Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Update bitcoin eclass to default to knots

2017-03-11 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 3/11/17 3:13 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: > > All lines containing +knots should say knots instead. > Done. I'm getting increasingly unsatisfied with where bitcoins* is going. I think I'd like to take full ownership of it and remove all unnecessary patches. If there's anyone that wants to co-ma

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Update bitcoin eclass to default to knots

2017-03-11 Thread Peter Stuge
Anthony G. Basile wrote: > >> I proxy maintain bitcoins for luke-jr. He wants to propose a patch > >> against the bitcoin eclass. The following is his proposed change. > >> I'll commit it after review. > > > > Please do not do that, Anthony. > > I don't have time nor the familiarity to properly

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Update bitcoin eclass to default to knots

2017-03-08 Thread Mathy Vanvoorden
> I don't have time nor the familiarity to properly maintain bitcoins > myself. Every time Luke wants to make a change, I get nothing but > negative advice - what not to do, but not what to do. If there were an > unpopular package I would just drop it to maintainer-needed. But do we > really wan

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Update bitcoin eclass to default to knots

2017-03-08 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 3/7/17 12:18 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: > Anthony G. Basile wrote: >> I proxy maintain bitcoins for luke-jr. He wants to propose a patch >> against the bitcoin eclass. The following is his proposed change. >> I'll commit it after review. > > Please do not do that, Anthony. > I don't have time n

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Update bitcoin eclass to default to knots

2017-03-07 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 1:34 PM, Matthias Maier wrote: > >> The kernel doesn't give you a choice of multiple independent patch >> sets. We have just a few options that bundle many patches. You can't >> selectively turn them on and off. >> >> I'm not asking whether patching bitcoin is good or bad.

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Update bitcoin eclass to default to knots

2017-03-07 Thread Matthias Maier
> The kernel doesn't give you a choice of multiple independent patch > sets. We have just a few options that bundle many patches. You can't > selectively turn them on and off. > > I'm not asking whether patching bitcoin is good or bad. > > I'm pointing out that if you want to do the same thing w

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Update bitcoin eclass to default to knots

2017-03-07 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 12:56 PM, Matthias Maier wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 7, 2017, at 10:52 CST, Rich Freeman wrote: > >>> As a Bitcoin user I personally don't feel too happy with my experience >>> changing without me changing USE-flags. I'm not against changing the name of >>> the USE-flag, just a

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Update bitcoin eclass to default to knots

2017-03-07 Thread Matthias Maier
On Tue, Mar 7, 2017, at 10:52 CST, Rich Freeman wrote: >> As a Bitcoin user I personally don't feel too happy with my experience >> changing without me changing USE-flags. I'm not against changing the name of >> the USE-flag, just against changing the default behavior and applying a >> bunch of

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Update bitcoin eclass to default to knots

2017-03-07 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 2:10 PM, Mathy Vanvoorden wrote: > > 2017-03-06 15:53 GMT+01:00 Anthony G. Basile : >> >> Bitcoin Knots includes a number of enhancements users may find useful. I >> think it would be a good idea to make it the default for Bitcoin >> ebuilds (net-p2p/bitcoin-qt, net-p2p/bit

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Update bitcoin eclass to default to knots

2017-03-07 Thread Peter Stuge
Anthony G. Basile wrote: > I proxy maintain bitcoins for luke-jr. He wants to propose a patch > against the bitcoin eclass. The following is his proposed change. > I'll commit it after review. Please do not do that, Anthony. > Bitcoin Knots includes a number of enhancements users may find usef

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Update bitcoin eclass to default to knots

2017-03-06 Thread Mathy Vanvoorden
2017-03-06 15:53 GMT+01:00 Anthony G. Basile : > Bitcoin Knots includes a number of enhancements users may find useful. I > think it would be a good idea to make it the default for Bitcoin > ebuilds (net-p2p/bitcoin-qt, net-p2p/bitcoind, and dev-util/bitcoin-tx). > As a Bitcoin user I personally

[gentoo-dev] RFC: Update bitcoin eclass to default to knots

2017-03-06 Thread Anthony G. Basile
Hi everyone, I proxy maintain bitcoins for luke-jr. He wants to propose a patch against the bitcoin eclass. The following is his proposed change. I'll commit it after review. --Tony Bitcoin Knots includes a number of enhancements users may find useful. I think it would be a good idea to mak