[gentoo-dev] Re: [rfc] layman storage location (again)

2010-01-18 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
mån 2010-01-18 klockan 06:27 +0100 skrev Ulrich Mueller: > > On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > > > isn't a package tree somehow having "system-wide implications"? > > i'm not really sure about /var/db - doesn't seem to be in FHS. > > is a package tree a database? > > This depend

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: don't define ebeep and epause in eutils in EAPI 3

2010-01-18 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, Petteri Räty wrote: > With GLEP 42 and proper logging of e* messages I think we shouldn't > annoy users any more with ebeep or epause Agreed. > so attached is a patch only defines these functions for EAPIs 0, 1 > and 2. Anyone have a reason to keep these around for EAP

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [rfc] layman storage location (again)

2010-01-18 Thread Alex Alexander
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 09:05:58AM +0100, Peter Hjalmarsson wrote: > I sometimes think the main problem is the tree itself. Portage really > should had a directory of its own, but maybe with anoher structure, > like /var/portage, /var/portage/tree (the current > PORTDIR), /var/portage/distfiles (i.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [rfc] layman storage location (again)

2010-01-18 Thread Antoni Grzymala
Alex Alexander dixit (2010-01-18, 11:07): > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 09:05:58AM +0100, Peter Hjalmarsson wrote: > > I sometimes think the main problem is the tree itself. Portage really > > should had a directory of its own, but maybe with anoher structure, > > like /var/portage, /var/portage/tree

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [rfc] layman storage location (again)

2010-01-18 Thread Michael Haubenwallner
Alex Alexander wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 09:05:58AM +0100, Peter Hjalmarsson wrote: >> I sometimes think the main problem is the tree itself. Portage really >> should had a directory of its own, but maybe with anoher structure, >> like /var/portage, /var/portage/tree (the current >> PORTDIR

[gentoo-dev] new USE_EXPAND variable: XTABLES_ADDONS_MODULES

2010-01-18 Thread Peter Volkov
Hi. I'm going to add xtable-addons package to the tree. This is patch-o-matic replacement which allows to extend iptables without touching iptables source itself. Currently package contains 24 modules which I'd like to have USE configurable with USE_EXPAND'ed variable: XTABLES_ADDONS_MODULES Curr

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: adding a modification timestamp to the installed pkgs database (vdb)

2010-01-18 Thread Brian Harring
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 11:09:07AM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > 2010/1/17 Christian Faulhammer : > > Ciaran McCreesh : > >  As much as you love to have the new and shiny VDB2, it is far off. > > Prototyping and drafting implementations would be great to have some > > base where we can discuss on

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: [rfc] layman storage location (again)

2010-01-18 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
mån 2010-01-18 klockan 12:40 +0100 skrev Michael Haubenwallner: > Alex Alexander wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 09:05:58AM +0100, Peter Hjalmarsson wrote: > >> I sometimes think the main problem is the tree itself. Portage really > >> should had a directory of its own, but maybe with anoher str

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: adding a modification timestamp to the installed pkgs database (vdb)

2010-01-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
2010/1/18 Brian Harring : > Propose something, or shut up frankly. I propose we don't do anything until someone comes up with a decent cache proposal. > If all you're going to contribute is "it's half baked" claims, you're > wasting folks time.  You've had a couple of months of time to > counterp

[gentoo-dev] g15 and freevo up for grabs

2010-01-18 Thread Robert Buchholz
Hello, I want to drop maintenance for some of the packages that I have acquired over the years. Some of them are still co-maintained, some are now unmaintained. === Freevo === Freevo is split up in different Python components. They are all maintained by a herd, but a dedicated maintainer is n

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: don't define ebeep and epause in eutils in EAPI 3

2010-01-18 Thread Tiziano Müller
The proper replacement for such interactive notifications when called in pkg_setup is pkg_pretend, which will (hopefully) be available in EAPI 4. Thus I'd keep them around until then. Cheers, Tiziano Am Sonntag, den 17.01.2010, 22:38 +0200 schrieb Petteri Räty: > With GLEP 42 and proper logging o

Re: [gentoo-dev] g15 and freevo up for grabs

2010-01-18 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 05:56:08PM +0100, Robert Buchholz wrote: > These packages are now without a maintainer: > > app-misc/g15macro > app-misc/g15message > dev-libs/libg15render > app-misc/g15stats # already maintainer-needed I use the above, and will take them. > media-plugins/audacious-g15-s

Re: [gentoo-dev] g15 and freevo up for grabs

2010-01-18 Thread Tony "Chainsaw" Vroon
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 20:29 +, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > I use the above, and will take them. Please do feel free to take g15daemon & friends as well, I've not been able to provide them with the attention they deserve. > > media-plugins/audacious-g15-spectrum I'd rather just get this upstrea

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: don't define ebeep and epause in eutils in EAPI 3

2010-01-18 Thread Petteri Räty
On 01/18/2010 03:02 PM, Tiziano Müller wrote: > The proper replacement for such interactive notifications when called in > pkg_setup is pkg_pretend, which will (hopefully) be available in EAPI 4. > Thus I'd keep them around until then. > > Cheers, > Tiziano > ebeep or epause don't make your ebui

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: don't define ebeep and epause in eutils in EAPI 3

2010-01-18 Thread Petteri Räty
On 01/18/2010 10:07 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, Petteri Räty wrote: > >> With GLEP 42 and proper logging of e* messages I think we shouldn't >> annoy users any more with ebeep or epause > > Agreed. > >> so attached is a patch only defines these functions for EAPIs 0, 1

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [rfc] layman storage location (again)

2010-01-18 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 01/16/10 19:52, Peter Hjalmarsson wrote: > That is for the overlays, yeah? > But hov about the cache_*.xml files? > > I think what he meant was that should layman really only has one > directory? One for cache (downloaded/downloadable lists of overlays? > in /var/cache/layman/?), one for the ma

[gentoo-dev] Re: LibGL.la removal news item for =eselect-opengl-1.1.1-r2 going stable

2010-01-18 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 17/01/2010 12:26, Tomáš Chvátal a écrit : > Howdy guys, > please review the attached file and suggest updates to in. > I was asked for this thing going stable due to its being dependency of > new nvidia-drivers. > > Also this thing is probably blocker for the bug on eselect-opengl i just > open

Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] layman storage location (again)

2010-01-18 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 01/18/10 01:38, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > On 01/17/10 21:31, Thilo Bangert wrote: >> /var/layman i dislike due to this sentence in the FHS: >> >>"Applications must generally not add directories to the top level of >> /var. Such directories should only be added if they have some system-wide

Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] layman storage location (again)

2010-01-18 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 18 January 2010 19:05:23 Sebastian Pipping wrote: > /var/empty <-- net-misc/openssh this isnt exactly openssh specific. a few other packages use it as well for their users because it's guaranteed to be empty. -mike signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] g15 and freevo up for grabs

2010-01-18 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:53:53PM +, Tony Chainsaw Vroon wrote: > On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 20:29 +, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > > I use the above, and will take them. > > Please do feel free to take g15daemon & friends as well, I've not been > able to provide them with the attention they deser

Re: [gentoo-dev] g15 and freevo up for grabs

2010-01-18 Thread Doug Goldstein
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Robert Buchholz wrote: > Hello, > > I want to drop maintenance for some of the packages that I have acquired > over the years. Some of them are still co-maintained, some are now > unmaintained. > > === Freevo === > > Freevo is split up in different Python componen