Re: [gentoo-dev] Add bc back to the stage3

2014-09-28 Thread Peter Stuge
Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: > I've stopped following this mailing list regularly quite sometime ago. > To see this thread is still going on and no one bothered to cc releng, > to me shows a lack of respect I expected you to participate on the developer list to some degree, since you are deve

Re: [gentoo-dev] Add bc back to the stage3

2014-09-28 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
On Sat, 27 Sep 2014, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 13:22:45 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 12:47:14 +0200 Luca Barbato wrote: Because I'd expect a stage3 to be posix compliant I agree. It's time to replace nano with Vim. Vim is not fully POSIX compliant; you m

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Looking for alternative to RESTRICT=userpriv

2014-09-28 Thread Steven J. Long
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 09:51:31PM -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > On 07/09/2014 07:17 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > >>> c) 'esudo' helper [3]. This is a more generic form of (2), with > >>> support for other potential privilege changes. > >> .. > > I don't think we'd use the reference 'sudo' impl. Rather s

[gentoo-dev] Re: Add bc back to the stage3

2014-09-28 Thread Steven J. Long
On Sat, Sep 27, 2014, Luca Barbato wrote: > On 17/09/14 14:09, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Sep 2014, Luca Barbato wrote: > > > >> The bc utility is part of the posix tools and it might be used to build > >> linux among the other stuff. > > > > Luca, > > > > bc is not in the sys

Re: [gentoo-dev] Add bc back to the stage3

2014-09-28 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 19:39:44 -0400 "Anthony G. Basile" wrote: > And now for something completely different ... drum roll ... Really! > We have to have a council vote on whether bc goes into stage3? If > this does go to the council, then I want a pre-vote vote: should we > bounce the decision bac

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Deprecating and killing the concept of herds

2014-09-28 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 18:45:12 -0400 Rich Freeman wrote: > So, there was some discussion on -dev, apparently some discussion I > wasn't a part of, and some that I was (such is the nature of IRC). Knowledge codification is nice; otherwise, this is just-another-thread. > I think it would make sense

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Deprecating and killing the concept of herds

2014-09-28 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 00:21:43 +0200 Michał Górny wrote: > I don't know if you know it but setting up the project wiki page takes > less time than reaching into depths of CVS and editing herds.xml. Editing and committing a change to herds.xml takes me less characters than this quoted paragraph, do

Re: [gentoo-dev] Add bc back to the stage3

2014-09-28 Thread Richard Yao
On 09/27/2014 07:39 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > On 09/27/14 18:46, Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 5:52 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: >>> What is really needed here is a vote by the Council on whether to add bc >>> back to the stage3. If the people do insist, another vote regarding >>>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Add bc back to the stage3

2014-09-28 Thread Luca Barbato
On 27/09/14 15:19, Luca Barbato wrote: On 27/09/14 14:22, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 12:47:14 +0200 Luca Barbato wrote: Because I'd expect a stage3 to be posix compliant I agree. It's time to replace nano with Vim. Surely certain stuff might enjoy having ex available as we