Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Outstanding decisions

2006-04-16 Thread Alec Warner

Simon Stelling wrote:

Hey all,

I'm just wading through a list of ~200 bugs of which some need decisions 
what
should be done, whether it should be done at all or simply whether it is 
a bug

or not.

Bug: SRC_URI: spaces not supported
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102607
Is this a 'NOTABUG' case?


Need to check the SRC_URI documentation, if it's noted there, then close 
it, if its not noted in the docs, add that spaces are not allowed and 
close it ;)




Bug: gpg: strict incorrectly takes priority over severe
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68906
What's the expected behaviour? Is it NOTABUG?

Bug: Method to monitor a package without installing/upgrading it
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47456
Same thing. Do we want this?



Alternative tool.


Bug: Support for a pre-compile pkg_config
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99529
As Jason mentioned: Is this worth the effort?


Effort is minimal, but I'm unsure of the real usefulness.



Bug: per profile package.keywords
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55321
Voting seems to be a bit... incomplete ;)


This is down to a design issue.  package.keywords is a repository 
control measure, do we currently allow profiles to mess with repos? 
Only via use.mask at present.  profile mangling of a repository is 
difficult when multiple repositories are brought in because we really 
don't have any type of repo binding in the current source.  I personally 
think it's an important feature, but it's difficult to not implement it 
in a half assed manner.




Bug: Wording These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112439
This needs a decision too. What wording do we prefer? Either way, the 
bug should

be closed, the fix is trivial in case we want to change it.


Ummm someone just make a decision, I don't think it's that big a deal.



Bug: global exception handling
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28535
Should tracebacks be thrown in the users' face or not?



Yes, Not saying you shouldn't write code that catches exceptions and all 
that but writing stupid code that catches any exception and then tries 
to print some useful info is...not as useful.  I'd prefer to have 
documented a bit more what functions throw ( docstrings )? so that when 
users use portage functionality they know what to catch.


Bug: /usr/lib/portage/bin/clean_locks documentation example could make 
use use

DISTDIR
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116676
Call portageq or not? Voting time ;)

nfc :0



That should be enough for the moment. More will probably follow, 
considering
that I only checked the first 60 bugs or so :/ It would be nice if we 
could make
the needed decision and then close the bugs where it is 
NOTABUG/INVALID/LATER. I

hate stale bug listings ;)



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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Outstanding decisions

2006-04-16 Thread Simon Stelling

Next bunch of bugs that need a decision:

Bug: portage: emerge unmerge ... should stop in case of an error
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118515
Another WONTFIX/WILLFIX issue

Bug: need a way to package.unmask packages in profiles
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118440
Is this LATER? Alec mentioned a patch, but i couldn't find it when grepping 
through my archives, and nothing is attached to the bug.


Bug: emerge/ebuild - a bit more verbosity please
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67892
This obviously lacks any discussion. RFC :)

Bug: Support for src_test deps required
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69021
WONTFIX/WILLFIX?

Bug: no documentation on the elog functions
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116018
AFAICS it's documented in make.conf.example and man make.conf, but the user 
requested a howto. Is a howto really needed? IMHO it's not that complex...


Bug: Split CONFIG_PROTECT into separate installing and uninstalling options 
(nuke untouched files)

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8423
The classical one with a huge CC list. Whatever decision is made, this finally 
needs to get (fixed and) closed.


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Simon Stelling
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