Re: [gentoo-dev] Tightly-coupled core distro [was: Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012]

2012-11-17 Thread Richard Yao
On 05/09/2012 06:36 PM, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 08:51:37PM +0200, Fabio Erculiani wrote: >> I foresee a new udev fork then. > > Please feel free to do so, the code has been open since the first day I > created it. > > Remember, forks are good, there's nothing wrong with them, I s

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:02:19PM -0800, Alec Warner wrote: > 1) systemd-udev will require systemd. Stated by the systemd > maintainers themselves as a thing they want to do in the future. Some > users don't want to use systemd. We could go into detail as to why; > but I think that is not as impor

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Alec Warner
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:52 PM, Greg KH wrote: > On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 02:05:39AM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 07:29:22PM -0800, Greg KH wrote >> >> > But, along those lines, what is the goal of the fork? What are you >> > trying to attempt to do with a fork of udev th

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 02:05:39AM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 07:29:22PM -0800, Greg KH wrote > > > But, along those lines, what is the goal of the fork? What are you > > trying to attempt to do with a fork of udev that could not be > > accomplished by: > > - getting pa

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 1:25 AM, Matt Turner wrote: > On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:05 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: >>> As I posted elsewhere, working on a project based on "hate" only lasts >>> so long. I should know, that's the reason I started udev in the first >>> place over 9 years ago. >> >> The

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Matt Turner
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:05 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: >> As I posted elsewhere, working on a project based on "hate" only lasts >> so long. I should know, that's the reason I started udev in the first >> place over 9 years ago. > > The Xfree86 people generated a lot of hate, just like Sievers an

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 17/11/2012 23:05, Doug Goldstein wrote: > Diego I'm going to have to call you out here. You've so far in this > thread claimed you were the reason behind the "eudev" project and now > claim you're behind OpenRC. Sounds like bragging to me. Please don't put words in my mouth. I'm not behind any

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 07:29:22PM -0800, Greg KH wrote > But, along those lines, what is the goal of the fork? What are you > trying to attempt to do with a fork of udev that could not be > accomplished by: > - getting patches approved upstream > or: > - keeping a simple set of patches outsi

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Doug Goldstein
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > On 17/11/2012 21:52, Joshua Kinard wrote: >> It's human nature to wake up one day and exclaim, "I will develop X!", and >> then go off and do so without any formal planning or even a rough idea of >> how to start. Sometimes it works, a

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Alec Warner
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 10:49 PM, Greg KH wrote: > On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:35:22AM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: >> On 11/18/2012 12:19 AM, Greg KH wrote: >> > On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:00:52AM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: >> >>> I'm genuinely interested in your goals, in detail, otherwise I would >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Doug Goldstein
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:49 AM, Greg KH wrote: > On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:35:22AM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: >> On 11/18/2012 12:19 AM, Greg KH wrote: >> > On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:00:52AM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: >> >>> I'm genuinely interested in your goals, in detail, otherwise I would >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:35:22AM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: > On 11/18/2012 12:19 AM, Greg KH wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:00:52AM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: > >>> I'm genuinely interested in your goals, in detail, otherwise I would > >>> not have asked about them. Perhaps I am totally wr

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in eclass: nvidia-driver.eclass

2012-11-17 Thread Doug Goldstein
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 18/11/12 07:47, Doug Goldstein (cardoe) wrote: >> >> cardoe 12/11/18 05:47:02 >> >>Modified: nvidia-driver.eclass >>Log: >>Update to support a new legacy series >> >> Revision ChangesPath >> 1.16

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in eclass: nvidia-driver.eclass

2012-11-17 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 18/11/12 07:47, Doug Goldstein (cardoe) wrote: cardoe 12/11/18 05:47:02 Modified: nvidia-driver.eclass Log: Update to support a new legacy series Revision ChangesPath 1.16 eclass/nvidia-driver.eclass file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 17/11/2012 21:52, Joshua Kinard wrote: > It's human nature to wake up one day and exclaim, "I will develop X!", and > then go off and do so without any formal planning or even a rough idea of > how to start. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes, you > just roll dice. That's

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Joshua Kinard
On 11/18/2012 12:20 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > I appreciate your enthusiasm, but you're going quite a tad overboard, > and looks like your concept of development is "I'm not sure of what I'm > doing, but I'm doing it anyway". It's human nature to wake up one day and exclaim, "I will develop X

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Richard Yao
On 11/18/2012 12:35 AM, Greg KH wrote: > So, I'll say this again, why is this project getting the copyright of > the Gentoo Foundation? Is it an "official" project of Gentoo in some > manner? One developer who asked to join our project as we are in the process of getting started thought he would

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Richard Yao
On 11/18/2012 12:19 AM, Greg KH wrote: > On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:00:52AM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: >>> I'm genuinely interested in your goals, in detail, otherwise I would >>> not have asked about them. Perhaps I am totally wrong and your fork >>> makes sense, perhaps, to me, not. But without

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:13:37AM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: > We do not need to justify the need for our project before it is > announced or even after it is announced. It is free to conflict with > RedHat's systemd project. If we find next year that we can reconcile > with Kay Sievers and Lennart

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 17/11/2012 21:26, Richard Yao wrote: > Arguably, the fact that others forced our hand before we were ready lead > to the widespread attention. With that said, responses to Gentoo have > always been mixed, but I have seen far more positive responses than > negative responses and I am quite happy

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Richard Yao
On 11/18/2012 12:20 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > But you've made Gentoo the laughing stock of the Linux world over the > past couple of days, and now you come up with this? Please get a clue, > please. Arguably, the fact that others forced our hand before we were ready lead to the widespread at

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 17/11/2012 21:13, Richard Yao wrote: > I would appreciate it if people would avoid harassing others that decide > to develop things different than what they want to use. Read GLEP 0039: And I would appreciate if you'd avoid making us look like a bunch of wannabes, by using buzzwords like "water

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:00:52AM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: > > I'm genuinely interested in your goals, in detail, otherwise I would > > not have asked about them. Perhaps I am totally wrong and your fork > > makes sense, perhaps, to me, not. But without knowing such goals, > > there's no way th

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Richard Yao
On 11/18/2012 12:05 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > On 17/11/2012 21:00, Richard Yao wrote: >> I am afraid that I have to disappoint you. If we were using the >> waterfall model, I could outline some very nice long term goals for you, >> but we are doing AGILE development, so long term goals have n

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:06:38PM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: > On 11/17/2012 10:39 PM, Greg KH wrote: > > Anyway, I now see a _very_ dangerous commit in the "Copyright" branch > > that better not get merged into the tree, as it's wrong, and illegal > > under all countries that follow the "normal" b

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 17/11/2012 21:00, Richard Yao wrote: > I am afraid that I have to disappoint you. If we were using the > waterfall model, I could outline some very nice long term goals for you, > but we are doing AGILE development, so long term goals have not been > well defined. Can I step in and just as you

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Richard Yao
On 11/17/2012 11:35 PM, Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:25:11PM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: >> On 11/17/2012 11:19 PM, Greg KH wrote: >>> On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:02:00PM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: On 11/17/2012 10:29 PM, Greg KH wrote: > I see an "entertaining" fork of udev on

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:26:41PM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: > > Thanks for clarifying that. It will be fixed before it goes into HEAD. I recommend deleting the branch and starting over, having that commit floating around like that could cause trouble. thanks, greg k-h

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 04:28:00AM +, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:06:38PM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: > > On 11/17/2012 10:39 PM, Greg KH wrote: > > > Anyway, I now see a _very_ dangerous commit in the "Copyright" branch > > > that better not get merged into the tree, as

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Richard Yao
On 11/17/2012 11:28 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:06:38PM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: >> On 11/17/2012 10:39 PM, Greg KH wrote: >>> Anyway, I now see a _very_ dangerous commit in the "Copyright" branch >>> that better not get merged into the tree, as it's wrong, and illegal

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:25:11PM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: > On 11/17/2012 11:19 PM, Greg KH wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:02:00PM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: > >> On 11/17/2012 10:29 PM, Greg KH wrote: > >>> I see an "entertaining" fork of udev on github at the moment (-ng, > >>> really?

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Richard Yao
On 11/17/2012 11:28 PM, Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:06:38PM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: >> On 11/17/2012 10:39 PM, Greg KH wrote: >>> Anyway, I now see a _very_ dangerous commit in the "Copyright" branch >>> that better not get merged into the tree, as it's wrong, and illegal >>> unde

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:06:38PM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: > On 11/17/2012 10:39 PM, Greg KH wrote: > > Anyway, I now see a _very_ dangerous commit in the "Copyright" branch > > that better not get merged into the tree, as it's wrong, and illegal > > under all countries that follow the "normal" b

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Richard Yao
On 11/17/2012 11:19 PM, Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:02:00PM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: >> On 11/17/2012 10:29 PM, Greg KH wrote: >>> I see an "entertaining" fork of udev on github at the moment (-ng, >>> really? What happens when someone wants to fork that, -ng-ng? Be a bit >>> mor

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:06:38PM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: > On 11/17/2012 10:39 PM, Greg KH wrote: > > Anyway, I now see a _very_ dangerous commit in the "Copyright" branch > > that better not get merged into the tree, as it's wrong, and illegal > > under all countries that follow the "normal" b

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:02:00PM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: > On 11/17/2012 10:29 PM, Greg KH wrote: > > I see an "entertaining" fork of udev on github at the moment (-ng, > > really? What happens when someone wants to fork that, -ng-ng? Be a bit > > more original in your naming please, good thi

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Richard Yao
On 11/17/2012 10:39 PM, Greg KH wrote: > Anyway, I now see a _very_ dangerous commit in the "Copyright" branch > that better not get merged into the tree, as it's wrong, and illegal > under all countries that follow the "normal" body of Copyright Law. It > should be removed right now before someon

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Richard Yao
On 11/17/2012 10:29 PM, Greg KH wrote: > I see an "entertaining" fork of udev on github at the moment (-ng, > really? What happens when someone wants to fork that, -ng-ng? Be a bit > more original in your naming please, good thing I never trademarked > "udev" all those years ago, maybe I still sh

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 07:29:22PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > I see an "entertaining" fork of udev on github at the moment (-ng, > really? What happens when someone wants to fork that, -ng-ng? Be a bit > more original in your naming please, good thing I never trademarked > "udev" all those years ago

[gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 08:02:07PM +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote: > Handling separate /usr support > == > WilliamH requested approval for two methods to support separate /usr > systems[2]. The discussion is closely related to recent opinons on udev, such > as e.g. [1], be

[gentoo-dev] app-portage/mirrorselect-9999 call for testers

2012-11-17 Thread Brian Dolbec
I've just done a major update of mirrorselect. While the actual functioning code did not change significantly it has been chunked up, moved short list of changes: -- fix the make.conf move. now dual location capable -- now py3 compatible. (3.1 restricted, due to differences, failures) 2.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH] Check for USE_PYTHON <-> PYTHON_TARGETS sync.

2012-11-17 Thread Michał Górny
On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 11:58:48 -0500 Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > > This is much more complex than the previous version. > > > > The inline comments and debug-print statements are helpful. > > Do we have a way to test this with various combinations

[gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH] Check for USE_PYTHON <-> PYTHON_TARGETS sync.

2012-11-17 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > This is much more complex than the previous version. > The inline comments and debug-print statements are helpful. Do we have a way to test this with various combinations of PYTHON_COMPAT, PYTHON_TARGETS, eselect python, and USE_PYTHON? I h