Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: leechcraft

2017-02-02 Thread Daniel Campbell
maintaining their own Portage tree. It's great practice and it gives you a single place to reference for people who are using your ebuilds. If it gets formally into layman, I believe our bugzy will cover you, too, in case you don't want to use github. I'd ask infra just to be su

Re: [gentoo-dev] Guidelines for IUSE defaults

2017-02-02 Thread Daniel Campbell
ng needs based frameworks. > > > The minimal (lowest level) should be clear of all of those distro > encumbrances. CoreOS is taking this approach, as their bare metal > bootstrapping occurs completely and well before systemd or any other > PID1 schema is invoked or becomes a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Guidelines for IUSE defaults

2017-02-08 Thread Daniel Campbell
t the work that goes into them. If maintainers need to make small changes here or there so their packages work on specific profiles, I don't see the problem. We do commit+push over typos; a profile is more important than that, so naturally we should have little issue ironing out support when the err

Re: [gentoo-dev] Guidelines for IUSE defaults

2017-02-09 Thread Daniel Campbell
et in > base, and set what ever minimal IUSE flags that are needed. > I support the idea of a profile-set variable that determines whether or not IUSE is respected. Minimalists get their systems faster, we get something that adds to Gentoo's versatility and an additional profile. Of course

Re: [gentoo-dev] Guidelines for IUSE defaults

2017-02-09 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 02/09/2017 12:25 PM, Ben Kohler wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 2:18 PM, Daniel Campbell <mailto:z...@gentoo.org>> wrote: > > I support the idea of a profile-set variable that determines whether or > not IUSE is respected. Minimalists get t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Guidelines for IUSE defaults

2017-02-09 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 02/09/2017 12:59 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 02/09/2017 03:41 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote: >> That's a great question. Based on a cursory look at make.conf's manpage, >> USE_ORDER without 'pkginternal' will ignore IUSE defaults as intended. >> >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: x11-misc/ktsuss

2017-02-15 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 01/25/2017 01:17 PM, Gokturk Yuksek wrote: > The following package is up for grabs: > > x11-misc/ktsuss > I can take this; I use it with SpaceFM to do things as root. -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053

Re: [gentoo-dev] ABI Navigator — a project to search for binary symbols

2017-02-23 Thread Daniel Campbell
ng on a quick test (TOX_CONFERENCE_TYPE, part of net-libs/tox, TokTok/toxcore on GitHub), but it did it quickly and it has a clean interface. I'll definitely try using this when I find myself stumped on something. -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnu

[gentoo-dev] Suggested sync method/Portage config for devs on ~arch?

2017-02-27 Thread Daniel Campbell
t's what they desire. So, for a developer/user using ~arch, what do you use and/or recommend for Portage configuration? Thanks for reading. [1]: https://github.com/hasufell/portage-gentoo-git-config -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/2] app-portage/eclass-manpages: Add @SUPPORTED_EAPIS tag for eclass

2017-05-03 Thread Daniel Campbell
could really use. I say go for it! I'm not sure what you're talking about regarding _ vs. -; do you mean the variable name? I think _ makes a bit more sense there since we use INSTALL_MASK, PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET, or other variable names with underscores. Using a hyphen would make it s

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removal of rxvt

2017-05-11 Thread Daniel Campbell
ested in proxying, but as far as I know anyone who used rxvt migrated to rxvt-unicode once it was stable. -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Should Sphinx really depends on PYTHON_COMPAT/PYTHON_USEDEP for `dev-python/*` ebuilds?

2017-05-12 Thread Daniel Campbell
eparate download, or (b) we end up with foo+1 packages, one extra for any package that has documentation. Neither are particularly good solutions; Debian has done the latter and it results in a huge number of packages for little gain. -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6

Re: [gentoo-dev] Should Sphinx really depends on PYTHON_COMPAT/PYTHON_USEDEP for `dev-python/*` ebuilds?

2017-05-17 Thread Daniel Campbell
On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 09:32:46AM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > On pią, 2017-05-12 at 17:42 -0700, Daniel Campbell wrote: > > On 05/11/2017 12:51 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > > > In fact, I'm personally leaning towards not building docs at all > > > in ebuilds. It

Re: [gentoo-dev] Should Sphinx really depends on PYTHON_COMPAT/PYTHON_USEDEP for `dev-python/*` ebuilds?

2017-05-18 Thread Daniel Campbell
On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 08:32:53PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > On czw, 2017-05-11 at 11:47 +0700, Alex Turbov wrote: > > DEPEND=( doc? > > || ( > > ( > > dev-python/sphinx[python_targets_python2_7] > > # NOTE This packages provide

Re: [gentoo-dev] Should Sphinx really depends on PYTHON_COMPAT/PYTHON_USEDEP for `dev-python/*` ebuilds?

2017-05-18 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 05/18/2017 03:30 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > On czw, 2017-05-18 at 15:07 -0700, Daniel Campbell wrote: >> On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 08:32:53PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: >>> On czw, 2017-05-11 at 11:47 +0700, Alex Turbov wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Restricted version of gentoo-dev mailing list

2017-05-27 Thread Daniel Campbell
e of messages, it will likely succeed. ~zlg -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCHES] python-r1.eclass: any-of dep API support

2017-05-27 Thread Daniel Campbell
ich makes it a little more clear how to use it. Thanks for putting all of this together. I'm not sure how to express this because I don't know which question to ask. Is there anything I can help with once this gets committed? -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] NeoVim and vim-syntax

2017-05-31 Thread Daniel Campbell
will work with 'the other one' too and can use that to decide whether they want to make the switch. This information can probably be gleaned on their own with some detective work on the Web, but choosing this path gives the accidental feature for free. ~zlg -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Addition of a new field to metadata.xml

2017-06-01 Thread Daniel Campbell
w the line? Will developers be expected to treat this like a mandated element? If not, which team will have authority to touch package metadata to make this change? -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Addition of a new field to metadata.xml

2017-06-03 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 06/01/2017 11:59 PM, Kent Fredric wrote: > On Thu, 1 Jun 2017 18:36:24 -0700 > Daniel Campbell wrote: > >> +1. Otherwise sounds good. But if we do this for Debian, will there be >> movement to add in package names for rpm-based distros? Arch? BSD? >> Slackware

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] fdo-mime.eclass: Mark the eclass as deprecated

2017-06-19 Thread Daniel Campbell
s getting updated by the developer or team that prompted the removal of the eclass? My apologies if this is answered elsewhere. I want to be sure what's expected, just in case I need to touch an eclass. -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2017-06-20 Thread Daniel Campbell
same. Dual maintainership is preferred. -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] The status of grsecurity upstream and hardened-sources downstream

2017-06-23 Thread Daniel Campbell
ama? Why would a security-conscious group take their toys and go home? Regardless, this is a loss for Linux as a whole. I hope something springs up in its place. -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pre-GLEP RFC: Automated enforcing of REQUIRED_USE constraints

2017-07-08 Thread Daniel Campbell
ok at? I searched the GLEP page for "log", "einfo", and "output" with no results. If I've missed something please let me know. Thanks for the work that's been put into this so far. ~zlg -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://key

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pre-GLEP RFC: Automated enforcing of REQUIRED_USE constraints

2017-07-08 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 07/08/2017 03:29 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > On sob, 2017-07-08 at 15:21 -0700, Daniel Campbell wrote: >> On 07/08/2017 02:43 AM, Michał Górny wrote: >>> Hi, everyone. >>> >>> I think the affairs have settled enough and I've finished filling >>&g

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Sets vs Meta ebuilds

2017-07-09 Thread Daniel Campbell
set file(s), and p.mask doesn't appear to support "!=cat/pkg-1.0" syntax to mimic the same functionality achieved by a versioned atom in a set. It also makes sense to put packages you want in a set instead of a mask. ">=" or "<=" may be adequate if you only

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Sets vs Meta ebuilds

2017-07-09 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 07/09/2017 06:53 AM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > On Sun, 9 Jul 2017 00:42:46 -0700 > Daniel Campbell wrote: > >>> - Sets used in profiles cannot have use expansion, versions or >>> anything beyond cat/pkg. >> This would break some set behavior,

Re: [gentoo-dev] taking a break from arches stabilization

2017-07-11 Thread Daniel Campbell
Thanks for your efforts in stabilization. I try to make it a point to thank people like you and Toralf since stabilization and arch testing are both time-consuming, and probably frustrating to get the tooling correct. Take some time off! I'm sure Gentoo won't implode. :) -- Daniel Cam

Re: [gentoo-dev] Auto adding packages to world was -> Sets vs Meta ebuilds

2017-07-11 Thread Daniel Campbell
fication to come from. The tool can help clean up unneeded entries in /etc/portage files, and would be a good fit for this particular issue. That said, having helpful messages is a good addition, but needs to be done in a way that is unambiguous and gives the user a clear solution. Hope this he

Re: [gentoo-dev] Auto adding packages to world was -> Sets vs Meta ebuilds

2017-07-11 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 07/11/2017 01:27 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote: > On 07/10/2017 04:37 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: >> On Mon, 10 Jul 2017 19:22:47 -0400 >> "William L. Thomson Jr." wrote: >>> >>> That part does not require it to resolve deps. Just check world file

Re: [gentoo-dev] Auto adding packages to world was -> Sets vs Meta ebuilds

2017-07-11 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 07/11/2017 01:57 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jul 2017 13:27:57 -0700 > Daniel Campbell wrote: > >> On 07/10/2017 04:37 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: >>> On Mon, 10 Jul 2017 19:22:47 -0400 >> >>> A rule for portage could be; >&g

Re: [gentoo-dev] vim-syntax USE flag

2017-07-22 Thread Daniel Campbell
s for this particular thing. If the Vim team needs the help, I'd be glad to lend a hand where needed. (also cc'ing vim@ to get an official opinion) -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Future of gentoo's stable and unstable trees: what are your thoughts?

2017-07-25 Thread Daniel Campbell
age their packages in various ways, could we extend this to a general element? Maintainers can specify how they'd prefer bugs or commits to be done, and an additional element to indicate hand-testing. This would solve two problems instead of just one: indicate a package is ready for auto-s

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC pre-GLEP] Gentoo Git Workflow

2017-07-26 Thread Daniel Campbell
ut if we can find something that fits enough use cases, tooling shouldn't be too difficult to write to make up for it. I already use a `bgo` keyworded shortcut in Pale Moon to make bug searching faster; adding another to navigate straight to a bug wouldn't be much trouble. -- Daniel Camp

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Future of gentoo's stable and unstable trees: what are your thoughts?

2017-07-28 Thread Daniel Campbell
ers -- stable is only a letter away from "stale", and that's fine. Some run mixed keywords, or go full ~arch. One of the core values of Gentoo is choice; why take away the stable choice? -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs

2017-07-30 Thread Daniel Campbell
I have a machine using certbot (Rpi 3 Model B) now that I might be switching to Gentoo in the future. I'd be willing to co-maintain app-crypt/certbot with other interested developers. The catch is I don't use Apache or nginx; others would need to maintain certbot-apache and certbot-nginx. Anyone interested? -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs

2017-07-30 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 07/19/2017 02:33 AM, Amy Liffey wrote: > The following package is up for grabs: > > dev-lang/gforth > > Best regards, > Amy Liffey > I can take this one; I'd hate to see Forth support go missing on Gentoo. I'm open to co-maintainers as well. ~zlg -- Dan

Re: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs

2017-08-07 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 08/06/2017 02:27 AM, tom...@gentoo.org wrote: > Quoting Daniel Campbell (2017-07-31 04:16:30) >> On 07/19/2017 02:33 AM, Amy Liffey wrote: >>> The following package is up for grabs: >>> >>> dev-lang/gforth >>> >>> Best regards, >>&g

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Revisions for USE flag changes

2017-08-16 Thread Daniel Campbell
icular idea comes at too high a cost for my taste, as we stand to lose functionality rather than improve or gain it. ~zlg -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing PMS to Portage Manager Specification

2017-08-16 Thread Daniel Campbell
be nice if every ebuild was EAPI 6, but that is a hge amount of work that nobody seems interested in, for questionable gain. The work would just be repeated when the next EAPI is approved. The way it works now is more organic and better representative of the state of Gentoo development, for better or

Re: [gentoo-dev] New package neomutt

2017-08-16 Thread Daniel Campbell
elegant to me, but it would work for this scenario. >> > > The move is against orphaned files in /usr that are randomly changed by > runtime tools rather than the package manager. > Then how do we explain the reasoning for the other 50 or so eselect modules? No doubt at least a handful of them modify symlinks in /usr, and have similarly few options to choose from, such as eselect-vi. Should we remove those as well? -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] New package neomutt

2017-08-17 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 08/17/2017 12:48 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > W dniu śro, 16.08.2017 o godzinie 22∶07 -0700, użytkownik Daniel > Campbell napisał: >> On 08/10/2017 01:10 AM, Michał Górny wrote: >>> On czw, 2017-08-10 at 09:54 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote: >>>> On 10-08-2017 0

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC pre-GLEP] Gentoo Git Workflow

2017-09-10 Thread Daniel Campbell
bickering is motivating or inspiring to those who read it, and leadership should know better than to stoop to this level publicly. You will not get more developer activity, agreement, cooperation, or contribution by berating your fellow developers. In fact, Gentoo is known for its bickering dev

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC pre-GLEP] Gentoo Git Workflow

2017-09-10 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 09/10/2017 02:34 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > W dniu nie, 10.09.2017 o godzinie 00∶39 -0700, użytkownik Daniel > Campbell napisał: >> On 09/09/2017 12:47 AM, Michał Górny wrote: >>> W dniu pią, 08.09.2017 o godzinie 17∶19 -0400, użytkownik Rich Freeman >>> napisał:

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reinstating old-school GLEPs masterplan

2017-09-12 Thread Daniel Campbell
ons. Or is Jekyll chosen purely because the current website is built with it? In that case, it at least makes sense despite the heavyweight dependencies. If anyone's interested in seeing a mockup of a few GLEPs in Pelican, I can get that started. Whether or not the structure works on GitHub is orth

Re: [gentoo-dev] Providing a `service` scripts that speaks OpenRC and systemd

2017-09-29 Thread Daniel Campbell
h then how > useful could it be? > Great points. It'll be much easier to decide on something when/if there is something concrete to work with. There isn't much stopping a package from making it into Gentoo. If there is demand, it'll be written. -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer, Trustee, Treasurer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] GLEP 74 post-Council review update

2017-11-17 Thread Daniel Campbell
fication on every sync raises some > performance concerns for end-user systems. The initial testing has shown > that a cold-cache verification on a btrfs file system can take up around > 4 minutes, with the process being mostly I/O bound. On the other hand, > it can be expected that the verification will be performed directly > after syncing, taking advantage of warm filesystem cache. "warm" -> "a warm" > > [snip] > Thanks to all the people whose contributions were invaluable > to the creation of this GLEP. This includes but is not limited to: > > - Robin Hugh Johnson, > - Ulrich Müller. > > Additionally, thanks to Robin Hugh Johnson for the original > MataManifest GLEP series which served both as inspiration and source "MataManifest" -> "MetaManifest" > > [snip] > Aside from the few nitpicks this looks good. Hope this helps. -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer, Trustee, Treasurer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] fdo-mime.eclass: Mark the eclass as deprecated

2017-11-18 Thread Daniel Campbell
ate their ebuilds? I searched bugzy for 'fdo-mime' and the only relevant bug is 621914 [1], which I assume was the original discussion to get us onto xdg-utils since it's newer. If there's no tracker bug I need to reference, that's fine. Just wanted to be sure I'm not

Re: [gentoo-dev] NEWS item for games destabling

2017-11-20 Thread Daniel Campbell
esults in bugs that should've been caught in the testing phase, confuses users (and developers), and redundant or obvious bugs being reported. This reads like a "fresh slate" for games, allowing them to start from ~arch and ensure that stabilization procedures are correctly followed by

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Splitting developer-oriented and expert user mailing lists

2017-12-04 Thread Daniel Campbell
btain posting > access to the mailing lists, much like they do obtain it to #gentoo-dev > right now. However, if they start misbehaving we can just remove that > without the risk of evasion. > > -- > Best regards, > Michał Górny > > I don't think this plan will have the effect you're going for, but let's be honest here: the "RFC" is just a formality; the decision's already been made. If the "real leaders" of Gentoo want to divide and fragment the community, it's their prerogative. As we tell users who do something they're not supposed to: You get to keep the pieces. ~zlg -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer, Trustee, Treasurer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Splitting developer-oriented and expert user mailing lists

2017-12-05 Thread Daniel Campbell
On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 08:59:40AM +, Peter Stuge wrote: > Daniel Campbell wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 03, 2017 at 12:18:04AM +0100, Michał Górny wrote: > > > I'd like to establish the following changes to the mailing lists: > > > > > > 1. Posting to gent

Re: That's all folks. (Re: OT Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-project] [RFC] Splitting developer-oriented and expert user mailing lists)

2017-12-09 Thread Daniel Campbell
cil agenda if he didn't write it, period. Everyone else would've been told to suck it up and deal with it. And knowing how the Council is, in a few days we'll all get to deal with the churn of mailing lists to protect one person's ego. Sad. ~zlg -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer, Trustee, Treasurer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: That's all folks. (Re: OT Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-project] [RFC] Splitting developer-oriented and expert user mailing lists)

2017-12-09 Thread Daniel Campbell
On Sat, Dec 09, 2017 at 08:13:18PM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 7:29 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote: > > > > Other developers are required to subscribe to -dev, and are > > expected to follow it so they stay informed. > > Developers are not re

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2017-12-12 Thread Daniel Campbell
The following packages are in need of a maintainer: dev-util/astyle net-im/toxic x11-misc/alock x11-misc/ktsuss x11-misc/spacefm -- Daniel Campbell OpenPGP Fingerprint: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 Found on hkp://keys.gnupg.net and other keyservers signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFD] Adopt-a-package, proxy-maintenance, and other musings

2016-01-24 Thread Daniel Campbell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 01/23/2016 12:52 AM, Ian Delaney wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 16:30:14 -0800 Daniel Campbell > wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 > >> On 01/21/2016 02:41 PM, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: >&g

Re: [gentoo-dev] New packages up for grabs

2016-01-25 Thread Daniel Campbell
wouldn't be doing them a good service by taking them. - -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJWppDoAAoJEAEk

Re: [gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2016-01-31 23:59 UTC

2016-01-31 Thread Daniel Campbell
pinkbyte > c42fbbf x11-misc/ccsm20160128-08:10 > pinkbyte 0f35eae x11-misc/simple-ccsm > 20160128-08:10 pinkbyte 0f35eae > > [snip] Am I reading this right? Does that mean they were added and removed at the exact same time? - -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer Op

Re: [gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2016-01-31 23:59 UTC

2016-01-31 Thread Daniel Campbell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 01/31/2016 08:37 PM, Tim Harder wrote: > On 2016-01-31 21:48, Daniel Campbell wrote: >> On 01/31/2016 04:05 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: >>> The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or >>> removed

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH 0/5] RFC: Patches for wxwidgets.eclass

2016-02-03 Thread Daniel Campbell
l affect other developers. Bugzilla is nice and all, but imo it's more of an AND thing instead of an OR thing. If the bug is already present, I see no real reason not to have a thread about it on g-dev. It keeps unrelated developers in the loop, as well, in the event that they come across weird e

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v3 00/21] devmanual: update the docs for post git-migration

2016-02-03 Thread Daniel Campbell
230 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 > ebuild-writing/misc-files/changelog/text.xml delete mode 100644 > tools-reference/echangelog/text.xml > This isn't related to what you're doing but I felt it was a good place to ask: How are you and other developers creating these ser

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v3 00/21] devmanual: update the docs for post git-migration

2016-02-03 Thread Daniel Campbell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 02/03/2016 05:15 PM, NP-Hardass wrote: > On 02/03/2016 08:10 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote: >> On 02/03/2016 04:57 PM, gokt...@binghamton.edu wrote: >>> From: Gokturk Yuksek > >>> Hi, > >>> This is th

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v3 00/21] devmanual: update the docs for post git-migration

2016-02-03 Thread Daniel Campbell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 02/03/2016 05:49 PM, Göktürk Yüksek wrote: > Daniel Campbell: >> On 02/03/2016 04:57 PM, gokt...@binghamton.edu wrote: >>> From: Gokturk Yuksek > >>> Hi, > >> [...] > >> This isn't

Re: [gentoo-dev] games.eclass policy

2016-02-07 Thread Daniel Campbell
eference decision: > > https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20151213-summary.txt > > I'm going to open a bug asking games team how they're going to > proceed. > Please let us know when you do; there are a few Humble Bundle games I'd like to bring to the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing order of default virtual/udev provider

2016-02-08 Thread Daniel Campbell
v ever since I started using Gentoo back in 2012, to escape systemd. I'm completely okay with us defaulting to eudev. In fact, I wonder why it hasn't already happened. Upstream is actively against Gentoo, after all [1]. Out of curiosity, which distros are shipping with eudev by default?

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing order of default virtual/udev provider

2016-02-08 Thread Daniel Campbell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 02/08/2016 04:32 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote: > On 02/08/2016 01:30 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote: >> >> Out of curiosity, which distros are shipping with eudev by >> default? >> > From [1]: > > ""&quo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing order of default virtual/udev provider

2016-02-08 Thread Daniel Campbell
eudev's updates/patches after theirs, but given upstream's goals to coerce everyone into using their init system, what workable long-term solution is there? A fork was really the only pragmatic approach here. This reminds me of the ffmpeg/libav issue. Thankfully since we've gotten past tha

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing order of default virtual/udev provider

2016-02-08 Thread Daniel Campbell
or the average user and stage3s remain a thing, I'm okay with that. We just need solid means to maintain choice and be honest about the options available when building a system, imo. - -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing order of default virtual/udev provider

2016-02-09 Thread Daniel Campbell
while he's working on eudev. - -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJWudk9AAoJEAEkDpRQOeFwT4

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing order of default virtual/udev provider

2016-02-09 Thread Daniel Campbell
y since it's something really low level and there's no way the systemd team would require big changes on the user/admin facing side of things unless you aren't already running systemd. Their goal is to make it so easy that people don't have to inspect the internals, which give

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing order of default virtual/udev provider

2016-02-09 Thread Daniel Campbell
ibutions urging for Gentoo to switch? To clarify, there's nothing wrong with systemd as a choice. It's special enough that it has its own set of profiles. I think that's enough, and creates a workable path for both. For this thread, it seems that we need to do something similar wit

Re: [gentoo-dev] "Lazy" use flags?

2016-02-09 Thread Daniel Campbell
, even if redundant, and adding a comment just above them explaining why I add them. It's not perfect, but if I get curious and check back on it, I'll always know why I added it. A possible solution to the file issue is some way of letting the user know prior to merging that a &quo

Re: [gentoo-dev] "Lazy" use flags?

2016-02-09 Thread Daniel Campbell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 02/09/2016 05:19 AM, Kent Fredric wrote: > On 10 February 2016 at 02:14, Daniel Campbell > wrote: >> Another concern, though, is it'd result in something similar. >> Instead of "cat/foo bar baz" and later remov

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing order of default virtual/udev provider

2016-02-09 Thread Daniel Campbell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 02/09/2016 05:44 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 8:06 AM, Daniel Campbell > wrote: >> >> Perhaps that's because each of those things should not actually >> be considered the same object typ

Re: [gentoo-dev] Hardware database

2016-02-09 Thread Daniel Campbell
ted doing the work, one could file a bug on our tracker and request an ebuild to be written. Or one could read the devmanual and put one together. If someone is interested in maintaining that ebuild, one of our proxy-maintainers may be interested in helping. Check it out some time. :) https://bugs.gentoo.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing order of default virtual/udev provider

2016-02-09 Thread Daniel Campbell
md, and that isn't something > any of us should be holding back. If I want to make things better > for systemd users there are plenty of areas that I could better > invest this energy. > > So, thanks for bearing with me. > Good points, I agree. Thanks for being

Re: [gentoo-dev] "Lazy" use flags?

2016-02-09 Thread Daniel Campbell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 02/09/2016 07:08 PM, Gordon Pettey wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 7:19 AM, Kent Fredric > mailto:kentfred...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > On 10 February 2016 at 02:14, Daniel Campbell <mailto:z...@gentoo.org>> wro

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Changing order of default virtual/udev provider

2016-02-10 Thread Daniel Campbell
with this not-officially-supported > situation in Gentoo, that doesn't mean the other projects have to > stay out of /usr, and "it worked before the upgrade but doesn't > now" certainly doesn't mean it's a valid bug. If a user or > sysadmin

Re: [gentoo-dev] "Lazy" use flags?

2016-02-10 Thread Daniel Campbell
make.conf? Every 32-bit package I've ever pulled in has needed that flag set, and I've had to manually set it until blockers are resolved. I've not set -abi_x86_32 globally or anything like that. - -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA0

Re: [gentoo-dev] "Lazy" use flags?

2016-02-11 Thread Daniel Campbell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 02/11/2016 04:59 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 10:46 PM, Daniel Campbell > wrote: >> >> On 02/10/2016 06:51 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >>> >>> Ditto for stuff like 32-bit support for ha

Re: [gentoo-dev] "Lazy" use flags?

2016-02-11 Thread Daniel Campbell
l still be building those packages in 32-bit unnecessarily. So it's closer to what we do for dependency resolution on packages, just applied to USE flags. (hopefully I explained well enough) - -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnup

Re: [gentoo-dev] "Lazy" use flags?

2016-02-11 Thread Daniel Campbell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 02/11/2016 05:23 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 7:12 PM, Daniel Campbell > wrote: >> >> No, lazy USE in this discussion is akin to installing, say, >> Steam. That requires a lot of packages t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Uncoordinated changes

2016-02-14 Thread Daniel Campbell
since you actually depend on these files, why not educate yourself on the conversation and see if you can contribute? It does nobody any good to sit and sulk while the world changes around you. - -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net f

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing order of default virtual/udev provider

2016-02-15 Thread Daniel Campbell
; and even with that, I don't think there is anything preventing > using systemd-udev from an openrc boot, is it ? (ie, have systemd > installed but booting with openrc) > systemd blocks both udev and eudev, since it includes systemd-udev. I don't know enough to tell you if the ude

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: Does OpenRC really need mount-ro

2016-02-16 Thread Daniel Campbell
en it scroll by. I use an initramfs to decrypt the LUKS partition and discover the LVM volumes. I can only assume it goes read-only before shutdown/reboot because it needs to. Just my two cents. - -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE0

Re: [gentoo-dev] games.eclass policy

2016-02-16 Thread Daniel Campbell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 02/08/2016 01:49 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Sun, 7 Feb 2016 04:13:38 -0800 Daniel Campbell > wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 >> >> On 02/07/2016 03:09 AM, Michał Górny wrote: >>&g

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: supervise-daemon -- a lightweight openrc daemon supervisor

2016-02-16 Thread Daniel Campbell
y insult was actually intended! ;^) > IMO you're over-thinking it. I read it as "As you were, then", which is a common saying in the (American, at least) military advising one to keep doing what they're doing, or return to a resting position. :) - -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo D

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: Does OpenRC really need mount-ro

2016-02-17 Thread Daniel Campbell
great but I > don't get the impression that Gentoo really endorses that option > over the more laborious ones. Maybe it should? > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Initramfs > I went without an initrd until I encrypted my / and put LVM inside it. I used genkernel's

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing order of default virtual/udev provider

2016-02-17 Thread Daniel Campbell
; I have interest but no relevant experience/skill). I hope I was able to explain the difference. Rich made a good point that maybe we shouldn't act until udev simply stops working. I'd prefer a more proactive approach, but I see the merit in waiting. - -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Develo

Re: [gentoo-dev] bidi / fribidi useflag harmonization

2016-02-23 Thread Daniel Campbell
Is there more than one implementation of bidirectional text? If not, I'm maintainer of x11-wm/fluxbox and would be willing to switch the flag with the next release (or perhaps a revbump?) Any suggestions? - -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Develop

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Bug #565566: Why is it still not fixed?

2016-02-24 Thread Daniel Campbell
changelog, and we're generating changelogs from git commits, then it seems to me that version control is the correct tool for the job. I'm not advocating for rsync to be done away with, as it has its benefits, but changelogs are logically related to version control. - -- Daniel Campbell

Re: [gentoo-dev] CVS headers in ebuilds

2016-04-03 Thread Daniel Campbell
.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=557386 > > Tracking this type of value to "track upstream" doesn't seem to > make much sense, and I think if infra was going to be able to fix > it, it would have happened by now. > > My vote is to nuke it and be done with it. > > Willia

Re: [gentoo-dev] GitHub GPG Signature Verification

2016-04-06 Thread Daniel Campbell
correctly. I'll have to check the mirror to see if things are working on their end. - -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJXB

Re: [gentoo-dev] usr merge

2016-04-08 Thread Daniel Campbell
ike a great case for adding another profile or something rather than changing things tree-wide. Maybe it's a case for making profiles more powerful and flexible. Regardless, I'd hate to see choice diminished here for the sake of a single set of rather narrow use-cases. Just my 2¢. - -

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New eclass: mate

2016-04-11 Thread Daniel Campbell
your position I'd be sure to get reviews from more experienced eclass writers along the way to make sure you're not setting yourself up for bad API design. - -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: ALLARCHES

2016-04-30 Thread Daniel Campbell
As you said, however, it's a choice of the maintainer. Things like Perl and Python may be less prone to this issue since they're meant to be portable. My apologies if my concern is misplaced. ~zlg -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: ALLARCHES

2016-05-01 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 04/30/2016 07:26 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 8:53 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote: >> >> As you said, however, it's a choice of the maintainer. Things like Perl >> and Python may be less prone to this issue since they're meant to be >> port

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: ALLARCHES

2016-05-01 Thread Daniel Campbell
condary, different arch. afaict nobody's really picking on a specific arch. -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dev retirement - Farewell message

2016-05-01 Thread Daniel Campbell
rt to make free and open source > software available to everyone. > > With kind regards > > José > > I never spoke with you, but totally agree that Gentoo's a great place to learn more about GNU/Linux as a whole. I'm sure many French users appreciated your work on

Re: [gentoo-dev] Transitioning from #!/sbin/runscript to,#!/sbin/openrc-run

2016-05-05 Thread Daniel Campbell
gt; those installed from distfiles to be handled accordingly. > > Actually, you won't need to worry about any qa checks in portage, > because I am going to put a deprecation warning in OpenRC upstream which > will be displayed when a service script invokes runscript instructing > you to convert to openrc-run. > > OpenRC will keep runscript, with this warning, for a while. > > William > This sounds like the most sane approach to me, in conjunction with a repoman warning or error once OpenRC announces deprecation 'upstream'. -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] On banning merge commits

2016-05-08 Thread Daniel Campbell
d about a way to "redo" history in a git repository as well, especially before pushing. Could that be a way to mitigate merge commits, so they are more informative and conform to our commit message convention? Sincerely, a neutral party -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key:

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