Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-libs/confuse: confuse-2.7.ebuild ChangeLog

2013-03-04 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Montag, 4. März 2013, 03:19:17 schrieb Peter Stuge: Again, I guess you have to make Mike go away now. I never said that so please just stop it. You threatened to preempt me if I wanted to become a developer and found his practise OK - meaning that the behavior is unacceptable. If

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] multilib-build.eclass and restricting unsupported ABIs

2013-03-04 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Sun, 03 Mar 2013 22:39:42 +0100 Thomas Sachau to...@gentoo.org wrote: The wrapper is already in a seperate package [1], the currently active and tested version (1.0) is in bash, also there is a (currently masked) version 2.0 written by binki in C doing the same natively. So you even have a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] multilib-build.eclass and restricting unsupported ABIs

2013-03-04 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Sun, 3 Mar 2013 23:25:03 +0100 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, 3 Mar 2013 18:18:12 +0100 Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, 3 Mar 2013 17:58:26 +0100 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: What do we need that wrapper for? What does the wrapper do?

Re: [gentoo-dev] maintainer-wanted: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers

2013-03-04 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Sun, 3 Mar 2013 15:39:16 -0600 Doug Goldstein car...@gentoo.org wrote: One of the reasons people volunteer in open source projects is to scratch their personal itch. When that itch develops into a festering, gangrenous limb it becomes time to amputate it. That is what I am doing with my

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-libs/confuse: confuse-2.7.ebuild ChangeLog

2013-03-04 Thread Peter Stuge
Andreas K. Huettel wrote: Starting as a developer or aspiring to become one with that attitude is not acceptable. That doesn't make sense to me. If the reason is good, surely it does not matter who is doing the breaking? //Peter pgpvkacjjiVYz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-libs/confuse: confuse-2.7.ebuild ChangeLog

2013-03-04 Thread Alec Warner
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 5:58 AM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Andreas K. Huettel wrote: Starting as a developer or aspiring to become one with that attitude is not acceptable. That doesn't make sense to me. If the reason is good, surely it does not matter who is doing the breaking?

Re: [gentoo-dev] maintainer-wanted: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers

2013-03-04 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 10:48:07PM -0500, Rick Zero_Chaos Farina wrote I am sorry that this package has been such a headache for you, unfortunately binary drivers (especially) are often like that. Thanks for all your hard work keeping this usable. I'm not a C programmer, let alone a

Re: [gentoo-dev] maintainer-wanted: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers

2013-03-04 Thread Carlos Silva
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: I'm not a C programmer, let alone a developer, so this may be a stupid question, but here goes... has anyone ever tried doing a HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) to present a reasonably stable interface to binary video

Re: [gentoo-dev] maintainer-wanted: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers

2013-03-04 Thread Alexandre Rostovtsev
On Mon, 2013-03-04 at 11:28 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 10:48:07PM -0500, Rick Zero_Chaos Farina wrote I am sorry that this package has been such a headache for you, unfortunately binary drivers (especially) are often like that. Thanks for all your hard work keeping

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers: nvidia-drivers-313.18.ebuild ChangeLog

2013-03-04 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 03/03/13 16:42, hasufell wrote: On 03/03/2013 08:11 AM, Alec Warner wrote: There was a big ole' chat on #gentoo-dev regarding this. My understanding of the summary is that the nvidia-driver Gentoo team only supports kernels that nvidia themselves (upstream) support. The Kernels 3.4 are not

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers: nvidia-drivers-313.18.ebuild ChangeLog

2013-03-04 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 03/03/13 19:24, Ryan Hill wrote: On Sun, 03 Mar 2013 15:42:56 +0100 hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org wrote: What do we have useflags for in gentoo? Not for conditional patching, that's for sure. Yet that is exactly what IUSE=vanilla is designed for... ;-)

[gentoo-dev] Re: maintainer-wanted: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers

2013-03-04 Thread Duncan
Walter Dnes posted on Mon, 04 Mar 2013 11:28:50 -0500 as excerpted: On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 10:48:07PM -0500, Rick Zero_Chaos Farina wrote I am sorry that this package has been such a headache for you, unfortunately binary drivers (especially) are often like that. Thanks for all your hard

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] multilib-build.eclass and restricting unsupported ABIs

2013-03-04 Thread Thomas Sachau
Alexis Ballier schrieb: On Sun, 3 Mar 2013 23:25:03 +0100 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, 3 Mar 2013 18:18:12 +0100 Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, 3 Mar 2013 17:58:26 +0100 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: What do we need that wrapper for? What does

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] multilib-build.eclass and restricting unsupported ABIs

2013-03-04 Thread Michał Górny
On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 11:02:40 +0100 Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, 3 Mar 2013 23:25:03 +0100 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, 3 Mar 2013 18:18:12 +0100 Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, 3 Mar 2013 17:58:26 +0100 Michał Górny

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] multilib-build.eclass and restricting unsupported ABIs

2013-03-04 Thread Thomas Sachau
Michał Górny schrieb: On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 11:02:40 +0100 Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, 3 Mar 2013 23:25:03 +0100 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, 3 Mar 2013 18:18:12 +0100 Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, 3 Mar 2013 17:58:26 +0100 Michał

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] multilib-build.eclass and restricting unsupported ABIs

2013-03-04 Thread Michał Górny
On Mon, 04 Mar 2013 23:21:36 +0100 Thomas Sachau to...@gentoo.org wrote: Michał Górny schrieb: On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 11:02:40 +0100 Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote: you are called with ABI=sth argv[0] = your name I'm afraid that's the first potential point of failure. Relying

Re: [gentoo-dev] proxy-maintainers herd as a backup herd for all the user-maintained packages

2013-03-04 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Sun, 03 Mar 2013 19:35:24 + Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: A number of packages in the tree are maintained by a Gentoo developer and a user. As a result of which, we are unable to monitor these packages in bugzilla. This is useful in case one of the maintainers goes MIA so

Re: [gentoo-dev] maintainer-wanted: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers

2013-03-04 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 03:44:33PM -0100, Carlos Silva wrote On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: I'm not a C programmer, let alone a developer, so this may be a stupid question, but here goes... has anyone ever tried doing a HAL (Hardware Abstraction