Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new category for container related packages, instead of app-emulation

2021-08-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
> On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 2:44 PM Georgy Yakovlev wrote: > > We've been collecting more and more container related packages in > > app-emulation/* > > What do you think about finally moving those packages to separate category? > As always my opinion is that: > (a) Categories were a des

Re: [gentoo-dev] [News review] LibreSSL support discontinued

2021-03-26 Thread Thomas Mueller
> On Sun, 2021-01-03 at 21:47 +0100, Michał Górny wrote: > Hello, > > Please review the news item inlined below. This is based on what > > I discussed with blueness (LibreSSL team lead). The news item is kinda > > long-ish because I wanted to include the full rationale since I believe > > our

Re: [gentoo-dev] Make 'man' global USE flag from currently local

2021-02-12 Thread Thomas Mueller
> Hi all, >   I am proposing to make the `man` USE flag into a global one. > Currently it is used by ~45 packages most of which have the same > description 'Build and install man pages': > https://packages.gentoo.org/useflags/man > Hopefully no objections to this part? > Cheers, > Aisha Seems

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: dropping support for uclibc-ng

2021-01-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
> I was using uclibc-ng builds for MIPS to build netboot images between 2017 > and 2019 to refine my build processes. uclibc-ng still produces smaller > overall binaries and libs for the netboot than musl does (usually ~1MB > smaller, which is actually significant, especially on SGI IP22 systems).

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: dropping support for uclibc-ng

2021-01-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
from "Anthony G. Basile" date: Tue, 5 Jan 2021 16:05:44 -0500 > On 1/5/21 8:43 AM, Jaco Kroon wrote: > > Hi Thomas, > > On 2021/01/05 13:08, Thomas Mueller wrote: > >>> I'd like feedback from people about the possibility of dropping support > >&

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: dropping support for uclibc-ng

2021-01-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
> I'd like feedback from people about the possibility of dropping support > for uclibc-ng. If you are unfamiliar, its the successor to uclibc as a > C Standard Library for embedded systems, ie a replacement for glibc > bloat. However, it is inferior to musl which serves the same purpose > and whi

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: dev-ada/langkit, dev-ada/libadalang{,-tools}, dev-ada/gps, dev-ada/gnatcoll-{bindings,db}

2021-01-01 Thread Thomas Mueller
> # Alfredo Tupone (2020-08-16) > # Ported to py3.8 but not yet released > # Masked to allow py2.7 removal > # Michał Górny (2021-01-01) > # Masking for removal to prevent eclass from crashing on these packages. > # Removal in 30 days. > dev-ada/langkit > dev-ada/libadalang > dev-ada/libadalang

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Discontinuing LibreSSL support?

2020-12-31 Thread Thomas Mueller
Excerpt from Michał Górny and previous post: > > Further, LibreSSL comes out of the OpenBSD project, which has a good > > reputation on code quality. > I could buy that if it actually said anything about LibreSSL code > quality. So far you're guessing that it might or might not, especially > g

[gentoo-dev] Re: Python 2.7 cleanup: plan B

2020-08-11 Thread Thomas Mueller
> Hi, everyone. > TL;DR: we might keep Python 2.7 supported as a build-time dependency > of a few packages as necessary, while removing the eclass support for > installing packages for py2.7. > As I've mentioned earlier, the plan is to get rid of Python 2.7 target > support at the beginning of 2

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo/OpenBSD current status

2020-06-04 Thread Thomas Mueller
> Benda Xu wrote: > > > I was wondering if the openbsd prefix support is something > > > that is still garnering any interest from gentoo? > > There is still interest in Gentoo. But no one seems to have energy to > > take care of it. > FWIW I have interest in this as well. > > Your contributi