Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage fork: sys-apps/portage-mgorny

On 03/24/2018 07:26 PM, Kent Fredric wrote: > On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 13:44:49 -0700 > Zac Medico wrote: > >> That only happens when dependency satisfaction fails by normal means. > > And when that happens, it is better to bail and go "Uh oh, something bad", > not "oh, right, lets install something

Re: [gentoo-dev] Upcoming posting restrictions on the gentoo-dev mailing list

El 24/03/18 a las 04:34, Aaron Bauman escribió: > > On March 23, 2018 11:11:16 PM EDT, "Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera > (klondike)" wrote: >> El 20/03/18 a las 09:52, Kristian Fiskerstrand escribió: >>> This was not put in effect on 23 January 2018, however I have now >>> requested infra to put

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage fork: sys-apps/portage-mgorny

On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 13:44:49 -0700 Zac Medico wrote: > That only happens when dependency satisfaction fails by normal means. And when that happens, it is better to bail and go "Uh oh, something bad", not "oh, right, lets install something that will likely make things worse and additional work to

Re: [gentoo-dev] understanting gentoo

Abhishek, Abhishek Kumar writes: > I want know about code that exist in gentoo/gentoo > which parse the command eslect news. > Please respond as soon as possible. A classic by Eric Raymond and Rick Moen on how to ask questions the smart way: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

[gentoo-dev] Stepping down as a proxy maintainer + packages up for grabs.

Hi all, It has become quite obvious to me I do not have the time for Gentoo package maintenance any more. As of today I am stepping down as a proxy maintainer and offering all my packages up for grabs. I'd like to extend many thanks to Amynka for all her extensive help and guidance, and wraet

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage fork: sys-apps/portage-mgorny

On 03/24/2018 01:33 PM, Kent Fredric wrote: > On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 11:27:20 -0700 > Zac Medico wrote: > >> The defaults certainly do not work perfectly in all situations. However, >> there are a vast number of situations where using --autounmask-continue >> will make appropriate package.mask chang

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage fork: sys-apps/portage-mgorny

On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 11:27:20 -0700 Zac Medico wrote: > The defaults certainly do not work perfectly in all situations. However, > there are a vast number of situations where using --autounmask-continue > will make appropriate package.mask changes without the need for any user > intervention. Its

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage fork: sys-apps/portage-mgorny

On 03/24/2018 02:01 AM, Kent Fredric wrote: > On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 09:02:20 +0100 > Michał Górny wrote: > >> ...except that it is also used to say 'this is experimental version, >> unmask at will' and Portage wants to unmask stuff for you anyway. Well, >> I mean the default configuration of Portag

[gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH] app-emulation/virt-manager-9999: Drop python2 support

Applied. Thanks! On Sat, Mar 24, 2018, at 05:02 CDT, Michal Privoznik wrote: > With upstream commit of bd891eb380cdf771f0296a39193614a10749088b > virt-manager is strictly python3 only. Update the ebuild to > follow this change. > > Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik > > [...] commit 0e6753f646fc

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage fork: sys-apps/portage-mgorny

On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 5:01 AM, Kent Fredric wrote: > On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 09:02:20 +0100 > Michał Górny wrote: > >> ...except that it is also used to say 'this is experimental version, >> unmask at will' and Portage wants to unmask stuff for you anyway. Well, >> I mean the default configuration

Re: [gentoo-dev] understanting gentoo

March 24, 2018 11:40 AM, "Abhishek Kumar" wrote: hi everyone I want know about code that exist in gentoo (https://github.com/gentoo)/gentoo (https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo) which parse the command eslect news. Please respond as soon as possible. Hi, There are a ton of things I'd like to

[gentoo-dev] understanting gentoo

hi everyone I want know about code that exist in gentoo / gentoo which parse the command eslect news. Please respond as soon as possible.

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage fork: sys-apps/portage-mgorny

On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 09:02:20 +0100 Michał Górny wrote: > ...except that it is also used to say 'this is experimental version, > unmask at will' and Portage wants to unmask stuff for you anyway. Well, > I mean the default configuration of Portage, not mine. Yeah, that default I find incredibly st

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage fork: sys-apps/portage-mgorny

W dniu sob, 24.03.2018 o godzinie 20∶02 +1300, użytkownik Kent Fredric napisał: > On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 11:53:40 +0100 > Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > > Still, masking is the wrong way to express such preferences. If you > > package.mask sys-devel/gcc then you say that something is wrong with > > that

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage fork: sys-apps/portage-mgorny

On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 11:53:40 +0100 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > Still, masking is the wrong way to express such preferences. If you > package.mask sys-devel/gcc then you say that something is wrong with > that package. Which I believe is not what you want to express here. I might have a better usecas