Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-23 Thread Steev Klimaszewski
On Fri, 2014-01-24 at 04:04 +0100, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 18:04:19 -0600 > Steev Klimaszewski wrote: > > > Your "suggestion" was expanding the "arm" keyword to "armv4-linux", > > "armv5-linux", "armv6-linux", "armv6-hardfloat-linux", > > "armv7-softfp-linux", "armv7-hardfloat-li

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-23 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 18:04:19 -0600 Steev Klimaszewski wrote: > Your "suggestion" was expanding the "arm" keyword to "armv4-linux", > "armv5-linux", "armv6-linux", "armv6-hardfloat-linux", > "armv7-softfp-linux", "armv7-hardfloat-linux", > "armv7-hardfloat-uclibc-linux" - that is nowhere near a go

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-23 Thread Steev Klimaszewski
On Fri, 2014-01-24 at 00:50 +0100, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 23:42:28 +0100 > Peter Stuge wrote: > > > Tom Wijsman wrote: > > > you shoot down solutions > > > > Maybe it wasn't a very good solution that deserved to be shot down. > > Maybe it was; what is needed here, is the feedb

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-23 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 23:42:28 +0100 Peter Stuge wrote: > Tom Wijsman wrote: > > you shoot down solutions > > Maybe it wasn't a very good solution that deserved to be shot down. Maybe it was; what is needed here, is the feedback that makes it better. Work towards a very good solution deserves mo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-23 Thread Peter Stuge
Tom Wijsman wrote: > you shoot down solutions Maybe it wasn't a very good solution that deserved to be shot down. //Peter pgpWdBSgiDfHp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-23 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 14:55:34 -0600 Steev Klimaszewski wrote: > On Thu, 2014-01-23 at 20:13 +0100, Tom Wijsman wrote: > The complaint is slow to stable arches Yes. > by specifying "-* arch" it would signify that ONLY that arch uses > that version of the ebuild - and it would be up to the arch te

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-23 Thread Steev Klimaszewski
On Thu, 2014-01-23 at 20:13 +0100, Tom Wijsman wrote: > > I don't think that's what was being proposed, though. The question was > > really the old complaint about slow architectures; the "-* arch" > > solution sounds like the most reasonable definition of "dropping" > > keywords, in the absence of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-23 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 18:12:42 + "Steven J. Long" wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014, Tom Wijsman wrote: > > On Sun, 19 Jan 2014, Christopher Head wrote: > > > If stable really is falling behind and the backlog is always > > > growing, obviously something has to be done. I just don't want > > > "som

[gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-23 Thread Steven J. Long
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Sun, 19 Jan 2014, Christopher Head wrote: > > If stable really is falling behind and the backlog is always growing, > > obviously something has to be done. I just don't want "something" to > > mean "don't have a stable tree". The stable tree provides me

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] eutils.eclass: add optfeature() function

2014-01-23 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2014-01-23, o godz. 11:36:06 Chris Reffett napisał(a): > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 01/23/2014 11:28 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > > Dnia 2014-01-23, o godz. 11:24:41 Chris Reffett > > napisał(a): > > > >> After some discussion on good ways to communicate optional

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] eutils.eclass: add optfeature() function

2014-01-23 Thread Chris Reffett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/23/2014 11:28 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > Dnia 2014-01-23, o godz. 11:24:41 Chris Reffett > napisał(a): > >> After some discussion on good ways to communicate optional >> dependencies to users, I was shown the optfeature() function in >> net-mi

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] eutils.eclass: add optfeature() function

2014-01-23 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2014-01-23, o godz. 11:24:41 Chris Reffett napisał(a): > After some discussion on good ways to communicate optional > dependencies to users, I was shown the optfeature() function in > net-misc/netctl. Gentoo contributor Andrew Hamilton and I came up with > a cleaned up and expanded version o

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH] eutils.eclass: add optfeature() function

2014-01-23 Thread Chris Reffett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, After some discussion on good ways to communicate optional dependencies to users, I was shown the optfeature() function in net-misc/netctl. Gentoo contributor Andrew Hamilton and I came up with a cleaned up and expanded version of it, and I