Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: location of portage tree

2012-03-29 Thread Kent Fredric
On 29 March 2012 07:43, Aaron W. Swenson titanof...@gentoo.org wrote: So, we're all getting way off topic and discussing reorganizing the whole enchilada. How about we all agree or disagree on the primary point: The Portage tree doesn't belong in /usr. +1 I believe that it does belong

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: location of portage tree

2012-03-29 Thread Kent Fredric
On 29 March 2012 08:21, Aaron W. Swenson titanof...@gentoo.org wrote: 'Support' is the keyword here. The repositories are regenerated given machinesan 'emerge --sync' and can be considered as temporary as the packages themselves are impermanent. Further, the repository isn't required to

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: location of portage tree

2012-03-29 Thread Alec Warner
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 2:26 AM, Kent Fredric kentfred...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 March 2012 08:21, Aaron W. Swenson titanof...@gentoo.org wrote: 'Support' is the keyword here. The repositories are regenerated given machinesan 'emerge --sync' and can be considered as temporary as the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Arbitrary breakage: sys-fs/cryptsetup

2012-03-29 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 03/22/2012 03:20 PM, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote: [1] For one, genkernel should bomb out if it can't comply with a command-line arg instead of just putting non-alert text up. There is already a bug open about this issue: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=409277 With that bug fixed

Re: [gentoo-dev] New License: FreeBSD License

2012-03-29 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:00:17 -0400 Richard Yao r...@cs.stonybrook.edu wrote: You are right. I spoke to ulm about this and the disclaimer can be considered separate from the license. Gentoo/FreeBSD will need to switch to BSD-2, but aside from that, there is no need for a new license. grep

Re: [gentoo-dev] Arbitrary breakage: sys-fs/cryptsetup

2012-03-29 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 03/29/2012 12:58 PM, Sebastian Pipping wrote: On 03/22/2012 03:20 PM, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote: [1] For one, genkernel should bomb out if it can't comply with a command-line arg instead of just putting non-alert text up. There is already a bug open about this issue:

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Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: location of portage tree

2012-03-29 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2012.03.28 08:46, Alex Alexander wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 02:05:54PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote: All, I know this has come up before, but I don't really recall what the specific objections were. IMO the portage directory doesn't belong under /usr at all. [snip] William

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: location of portage tree

2012-03-29 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2012.03.28 20:04, Rich Freeman wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Christoph Mende ange...@gentoo.org wrote: I believe it's /var/lib/name. Here's what FHS says: /var/cache is intended for cached data from applications. Such data is locally generated as a result of time-consuming

Re: [gentoo-dev] automated bug filing (i.e. pybugz) failing because of missing token

2012-03-29 Thread Alec Warner
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:03 PM, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 05:19:10PM +0200, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: On 3/26/12 7:20 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. phajdan...@gentoo.org wrote: I posted this issue here

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: location of portage tree

2012-03-29 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:26:22PM +1300, Kent Fredric wrote Though of course, if anybody has custom stuff in say, /usr/portage/local/ which they make by hand, nuking /usr/portage will make you *Very* unpopular. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#book_part3_chap5