Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-16 Thread Michał Górny
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:56:52 -0700 Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 06:57:06AM +0200, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: If you have influence on UEFI secure boot spec, you could suggest that they mandate a UI which lists all boot images known to the EFI boot

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due volkmar being unable to maintain them because of lack of time

2012-06-16 Thread Pacho Ramos
The following packages are now orphan: app-emulation/playonlinux app-emulation/vboxgtk dev-libs/xmlrpc-epi dev-util/bam media-libs/pnglite media-video/miro net-misc/plowshare Feel free to get them Thanks signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due volkmar being unable to maintain them because of lack of time

2012-06-16 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 16 June 2012 03:52, Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: The following packages are now orphan: app-emulation/playonlinux app-emulation/vboxgtk dev-libs/xmlrpc-epi dev-util/bam media-libs/pnglite media-video/miro net-misc/plowshare Feel free to get them Thanks media-video/miro

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] prune_libtool_files(): go into .a removal only when .a exists.

2012-06-16 Thread Alec Warner
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: On Friday 15 June 2012 12:54:16 Michał Górny wrote: On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 11:11:44 -0400 Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 06/15/12 09:32, Michał Górny wrote: It is a little confusing when the function reports .a removal when

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due cla retirement

2012-06-16 Thread Pacho Ramos
net-misc/balance x11-themes/gentoo-artwork Feel free to get them Thanks signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-16 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 16.06.2012 01:59, schrieb Greg KH: On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 09:49:01AM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 15.06.2012 09:26, schrieb Michał Górny: On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 21:56:04 -0700 Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:15:28AM +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote: On 15 June 2012

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due cla retirement

2012-06-16 Thread Michael Weber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/16/2012 10:13 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: net-misc/balance i'll take this one - -- - -- Gentoo Dev http://xmw.de/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-16 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: I think that anybody that really cares about security should be running in custom mode anyway, and should just re-sign anything they want to run.  Custom mode lets you clear every single key in the system from the vendor on

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due wormo taking care of bug wrangling only

2012-06-16 Thread Pacho Ramos
app-admin/ulogd app-arch/pdv Feel free to get them Thanks signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild laziness and binpkg overhead

2012-06-16 Thread Gilles Dartiguelongue
Le vendredi 15 juin 2012 à 21:04 +0200, Pacho Ramos a écrit : El vie, 15-06-2012 a las 09:03 +0200, Pacho Ramos escribió: El mar, 12-06-2012 a las 23:02 -0400, Mike Frysinger escribió: i've noticed a growing trend where people put setup of variables into pkg_setup that only matter to

[gentoo-dev] spec draft for cross-compile support in future EAPI (EAPI-5)

2012-06-16 Thread Thomas Sachau
Since i am not that sure about my ability to write formal specs, i am presenting my first draft for further review and suggestions for improvement. -- Thomas Sachau Gentoo Linux Developer For amd64 users, there is sometimes the issue, that they need 32bit libs for certain packages (e.g. wine

[gentoo-dev] About what would be included in EAPI5

2012-06-16 Thread Pacho Ramos
Hello I would like to know if there is some place where things going to be included (or proposed to be included) for eapi5 are listed (if such place exists). Currently, looks like there is no eapi5 tracker :-/ Thanks a lot for the info :) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: [gentoo-dev] About what would be included in EAPI5

2012-06-16 Thread Agostino Sarubbo
On Saturday 16 June 2012 12:55:22 Pacho Ramos wrote: Hello I would like to know if there is some place where things going to be included (or proposed to be included) for eapi5 are listed (if such place exists). Currently, looks like there is no eapi5 tracker :-/ Thanks a lot for the info

Re: [gentoo-dev] About what would be included in EAPI5

2012-06-16 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 16-06-2012 a las 13:13 +0200, Agostino Sarubbo escribió: On Saturday 16 June 2012 12:55:22 Pacho Ramos wrote: Hello I would like to know if there is some place where things going to be included (or proposed to be included) for eapi5 are listed (if such place exists). Currently,

Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild laziness and binpkg overhead

2012-06-16 Thread Fabio Erculiani
Anything build-time related should not be placed into pkg_setup (I am pointing the finger to those build-related die() that are breaking binpkgs support). There's src_prepare() and src_configure() nowadays. -- Fabio Erculiani

Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild laziness and binpkg overhead

2012-06-16 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 06/16/2012 02:21 PM, Fabio Erculiani wrote: Anything build-time related should not be placed into pkg_setup (I am That is propably not very accurate statement, like with placing the call to `enewuser` when you need the user at src_configure(), src_compile() etc. pointing the finger to

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Setting F(C)FLAGS=${CFLAGS} in profiles

2012-06-16 Thread Justin
On 12.06.2012 19:55, Justin wrote: Hi, these days still FFLAGS and FCFLAGS are unset by default. Any objections to to default to CFLAGS of the profile equally to CXXFLAGS? Thanks justin Added. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild laziness and binpkg overhead

2012-06-16 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 06/16/2012 01:05 PM, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote: Le vendredi 15 juin 2012 à 21:04 +0200, Pacho Ramos a écrit : El vie, 15-06-2012 a las 09:03 +0200, Pacho Ramos escribió: El mar, 12-06-2012 a las 23:02 -0400, Mike Frysinger escribió: i've noticed a growing trend where people put setup of

Re: [gentoo-dev] About what would be included in EAPI5

2012-06-16 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Sat, 16 Jun 2012, Pacho Ramos wrote: I would like to know if there is some place where things going to be included (or proposed to be included) for eapi5 are listed (if such place exists). Currently, looks like there is no eapi5 tracker :-/ The PMS git repository has an eapi-5 development

Re: [gentoo-dev] About what would be included in EAPI5

2012-06-16 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 16-06-2012 a las 14:12 +0200, Ulrich Mueller escribió: On Sat, 16 Jun 2012, Pacho Ramos wrote: I would like to know if there is some place where things going to be included (or proposed to be included) for eapi5 are listed (if such place exists). Currently, looks like there is no

Re: [gentoo-dev] About what would be included in EAPI5

2012-06-16 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 14:26:16 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: OK, would you let me to create a tracker bug for eapi5 accepted item? No. We're working on the PMS list. We don't need yet another place to look. About suggesting new item (like forcing rebuilding of other packages as

Re: [gentoo-dev] About what would be included in EAPI5

2012-06-16 Thread Justin
On 16.06.2012 14:26, Pacho Ramos wrote: El sáb, 16-06-2012 a las 14:12 +0200, Ulrich Mueller escribió: On Sat, 16 Jun 2012, Pacho Ramos wrote: I would like to know if there is some place where things going to be included (or proposed to be included) for eapi5 are listed (if such place

Re: [gentoo-dev] About what would be included in EAPI5

2012-06-16 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 16-06-2012 a las 13:43 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh escribió: On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 14:26:16 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: OK, would you let me to create a tracker bug for eapi5 accepted item? No. We're working on the PMS list. We don't need yet another place to look. About

Re: [gentoo-dev] About what would be included in EAPI5

2012-06-16 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 15:37:44 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: About suggesting new item (like forcing rebuilding of other packages as discussed some days ago and crosscompile support suggested by Tommy today), I guess we need to get them voted by the council? No. You need

[gentoo-dev] Lastrites: net-libs/libtlen, net-im/gnugadu, net-im/tleenx2, dev-ada/gps-bin, dev-ruby/mmap, dev-python/psyco, net-analyzer/honeyd, x11-misc/service-discovery-applet, dev-util/sourcenav,

2012-06-16 Thread Pacho Ramos
# Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org (16 Jun 2012) # Bundles unsecure libexpat, all packages still needing it # are dead, orphan and have replacements. See bug #251433. # Removal in 30 days. net-libs/libtlen net-im/gnugadu net-im/tleenx2 # Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org (16 Jun 2012) # Bundles python-2.3

Re: [gentoo-dev] About what would be included in EAPI5

2012-06-16 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 16-06-2012 a las 14:48 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh escribió: On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 15:37:44 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: About suggesting new item (like forcing rebuilding of other packages as discussed some days ago and crosscompile support suggested by Tommy today), I

Re: [gentoo-dev] About what would be included in EAPI5

2012-06-16 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 16:29:09 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: I thought last Zac suggestion of ABI_SLOT modified to use SLOT=ble/bla was clear enough and we reached a consensus. Possibly. I'm waiting to see an implementation, a bunch of examples and a comparison with just using SLOT

[gentoo-dev] Lastrites: sys-kernel/cluster-sources

2012-06-16 Thread Pacho Ramos
# Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org (16 Jun 2012) # No needed since kernel-3.2, bug#411405#c6 # Removal in a month. sys-kernel/cluster-sources signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] About what would be included in EAPI5

2012-06-16 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 16-06-2012 a las 15:31 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh escribió: On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 16:29:09 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: I thought last Zac suggestion of ABI_SLOT modified to use SLOT=ble/bla was clear enough and we reached a consensus. Possibly. I'm waiting to see an

Re: [gentoo-dev] About what would be included in EAPI5

2012-06-16 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 16:48:20 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: Regarding the comparison with using only SLOT, the most clear example of how that solution was a bit worse was that glib vs dbus-glib/gobject-introspection handling: - Using only SLOT with := would end up with we needing to

Re: [gentoo-dev] About what would be included in EAPI5

2012-06-16 Thread Michał Górny
On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 16:48:20 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: El sáb, 16-06-2012 a las 15:31 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh escribió: On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 16:29:09 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: I thought last Zac suggestion of ABI_SLOT modified to use SLOT=ble/bla was clear

Re: [gentoo-dev] About what would be included in EAPI5

2012-06-16 Thread Peter Stuge
Pacho Ramos wrote: What I try to do is to replace the needing of manually rebuilding packages after updates due ABI changes Does this really require explicit ABI information in ebuilds? Could it work to make automatic signatures of imported ABI, and simply compare signatures when a provider

Re: [gentoo-dev] About what would be included in EAPI5

2012-06-16 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 17:06:07 +0200 Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Could it work to make automatic signatures of imported ABI, and simply compare signatures when a provider package is updated? No. Also, can we stop using the term ABI in reference to this please? It's misleading. Let's call

Re: [gentoo-dev] About what would be included in EAPI5

2012-06-16 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 16-06-2012 a las 15:52 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh escribió: On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 16:48:20 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: Regarding the comparison with using only SLOT, the most clear example of how that solution was a bit worse was that glib vs dbus-glib/gobject-introspection

Re: [gentoo-dev] About what would be included in EAPI5

2012-06-16 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 16-06-2012 a las 17:16 +0200, Pacho Ramos escribió: El sáb, 16-06-2012 a las 15:52 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh escribió: On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 16:48:20 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: Regarding the comparison with using only SLOT, the most clear example of how that solution

Re: [gentoo-dev] About what would be included in EAPI5

2012-06-16 Thread Peter Stuge
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Could it work to make automatic signatures of imported ABI, and simply compare signatures when a provider package is updated? No. Can you say why? Also, can we stop using the term ABI in reference to this please? It's misleading. Let's call them sub-slots

[gentoo-dev] About using USE flags to pull in needed RDEPENDs being discouraged by devmanual

2012-06-16 Thread Pacho Ramos
This was noticed recently when getting: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=420569 Also hit this problem today while trying to bump bluez and noticed we are using elog messages to tell people to manually install net-dialup/ppp if they want ppp working with bluez. I am unsure about the

Re: [gentoo-dev] About using USE flags to pull in needed RDEPENDs being discouraged by devmanual

2012-06-16 Thread hasufell
It breaks the useflag philosophy, IMO. Useflags were meant as switches. You can turn things on and off. Pulling in optional dependencies via useflags does not allow the user to turn something off when he sets USE=-foo emerge fuqbar. That should only be valid for virtuals or meta-packages. And

Re: [gentoo-dev] About what would be included in EAPI5

2012-06-16 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 17:24:22 +0200 Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Could it work to make automatic signatures of imported ABI, and simply compare signatures when a provider package is updated? No. Can you say why? There's no way for a program to work out

Re: [gentoo-dev] About what would be included in EAPI5

2012-06-16 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 17:16:34 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: El sáb, 16-06-2012 a las 15:52 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh escribió: On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 16:48:20 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: Regarding the comparison with using only SLOT, the most clear example of how that

Re: [gentoo-dev] About using USE flags to pull in needed RDEPENDs being discouraged by devmanual

2012-06-16 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 16-06-2012 a las 18:09 +0200, hasufell escribió: It breaks the useflag philosophy, IMO. Useflags were meant as switches. You can turn things on and off. Pulling in optional dependencies via useflags does not allow the user to turn something off when he sets USE=-foo emerge fuqbar.

Re: [gentoo-dev] About what would be included in EAPI5

2012-06-16 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 16-06-2012 a las 17:24 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh escribió: On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 17:16:34 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: El sáb, 16-06-2012 a las 15:52 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh escribió: On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 16:48:20 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: Regarding the

Re: [gentoo-dev] About using USE flags to pull in needed RDEPENDs being discouraged by devmanual

2012-06-16 Thread hasufell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/16/2012 06:30 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: El sáb, 16-06-2012 a las 18:09 +0200, hasufell escribió: It breaks the useflag philosophy, IMO. Useflags were meant as switches. You can turn things on and off. Pulling in optional dependencies via

Re: [gentoo-dev] About what would be included in EAPI5

2012-06-16 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 18:41:51 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: The :*/:= feature was designed to solve one specific problem: if a user has foo installed, and foo deps upon bar, and bar:1 is installed, and the user wants to install bar:2 and then uninstall bar:1, will foo break? :*

Re: [gentoo-dev] About using USE flags to pull in needed RDEPENDs being discouraged by devmanual

2012-06-16 Thread Michał Górny
On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 18:30:55 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: El sáb, 16-06-2012 a las 18:09 +0200, hasufell escribió: It breaks the useflag philosophy, IMO. Useflags were meant as switches. You can turn things on and off. Pulling in optional dependencies via useflags does not

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-16 Thread Michał Górny
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 09:54:12 +0200 Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 15.06.2012 06:50, schrieb Duncan: Greg KH posted on Thu, 14 Jun 2012 21:28:10 -0700 as excerpted: So, anyone been thinking about this? I have, and it's not pretty. Should I worry about this and how it

Re: [gentoo-dev] License groups in ebuilds

2012-06-16 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 05/10/2012 11:39 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: Are there any other licenses besides *GPL and FDL that would require such a file? What do you think? The GPL-2+ file workaround doesn't sound to bad. Call be picky, but we could actually use a GPL-3+ file, too. With that we could distinguish

Re: [gentoo-dev] About using USE flags to pull in needed RDEPENDs being discouraged by devmanual

2012-06-16 Thread Peter Stuge
Pacho Ramos wrote: Also hit this problem today while trying to bump bluez and noticed we are using elog messages to tell people to manually install net-dialup/ppp if they want ppp working with bluez. I am unsure about the disadvantages of simply using, for example, ppp USE flag to do that.

Re: [gentoo-dev] About using USE flags to pull in needed RDEPENDs being discouraged by devmanual

2012-06-16 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 06/16/2012 06:59 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: This was noticed recently when getting: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=420569 Also hit this problem today while trying to bump bluez and noticed we are using elog messages to tell people to manually install net-dialup/ppp if they want ppp

Re: [gentoo-dev] About using USE flags to pull in needed RDEPENDs being discouraged by devmanual

2012-06-16 Thread hasufell
On 06/16/2012 07:55 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: why not get this finally entirely out of the way: suggested/recommended dependencies support, like SDEPEND, http://bugs.gentoo.org/327701 as in, threat them as RDEPEND if user has the option to pull them in enabled, otherwise print an

Re: [gentoo-dev] License groups in ebuilds

2012-06-16 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Sat, 16 Jun 2012, Sebastian Pipping wrote: On 05/10/2012 11:39 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: Are there any other licenses besides *GPL and FDL that would require such a file? What do you think? The GPL-2+ file workaround doesn't sound to bad. Call be picky, but we could actually use a

Re: [gentoo-dev] About using USE flags to pull in needed RDEPENDs being discouraged by devmanual

2012-06-16 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 20:06:17 +0200 hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org wrote: On 06/16/2012 07:55 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: why not get this finally entirely out of the way: suggested/recommended dependencies support, like SDEPEND, http://bugs.gentoo.org/327701 Sounds interesting, but I

Re: [gentoo-dev] About using USE flags to pull in needed RDEPENDs being discouraged by devmanual

2012-06-16 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 16-06-2012 a las 19:07 +0200, Michał Górny escribió: On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 18:30:55 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: El sáb, 16-06-2012 a las 18:09 +0200, hasufell escribió: It breaks the useflag philosophy, IMO. Useflags were meant as switches. You can turn things

Re: [gentoo-dev] About using USE flags to pull in needed RDEPENDs being discouraged by devmanual

2012-06-16 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 16-06-2012 a las 19:50 +0200, Peter Stuge escribió: Pacho Ramos wrote: Also hit this problem today while trying to bump bluez and noticed we are using elog messages to tell people to manually install net-dialup/ppp if they want ppp working with bluez. I am unsure about the

Re: [gentoo-dev] About using USE flags to pull in needed RDEPENDs being discouraged by devmanual

2012-06-16 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 16-06-2012 a las 20:55 +0300, Samuli Suominen escribió: On 06/16/2012 06:59 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: This was noticed recently when getting: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=420569 Also hit this problem today while trying to bump bluez and noticed we are using elog messages

Re: [gentoo-dev] About what would be included in EAPI5

2012-06-16 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 16-06-2012 a las 17:46 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh escribió: On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 18:41:51 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: The :*/:= feature was designed to solve one specific problem: if a user has foo installed, and foo deps upon bar, and bar:1 is installed, and the user

Re: [gentoo-dev] About what would be included in EAPI5

2012-06-16 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 20:59:18 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: Naah. This is one of those things that requires developers to put quite a lot of exta effort in to their packages in order to improve the quality of experience for users, which means it's not going to be suitable for

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] prune_libtool_files(): go into .a removal only when .a exists.

2012-06-16 Thread Zac Medico
On 06/16/2012 01:07 AM, Alec Warner wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: On Friday 15 June 2012 12:54:16 Michał Górny wrote: On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 11:11:44 -0400 Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 06/15/12 09:32, Michał Górny wrote: It is a little confusing

Re: [gentoo-dev] About using USE flags to pull in needed RDEPENDs being discouraged by devmanual

2012-06-16 Thread Peter Stuge
Pacho Ramos wrote: I guess the point is that it is not really a dependency. No, it's a dependency only when you want ppp support working, Logically, but not technically. I like this separation; the package manager takes care of technical requirements, and I get to take care of the logical

[gentoo-dev] monthly Gentoo KDE team meeting

2012-06-16 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Howdy all, just for general information the Gentoo KDE team has its monthly public meeting again next week, to be precise, #gentoo-meetings on freenode, thursday, 21 June 2012 19:00 utc Agenda can be found here (work in progress):

Re: [gentoo-dev] About using USE flags to pull in needed RDEPENDs being discouraged by devmanual

2012-06-16 Thread Michał Górny
On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 20:49:10 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: El sáb, 16-06-2012 a las 19:07 +0200, Michał Górny escribió: On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 18:30:55 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: El sáb, 16-06-2012 a las 18:09 +0200, hasufell escribió: It breaks the useflag

[gentoo-dev] Re: spec draft for cross-compile support in future EAPI (EAPI-5)

2012-06-16 Thread Duncan
Thomas Sachau posted on Sat, 16 Jun 2012 12:31:40 +0200 as excerpted: Since i am not that sure about my ability to write formal specs, i am presenting my first draft for further review and suggestions for improvement. Just a format suggestion. Call it nitpicky if you want, and yes, my

[gentoo-dev] Re: About using USE flags to pull in needed RDEPENDs being discouraged by devmanual

2012-06-16 Thread Duncan
Pacho Ramos posted on Sat, 16 Jun 2012 18:30:55 +0200 as excerpted: 2. If user emerges ppp, it will be recorded in world file and, then, if in the future he removes bluez, emerge --depclean want clean no longer needed ppp and then, people end up with a lot of packages they needed to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due wormo taking care of bug wrangling only

2012-06-16 Thread Christian Ruppert
On 06/16/12 at 11:39AM +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote: app-admin/ulogd app-arch/pdv Feel free to get them Thanks I'll take app-admin/ulogd. -- Regards, Christian Ruppert Role: Gentoo Linux developer, Bugzilla administrator and Infrastructure member Fingerprint: EEB1 C341 7C84 B274

[gentoo-dev] Re: About using USE flags to pull in needed RDEPENDs being discouraged by devmanual

2012-06-16 Thread Duncan
Pacho Ramos posted on Sat, 16 Jun 2012 20:52:33 +0200 as excerpted: What kind of argument is disk is pretty cheap. I still administrate a laptop with a 250GB of disk space, and that space cannot be as large if you have a lot of files at home. Also, you are missing that having unneeded

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About using USE flags to pull in needed RDEPENDs being discouraged by devmanual

2012-06-16 Thread Peter Stuge
Duncan wrote: users would unmerge ppp if they knew about it when they no longer needed it, but knowing about it is the problem. Sorry, but what is the connection to a USE flag? I agree that knowing about it is the problem. I don't think that knowing about a package is different from knowing

[gentoo-dev] Re: About using USE flags to pull in needed RDEPENDs being discouraged by devmanual

2012-06-16 Thread Duncan
Peter Stuge posted on Sun, 17 Jun 2012 00:16:36 +0200 as excerpted: Duncan wrote: users would unmerge ppp if they knew about it when they no longer needed it, but knowing about it is the problem. Sorry, but what is the connection to a USE flag? I agree that knowing about it is the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-16 Thread Steev Klimaszewski
Just picking a random response to reply to. I'm not speaking officially, however, I'm pretty sure we at Genesi aren't going to pay Microsoft in order to boot our own boards.

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-16 Thread Matthew Summers
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:28 PM, Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: So, anyone been thinking about this?  I have, and it's not pretty. Should I worry about this and how it affects Gentoo, or not worry about Gentoo right now and just focus on the other issues? Minor details like, do we have a

[gentoo-dev] Re: UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-16 Thread Duncan
Matthew Summers posted on Sat, 16 Jun 2012 18:52:31 -0500 as excerpted: Pardon my ignorance, but will we be requires to sign the boot loader/kernel on our install media for a Win8 machine to boot the iso? This was one of the issues covered early on. Unless it has changed, no. Booting

Re: [gentoo-dev] About using USE flags to pull in needed RDEPENDs being discouraged by devmanual

2012-06-16 Thread hasufell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/16/2012 08:14 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Suggested dependencies were used in the old kdebuilds, and Exherbo makes extensive use of both suggested and recommended dependencies, so there are plenty of examples, spec wording and an

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About using USE flags to pull in needed RDEPENDs being discouraged by devmanual

2012-06-16 Thread Dale
Duncan wrote: Looking at the broader picture, the problem of extraneous packages in the world file has always concerned me. If it were to be done over again, and I think Zac would likely agree, emerge would use --oneshot by default, so as not to contaminate the world file unnecessarily.

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new global useflag libass

2012-06-16 Thread Ben de Groot
Committed: yngwin * gentoo-x86/profiles/ (ChangeLog use.desc): Add libass global useflag -- Cheers, Ben | yngwin Gentoo developer Gentoo Qt project lead