Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-11 Thread Christopher Head
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:41:04 +0100 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: Remind me of a single good reason. Last time I heard those were mostly hacks and laziness. Here's one: ability to share disk space automatically between /usr and /home (implication: must be same filesystem; useful because

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-11 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012, Michał Górny wrote: I think it is more like people do that when they have a good reason to do so. I plan to put mine on /usr when I get the chance and know that this init crap isn't going to break my rig. It's not being awesome either. Remind me of a single good

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-11 Thread Michał Górny
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:34:34 -0600 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Michał Górny wrote: On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:40:01 -0600 Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I keep hoping that all the smart people involved in this will see the mess it is creating. I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-11 Thread Michał Górny
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:44:31 +0100 Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2012, Michał Górny wrote: I think it is more like people do that when they have a good reason to do so. I plan to put mine on /usr when I get the chance and know that this init crap isn't going to

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-11 Thread prometheanfire
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:03:50 +0100 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:44:31 +0100 Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2012, Michał Górny wrote: I think it is more like people do that when they have a good reason to do so. I plan to put

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-11 Thread Dale
Michał Górny wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:34:34 -0600 Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Michał Górny wrote: On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:40:01 -0600 Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I keep hoping that all the smart people involved in this will see the mess it is creating. I'm not the sharpest

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-11 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:31 PM, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:34:34 -0600 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I already stated the reason.  I'm going to put /usr on LVM.  That is not only a good reason, it is a GREAT reason. It is a hack.

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-11 Thread Alec Warner
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:34:34 -0600 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Michał Górny wrote: On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:40:01 -0600 Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com  wrote: I keep hoping that all the smart people involved in this

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-11 Thread Dale
Alec Warner wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Michał Górnymgo...@gentoo.org wrote: It is a hack. Your opinion is noted, but that doesn't make better or worse than other folks ideas. -A -- Best regards, Michał Górny I agree. It doesn't break things that was working either. Dale

Re: [gentoo-dev] crossdrev mingw 64 bit

2012-01-11 Thread Maciej Mrozowski
On Tuesday 10 of January 2012 03:34:06 Dmitrij K wrote: Dear developers of crossdev. Can you realize --target mingw64 (for creating windows app 64 bit) (like mingw-w64.sourceforge.net)? And can you to add choising of building compilation: dynamic OR static linking to GCC library, for LGPL

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFD: split out some functions from eutils.eclass?

2012-01-11 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Sat, 7 Jan 2012, Ulrich Mueller wrote: Some functions in eutils.eclass address very special tasks, so I wonder if they shouldn't be split out to dedicated eclasses: - CDROM functions (cdrom_get_cds, cdrom_load_next_cd). These are used by some 40 ebuilds only, most of them in games-*.

Re: [gentoo-dev] crossdrev mingw 64 bit

2012-01-11 Thread Dmitrij K
Ooh, thanks a lot!!! Maciej Mrozowski wrote: On Tuesday 10 of January 2012 03:34:06 Dmitrij K wrote: Dear developers of crossdev. Can you realize --target mingw64 (for creating windows app 64 bit) (like mingw-w64.sourceforge.net)? And can you to add choising of building

[gentoo-dev] New maintainer needed: net-misc/aria2

2012-01-11 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Hello! While someone else is the official maintainer of net-misc/aria2, I have done the last 5 version bumps or so on net-misc/aria. I have gotten a little behind with it lately: 1.12.1 is the latest in tree, upstream has 1.13.0, 1.14.0 and the very fresh 1.14.1. One reason for that is that I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFD: split out some functions from eutils.eclass?

2012-01-11 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 1/11/12 11:09 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: A draft version for a new cdrom.eclass is attached. It contains the cdrom_* functions split out from eutils.eclass. Mike says that the new eclass could be maintained by the games team. Please review. I think it could be worth it to add

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFD: split out some functions from eutils.eclass?

2012-01-11 Thread Michał Górny
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:09:46 +0100 Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote: # @ECLASS: cdrom.eclass # @MAINTAINER: # ga...@gentoo.org # @BLURB: Functions for cdrom handling # @DESCRIPTION: # Acquire cd(s) for those lovely cd-based emerges. Yes, this violates # the whole 'non-interactive'

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFD: split out some functions from eutils.eclass?

2012-01-11 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Thu, 12 Jan 2012, Michał Górny wrote: Maybe the eclass should now set PROPERTIES=interactive? Good idea. for f in $@ ; do ((++cdcnt)) export CDROM_CHECK_${cdcnt}=$f done export CDROM_TOTAL_CDS=${cdcnt} export CDROM_CURRENT_CD=1 Why are you exporting all that? I don't think that