[gentoo-dev] use.force support

2005-06-13 Thread Sven Wegener
ke the default-darwin profiles which use ARCH="ppc" and USE="ppc-macos" but the ppc-macos flag can be removed by using USE="-ppc-macos" in the environment. Or selinux profiles, to force the selinux flag to be turned on. Comments? Cheers, Sven -- Sven Wegener Gento

Re: [gentoo-dev] use.force support

2005-06-13 Thread Sven Wegener
st the cascading aspect of the profiles. > Question: with use.force, what happens if a flag is both masked and > forced? Does it get turned on, get turned off, or get portage to > complain and abort? Good question. I would prefer to turn the flag off and make portage print a message.

Re: [gentoo-dev] use.force support

2005-06-13 Thread Sven Wegener
package.mask. That's rarely used, but that's the way cascading profile work in portage. May the force be with you, Sven -- Sven Wegener Gentoo Linux Developer http://www.gentoo.org/ pgpigbISibGmy.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] use.force support

2005-06-13 Thread Sven Wegener
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 03:40:34PM -0500, Kito wrote: > what about just a use.env? I find that a little bit misleading. Sounds like "use this environment" or so. Sven -- Sven Wegener Gentoo Linux Developer http://www.gentoo.org/ pgpjQajdyL9gj.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] use.force support

2005-06-13 Thread Sven Wegener
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 05:08:09PM -0400, Alec Warner wrote: > Sven Wegener wrote: > > >use.force might not be the best name, but it's what we do with it for > >most of our users. Being able to -flag in /etc/portage/profile/use.force > >is just because /etc/port

Re: [gentoo-dev] use.force support

2005-06-13 Thread Sven Wegener
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 01:34:05AM +0300, Sami N??t?nen wrote: > On Monday 13 June 2005 23:54, Sven Wegener wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 03:40:34PM -0500, Kito wrote: > > > what about just a use.env? > > > > I find that a little bit misleading. Sounds like &q

Re: [gentoo-dev] use.force support

2005-06-14 Thread Sven Wegener
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 01:46:22PM -0400, Alec Warner wrote: > Sven Wegener wrote: > >On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 05:08:09PM -0400, Alec Warner wrote: > > > >>Sven Wegener wrote: > >> > >> > >>>use.force might not be the best name, but it's w

Re: [gentoo-dev] use.force support

2005-06-14 Thread Sven Wegener
gestions in this thread, but none of them actually matched the purpose of the file. At least in my opinion. use.force matches it best, but the "force" part is a quite hard term. How about use.profile? Because these USE flags are activated or needed by the profile. -- Sven Wegener Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] use.force support

2005-06-15 Thread Sven Wegener
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 07:50:13PM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Sven Wegener wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 06:56:43PM -0400, Ned Ludd wrote: > > > >>I'm in favor of this. Would you mind calling it

Re: [gentoo-dev] use.force support

2005-06-15 Thread Sven Wegener
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 12:16:18PM +0200, Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 16:40:48 +0200 > Sven Wegener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > We just had a short discussion over in #gentoo-portage and the > > idea of an use.force file for profil

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE_EXPAND and IUSE

2005-06-19 Thread Sven Wegener
ent USE settings. Same is for LINGUAS, but using the USE flags the user knows on emerge -pv with which language support the package was compiled. Sven -- Sven Wegener Gentoo Linux Developer http://www.gentoo.org/ pgp39zvYjMEer.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] *DEPEND mismatches

2005-07-05 Thread Sven Wegener
But please one after the other, this is just an initial test. Cheers, Sven -- Sven Wegener Gentoo Developer http://www.gentoo.org/ pgphkVXD5qV5M.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] *DEPEND mismatches

2005-07-05 Thread Sven Wegener
DEPEND only. Sven -- Sven Wegener Gentoo Developer http://www.gentoo.org/ pgp4Pqd482Pq6.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] *DEPEND mismatches

2005-07-06 Thread Sven Wegener
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 06:19:01PM -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 02:00:24AM +0200, Sven Wegener wrote: > [snip] > Could you possibly split the stuff into two files? > one for RDEPEND.only and one for DEPEND.only? http://dev.gentoo.org/~swegener/qa/depen

Re: [gentoo-dev] *DEPEND mismatches

2005-07-06 Thread Sven Wegener
h check is done to catch runtime-dependencies being in DEPEND but missing in RDEPEND and the other way round. Sven -- SVen Wegener Gentoo Developer http://www.gentoo.org/ pgpsTQuY7LF0Q.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] No automatic RDEPEND=DEPEND for ebuild and eclass anymore

2005-07-06 Thread Sven Wegener
more attention and result in cleaner dependencies. - eclasses don't have the automatic RDEPEND=DEPEND thing, the change will streamline ebuilds and eclasses to be treated equally. Cheers, Sven -- Sven Wegener Gentoo Developer http://www.gentoo.org/ pgpvSMIMrVoek.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] src_configure

2005-07-06 Thread Sven Wegener
in a much better way. Regards, Sven [1] ./configure && make && make install -- Sven Wegener Gentoo Developer http://www.gentoo.org/ pgp1wcyK7Q2kr.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] EBUILD_FORMAT support

2005-07-06 Thread Sven Wegener
[1] support and it might as well be used to get backward compatibility for the RDEPEND=DEPEND[2] changes. Cheers, Sven [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/29510 [2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/29509 -- Sven Wegener Gentoo Developer http://www.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] src_configure

2005-07-06 Thread Sven Wegener
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 08:14:55PM -0400, Aron Griffis wrote: > Sven Wegener wrote: [Wed Jul 06 2005, 08:04:04PM EDT] > > I'm writing this mail to bring you a thought we had over on freenode > > in the #gentoo-portage channel. We would like to split up > > src_comp

Re: [gentoo-dev] EBUILD_FORMAT support

2005-07-06 Thread Sven Wegener
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 08:41:43PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wednesday 06 July 2005 08:20 pm, Sven Wegener wrote: > > We would like to introduce a new ebuild variable named EBUILD_FORMAT, > > seems like the name is much longer than it needs to be ... what's wro

Re: [gentoo-dev] EBUILD_FORMAT support

2005-07-06 Thread Sven Wegener
es that count as being addicted to Gentoo? Sven -- Sven Wegener Gentoo Developer http://www.gentoo.org/ pgp9UtaGwrBIx.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] No automatic RDEPEND=DEPEND for ebuild and eclass anymore

2005-07-08 Thread Sven Wegener
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 03:07:42PM +0300, Dan Armak wrote: > On Thursday 07 July 2005 02:40, Sven Wegener wrote: > > For the ebuild part the plan is to remove the automatic RDEPEND=DEPEND > > setting from portage. > What's the timeline for this? Are we talking about