Re: yum-presto not on by default

2009-09-25 Thread Yuan Yijun
2009/9/25 Jason L Tibbitts III : >> "YY" == Yuan Yijun writes: > > YY> This is an example of better hardware condition is actively seeking > YY> to prevent innovation ("not my problem"). > > Regardless of how this comes out, I fail to understand how you can say > that when the entire system fo

Re: yum-presto not on by default

2009-09-25 Thread drago01
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Yuan Yijun wrote: > 2009/9/25 Jason L Tibbitts III : >>> "YY" == Yuan Yijun writes: >> >> YY> This is an example of better hardware condition is actively seeking >> YY> to prevent innovation ("not my problem"). >> >> Regardless of how this comes out, I fail to

Re: yum-presto not on by default

2009-09-25 Thread Seth Vidal
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Adam Williamson wrote: I suspect there are detailed studies on this done by usability researchers, somewhere out there. of course, there are tensions; it's hard (well, impossible) to design a complex interface with defaults that are correct for all uses by all users. but y

rawhide report: 20090925 changes

2009-09-25 Thread Rawhide Report
Compose started at Fri Sep 25 06:15:06 UTC 2009 Broken deps for i386 -- PolicyKit-olpc-1.2-2.fc11.noarch requires /var/lib/PolicyKit-public anerley-0.0.20-3.fc12.i686 requires libmissioncontrol-client.so.0 anerley-0.0.

Re: Retiring pangox

2009-09-25 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 21:53 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > Hi, > > The pangox backend of pango have been deprecated for years (2001ish) and I'm > going to remove it upstream in a week or two. Matthias suggested we get rid > of it in f12. I totally welcome that. So I want to rebuild pango wit

Opinions on packaging ATLAS (for the x86 architecture)

2009-09-25 Thread Deji Akingunola
Hi all, I would like to know your opinion (or any guideline, if it exists) for the best way to package the ATLAS library for the x86 arch ATM. ATLAS (Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software) basically provides lapack and blas libraries tuned and optimized for specific cpu instruction sets, and

Re: Opinions on packaging ATLAS (for the x86 architecture)

2009-09-25 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Deji Akingunola said: > I am trying to decide > which variant to provide as the default one that would be picked to > satisfy atlas library dependency out of the following 2 possibilities; Isn't there a way to have run-time choosing of which variant to use, based on running CPU

Re: Opinions on packaging ATLAS (for the x86 architecture)

2009-09-25 Thread Jonathan Underwood
2009/9/25 Deji Akingunola : > Hi all, > > I would like to know your opinion (or any guideline, if it exists) for > the best way to package the ATLAS library for the x86 arch ATM. ATLAS > (Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software) basically provides > lapack and blas libraries tuned and optimized

Re: Intel graphics users: send me your VBIOS

2009-09-25 Thread Adam Jackson
On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 15:38 +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote: > 2009/9/22 Adam Williamson : > > On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 12:30 -0400, Carlos Romero wrote: > >> I have a question: is there any way to disable lvds and use vga as the > >> primary, the sony phoenix bios has no options leaving me 60% blind

Re: yum-presto not on by default

2009-09-25 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 08:20 -0400, Seth Vidal wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > I suspect there are detailed studies on this done by usability > > researchers, somewhere out there. of course, there are tensions; it's > > hard (well, impossible) to design a complex inter

Re: Intel graphics users: send me your VBIOS

2009-09-25 Thread Jonathan Underwood
2009/9/22 Adam Williamson : > On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 12:30 -0400, Carlos Romero wrote: >> I have a question: is there any way to disable lvds and use vga as the >> primary, the sony phoenix bios has no options leaving me 60% blind >> with a cracked panel. I guess there might be a bit in nvram. > > x

Re: Opinions on packaging ATLAS (for the x86 architecture)

2009-09-25 Thread Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
On Friday, 25 September 2009 at 16:50, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Deji Akingunola said: > > I am trying to decide > > which variant to provide as the default one that would be picked to > > satisfy atlas library dependency out of the following 2 possibilities; > > Isn't there a way to

Re: yum-presto not on by default

2009-09-25 Thread Seth Vidal
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009, Adam Williamson wrote: um, my point was that normally in this kind of case - you've come up with a neat little improvement - you look at it the other way round: not how horrible will it be if you don't enable the improvement by default (the answer to which is almost alway

Re: Opinions on packaging ATLAS (for the x86 architecture)

2009-09-25 Thread Deji Akingunola
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Jonathan Underwood wrote: > > Would it not be best to have the default package using the default > CFLAGS for consistency with the rest of the distribution, and the > subpackages being variants which override the CFLAGS? > This is a different issue altogether. Ev

Re: Opinions on packaging ATLAS (for the x86 architecture)

2009-09-25 Thread Deji Akingunola
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Jonathan Underwood wrote: > > Jonathan > > ps. Any recent thoughts on BZ 478856? > I'm sorry I'd not given much thoughts to it lately. I will try and address it in the bug report. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat

Re: yum-presto not on by default

2009-09-25 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 11:08 -0400, Seth Vidal wrote: > My only reason for arguing has been that our users are not stupid, we > don't TARGET new users anyway > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview#Is_Fedora_for_me.3F > > so there's no point in acting like they're new users. sure, but nothing

Re: Opinions on packaging ATLAS (for the x86 architecture)

2009-09-25 Thread Jonathan Underwood
2009/9/25 Deji Akingunola : > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Jonathan Underwood > wrote: > >> >> Would it not be best to have the default package using the default >> CFLAGS for consistency with the rest of the distribution, and the >> subpackages being variants which override the CFLAGS? >> >

Re: Opinions on packaging ATLAS (for the x86 architecture)

2009-09-25 Thread Jussi Lehtola
On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 16:30 +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote: > Well, my point was that packages that do respect CFLAGS get built > currently with certain options, and however Atlas builds, the default > package should have comparable options. On x86, I see that is > presently -march=i686 -mtune=ato

Re: Opinions on packaging ATLAS (for the x86 architecture)

2009-09-25 Thread Deji Akingunola
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Jonathan Underwood wrote: > 2009/9/25 Deji Akingunola : >> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Jonathan Underwood >> wrote: >> >>> >>> Would it not be best to have the default package using the default >>> CFLAGS for consistency with the rest of the distribution, a

Re: Opinions on packaging ATLAS (for the x86 architecture)

2009-09-25 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-09-25 10:41:56, Deji Akingunola wrote: > Hi all, > > I would like to know your opinion (or any guideline, if it exists) > for the best way to package the ATLAS library for the x86 arch ATM. ... > i). Create a generic x86 'atlas' main package for the P6 > architecture, ... Currently, t

Re: yum-presto not on by default

2009-09-25 Thread David Boles
On 9/25/2009 11:23 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 11:08 -0400, Seth Vidal wrote: > >> My only reason for arguing has been that our users are not stupid, we >> don't TARGET new users anyway >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview#Is_Fedora_for_me.3F >> >> so there's no point

Re: yum-presto not on by default

2009-09-25 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 12:43 -0400, David Boles wrote: > 'lurker mode off' > > Comment from a 'lurker' > > You developers and all do a fine job with this. > > *But* you all seem to have the same wrong idea about *most* regular > Linux users. At least the ones that I see on the help lists. > > *

Re: yum-presto not on by default

2009-09-25 Thread Alexander Boström
tor 2009-09-24 klockan 16:31 -0400 skrev Seth Vidal: > We're a bleeding edge distro - that's our VAUNTED mission - shouldn't we > be able to assume that users of a BLEEDING EDGE, LATEST PACKAGE distro be > able to run a single command? Though Fedora currently might not currently be an optimal "

FESCo meeting summary for 2009-09-25

2009-09-25 Thread Jon Stanley
Here's the minutes from today's FESCo meeting, which may have been the shortest ever :) === #fedora-meeting: FESCo meeting 20090925 === Meeting started by jds2001 at 17:00:16 UTC. The full logs are availab

Re: Non-responsive maintainer process for kurzawa / Krzysztof Kurzawski

2009-09-25 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:57:10 +0200 Till Maas wrote: > Aloas, > > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 07:01:21PM +0200, Till Maas wrote: > > > I want to start the non-responsive maintainer process for Krzysztof > > Kurzawski, because youtube-dl was not updated for several releases > > and there was not resp

Re: Opinions on packaging ATLAS (for the x86 architecture)

2009-09-25 Thread Christoph Frieben
2009/9/25 Chris Adams: > > Having different packages (that may conflict with each other) means you > can't easily switch between versions, and if you chose the wrong version > (or move a hard drive to a different box), your programs crash > unexpectedly. That's exactly why https://bugzilla.

Re: Non-responsive maintainer process for kurzawa / Krzysztof Kurzawski

2009-09-25 Thread Rafał Psota
2009/9/25 Kevin Fenzi > > The following packages have been orphaned: > > gfeed > greyhounds > incollector > netmonitor > pic2aa > scythia > wavextract > xhotkeys > yoltia > youtube-dl > > Also, I would be happy to take 'greyhounds'. Co-maintainers welcome. > > kevin > I'm a maintainer of metaca

Re: Opinions on packaging ATLAS (for the x86 architecture)

2009-09-25 Thread Jonathan Underwood
2009/9/25 Jussi Lehtola : > On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 16:30 +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote: >> Well, my point was that packages that do respect CFLAGS get built >> currently with certain options, and however Atlas builds, the default >> package should have comparable options. On x86, I see that is >>

Re: yum-presto not on by default

2009-09-25 Thread David Boles
On 9/25/2009 1:00 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 12:43 -0400, David Boles wrote: > >> 'lurker mode off' >> >> Comment from a 'lurker' >> >> You developers and all do a fine job with this. >> >> *But* you all seem to have the same wrong idea about *most* regular >> Linux users.

Re: yum-presto not on by default

2009-09-25 Thread Mike McGrath
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009, Alexander Boström wrote: > tor 2009-09-24 klockan 16:31 -0400 skrev Seth Vidal: > > > We're a bleeding edge distro - that's our VAUNTED mission - shouldn't we > > be able to assume that users of a BLEEDING EDGE, LATEST PACKAGE distro be > > able to run a single command? > > Th

Re: Non-responsive maintainer process for kurzawa / Krzysztof Kurzawski

2009-09-25 Thread Haïkel Guémar
> The following packages have been orphaned: > > gfeed > greyhounds > incollector > netmonitor > pic2aa > scythia > wavextract > xhotkeys > yoltia > youtube-dl > > Also, I would be happy to take 'greyhounds'. Co-maintainers welcome. > > kevin > I'll take gfeed and yoltia, co-maintainers are

Re: Non-responsive maintainer process for kurzawa / Krzysztof Kurzawski

2009-09-25 Thread Haïkel Guémar
> > I'll take gfeed and yoltia, co-maintainers are welcome. > > H. Guémar Erm, s/yoltia/scythia/ , sorry for the disturbance. For gfeed, R. Sundaram had previously asked commit rights on pkgdb, so he might want to take ownership. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com

Re: Non-responsive maintainer process for kurzawa / Krzysztof Kurzawski

2009-09-25 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/25/2009 11:49 PM, Haïkel Guémar wrote: >> >> I'll take gfeed and yoltia, co-maintainers are welcome. >> >> H. Guémar > > Erm, s/yoltia/scythia/ , sorry for the disturbance. > For gfeed, R. Sundaram had previously asked commit rights on pkgdb, so > he might want to take ownership. Yes but yo

Re: yum-presto not on by default

2009-09-25 Thread Colin Walters
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Mike McGrath wrote: > > Wouldn't you rather lead the other distributions who already have that > project goal?  Let us lead, invent, whatever you want to call it.  Let > them refine and present to the 'ordinary people'.  Let us play to our > strengths, let them pla

Re: yum-presto not on by default

2009-09-25 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:08:25 +, Colin Walters wrote > In this particular case it seems to me we want it to be a dynamic > property; e.g. if I start an update while on my mobile broadband card, > suspend in the middle of downloading, go to an office where I have a > local mirror, well idea

Re: Opinions on packaging ATLAS (for the x86 architecture)

2009-09-25 Thread Deji Akingunola
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Christoph Frieben wrote: > 2009/9/25 Chris Adams: >> > > (Likewise, the default x86_64 package is currently called > >   atlas [ < atlas-sse3 < ... ] > > and is using SSE2 by default as expected for all x86_64 packages. Higher Actually the atlas x86_64 package is

Re: Opinions on packaging ATLAS (for the x86 architecture)

2009-09-25 Thread Bob Arendt
On 09/25/09 12:37, Deji Akingunola wrote: On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Christoph Frieben wrote: 2009/9/25 Chris Adams: (Likewise, the default x86_64 package is currently called atlas [< atlas-sse3< ... ] and is using SSE2 by default as expected for all x86_64 packages. Higher

intel/nouveau kms users avoid kernel 2.6.31.1-46

2009-09-25 Thread Dave Airlie
KMS won't init on this kernel, -48 is building now. I untagged -46 but it'll probably still end up in rawhide last night. Dave. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Opinions on packaging ATLAS (for the x86 architecture)

2009-09-25 Thread Deji Akingunola
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Bob Arendt wrote: > On 09/25/09 12:37, Deji Akingunola wrote: >> >> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Christoph Frieben >>  wrote: >>> >>> 2009/9/25 Chris Adams: >> >>> >>> (Likewise, the default x86_64 package is currently called >>> >>>   atlas [<  atlas-sse

Re: yum-presto not on by default

2009-09-25 Thread Andre Robatino
On 09/25/2009 12:43 AM, Andre Robatino wrote: > On 09/24/2009 11:31 PM, Seth Vidal wrote: >> >> >> On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Ben Boeckel wrote: >> >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>> Hash: SHA256 >>> >>> Seth Vidal wrote: > Does yum-presto make use of multiple cores when rebuilding the >>> RP

Re: yum-presto not on by default

2009-09-25 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 19:08 +, Colin Walters wrote: > In this particular case it seems to me we want it to be a dynamic > property; e.g. if I start an update while on my mobile broadband card, > suspend in the middle of downloading, go to an office where I have a > local mirror, well ideally I