Re: [gentoo-dev] 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags

2006-07-14 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Friday 14 July 2006 22:24, Zac Medico wrote: > It think we can have it sooner than "another year".  There are lots of > fixes in 2.1.1_pre and I'd like to close the merge window pretty soon so > that it can be stabilized.  I'll work on a patch for package.use and > package.use.mask so that we sh

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags

2006-07-14 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > Per-package use.mask is not here for another year and in the mean time I > needed a working solution, this is it. It think we can have it sooner than "another year". There are lots of fixes in 2.1.1_pre and I'd li

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Useflags: qt, qt3, qt4?

2006-07-14 Thread Harald van Dijk
On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 09:09:15PM +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > On Wednesday 21 June 2006 15:45, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > > > -qt +qt3: > > > > This would only be available in 2 cases: > > > > - Package supports both qt4 and qt3, and they're mutually exclusive > > - Package supports both qt4 an

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Useflags: qt, qt3, qt4?

2006-07-14 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 15:45, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > -qt +qt3: > > This would only be available in 2 cases: > > - Package supports both qt4 and qt3, and they're mutually exclusive > - Package supports both qt4 and qt3, and they can both be enabled at once > > In case 1, "-qt +qt3" would enab

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags

2006-07-14 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 14:20 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 17:09 +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > > On Friday 14 July 2006 16:43, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > > While it is a "working" solution, it isn't necessarily a sensible one. > > You can take over xine-lib and

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags

2006-07-14 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Friday 14 July 2006 20:24, Simon Stelling wrote: > In the specific case of xine-lib, the mad USE flag can simply be replaced > with mp3 because mips, which is the only arch that has the mad USE flag in > use.mask, doesn't have any version keyworded. If I revert the change, mips won't be able to

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags

2006-07-14 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Friday 14 July 2006 20:20, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > See, it is this kind of self-serving attitude that really needs to stop > around here. So the portage devs didn't include something that you > wanted in the latest release... Did you give them a patch for it? Do I ask people to give me patche

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags

2006-07-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:14:39 -0400 Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 15:59 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 10:43:54 -0400 Chris Gianelloni | > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | If the package only uses libmad, and libmad doesn't work on | > | $

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags

2006-07-14 Thread Simon Stelling
Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Friday 14 July 2006 06:03, Daniel Watkins wrote: >> Is there a rationale behind this decision? > On some systems libmad does not work and has to be masked, if I called it > mp3, > it couldn't be use.masked or all the mp3 supports, even when not provided by >

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags

2006-07-14 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 17:09 +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Friday 14 July 2006 16:43, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > While it is a "working" solution, it isn't necessarily a sensible one. > You can take over xine-lib and fix it however you prefer. Quite honestly, I don't care. > As thi

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags

2006-07-14 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 15:59 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 10:43:54 -0400 Chris Gianelloni > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | If the package only uses libmad, and libmad doesn't work on $platform, > | then why not simply disable mp3 support on that platform until libmad > | is fi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags

2006-07-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:49:47 +0100 Daniel Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 10:43:54 -0400 Chris Gianelloni | > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | If the package only uses libmad, and libmad doesn't work on | > | $platform, then why not simply disable

[gentoo-dev] Re: 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags

2006-07-14 Thread Daniel Watkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 10:43:54 -0400 Chris Gianelloni > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | If the package only uses libmad, and libmad doesn't work on $platform, > | then why not simply disable mp3 support on that platform until libm

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags

2006-07-14 Thread Jason Wever
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten?? wrote: But as when I asked it was considered "low priority", then you can start barking at portage devs, instead of me. I know some of us arch team ninjas asked for this in bug #96368 some time ago.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for net-misc/ssh

2006-07-14 Thread Gustavo Felisberto
Stuart Herbert wrote: > Hi, > > On 7/11/06, Gustavo Felisberto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm removing net-misc/ssh from the tree as Tectia no longer provides a >> "free" >> version of they're ssh client and server. The last update to this >> package was >> one year and half so I'm a bit afraid

Re: [gentoo-dev] [QA] Incomplete IUSE for useflags in {,R,P}DEPEND, SRC_URI etc...

2006-07-14 Thread John Mylchreest
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 03:23:06PM +0200, Matthias Schwarzott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 12 July 2006 15:16, Danny van Dyk wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > thanks to djm's efforts i was just able to scan the whole tree using > > qualudis. For a start, i'll attach a list of QA violations o

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags

2006-07-14 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Friday 14 July 2006 16:43, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > While it is a "working" solution, it isn't necessarily a sensible one. You can take over xine-lib and fix it however you prefer. As this, as well as any other idea you can find, is just an HACK until portage devs implements the per-package u

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags

2006-07-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 10:43:54 -0400 Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | If the package only uses libmad, and libmad doesn't work on $platform, | then why not simply disable mp3 support on that platform until libmad | is fixed? Because it confuses the hell out of users who want to know why

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags

2006-07-14 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Friday 14 July 2006 16:38, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > If a user has USE="mp3 -mad" then they should *always* have working mp3 > support. Give me per-package use.mask baby, and I'll do whatever you want. But as when I asked it was considered "low priority", then you can start barking at portage

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags

2006-07-14 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 16:20 +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > Per-package use.mask is not here for another year and in the mean time I > needed a working solution, this is it. While it is a "working" solution, it isn't necessarily a sensible one. If the package only uses libmad, and libm

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags

2006-07-14 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 05:03 +0100, Daniel Watkins wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > It seems to me that having both of these two flags can only cause confusion. > I upgraded xine-lib yesterday and spent a very frustrating 2 hours trying > to work out what had broken my A

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags

2006-07-14 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Friday 14 July 2006 06:03, Daniel Watkins wrote: > Is there a rationale behind this decision? On some systems libmad does not work and has to be masked, if I called it mp3, it couldn't be use.masked or all the mp3 supports, even when not provided by libmad, would have been removed. Per-packag

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk's X use flag

2006-07-14 Thread Jakub Moc
Michael Cummings wrote: >>> I hate it when this happens. >>> I have an ebuild inherits perl-app. It pulls in minimal and perl >>> USE-flags. kinda misleading. >>> >>> Tuan > > The perl use flag is to avoid make perl a dep for every package that > inherits the eclass even if perl isn't in your pers

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk's X use flag

2006-07-14 Thread Michael Cummings
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuan Van wrote: > Jakub Moc wrote: >> Ser Gio wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> Why does x11-libs/gtk+-2.8.19 has the "X" useflag? The ebuild doesn't >>> look like it's using it. >>> >>> thanks, >>> Sérgio >> Because virtualx.eclass has it in IUSE and the ebui