 14:16:33 -0500 William Hubbs wrote: >On Sat, Apr 07, 2018 at 02:55:53PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> On 04/07/2018 02:44 PM, William Hubbs wrote: >> > >> > I'm with floppym on this one. Is there a specific reason we enable >> > them globally? >> >> It's a relic from

Re: [gentoo-dev] berkdb and gdbm in global USE defaults

2018-04-07 Thread William Hubbs
On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 10:33:14PM -0500, Mike Gilbert wrote: > I recently ran into a REQUIRED_USE constraint that required I select > between berkdb and gdbm for an email client. This has now hit stable and is affecting me because I can't upgrade the email client without putting something in

Re: [gentoo-dev] berkdb and gdbm in global USE defaults

2018-04-07 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 04/07/2018 02:44 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > > I'm with floppym on this one. Is there a specific reason we enable them > globally? It's a relic from before we had IUSE defaults. > Since there has been so little discussion on this thread, I will start > looking at what I need to do to remove

Re: [gentoo-dev] berkdb and gdbm in global USE defaults

2018-04-07 Thread Matt Turner
On Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 12:57 PM, Lars Wendler wrote: > On Sat, 7 Apr 2018 14:16:33 -0500 William Hubbs wrote: > >>On Sat, Apr 07, 2018 at 02:55:53PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >>> On 04/07/2018 02:44 PM, William Hubbs wrote: >>> > >>> > I'm with floppym on this one.