Re: [gentoo-dev] supporting static-libs

2012-09-03 Thread Maciej Mrozowski
On Tuesday 28 of August 2012 02:15:40 hasufell wrote: > Is there a reason not to support static-libs in an ebuild if the package > supports it? > > It seems some developers don't care about this option. What's the gentoo > policy on this? Isn't this actually a bug? A little remark. For CMake cont

Re: [gentoo-dev] stripping escape sequences from build logs

2012-09-03 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Sat, 2012-09-01 at 17:39 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: > All, > > I find the included escape sequences to be annoying when I am reading a > build log. > > Is there a way to strip these? > > Thanks, > > William > Porthole's terminal strips most of them, processes some. It also does message f

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots

2012-09-03 Thread Mark Bateman
Patrick Lauer gentoo.org> writes: > > On 06/23/12 21:21, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > There's been a move towards using slots for "clever" things that don't > > fit the traditional way of how slots worked. Examples include the new > > gtk2 / gtk3 handling and Ruby gems virtuals. > > > > Aside from

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] EAPI 5+: split PDEPEND introducing SDEPEND

2012-09-03 Thread Duncan
Ciaran McCreesh posted on Sun, 02 Sep 2012 20:04:11 +0100 as excerpted: > The big issues you're ignoring: > > * What to do if a package has an SDEPEND upon cat/pkg[x] and the user > has cat/pkg[-x] installed, or if another package in the resolution > depends upon cat/pkg and the user hasn't s

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] EAPI 5+: split PDEPEND introducing SDEPEND

2012-09-03 Thread Duncan
Fabio Erculiani posted on Sun, 02 Sep 2012 21:38:26 +0200 as excerpted: > On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Ciaran McCreesh > wrote: >> >> The big issues you're ignoring: > > And you call them "big issues"? > Ah, the "you're ignoring" part looks a bit arrogant, are you short with > arguments ;-) ?