Re: [gentoo-dev] renaming gentoo-oldnet

2013-08-06 Thread Michael Weber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/06/2013 12:09 AM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: Various proposed names (in no specific order): names, *sigh* It's rather a interface setup utility than a networking thing. Networkin happens - most cases - when you have paths and entities and such

Re: [gentoo-dev] renaming gentoo-oldnet

2013-08-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 06/08/2013 00:09, Robin H. Johnson wrote: I'm replying the start of this thread, rather than picking a single person to respond to. I DO want more brainstorming on ideas for the naming of the package, and I think people need to cast a wider net for naming ideas. I'm most certainly not

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flag descriptions

2013-08-06 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 13:57:55 +0200 Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote: Currently, USE flag descriptions are a mix of imperative (Enable) and indicative (Enables) forms, the former occuring more often: Enable : Enables = 2143 : 408 Add : Adds = 525 : 341 Build :

[gentoo-dev] status of security improvments (GLEPs 57-61)

2013-08-06 Thread hasufell
It seems none of them (except the overview GLEP 57) are implemented yet, although they are roughly 6-8 years old. What is holding it back? Is it just that we don't have a PM implementation yet or is it some political nonsense and PMS blocking progress again? I am not criticizing the portage team

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-06 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/08/13 12:10 PM, Michał Górny wrote: Dnia 2013-08-05, o godz. 11:50:38 Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org napisał(a): On Mon, 05 Aug 2013 18:06:33 +0300 Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: The plan is to change SLOT of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-06 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/08/13 12:51 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote: On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 17:36:49 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 12:22:32 -0400 Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 17:13:49 +0100

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-06 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/08/13 01:07 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 18:10:46 +0200 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: We can simply have multiple virtual versions, each

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-06 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/08/13 01:58 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote: On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 18:28:54 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 12:51:48 -0400 Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote: Not really. There's a tradeoff

Re: [gentoo-dev] status of security improvments (GLEPs 57-61)

2013-08-06 Thread Alex Xu
On 06/08/13 10:02 AM, hasufell wrote: It seems none of them (except the overview GLEP 57) are implemented yet, although they are roughly 6-8 years old. What is holding it back? Is it just that we don't have a PM implementation yet or is it some political nonsense and PMS blocking progress

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-06 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/08/13 10:21 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: On 05/08/13 01:58 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote: On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 18:28:54 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 12:51:48 -0400 Alexis Ballier

Re: [gentoo-dev] renaming gentoo-oldnet

2013-08-06 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/08/13 09:45 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 08/05/2013 06:09 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: - netrc (conflicts) Would naming it net-rc alleviate the perceived conflict? Or alternatively, rc-net ? (google seems to reference 'rc' as 'remote

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-06 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Tue, 06 Aug 2013 10:21:52 -0400 Ian Stakenvicius a...@gentoo.org wrote: subslot = concatenation of the subslots of all (positive? if it makes sense) dependencies; updated when said dependencies get their subslot changed. this seems to fit well for a virtual and should be in line with

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-06 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 18:49:49 -0400 Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote: Again, symbols have nothing to do here. Since you have poor control on overlays and absolutely zero control on locally built packages, the only sane assumption is that all symbols are used. And that answers your

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-06 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 16:25:12 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 18:49:49 -0400 Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote: Again, symbols have nothing to do here. Since you have poor control on overlays and absolutely zero control on locally built

Re: [gentoo-dev] renaming gentoo-oldnet

2013-08-06 Thread William Hubbs
On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 10:09:54PM +, Robin H. Johnson wrote: I'm replying the start of this thread, rather than picking a single person to respond to. I DO want more brainstorming on ideas for the naming of the package, and I think people need to cast a wider net for naming ideas. Robin,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-06 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 12:16:57 -0400 Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 16:25:12 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 18:49:49 -0400 Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote: Again, symbols have nothing to do here. Since you

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-06 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 17:30:56 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 12:16:57 -0400 Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 16:25:12 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 18:49:49 -0400

Re: [gentoo-dev] renaming gentoo-oldnet

2013-08-06 Thread Marc Schiffbauer
Am Dienstag, 6. August 2013, 11:26:16 schrieb William Hubbs: On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 10:09:54PM +, Robin H. Johnson wrote: I'm replying the start of this thread, rather than picking a single person to respond to. I DO want more brainstorming on ideas for the naming of the package, and I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-06 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 13:05:07 -0400 Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote: 'occasional unnecessary rebuild' is a big deal since subslots introduce this regression... Er, no. Subslots just simplify the way accurate slot dependencies are expressed. That's all they are: an alternative to having a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-06 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 18:41:59 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 13:05:07 -0400 Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote: 'occasional unnecessary rebuild' is a big deal since subslots introduce this regression... Er, no. Subslots just simplify

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-06 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 14:12:06 -0400 Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 18:41:59 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 13:05:07 -0400 Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote: 'occasional unnecessary rebuild' is a big deal

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-06 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 19:25:15 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 14:12:06 -0400 Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 18:41:59 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 13:05:07 -0400

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-06 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 15:31:14 -0400 Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote: Well, ok, but this doesn't relate to what I was writing. Subslot, or slot emulators or whatever, in their current usage with := dependencies, are not fine grained enough for some use cases. Those cause regressions if

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Dropping static libs support from cryptsetup and lvm2

2013-08-06 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 30/07/13 04:42 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: cryptsetup upstream installed minimal Gentoo setup and tested our handling of 'static' and was disappointed finding them broken https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438998 - RESO/TEST -

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-06 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 20:44:57 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 15:31:14 -0400 Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote: Well, ok, but this doesn't relate to what I was writing. Subslot, or slot emulators or whatever, in their current usage with :=

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-06 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/08/13 04:22 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote: On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 20:44:57 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 15:31:14 -0400 Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote: Well, ok, but this doesn't relate

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-06 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 16:22:48 -0400 Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 20:44:57 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 15:31:14 -0400 Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote: Well, ok, but this doesn't relate to what I was

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Dropping static libs support from cryptsetup and lvm2

2013-08-06 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/08/13 04:17 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: On 30/07/13 04:42 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: cryptsetup upstream installed minimal Gentoo setup and tested our handling of 'static' and was disappointed finding them broken

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-06 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Tue, 06 Aug 2013 16:28:06 -0400 Ian Stakenvicius a...@gentoo.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/08/13 04:22 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote: On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 20:44:57 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 15:31:14

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-06 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 16:39:14 -0400 Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote: This is not a regression from my definition: Software regression, the appearance of a bug which was absent in a previous revision A bug in this case is one of the user's packages no longer working after an upgrade,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies

2013-08-06 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 21:33:02 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 16:22:48 -0400 Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 20:44:57 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 15:31:14 -0400

[gentoo-dev] Response to a friendly note about changing bug reports

2013-08-06 Thread Jeroen Roovers
23:37:25 willikins rej, you have notes! [21:13] mrueg Let me rephrase this: Just a friendly notice to please refrain from rephrasing bug summaries from Stabilize ${P} to ${P} stable req. This just adds unneeded noise to the bug. I don't want this on bugs I've reported or am assigned to. This is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Response to a friendly note about changing bug reports

2013-08-06 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Dienstag, 6. August 2013, 23:46:08 schrieb Jeroen Roovers: 23:37:25 willikins rej, you have notes! [21:13] mrueg Let me rephrase this: Just a friendly notice to please refrain from rephrasing bug summaries from Stabilize ${P} to ${P} stable req. This just adds unneeded noise to the bug. I

[gentoo-dev] Re: renaming gentoo-oldnet

2013-08-06 Thread Duncan
Ian Stakenvicius posted on Tue, 06 Aug 2013 10:47:05 -0400 as excerpted: Or alternatively, rc-net ? (google seems to reference 'rc' as 'remote control' as in race cars, airplanes, etc; but given /etc/rc.* and /etc/init* have been around forever and have always been called the rc system, i