Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: an eclass to handle optional runtime depends

2011-08-03 Thread Zac Medico
On 08/02/2011 11:29 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 20:18:17 +0200 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: I think I prefer the second option (copying from Exherbo). A better integration with the package manager than USE flags should result in a better user experience. Are you

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Changing portage's unpack behavior for non-tar files compressed with gz|Z|z|bz2|bz|lzma|xz extensions

2011-08-03 Thread Zac Medico
On 07/30/2011 01:42 PM, Zac Medico wrote: Hi everyone, We've found that portage's unpack behavior is inconsistent for non-tar files compressed with gz|Z|z|bz2|bz|lzma|xz extensions [1]. Currently, it emulates tools like gunzip and bunzip2, unpacking them to the directory of the source file.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: POSIX capability in Gentoo

2011-08-03 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 17:29:29 -0700 Brian Harring ferri...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 06:39:18PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:36:12 -0400 Jonathan Callen a...@gentoo.org wrote: That statement needs one more qualification: and doesn't use portage.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Delivery reports about your e-mail

2011-08-03 Thread Michał Górny
On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 07:27:23 +0200 Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike) klond...@gentoo.org wrote: El 03/08/11 06:57, Robin H. Johnson escribió: On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 04:13:19AM +0200, Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike) wrote: Come on they can't be serious... this won't work

Re: [gentoo-dev] Delivery reports about your e-mail

2011-08-03 Thread Alec Warner
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 7:43 AM, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 07:27:23 +0200 Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike) klond...@gentoo.org wrote: El 03/08/11 06:57, Robin H. Johnson escribió: On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 04:13:19AM +0200, Francisco Blas Izquierdo

[gentoo-dev] unison needs some love

2011-08-03 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Hello! Version in Gentoo: 2.32.52 Version upstream: 2.40.63 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353282 The bug is old enough to justify a takeover to me, provided you act with resonable care. Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-dev] unison needs some love

2011-08-03 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 19:20:18 +0200 Sebastian Pipping sp...@gentoo.org wrote: Hello! Version in Gentoo: 2.32.52 Version upstream: 2.40.63 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353282 The bug is old enough to justify a takeover to me, provided you act with resonable care. +1 I'm

Re: [gentoo-dev] unison needs some love

2011-08-03 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 08/03/2011 07:37 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote: I'm more or less alone in the ml herd (maintainer) and I don't use unison :( While you mention the herd: how come this is herd=ml? Best, Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-dev] unison needs some love

2011-08-03 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 21:38:10 +0200 Sebastian Pipping sp...@gentoo.org wrote: On 08/03/2011 07:37 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote: I'm more or less alone in the ml herd (maintainer) and I don't use unison :( While you mention the herd: how come this is herd=ml? because it's written in ocaml

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: POSIX capability in Gentoo

2011-08-03 Thread Brian Harring
On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 12:34:21PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 17:29:29 -0700 Brian Harring ferri...@gmail.com wrote: That's not a massive change to vdb behaviour either; file collisions aren't supposed to occur, as such ownership of the file is basically guranteed

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: POSIX capability in Gentoo

2011-08-03 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 3 Aug 2011 14:26:56 -0700 Brian Harring ferri...@gmail.com wrote: Aka, ebuild's should be written to assume the files they install get wiped; there is *zero* mention of mtime, nor could any ebuild rely on it and be compliant. But as it's a FEATURE, they can't assume that at all. So

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: POSIX capability in Gentoo

2011-08-03 Thread Brian Harring
On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 10:28:51PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 3 Aug 2011 14:26:56 -0700 Brian Harring ferri...@gmail.com wrote: Aka, ebuild's should be written to assume the files they install get wiped; there is *zero* mention of mtime, nor could any ebuild rely on it and be

Re: [gentoo-dev] Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?

2011-08-03 Thread Michał Górny
On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 10:27:27 +0300 Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: Since running separate /usr without mounting it from initramfs on top of / before init is and has been broken with udev for a long time now[1][2][3] [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364235 [2]

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-libs/libots

2011-08-03 Thread Matt Turner
# Matt Turner matts...@gentoo.org) (04 Aug 2011) # libots is only used by Compaq's C compiler, which was tree # cleaned years ago. Masked for removal in 30 days. dev-libs/libots