Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-22 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 09/17/2011 07:00 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: There was a standards body tracking ORB, I forget which one, but none of that matters as the folks who should use it - system builders - saw it's flaws quite quickly. Even Gnome has dropped it and are now moving over to dbus. Ooh, I know this

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-18 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:25:11PM +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote On Thursday, September 15, 2011 01:43:17 PM Canek Pel??ez Vald??s wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s can...@gmail.com wrote: (This mail is to keep the guys un -user in the loop about -devel).

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 19:31:31 -0400 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: There are two principle things I dislike about D-Bus. 1) It doesn't support live upgrading of the daemon. We discussed the reasons behind this several weeks ago, as I recall. Transparent session control handoff is, of

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-18 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Saturday, September 17, 2011 02:43:00 PM Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 2:45 AM, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Friday, September 16, 2011 10:53:47 AM Canek Peláez Valdés

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-18 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sep 18, 2011 9:50 PM, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Saturday, September 17, 2011 02:43:00 PM Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: As I keep saying: code talks. Yes, but the developers are quiet with regards to that patch. I can understand if it takes some time to analyse a patch,

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 17:13:36 -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: ORBit was the GNOME implementation of ORB; I don't remember what KDE used, but I believe it was also ORB based. KDE 2/3 used DCOP, their own IPC as there was no decent standard system at the time. DBus was heavily influenced by

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-18 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 06:59:44PM +0100, Mick wrote The only drawback is the 2 minutes it will take a user the first time this change is introduced to build the initramfs and change the kernel line in grub.conf. I am warming up to this proposal because it seems to me that it will end up

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-17 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Friday, September 16, 2011 11:21:12 PM Pandu Poluan wrote: On Sep 16, 2011 11:00 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 5:29 AM, Pandu Poluanpa...@poluan.info wrote: Speaking of fsck, didn't someone lamented the fact that fsck can no

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-17 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Friday, September 16, 2011 10:53:47 AM Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 5:08 AM, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thursday, September 15, 2011 05:05:00 PM Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Last time I checked, neither GNOME nor Emacs demanded that Gentoo developers

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-17 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Saturday, September 17, 2011 08:45:15 AM Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Friday, September 16, 2011 10:53:47 AM Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: I think systemd gives you that in servers. With OpenRC and Apache with user CGI scripts, ¿do you know how to list the httpd daemon spawned processes, and

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 08:45:15 +0200 Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: I consider dbus to be part of the GUI as I don't see a reason for apache, syslog, nfs, samba, to be using dbus to communicate with each other. To be fair, dbus could be useful for service apps too. It provides a

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-17 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 2:45 AM, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Friday, September 16, 2011 10:53:47 AM Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 5:08 AM, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thursday, September 15, 2011 05:05:00 PM Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-17 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 3:04 AM, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Saturday, September 17, 2011 08:45:15 AM Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Friday, September 16, 2011 10:53:47 AM Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: I think systemd gives you that in servers. With OpenRC and Apache with user CGI

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 2:45 AM, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: [[snippage]] I still think Gnome (or any other desktop environment) should not care about which init-system is being used. And they will

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-17 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 2:45 AM, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: [[snippage]] I still think Gnome (or any other desktop environment)

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-17 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 2:45 AM, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Friday, September 16, 2011 10:53:47 AM Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 5:08 AM, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés I would like for you to be more specific about them. Sockets, be they UNIX domain

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-17 Thread pk
On 2011-09-17 20:36, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: They are standard in the sense that they are a low level communication standard API. An IPC is *way* more than that; dbus is an IPC, because https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Inter-process_communication then you have high level

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-17 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés I would like for you

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-17 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 5:03 PM, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: On 2011-09-17 20:36, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: They are standard in the sense that they are a low level communication standard API. An IPC is *way* more than that;  dbus is an IPC, because

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 15:24:39 -0400 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: BTW, there *was* an standard that did everything dbus does: ORB, the Object Request Broker. They tried to use that as IPC years ago, but is so damn complicated to implement right they decided to better implement a new

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 15:24:39 -0400 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: Dbus is an interesting piece of technology and rather useful, it does it a disservice to knock it. Honestly, I really only want to provide

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-16 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday, September 15, 2011 06:44:58 PM Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org wrote: On Thursday, September 15, 2011 11:16:03 PM Joost Roeleveld wrote: On

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-16 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday, September 15, 2011 05:34:11 PM Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: [ Hugemongous snip ] If the Gentoo-devs come up with a fool-proof solution No such thing in computing, I think. I'm afraid you're right on

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-16 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday, September 15, 2011 05:38:41 PM Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thursday, September 15, 2011 03:04:37 PM Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-16 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday, September 15, 2011 05:05:00 PM Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Sebastian Beßler sebast...@darkmetatron.de wrote: Am 15.09.2011 22:27, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Sebastian Beßler sebast...@darkmetatron.de

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-16 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sep 16, 2011 4:03 PM, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thursday, September 15, 2011 05:38:41 PM Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: [--major snippage--] I see it the other way around: you ensure that your initramfs is in sync with your system. In other words: the initramfs contains a

Re: IDE for C/C++ (Was: Really OT now (Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr)

2011-09-16 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
On Thursday, 15. September 2011 20:22:17 Michael Mol wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Leonardo Guilherme leonardo.guilhe...@gmail.com wrote: I do not know the state of Geanny since I last checked (couple of

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:46:02 +0200 Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: Anyway, Debian is the only big distro recommending separated /usr, and then only for multiuser setups. It's really years since I've looked at the recommended partition schemes: when I started using Linux, a

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-16 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Friday, September 16, 2011 12:00:16 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:46:02 +0200 Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: Anyway, Debian is the only big distro recommending separated /usr, and then only for multiuser setups. It's really years since I've looked at the

Re: IDE for C/C++ (Was: Really OT now (Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr)

2011-09-16 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 9/15/2011 8:22 PM, Michael Mol wrote: I don't show an ebuild for eclipse (I see dev-java/ant-eclipse-ecj, dev-java/eclipse-ecj and dev-util/eclipse-sdk). Last time I poked eclipse, it was a royal pain using any *DT unless one downloaded it as a packaged deal. Version dependencies were a

Re: IDE for C/C++ (Was: Really OT now (Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr)

2011-09-16 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org wrote: On 9/15/2011 8:22 PM, Michael Mol wrote: But 3.6 introduced a *ton* of new dependencies that the Gentoo folks haven't been able to work out properly in portage.[1] Of course, that's also likely an indication that

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:54:46 +0200 Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: Using layout suggestions from install docs to justify what the udev maintainers want to do is simply disingenuous. I referenced that asa response to the list of distro-guides. I was backing you up, not arguing

Re: IDE for C/C++ (Was: Really OT now (Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr)

2011-09-16 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Michael. On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 08:22:17PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: I don't see an ebuild for Emacs CC-Mode. CC Mode is distributed along with the rest of {,X}Emacs (although I think XEmacs half-splits all its packages off from its cord). Those version of CC Mode are somewhat out of

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-16 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 5:08 AM, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thursday, September 15, 2011 05:05:00 PM Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Sebastian Beßler sebast...@darkmetatron.de wrote: Am 15.09.2011 22:27, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: On Thu, Sep

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-16 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 5:29 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Sep 16, 2011 4:03 PM, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thursday, September 15, 2011 05:38:41 PM Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: [--major snippage--] I see it the other way around: you ensure that your

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-16 Thread Dale
Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 5:29 AM, Pandu Poluanpa...@poluan.info wrote: Speaking of fsck, didn't someone lamented the fact that fsck can no longer be statically linked, thus making initr* 'blew up' in size? When more and more utilities go the non-statically-linked

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-16 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 5:29 AM, Pandu Poluanpa...@poluan.info  wrote: Speaking of fsck, didn't someone lamented the fact that fsck can no longer be statically linked, thus making initr* 'blew up'

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 5:29 AM, Pandu Poluanpa...@poluan.info  wrote: Speaking of fsck, didn't someone lamented the fact that fsck can no longer be statically linked, thus making initr* 'blew up'

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-16 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sep 16, 2011 11:00 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 5:29 AM, Pandu Poluanpa...@poluan.info wrote: Speaking of fsck, didn't someone lamented the fact that fsck can no longer be statically linked, thus making initr* 'blew up' in

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-16 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 5:29 AM, Pandu Poluanpa...@poluan.infowrote: Speaking of fsck, didn't someone lamented the fact that fsck can no longer be statically linked, thus making

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-16 Thread Carlos Hendson
On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 10:57 -0500, Dale wrote: Give it time. Something will need /home on the root partition next. Like someone else posted, we are headed towards windows land with this. I won't be surprised if /boot will have to be on / next too. Dale :-) :-) Funnily enough,

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-15 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Wednesday, September 14, 2011 10:30:03 AM Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Tuesday, September 13, 2011 06:33:01 PM Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer grim...@gmx.de

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-15 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Wednesday, September 14, 2011 10:37:14 AM Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 5:06 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:10:40 -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: No, by you know what needs to be done I mean: code. Contribute. Become a developer.

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-15 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Wednesday, September 14, 2011 06:40:44 PM Sebastian Beßler wrote: This thread goes in endless circles, round and round and round. In the last 20 posts or so is not one new argument pro or con can be found, both sides only repeating their pov over and over again. Nothing will be achieved

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-15 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 3:01 AM, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: There are not many people who agree with you here. The changes will lead to a C:-drive, similar to MS Windows, where everything has to be a single partition. Technically, this isn't true. %PROGRAMFILES need not be on

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-15 Thread Stroller
On 14 September 2011, at 22:34, Alan Mackenzie wrote: … That's got nothing to do with it, and it's rude of you to make this about Canek, IMO. Given how much Canek has been saying about free/open source recently, the attitudes he's been attributing to its developers (which don't accord

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-15 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday, September 15, 2011 09:47:34 AM Michael Mol wrote: The main purpose of udev is to populate the /dev-tree. The running of scripts based on /dev-tree events should be in a seperate tool that starts later in the boot-process. I'm not entirely convinced this is the case, because

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-15 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: I'm not entirely convinced this is the case, because it feels like some situations like network devices (nbd, iSCSI) or loopback would require userland tools to bring up once networking is up. Yes, but the

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-15 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday, September 15, 2011 10:32:50 AM Michael Mol wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: I'm not entirely convinced this is the case, because it feels like some situations like network devices (nbd, iSCSI) or loopback would require userland

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-15 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: I'm not entirely convinced this is the case, because it feels like some situations like network devices (nbd, iSCSI) or loopback would require

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-15 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thursday, September 15, 2011 10:32:50 AM Michael Mol wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: I'm not entirely convinced this is the case, because it feels like some

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-15 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thursday, September 15, 2011 10:32:50 AM Michael Mol wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: I'm not entirely convinced this is the case, because it feels like some

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-15 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: Of course you can solve it differently, for example splitting udev as Joost proposes. But then is more code to maintain, and the number of possible setups is suddenly the double it was before. It. Is. Not. KISS. If

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-15 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
On Thursday, 15. September 2011 16:48:45 Joost Roeleveld wrote: I agree he is wrong about the solution as well. I have actually just posted my idea to the gentoo-dev list to see how the developers actually feel about possible splitting udev into 2 parts. I've read it there. Thanks for doing

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-15 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
On Thursday, 15. September 2011 11:03:09 Michael Mol wrote: Yes, except that udev ONLY handles kernel-events and doesn't process any actions itself. These are placed on a seperate queue for a seperate process. The problem with this is that you now need to manage synchronization between

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-15 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Michael Schreckenbauer grim...@gmx.de wrote: On Thursday, 15. September 2011 11:03:09 Michael Mol wrote: Yes, except that udev ONLY handles kernel-events and doesn't process any actions itself. These are placed on a seperate queue for a seperate process.

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-15 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday, September 15, 2011 10:57:27 AM Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: snipped to keep only the email from Canek Let me throw my own guess of how they came out with the corrent proposed solution. I repeat: is my own guess: I am not the one calling the shots, so maybe I'm completely wrong. Ok

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-15 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday, September 15, 2011 11:03:09 AM Michael Mol wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thursday, September 15, 2011 10:32:50 AM Michael Mol wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-15 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thursday, September 15, 2011 11:03:09 AM Michael Mol wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: The problem with this is that you now need to manage synchronization between

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-15 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday, September 15, 2011 12:16:24 PM Michael Mol wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thursday, September 15, 2011 11:03:09 AM Michael Mol wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: The

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-15 Thread pk
On 2011-09-15 16:57, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Of course you can solve it differently, for example splitting udev as Joost proposes. But then is more code to maintain, and the number of possible setups is suddenly the double it was before. It. Is. Not. KISS.

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-15 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thursday, September 15, 2011 10:32:50 AM Michael Mol wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-15 Thread Mick
On Thursday 15 Sep 2011 16:13:26 Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: On Thursday, 15. September 2011 16:48:45 Joost Roeleveld wrote: I agree he is wrong about the solution as well. I have actually just posted my idea to the gentoo-dev list to see how the developers actually feel about possible

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:37:53 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote: There are 3 solutions for this: 1) The easy way out: the whole user-space must be available before udev 2) udev actually includes correct error-handling for this and retries 3) udev splits this into 2 seperate tools 4) udev remains

IDE for C/C++ (Was: Really OT now (Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr)

2011-09-15 Thread David W Noon
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:35:37 -0400, Michael Mol wrote about Re: Really OT now (Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr): It occurred to me that having a decent C and C++ editing environment might ease some of my of the spoilage I've experienced in Visual Studio for C++. I'll be checking it out. It'll

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-15 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 15 Sep 2011 16:13:26 Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: On Thursday, 15. September 2011 16:48:45 Joost Roeleveld wrote: I agree he is wrong about the solution as well. I have actually just posted my idea to the

Re: IDE for C/C++ (Was: Really OT now (Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr)

2011-09-15 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 2:58 PM, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:35:37 -0400, Michael Mol wrote about Re: Really OT now (Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr): It occurred to me that having a decent C and C++ editing environment might ease some of my of the spoilage

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:04:37 -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: 1.  The minimal initramfs will only need to be built once (and rarely rebuilt thereafter).  This removes one of my fears and it was a main objection for me - I would hate to have to rebuild initramfs every time I roll a new

Re: IDE for C/C++ (Was: Really OT now (Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr)

2011-09-15 Thread Leonardo Guilherme
2011/9/15 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 2:58 PM, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:35:37 -0400, Michael Mol wrote about Re: Really OT now (Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr): It occurred to me that having a decent C and C++ editing

Re: IDE for C/C++ (Was: Really OT now (Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr)

2011-09-15 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Leonardo Guilherme leonardo.guilhe...@gmail.com wrote: I do not know the state of Geanny since I last checked (couple of years ago), but the highlight capabilites of KDevelop got my eye. It highlights local variables in different colors in the same context, so

Re: IDE for C/C++ (Was: Really OT now (Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr)

2011-09-15 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Leonardo Guilherme leonardo.guilhe...@gmail.com wrote: I do not know the state of Geanny since I last checked (couple of years ago), but the highlight capabilites of KDevelop got my

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-15 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 15.09.2011 16:57, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: with an initramfs you will be able to do anything, so it will make no sense to keep supporting initramfs-less systems. With Microsoft Windows you will be able to do anything, so it will make no sense to keep supporting Microsoft Windows-less

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:47:34 -0400 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: The main purpose of udev is to populate the /dev-tree. The running of scripts based on /dev-tree events should be in a seperate tool that starts later in the boot-process. I'm not *entirely* convinced this is the

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-15 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Sebastian Beßler sebast...@darkmetatron.de wrote: Am 15.09.2011 16:57, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: with an initramfs you will be able to do anything, so it will make no sense to keep supporting initramfs-less systems. With Microsoft Windows you will be able

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-15 Thread Mike Edenfield
On Wednesday, September 14, 2011 01:36:56 PM Dale wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: But that's the thing: we (you and me) don't see the situation the same way. To me, the proposed changes are for the better. You are one of very few that feel this way. You are probably correct that he's

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-15 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 15.09.2011 22:27, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Sebastian Beßler sebast...@darkmetatron.de wrote: Am 15.09.2011 16:57, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: with an initramfs you will be able to do anything, so it will make no sense to keep supporting initramfs-less

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-15 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org wrote: On Wednesday, September 14, 2011 01:36:56 PM Dale wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: But that's the thing: we (you and me) don't see the situation the same way. To me, the proposed changes are for the better. You are

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-15 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Sebastian Beßler sebast...@darkmetatron.de wrote: Am 15.09.2011 22:27, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Sebastian Beßler sebast...@darkmetatron.de wrote: Am 15.09.2011 16:57, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: with an initramfs you will

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-15 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday, September 15, 2011 04:42:23 PM Mike Edenfield wrote: On Wednesday, September 14, 2011 01:36:56 PM Dale wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: But that's the thing: we (you and me) don't see the situation the same way. To me, the proposed changes are for the better. You are

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-15 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday, September 15, 2011 01:43:17 PM Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: (This mail is to keep the guys un -user in the loop about -devel). OK, so Joost posted his proposal to -dev: snipped brief discussion on

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-15 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thursday, September 15, 2011 04:42:23 PM Mike Edenfield wrote: On Wednesday, September 14, 2011 01:36:56 PM Dale wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: But that's the thing: we (you and me) don't see the situation the

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-15 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday, September 15, 2011 03:04:37 PM Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 15 Sep 2011 16:13:26 Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: 1. The minimal initramfs will only need to be built once (and rarely rebuilt

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-15 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday, September 15, 2011 07:15:27 PM Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:37:53 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote: There are 3 solutions for this: 1) The easy way out: the whole user-space must be available before udev 2) udev actually includes correct error-handling for this and

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-15 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: [ Hugemongous snip ] If the Gentoo-devs come up with a fool-proof solution No such thing in computing, I think. But I also think is really laudable that you want to ensure no many users will get bitten by this change.

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-15 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday, September 15, 2011 07:37:17 PM pk wrote: On 2011-09-15 16:57, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Of course you can solve it differently, for example splitting udev as Joost proposes. But then is more code to maintain, and the number of possible setups is suddenly the double it was

Re: IDE for C/C++ (Was: Really OT now (Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr)

2011-09-15 Thread Alexander Tanyukevich
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not touching KDE again for a while. I got nailed pretty bad with a NVidia/Konsole/KWin, and I really wasn't using much of KDE. That said, I might poke KDevelop again; I haven't poked it in years. Geany is new since I

Re: IDE for C/C++ (Was: Really OT now (Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr)

2011-09-15 Thread Alexander Tanyukevich
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:37 PM, Alexander Tanyukevich atanyukev...@gmail.com wrote: Try eclipse with cdk (C/C++ developr kit). Last time I've used it 3 years ago, but it was really good... Sorry it's called CDT. -- Alexander Tanyukevich atanyukev...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-15 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thursday, September 15, 2011 03:04:37 PM Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 15 Sep 2011 16:13:26 Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: 1.  The

Re: IDE for C/C++ (Was: Really OT now (Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr)

2011-09-15 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday, September 15, 2011 04:05:29 PM Michael Mol wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Leonardo Guilherme leonardo.guilhe...@gmail.com wrote: I do not know the state of Geanny since I last checked (couple

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-15 Thread Mike Edenfield
On Thursday, September 15, 2011 11:16:03 PM Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Thursday, September 15, 2011 04:42:23 PM Mike Edenfield wrote: I would estimate that the vast, vast, vast majority of users are those such as myslelf, who have no opinion whatsoever, and either will not be affected at

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org wrote: On Thursday, September 15, 2011 11:16:03 PM Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Thursday, September 15, 2011 04:42:23 PM Mike Edenfield wrote: I would estimate that the vast, vast, vast majority of users are those such as

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-15 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org wrote: On Thursday, September 15, 2011 11:16:03 PM Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Thursday, September 15, 2011 04:42:23 PM Mike Edenfield wrote: I would

Re: IDE for C/C++ (Was: Really OT now (Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr)

2011-09-15 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Leonardo Guilherme leonardo.guilhe...@gmail.com wrote: I do not know the state of Geanny since I last checked (couple of years ago), but the highlight capabilites of KDevelop got my

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:10:40 -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: No, by you know what needs to be done I mean: code. Contribute. Become a developer. Make shit happens the way you think it should happen. You're happy to run an important system service coded by someone with less experience than

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-14 Thread Alan Mackenzie
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 05:10:40PM -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Is it simply subscribing to -dev and voicing the conversation there? Of course not. But please, do that if you think it will help to steer Gentoo to whatever direction do you think is the correct one. Personaly I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-14 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 14 Sep 2011 11:25:23 Alan Mackenzie wrote: On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 05:10:40PM -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Is it simply subscribing to -dev and voicing the conversation there? Of course not. But please, do that if you think it will help to steer Gentoo to whatever

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-14 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 14 Sep 2011 11:25:23 Alan Mackenzie wrote: On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 05:10:40PM -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Is it simply subscribing to -dev and voicing the conversation there? Of course not. But

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-14 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Tuesday, September 13, 2011 06:33:01 PM Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer grim...@gmx.de wrote: If gentoo follows fedora on this mandatory initramfs trail, I'll

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-14 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 5:06 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:10:40 -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: No, by you know what needs to be done I mean: code. Contribute. Become a developer. Make shit happens the way you think it should happen. You're happy to

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