Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-09-11 Thread Pacho Ramos
El mié, 11-09-2013 a las 11:41 +0200, Olav Vitters escribió: [...] > > * We maintain networkmanager and bluetooth support optional, and this > > has been the case since 3.2 iirc even though upstream flat out refuses > > to merge our perfectly fine patches > > Feel free to cc release-t...@gnome.or

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-09-11 Thread Olav Vitters
[ Apologies for replying so late I am not intending to startup the discussion regarding systemd ] On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 09:36:47AM +0200, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote: > For the record we did and still do support setups that upstream does not > care about. > * In the past, we had policykit/po

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-11 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 09:40:00PM +0100, Mike Auty wrote > So there's lots of people that don't want systemd. Can't we group > together and have some kind of an affect on upstream? The answer is... probably not, given the "My way or the Highway" attitude of the GNOME developers. GNOME users

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-11 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 04:19:26PM -0700, Greg KH wrote > On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 09:40:00PM +0100, Mike Auty wrote: > > On 08/08/13 11:38, Samuli Suominen wrote: > > > i'm not volunteering but I never really got why our GNOME > > > maintainers insisted on staying with it instead of going with the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-11 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 3:51 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > I've been considering packaging systemd in sys-fs/udev with USE="systemd" > and use of 'if' and 'else' plus creating virtual/systemd for proper / > installation and some other minor, but bad design choices done in the > systemd packaging W

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-11 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 2:31 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > El dom, 11-08-2013 a las 08:41 +0300, Samuli Suominen escribió: >> On 09/08/13 12:51, Pacho Ramos wrote: >> > El vie, 09-08-2013 a las 11:26 +0200, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn >> > escribió: >> >> Pacho Ramos schrieb: >> If OpenBSD can do

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-11 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 11/08/13 10:31, Pacho Ramos wrote: El dom, 11-08-2013 a las 08:41 +0300, Samuli Suominen escribió: On 09/08/13 12:51, Pacho Ramos wrote: El vie, 09-08-2013 a las 11:26 +0200, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn escribió: Pacho Ramos schrieb: If OpenBSD can do it, then Gentoo can do it, too. So wo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-11 Thread Pacho Ramos
El dom, 11-08-2013 a las 08:41 +0300, Samuli Suominen escribió: > On 09/08/13 12:51, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > El vie, 09-08-2013 a las 11:26 +0200, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn > > escribió: > >> Pacho Ramos schrieb: > If OpenBSD can do it, then Gentoo can do it, too. So would you accept >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 09/08/13 12:51, Pacho Ramos wrote: El vie, 09-08-2013 a las 11:26 +0200, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn escribió: Pacho Ramos schrieb: If OpenBSD can do it, then Gentoo can do it, too. So would you accept ebuild patches that make it possible to install Gnome 3.8 without systemd again? Only mak

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Mike Auty wrote: > Just because companies pour money into something does not mean they > know what they're doing, or that they've done their market research > into what their users want. I've tried several of the forks, and > sadly Gnome, because of the backing it

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Mike Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/08/13 00:45, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > They thought deeply about the changes that are being made to the > desktop, and they discussed it and reached a consensus about what > the direction of the project is; you can usually read about in the >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Tom Wijsman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 00:10:29 +0100 Mike Auty wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 10/08/13 23:42, Wulf C. Krueger wrote: > > On 09.08.2013 02:26, Mike Auty wrote: > >> I could be a KDE developer, or a Gentoo documenter, or

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Mike Auty wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 10/08/13 23:42, Wulf C. Krueger wrote: >> On 09.08.2013 02:26, Mike Auty wrote: >>> I could be a KDE developer, or a Gentoo documenter, or work on >>> mplayer. All those people are open sour

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Mike Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/08/13 23:42, Wulf C. Krueger wrote: > On 09.08.2013 02:26, Mike Auty wrote: >> I could be a KDE developer, or a Gentoo documenter, or work on >> mplayer. All those people are open source contributors and >> necessary ones, but that doesn't mea

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Wulf C. Krueger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09.08.2013 02:26, Mike Auty wrote: > I could be a KDE developer, or a Gentoo documenter, or work on > mplayer. All those people are open source contributors and > necessary ones, but that doesn't mean that any of them necessarily > has the skills

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread viv...@gmail.com
On 08/09/13 15:54, Michał Górny wrote: > Dnia 2013-08-09, o godz. 14:14:12 > "viv...@gmail.com" napisał(a): >> On 08/09/13 13:38, Pacho Ramos wrote: >>> El vie, 09-08-2013 a las 19:39 +0800, Patrick Lauer escribió: On 08/09/2013 07:26 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 19:31:22

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2013.08.07 13:45, Michael Weber wrote: > Greetings, > > Gnome Herd decided to target stablilization of 3.8 [1] which requires > systemd. > [snip] > >Michael > > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478252 > -- > Michael Weber > Gentoo Developer > web: https://xmw.de/ > mailto: Mi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread William Hubbs
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 01:51:13PM +0200, Michael Weber wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 08/10/2013 01:42 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 19:04:09 +0800 Patrick Lauer > > wrote: > > > >> Using llvm doesn't imply removing gcc ... > > > > Using syst

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Ben Kohler
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 6:59 AM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > > > Support for it is given all over the place; like for instance in #gentoo > and #gentoo-desktop on the FreeNode IRC network, on the Gentoo Forums, > on the gentoo-user ML as well as for bugs on the Bugzilla bug tracker. > > The people sayin

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 18:55:03 +0800 Patrick Lauer wrote: > Lots of users ran into troubles, and like in the current situation > they were unable to get support as they ran an actively unsupported > configuration. Support for it is given all over the place; like for instance in #gentoo and #gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 19:03:10 +0800 Patrick Lauer wrote: > On 08/09/2013 10:59 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > > On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 17:22:38 +0300 > > Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > > > >> There was no decision to support Gentoo using any other layout than > >> openrc (baselayout). > > > > Was there the decisi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Michael Weber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/10/2013 01:42 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 19:04:09 +0800 Patrick Lauer > wrote: > >> Using llvm doesn't imply removing gcc ... > > Using systemd doesn't imply removing openrc ... > Running systemd as PID=1 does imply not ru

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 19:04:09 +0800 Patrick Lauer wrote: > Using llvm doesn't imply removing gcc ... Using systemd doesn't imply removing openrc ... -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : tom...@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C16

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 14:12:42 +0300 Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Rich Freeman > wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Patrick Lauer > > wrote: > >> not must, but if I choose to run the official supported > >> configuration, well, then telling me to go to an unsupp

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 18:50:49 +0800 Patrick Lauer wrote: > On 08/09/2013 07:37 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 19:31:22 +0800 > > Patrick Lauer wrote: > >> Somehow I get really confused by this selective perception (anyone > >> remembering the KDE overlay getting paludised and t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote: >> not must, but if I choose to run the official supported configuration, >> well, then telling me to go to an unsupported state is quite confusing >> and sends the wrong signal. >> > > Th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 6:55 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote: > Lots of users ran into troubles, and like in the current situation they > were unable to get support as they ran an actively unsupported > configuration. Since when was installing half the packages on your system a supported configuration (w

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 08/09/2013 10:59 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 17:22:38 +0300 > Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > >> There was no decision to support Gentoo using any other layout than >> openrc (baselayout). > > Was there the decision to only support a single layout on Gentoo? Where? > You kids don't re

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote: > not must, but if I choose to run the official supported configuration, > well, then telling me to go to an unsupported state is quite confusing > and sends the wrong signal. > There is no one official supported configuration of Gentoo. Nobo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 08/09/2013 11:12 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 17:50:24 +0300 > Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > >> So users will have gnome working but not any other component? How can >> this a good service for users? > > Just like we can't ensure that everything builds with LLVM doesn't mean > we shou

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 08/09/2013 08:28 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 7:31 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote: >> You just removed the upgrade path for users. >> > > Just install systemd. There really isn't any practical alternative. > Gentoo with systemd is as Gentooish a configuration as Gentoo with > Ope

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 08/09/2013 07:45 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 19:39:08 +0800 > Patrick Lauer wrote: > >> On 08/09/2013 07:26 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: >>> On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 19:31:22 +0800 >>> Patrick Lauer wrote: >>> You just removed the upgrade path for users. >>> >>> The upgrade path is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-10 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 08/09/2013 07:37 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 19:31:22 +0800 > Patrick Lauer wrote: >> Somehow I get really confused by this selective perception (anyone >> remembering the KDE overlay getting paludised and the fallout from >> that?) > > That's a very selective perception t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 10/08/13 07:03, Walter Dnes wrote: On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 08:27:23AM +0800, Patrick Lauer wrote What makes this situation so difficult is that it's not a single random package, but one of the bigger desktop environments that has painted itself into a corner. (Plus an uncooperative upstream,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 08:27:23AM +0800, Patrick Lauer wrote > What makes this situation so difficult is that it's not a single > random package, but one of the bigger desktop environments that > has painted itself into a corner. (Plus an uncooperative upstream, > so all the "blame" gets thrown a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Tom Wijsman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 00:32:08 +0100 Mike Auty wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 09/08/13 21:32, Tom Wijsman wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 03:11:55 +0800 Ben de Groot > > wrote: > > > >> On 9 August 2013 21:57, Michał

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Mike Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/08/13 21:32, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 03:11:55 +0800 Ben de Groot > wrote: > >> On 9 August 2013 21:57, Michał Górny wrote: >>> This one is *so special* just because we have a few folks >>> which really have nothing useful to d

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Mike Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/08/13 10:35, Tom Wijsman wrote: > Listening comes at a price; you can't listen to everyone at the > same time, all you will hear is noise because all the voices clash. > So, you've got to listen to a selective bit of users and satisfy > them; a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 09/08/13 19:17, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 7:14 AM, viv...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/09/13 13:38, Pacho Ramos wrote: El vie, 09-08-2013 a las 19:39 +0800, Patrick Lauer escribió: On 08/09/2013 07:26 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 19:31:22 +0800 Patrick Laue

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 03:11:55 +0800 Ben de Groot wrote: > On 9 August 2013 21:57, Michał Górny wrote: > > Dnia 2013-08-09, o godz. 13:45:25 > > Tom Wijsman napisał(a): > > > >> Your upgrade path is no longer an upgrade; the other ones are, and > >> as said before, running Gentoo has no implicati

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Matt Turner
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Ben de Groot wrote: > It doesn't help to keep so aggressively pushing it. Neither does so aggressively pushing against it.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2013-08-10, o godz. 03:11:55 Ben de Groot napisał(a): > On 9 August 2013 21:57, Michał Górny wrote: > > Dnia 2013-08-09, o godz. 13:45:25 > > Tom Wijsman napisał(a): > > > >> On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 19:39:08 +0800 > >> Patrick Lauer wrote: > >> > >> > On 08/09/2013 07:26 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Ben de Groot
On 9 August 2013 21:57, Michał Górny wrote: > Dnia 2013-08-09, o godz. 13:45:25 > Tom Wijsman napisał(a): > >> On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 19:39:08 +0800 >> Patrick Lauer wrote: >> >> > On 08/09/2013 07:26 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: >> > > On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 19:31:22 +0800 >> > > Patrick Lauer wrote: >> >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread William Hubbs
On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 05:22:38PM +0300, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 7:31 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote: > >> You just removed the upgrade path for users. > >> > > > > Just install systemd. There really isn't any practical alter

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 09/08/13 16:49, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 09/08/13 15:36, hasufell wrote: On 08/09/2013 12:27 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 5:30 AM, hasufell wrote: On 08/09/2013 09:36 AM, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote: It is not a regression if a new version of gnome mrequires systemd and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn > wrote: >> Alon Bar-Lev schrieb: >>> On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 7:31 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote: > You just removed the upgra

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > Dnia 2013-08-09, o godz. 14:14:12 > "viv...@gmail.com" napisał(a): > >> On 08/09/13 13:38, Pacho Ramos wrote: >> > El vie, 09-08-2013 a las 19:39 +0800, Patrick Lauer escribió: >> >> On 08/09/2013 07:26 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 09

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 09/08/13 17:40, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 09/08/13 15:36, hasufell wrote: On 08/09/2013 12:27 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 5:30 AM, hasufell wrote: On 08/09/2013 09:36 AM, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote: It is not a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 7:14 AM, viv...@gmail.com wrote: > On 08/09/13 13:38, Pacho Ramos wrote: >> El vie, 09-08-2013 a las 19:39 +0800, Patrick Lauer escribió: >>> On 08/09/2013 07:26 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 19:31:22 +0800 Patrick Lauer wrote: > You just rem

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 17:25:10 +0200 hasufell wrote: > No, that is definitely not how stabilization works and I was told > something different during my recruitment process. > > * _stable_ (as in... it works on different setups... this is already > not true for gnome) Current documentation and eb

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 10:57:49 -0400 "Walter Dnes" wrote: > On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 11:16:37AM +0200, Tom Wijsman wrote > > > > Though, an init system standard might be the most promising > > approach. > > Ahemmm http://xkcd.com/927/ Are there existing init system standards then? Isn't this th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 17:40:28 +0300 Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > At least we know what ssuominen thinks... some prople are trying to > hijack the Gentoo project at the excuse of Gnome to switch into > specific vendor solution, and be on its mercies from now on. This was > the exact plan of whoever put all

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread hasufell
On 08/09/2013 04:57 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: > Alon Bar-Lev schrieb: >>> I think there may be a misunderstanding here. He only said that if you >>> want to run Gnome 3.8, then switch to systemd. Because the Gnome team >>> will not support any other configuration. >>> >>> He did not s

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 17:50:24 +0300 Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > So users will have gnome working but not any other component? How can > this a good service for users? Just like we can't ensure that everything builds with LLVM doesn't mean we shouldn't support packages that only build with GCC, neither

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: > Alon Bar-Lev schrieb: >>> I think there may be a misunderstanding here. He only said that if you >>> want to run Gnome 3.8, then switch to systemd. Because the Gnome team >>> will not support any other configuration. >>> >>> He

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 17:22:38 +0300 Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > There was no decision to support Gentoo using any other layout than > openrc (baselayout). Was there the decision to only support a single layout on Gentoo? Where? > There is *HUGE* difference between optional components and core > compone

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Alon Bar-Lev schrieb: >> I think there may be a misunderstanding here. He only said that if you >> want to run Gnome 3.8, then switch to systemd. Because the Gnome team >> will not support any other configuration. >> >> He did not say that everyone should install systemd, nor that you need >> to su

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 11:16:37AM +0200, Tom Wijsman wrote > Though, an init system standard might be the most promising approach. Ahemmm http://xkcd.com/927/ -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Arun Raghavan
On 9 August 2013 20:20, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn > wrote: >> Alon Bar-Lev schrieb: >>> On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 7:31 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote: > You just removed the upgrade path

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: > Alon Bar-Lev schrieb: >> On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >>> On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 7:31 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote: You just removed the upgrade path for users. >>> Just install systemd. There real

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Alon Bar-Lev schrieb: > On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 7:31 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote: >>> You just removed the upgrade path for users. >>> >> Just install systemd. There really isn't any practical alternative. >> Gentoo with systemd is as Gentooish a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 09/08/13 15:36, hasufell wrote: >> >> On 08/09/2013 12:27 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 5:30 AM, hasufell wrote: On 08/09/2013 09:36 AM, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote: > > It is not a regression i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 7:31 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote: >> You just removed the upgrade path for users. >> > > Just install systemd. There really isn't any practical alternative. > Gentoo with systemd is as Gentooish a configuration as Gentoo wi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2013-08-09, o godz. 13:45:25 Tom Wijsman napisał(a): > On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 19:39:08 +0800 > Patrick Lauer wrote: > > > On 08/09/2013 07:26 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > > > On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 19:31:22 +0800 > > > Patrick Lauer wrote: > > > > > >> You just removed the upgrade path for users.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2013-08-09, o godz. 14:14:12 "viv...@gmail.com" napisał(a): > On 08/09/13 13:38, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > El vie, 09-08-2013 a las 19:39 +0800, Patrick Lauer escribió: > >> On 08/09/2013 07:26 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > >>> On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 19:31:22 +0800 > >>> Patrick Lauer wrote: > >>> > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 09/08/13 15:36, hasufell wrote: On 08/09/2013 12:27 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 5:30 AM, hasufell wrote: On 08/09/2013 09:36 AM, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote: It is not a regression if a new version of gnome mrequires systemd and does not work with OpenRc; it is a design

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 09/08/13 14:31, Patrick Lauer wrote: On 08/09/2013 06:27 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 5:30 AM, hasufell wrote: On 08/09/2013 09:36 AM, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote: It is not a regression if a new version of gnome mrequires systemd and does not work with OpenRc; it is a de

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 14:36:05 +0200 hasufell wrote: > On 08/09/2013 12:27 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > > How does not supporting OpenRC matter for Gentoo? > > The question puzzles me. For one it is > * an implementation of virtual/service-manager which is in @system But systemd is an implementat

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 11:40:58AM -0400, Ian Stakenvicius wrote > It may be pertinent for this reason (a "smoother" upgrade path) and > this reason alone, to stabilize gnome-3.6 first -- just to get into > gnome3 (and get gnome-2 removed) without having to also deal with the > systemd migration a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread hasufell
On 08/09/2013 12:27 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 5:30 AM, hasufell wrote: >> On 08/09/2013 09:36 AM, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote: >>> It is not a regression if a new version of gnome mrequires systemd >>> and does not work with OpenRc; it is a design choice. >> >> We are not ju

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 7:31 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote: > You just removed the upgrade path for users. > Just install systemd. There really isn't any practical alternative. Gentoo with systemd is as Gentooish a configuration as Gentoo with OpenRC, or Gentoo with libav, or Gentoo with emacs. > > So

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread viv...@gmail.com
On 08/09/13 13:38, Pacho Ramos wrote: > El vie, 09-08-2013 a las 19:39 +0800, Patrick Lauer escribió: >> On 08/09/2013 07:26 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: >>> On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 19:31:22 +0800 >>> Patrick Lauer wrote: >>> You just removed the upgrade path for users. >>> The upgrade path is to insta

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 12:37:26 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 19:31:22 +0800 > Patrick Lauer wrote: > > Somehow I get really confused by this selective perception (anyone > > remembering the KDE overlay getting paludised and the fallout from > > that?) > > That's a very selecti

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 19:39:08 +0800 Patrick Lauer wrote: > On 08/09/2013 07:26 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > > On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 19:31:22 +0800 > > Patrick Lauer wrote: > > > >> You just removed the upgrade path for users. > > > > The upgrade path is to install systemd or to implement openrc > > s

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Pacho Ramos
El vie, 09-08-2013 a las 19:39 +0800, Patrick Lauer escribió: > On 08/09/2013 07:26 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > > On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 19:31:22 +0800 > > Patrick Lauer wrote: > > > >> You just removed the upgrade path for users. > > > > The upgrade path is to install systemd or to implement openrc s

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 19:31:22 +0800 Patrick Lauer wrote: > Somehow I get really confused by this selective perception (anyone > remembering the KDE overlay getting paludised and the fallout from > that?) That's a very selective perception there. If you mean the fully documented kdebuild-1 EAPI, wh

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 08/09/2013 07:26 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 19:31:22 +0800 > Patrick Lauer wrote: > >> You just removed the upgrade path for users. > > The upgrade path is to install systemd or to implement openrc support. > Invalid upgrade path. "The upgrade path is to install Fedora" is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 19:31:22 +0800 Patrick Lauer wrote: > You just removed the upgrade path for users. The upgrade path is to install systemd or to implement openrc support. -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : tom...@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 08/09/2013 06:27 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 5:30 AM, hasufell wrote: >> On 08/09/2013 09:36 AM, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote: >>> It is not a regression if a new version of gnome mrequires systemd >>> and does not work with OpenRc; it is a design choice. >> >> We are not ju

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 11:30:17 +0200 hasufell wrote: > On 08/09/2013 09:36 AM, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote: > > It is not a regression if a new version of gnome mrequires systemd > > and does not work with OpenRc; it is a design choice. > > I could claim the "design choice" thing for anything as w

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Pacho Ramos
El vie, 09-08-2013 a las 12:22 +0200, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn escribió: [...] > Ok so we have these options: > > 1. keep systemd as hard dependency (current) > 2. IUSE="+systemd" or "openrc-force" with ewarn when set to unsupported state > 3. #2 + systemd in package.use.force, can be unforced

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 5:30 AM, hasufell wrote: > On 08/09/2013 09:36 AM, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote: >> It is not a regression if a new version of gnome mrequires systemd >> and does not work with OpenRc; it is a design choice. > > We are not just talking about random ebuild features here that h

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Pacho Ramos schrieb: > This makes me think what is the problem with people moving to systemd as > udev provider (even running openrc) :/ You can't use eudev in that case. > 2. About the other one: probably somebody adding systemd to > package.provide *on purpose* will remember to know that he ne

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Pacho Ramos
El vie, 09-08-2013 a las 11:26 +0200, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn escribió: > Pacho Ramos schrieb: > >> If OpenBSD can do it, then Gentoo can do it, too. So would you accept > >> ebuild > >> patches that make it possible to install Gnome 3.8 without systemd again? > >> Only make it possible, not

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Tom Wijsman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 01:26:08 +0100 Mike Auty wrote: > I would like to think that open source developers working on such a > large and integral project might listen to their users. Listening comes at a price; you can't listen to everyone at the same

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread hasufell
On 08/09/2013 09:36 AM, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote: > It is not a regression if a new version of gnome mrequires systemd > and does not work with OpenRc; it is a design choice. I could claim the "design choice" thing for anything as well. Actually blender upstream does that for the brokenness of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Pacho Ramos schrieb: >> If OpenBSD can do it, then Gentoo can do it, too. So would you accept ebuild >> patches that make it possible to install Gnome 3.8 without systemd again? >> Only make it possible, not turn it into a configuration which the Gnome team >> supports. > > We have discussed this

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 08:27:23 +0800 Patrick Lauer wrote: > [snip] > >> So would you stabilize a package that works with paludis, but not > >> with portage? Ouch. It should probably not be in the tree in the > >> first place, but I that's not what I have in mind here. > > > > This isn't a good exa

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-09 Thread Gilles Dartiguelongue
Le jeudi 08 août 2013 à 21:03 -0500, William Hubbs a écrit : > The decision to depend on systemd for part of its functionality is with > gnome upstream, not the gnome team of Gentoo. > > Pacho wrote a good summary of what is going on. I can see why OpenBSD > would provide the missing functionality

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Pacho Ramos
El vie, 09-08-2013 a las 08:29 +0300, Samuli Suominen escribió: > On 09/08/13 03:25, Michael Weber wrote: > > Citing from Pachos blog, > > > > "[...] we are now forcing people to *run* systemd to be able to properly > > run Gnome 3.8, otherwise power management and multiseat support are > > lost, [

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Pacho Ramos
El vie, 09-08-2013 a las 02:25 +0200, Michael Weber escribió: > Citing from Pachos blog, > > "[...] we are now forcing people to *run* systemd to be able to properly > run Gnome 3.8, otherwise power management and multiseat support are > lost, [...]" [1]. > Pacho, would you accept patches and USE

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Pacho Ramos
El vie, 09-08-2013 a las 02:26 +0200, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn escribió: > Pacho Ramos schrieb: > > - openBSD is simply supplying the "semibroken" Gnome stuff running with > > their setup (without multiseat working, neither power management, gdm > > service handling, and any new issues that cou

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 09/08/13 03:25, Michael Weber wrote: Citing from Pachos blog, "[...] we are now forcing people to *run* systemd to be able to properly run Gnome 3.8, otherwise power management and multiseat support are lost, [...]" [1]. Pacho, would you accept patches and USE flags to make gdm an optional c

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 8:27 PM, Patrick Lauer wrote: >>> On 08/08/2013 05:26 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> It's not a regression; actually, it's quite common to drop features >> that can no longer be supported. I don't see us blocking stabilization >> for other cases in the Portage tree where a featu

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread William Hubbs
The decision to depend on systemd for part of its functionality is with gnome upstream, not the gnome team of Gentoo. Pacho wrote a good summary of what is going on. I can see why OpenBSD would provide the missing functionality of systemd for gnome (systemd does not, and will not, exist on the *BS

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Pacho Ramos schrieb: > - openBSD is simply supplying the "semibroken" Gnome stuff running with > their setup (without multiseat working, neither power management, gdm > service handling, and any new issues that could rise from logind not > being running) If OpenBSD can do it, then Gentoo can do it

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Mike Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/08/13 00:19, Greg KH wrote: > Become upstream developers and create fixes to remove the > dependancy either by working on openrc features to emulate the same > things that systemd has that GNOME requires, or split things out of > GNOME so that it

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Michael Weber
Citing from Pachos blog, "[...] we are now forcing people to *run* systemd to be able to properly run Gnome 3.8, otherwise power management and multiseat support are lost, [...]" [1]. Pacho, would you accept patches and USE flags to make gdm an optional component to gnome virtual? Power managemen

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Patrick Lauer
[snip] >> On 08/08/2013 05:26 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >>> OpenRC is just one init system that Gentoo supports. Gentoo does >>> not require the use of OpenRC any more than it requires the use of >>> portage as the package manager. >> >> So would you stabilize a package that works with paludis, but

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-08 Thread Mike Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/08/13 22:06, Pacho Ramos wrote: > Anyway, are you sure openRC is better than systemd for desktop > systems (for deserving the effort to keep maintaining consolekit, > that is currently orphan, cgroups stuff and any other things I am > probably fo

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