Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Shall econf append its arguments to end of ./configure invocation?

2013-05-01 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:52:03 -0600 Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org wrote: Then the person implementing the code for Paludis is either a monkey or a robot*. *or both (?!) I believe they prefer the term mathematician. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Shall econf append its arguments to end of ./configure invocation?

2013-05-01 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Tue, 30 Apr 2013, Ryan Hill wrote: Then the person implementing the code for Paludis is either a monkey or a robot*. Anyone capable of reasoning could puzzle out the implications of not allowing user-given options to override the defaults. Obviously you can write code that follows a spec

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GCC USE flag changes

2013-05-01 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 01/05/2013 06:29, Rick Zero_Chaos Farina wrote: I don't mean to start a flamewar here but the test suite situation is so bad with circular deps (I'm looking at you ruby herd) and random failures that I only enable tests for my own packages. Sadly it is so bad that we have a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Handling of tests (was: GCC USE flag changes)

2013-05-01 Thread Ralph Sennhauser
On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:25:40 -0600 Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org wrote: I'm also going to rename the test flag to regression-test or something similar to get it out of FEATURES=test control. The testsuite is a huge time-suck and only useful to developers IMO (always expected to fail and

Re: [gentoo-dev] GNOME migrating from GConf to GSettings; effects on Gentoo?

2013-05-01 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 12:10:33AM -0400, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote On Tue, 2013-04-30 at 23:26 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 11:17:35PM -0400, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote It impacts users who use stable keywords and are therefore stuck with GNOME-2.32. The

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GCC USE flag changes

2013-05-01 Thread Ralph Sennhauser
On Wed, 01 May 2013 01:29:05 -0400 Rick \Zero_Chaos\ Farina zeroch...@gentoo.org wrote: Sadly it is so bad that we have a FEATURES=test-fail-continue I can't really say anything negative, that fact really says it all... My beef is not with the existence of this FEATURE but that it's

[gentoo-dev] Re: RANT: Upgrade icu and KDE at once

2013-05-01 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Zac, Zac Medico wrote: On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Jörg Schaible joerg.schai...@gmx.de wrote: The most annoying fact is, that none of this would have been necessary with portage 2.2, but maybe we have to wait for 2.1.11.500 before 2.2 gets stable... Since portage-2.1.11.20 [1],

Re: [gentoo-dev] RANT: Upgrade icu and KDE at once

2013-05-01 Thread Peter Stuge
Jörg Schaible wrote: icu. The ebuild happily removes any trace of the old shared libs with the result that half of the stuff that is *required* to build kdelibs is now broken. The build aborts and leaves behind a broken system. And this happened now not for the first time! Tom Wijsman wrote:

Re: [gentoo-dev] RANT: Upgrade icu and KDE at once

2013-05-01 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 1 May 2013 11:20:37 +0200 Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Tom Wijsman wrote: Well, here we go again! Again an update of Gentoo stable where emerge tries to upgrade icu and KDE in one run (and this time additionally libreoffice). If you don't want that to happen, use

[gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to normal users

2013-05-01 Thread Fabio Erculiani
PLEASE DO NOT START A FLAME WAR AND READ ON FIRST. THIS IS NOT A POST AGAINST OPENRC. With the release of Sabayon 13.04 [1] and thanks to the efforts I put into the systemd-love overlay [2], systemd has become much more accessible and easy to migrate to/from openrc. Both are able to happily

Re: [gentoo-dev] RANT: Upgrade icu and KDE at once

2013-05-01 Thread Peter Stuge
Peter Stuge wrote: Jörg Schaible wrote: icu. The ebuild happily removes any trace of the old shared libs with the result that half of the stuff that is *required* to build kdelibs is now broken. The build aborts and leaves behind a broken system. And this happened now not for the first

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to normal users

2013-05-01 Thread Pacho Ramos
El mié, 01-05-2013 a las 12:04 +0200, Fabio Erculiani escribió: [...] - other ~490 systemd units are missing at this time and writing them could also be a great GSoC project (don't look at me, I'm busy enough). [...] Can't them be stolen from other distros running systemd? [...] The only

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to normal users

2013-05-01 Thread Fabio Erculiani
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: El mié, 01-05-2013 a las 12:04 +0200, Fabio Erculiani escribió: [...] - other ~490 systemd units are missing at this time and writing them could also be a great GSoC project (don't look at me, I'm busy enough). [...]

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to normal users

2013-05-01 Thread Pacho Ramos
El mié, 01-05-2013 a las 13:00 +0200, Fabio Erculiani escribió: [...] The only remaining problem is about eselect-sysvinit, for this reason, I am probably going to create a new separate pkg called _sysvinit-next_, that contains all the fun stuff many developers were not allowed to commit

Re: [gentoo-dev] GNOME migrating from GConf to GSettings; effects on Gentoo?

2013-05-01 Thread Alexandre Rostovtsev
On Wed, 2013-05-01 at 04:19 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: I think I just realized what this means. I run ICEWM, not GNOME. GNUMERIC and ABIWORWD and GIMP are the 3 GNOME apps that I use a lot. Do I have to emerge GNOME-BASE in it's entirety just to get GSettings working? Then I misunderstood.

[gentoo-dev] Re: Making systemd more accessible to normal users

2013-05-01 Thread Steven J. Long
On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 12:04:00PM +0200, Fabio Erculiani wrote: PLEASE DO NOT START A FLAME WAR AND READ ON FIRST. THIS IS NOT A POST AGAINST OPENRC. With the release of Sabayon 13.04 [1] and thanks to the efforts I put into the systemd-love overlay [2], systemd has become much more

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making systemd more accessible to normal users

2013-05-01 Thread Fabio Erculiani
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Steven J. Long sl...@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 12:04:00PM +0200, Fabio Erculiani wrote: PLEASE DO NOT START A FLAME WAR AND READ ON FIRST. THIS IS NOT A POST AGAINST OPENRC. With the release of Sabayon 13.04 [1] and thanks to the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to normal users

2013-05-01 Thread Matthew Thode
On 05/01/13 05:04, Fabio Erculiani wrote: PLEASE DO NOT START A FLAME WAR AND READ ON FIRST. THIS IS NOT A POST AGAINST OPENRC. With the release of Sabayon 13.04 [1] and thanks to the efforts I put into the systemd-love overlay [2], systemd has become much more accessible and easy to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to normal users

2013-05-01 Thread Fabio Erculiani
There is no tracker yet. But it may be very well materialize at some point. -- Fabio Erculiani

Re: [gentoo-dev] RANT: Upgrade icu and KDE at once

2013-05-01 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Jörg Schaible joerg.schai...@gmx.de wrote: The most annoying fact is, that none of this would have been necessary with portage 2.2, but maybe we have to wait for 2.1.11.500 before 2.2 gets

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to normal users

2013-05-01 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 6:04 AM, Fabio Erculiani lx...@gentoo.org wrote: - genkernel needs to migrate to *udev (or as I did, provide a --udev genkernel option), mdev is unable to properly activate LVM volumes and LVM is actually working by miracle with openrc. Alternatively, we should migrate

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RANT: Upgrade icu and KDE at once

2013-05-01 Thread Zac Medico
On 05/01/2013 02:07 AM, Jörg Schaible wrote: Hi Zac, Zac Medico wrote: On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Jörg Schaible joerg.schai...@gmx.de wrote: The most annoying fact is, that none of this would have been necessary with portage 2.2, but maybe we have to wait for 2.1.11.500 before 2.2

Re: [gentoo-dev] RANT: Upgrade icu and KDE at once

2013-05-01 Thread Zac Medico
On 05/01/2013 07:46 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Jörg Schaible joerg.schai...@gmx.de wrote: The most annoying fact is, that none of this would have been necessary with portage 2.2, but maybe we

Re: [gentoo-dev] RANT: Upgrade icu and KDE at once

2013-05-01 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: On 05/01/2013 07:46 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Jörg Schaible joerg.schai...@gmx.de wrote: The most annoying fact is, that

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Making systemd more accessible to normal users

2013-05-01 Thread Steven J. Long
On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 03:14:07PM +0100, Fabio Erculiani wrote: On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Steven J. Long sl...@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 12:04:00PM +0200, Fabio Erculiani wrote: PLEASE DO NOT START A FLAME WAR AND READ ON FIRST. THIS IS NOT A POST AGAINST

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Shall econf append its arguments to end of ./configure invocation?

2013-05-01 Thread David Leverton
On 1 May 2013 02:52, Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org wrote: Then the person implementing the code for Paludis is either a monkey or a robot*. *or both (?!) Alternative possibilities include ninja, zombie and wizard.

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-apache/mod_loopback, www-apache/mod_watch

2013-05-01 Thread Ulrich Mueller
# Ulrich Müller u...@gentoo.org (01 May 2013) # HOMEPAGE and SRC_URI dead, tarball not redistributable. # Last upstream release in 2004. # Masked for removal in 30 days, bug #464938. www-apache/mod_loopback # Ulrich Müller u...@gentoo.org (01 May 2013) # HOMEPAGE and SRC_URI dead, tarball not

Re: [gentoo-dev] GCC USE flag changes

2013-05-01 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 4/30/13 8:25 PM, Ryan Hill wrote: I'm also going to rename the test flag to regression-test or something similar to get it out of FEATURES=test control. The testsuite is a huge time-suck and only useful to developers IMO (always expected to fail and primarily meant to be used to check for

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to normal users

2013-05-01 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 5/1/13 3:04 AM, Fabio Erculiani wrote: It is sad to say that the territoriality in base-system (and toolchain) is not allowing any kind of progress [3] [4]. This is nothing new, by the way. [4] useless crap: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=399615 As far as I read the bug, Mike

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to normal users

2013-05-01 Thread Michał Górny
On Wed, 01 May 2013 12:52:09 -0700 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. phajdan...@gentoo.org wrote: On 5/1/13 3:04 AM, Fabio Erculiani wrote: It is sad to say that the territoriality in base-system (and toolchain) is not allowing any kind of progress [3] [4]. This is nothing new, by the way. [4]

[gentoo-dev] [PATCHES] distutils-r1: support 'edefault' in sub-phase functions

2013-05-01 Thread Michał Górny
Hi, everyone. This one goes to gentoo-dev since it's a potentially wider idea and I'd like to get other developers opinion on. As you most likely already know, distutils-r1 allows ebuilds to define sub-phase functions like: python_compile() { # commands which will be run for each impl

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/2] Introduce edefault() as a friendly default sub-phase wrapper.

2013-05-01 Thread Michał Górny
--- gx86/eclass/distutils-r1.eclass | 18 ++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) diff --git a/gx86/eclass/distutils-r1.eclass b/gx86/eclass/distutils-r1.eclass index 47b5b97..4c2e819 100644 --- a/gx86/eclass/distutils-r1.eclass +++ b/gx86/eclass/distutils-r1.eclass @@ -206,6 +206,20

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH 2/2] Example use of edefault.

2013-05-01 Thread Michał Górny
--- gx86/dev-python/setuptools/setuptools-0.6.33.ebuild | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/gx86/dev-python/setuptools/setuptools-0.6.33.ebuild b/gx86/dev-python/setuptools/setuptools-0.6.33.ebuild index 4f4f3aa..91a8d57 100644 ---

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to normal users

2013-05-01 Thread Fabio Erculiani
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 9:52 PM, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. phajdan...@gentoo.org wrote: On 5/1/13 3:04 AM, Fabio Erculiani wrote: As far as I read the bug, Mike (vapier) is doing the right thing. Distros doing lots of custom changes can only add more chaos to the picture. We are a distribution, we

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to normal users

2013-05-01 Thread Peter Stuge
Fabio, I think you're doing awesome work! Steven, I think you can behave a lot better on the internet. kthx. Steven J. Long wrote: It looks like there is some consensus on the effort of making systemd more accessible, Sure there is: there's also consensus that this approach is wrong for

Re: [gentoo-dev] GNOME migrating from GConf to GSettings; effects on Gentoo?

2013-05-01 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 09:22:56AM -0400, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote On Wed, 2013-05-01 at 04:19 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: I think I just realized what this means. I run ICEWM, not GNOME. GNUMERIC and ABIWORWD and GIMP are the 3 GNOME apps that I use a lot. Do I have to emerge GNOME-BASE

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to normal users

2013-05-01 Thread Matt Turner
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Steven, I think you can behave a lot better on the internet. kthx. Amazing. I came to the exact opposite conclusion.

[gentoo-dev] Re: GCC USE flag changes

2013-05-01 Thread Ryan Hill
On Wed, 01 May 2013 08:00:29 +0100 Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu wrote: On 01/05/2013 06:29, Rick Zero_Chaos Farina wrote: I don't mean to start a flamewar here but the test suite situation is so bad with circular deps (I'm looking at you ruby herd) and random failures that I

[gentoo-dev] Re: Handling of tests (was: GCC USE flag changes)

2013-05-01 Thread Ryan Hill
On Wed, 1 May 2013 10:14:02 +0200 Ralph Sennhauser s...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:25:40 -0600 Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org wrote: I'm also going to rename the test flag to regression-test or something similar to get it out of FEATURES=test control. The testsuite is a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Handling of tests (was: GCC USE flag changes)

2013-05-01 Thread Kent Fredric
2 other classes of tests you may want to consider : - network/internet accessibility required tests - markers for tests that are known/expected to fail under many conditions and are not worth end-user-testing, but end-users can force-running any way if they really want to see the individual

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Shall econf append its arguments to end of ./configure invocation?

2013-05-01 Thread Ryan Hill
On Wed, 1 May 2013 08:57:35 +0200 Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tue, 30 Apr 2013, Ryan Hill wrote: Then the person implementing the code for Paludis is either a monkey or a robot*. Anyone capable of reasoning could puzzle out the implications of not allowing user-given options

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GCC USE flag changes

2013-05-01 Thread Matt Turner
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, 01 May 2013 08:00:29 +0100 Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu wrote: On 01/05/2013 06:29, Rick Zero_Chaos Farina wrote: I don't mean to start a flamewar here but the test suite situation is so bad with

[gentoo-dev] Re: Making systemd more accessible to normal users

2013-05-01 Thread Duncan
Steven J. Long posted on Wed, 01 May 2013 19:52:03 +0100 as excerpted: Gentoo is about choice, which to me also means embrace diversitiy. If you want to keep living in your little world, fine, you can and you're very welcome, but also people who want to have fun with new stuff should get the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making systemd more accessible to normal users

2013-05-01 Thread Alex Xu
On 01/05/13 10:11 PM, Duncan wrote as excerpted: Steven J. Long posted on Wed, 01 May 2013 19:52:03 +0100 as excerpted: Gentoo is about choice, which to me also means embrace diversitiy. If you want to keep living in your little world, fine, you can and you're very welcome, but also people

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to normal users

2013-05-01 Thread William Hubbs
On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 03:13:54PM +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote: El mié, 01-05-2013 a las 13:00 +0200, Fabio Erculiani escribió: [...] The only remaining problem is about eselect-sysvinit, for this reason, I am probably going to create a new separate pkg called _sysvinit-next_, that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to normal users

2013-05-01 Thread William Hubbs
On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 11:14:28PM +0200, Fabio Erculiani wrote: On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 9:52 PM, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. phajdan...@gentoo.org wrote: On 5/1/13 3:04 AM, Fabio Erculiani wrote: As far as I read the bug, Mike (vapier) is doing the right thing. Distros doing lots of custom changes

[gentoo-dev] Re: RANT: Upgrade icu and KDE at once

2013-05-01 Thread Duncan
Zac Medico posted on Wed, 01 May 2013 08:01:45 -0700 as excerpted: On 05/01/2013 07:46 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: I think it is time to consider enabling [preserve-libs] by default. Hopefully any ABI bumps will be accompanied by a subslot / slot-operator migration at this point. Yeah, I'm

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Shall econf append its arguments to end of ./configure invocation?

2013-05-01 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 30 April 2013 12:38:03 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:25:08 +0200 Ulrich Mueller wrote: On Tue, 30 Apr 2013, Ulrich Mueller wrote: Below is a patch that brings the spec in line with common sense. And in fact, I wonder why we're even discussing the issue.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Handling of tests (was: GCC USE flag changes)

2013-05-01 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 01 May 2013 21:24:07 Kent Fredric wrote: please do not top post -mike signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to normal users

2013-05-01 Thread Kent Fredric
On 2 May 2013 15:18, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: Like I've already said too, I don't see that we need to do this change. Systemd is called /usr/lib/systemd/systemd (it should be /lib/systemd/systemd), and sysvinit is called /sbin/init,, so I don't see the need for moving init

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Handling of tests (was: GCC USE flag changes)

2013-05-01 Thread Kent Fredric
On 2 May 2013 16:21, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wednesday 01 May 2013 21:24:07 Kent Fredric wrote: please do not top post -mike My apologies, Gmail has forced upon us this new message composer, and it sucks, it actively discourages bottom posting, and I'm stuck with it. I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GCC USE flag changes

2013-05-01 Thread Rick Zero_Chaos Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/01/2013 03:00 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: On 01/05/2013 06:29, Rick Zero_Chaos Farina wrote: I don't mean to start a flamewar here but the test suite situation is so bad with circular deps (I'm looking at you ruby herd) and random failures

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Handling of tests

2013-05-01 Thread Rick Zero_Chaos Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/01/2013 09:18 PM, Ryan Hill wrote: On Wed, 1 May 2013 10:14:02 +0200 Ralph Sennhauser s...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:25:40 -0600 Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org wrote: I'm also going to rename the test flag to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GCC USE flag changes

2013-05-01 Thread Hans de Graaff
On Thu, 2013-05-02 at 00:57 -0400, Rick Zero_Chaos Farina wrote: On 05/01/2013 03:00 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: On 01/05/2013 06:29, Rick Zero_Chaos Farina wrote: I don't mean to start a flamewar here but the test suite situation is so bad with circular deps (I'm looking at you ruby

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RANT: Upgrade icu and KDE at once

2013-05-01 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Thu, 2 May 2013 03:38:24 + (UTC) Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: After some early issues with too much magic re preserved-libs Why is it magic? It is well explained what it does (eg. man make.conf). I originally would rather let the upgrades happen as they always did and simply run

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to normal users

2013-05-01 Thread Fabio Erculiani
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 5:26 AM, Kent Fredric kentfred...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Against, the symlink may introduce parts that are breakable, like if user messes up and places the destination of the symlink on a different partition ( shouldn't be a problem, but might be ), or if you're

[gentoo-portage-dev] portage 9999 at commit 2d5e38b495776e5bb2266848a3365667f3ca7233 **SLOW**

2013-05-01 Thread James Cloos
My typical emerge -upvDN world went up from 10s of minutes to several hours sometime between portage 37f33e9 and 2d5e38b. I noticed by way of strace(8) that it access(2)es each ebuild in /usr/portage on each configured overay 10 times. Each. It does so in order from the last overlay in