[gentoo-dev] RFC: storing predefined INSTALL_MASK directory lists in repos

2014-01-11 Thread Michał Górny
Hello, all. Some time ago I wrote a small tool called install-mask. As the name suggests, it was intended to help with manipulating INSTALL_MASK. I think that its most important feature was ability to use pre-defined mask lists to easily mask unwanted directories without getting into the details.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About pam herd status

2014-01-11 Thread Markos Chandras
On 01/10/2014 11:14 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: On 10 January 2014 22:20, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: how would moving it to base-system make any difference ? people doing it wrong wouldn't really care which herd pam itself is owned by. I'm not saying it makes a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About pam herd status

2014-01-11 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 11-01-2014 a las 10:57 +, Markos Chandras escribió: On 01/10/2014 11:14 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: On 10 January 2014 22:20, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: how would moving it to base-system make any difference ? people doing it wrong wouldn't really care which

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About pam herd status

2014-01-11 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
If we limit it to the virtual, pam and pambase, I'm happy to stick maintaining them, the others I don't use, which is why I don't care about them as much. Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes flamee...@flameeyes.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/ On 11 January 2014 11:01, Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About pam herd status

2014-01-11 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 11-01-2014 a las 11:07 +, Diego Elio Pettenò escribió: If we limit it to the virtual, pam and pambase, I'm happy to stick maintaining them, the others I don't use, which is why I don't care about them as much. Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes flamee...@flameeyes.eu —

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About pam herd status

2014-01-11 Thread Markos Chandras
On 01/11/2014 11:07 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: If we limit it to the virtual, pam and pambase, I'm happy to stick maintaining them, the others I don't use, which is why I don't care about them as much. Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes flamee...@flameeyes.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/

Re: [gentoo-dev] Question, Portage QOS

2014-01-11 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2014.01.10 16:48, Igor wrote: Hello All, Thank you for all our feedback! [snip] -- Best regards, Igor mailto:lanthrus...@gmail.com Igor, You don't need anyones permission to start an OSS project. Just do it. If its useful, it will get used. Here, you

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: storing predefined INSTALL_MASK directory lists in repos

2014-01-11 Thread Peter Stuge
Michał Górny wrote: INSTALL_MASK=systemd bash-completion What are your thoughts? It seems like this will generally duplicate all -USE flags. Would it make sense to instead have a single setting which changes the meaning of USE to be that everything not USEd is install-masked? Rather than

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage QOS

2014-01-11 Thread Naohiro Aota
Hi, Igor LTHR lanthrus...@gmail.com writes: Portage QOS Hi All, What do you think about implementing this: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=7477494 I've system design in my head and could write it down with the implementation details. Then may be we could all review it and get

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: storing predefined INSTALL_MASK directory lists in repos

2014-01-11 Thread Duncan
Peter Stuge posted on Sat, 11 Jan 2014 12:53:38 +0100 as excerpted: Michał Górny wrote: INSTALL_MASK=systemd bash-completion What are your thoughts? It seems like this will generally duplicate all -USE flags. Would it make sense to instead have a single setting which changes the

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: storing predefined INSTALL_MASK directory lists in repos

2014-01-11 Thread Luis Ressel
I've got an additional proposal: It would be interesting if this feature could also make use of the LINGUAS var for selectively filtering /usr/share/man and and /usr/share/locale, as most ebuilds don't respect this variable natively. -- Luis Ressel ara...@aixah.de GPG fpr: F08D 2AF6 655E 25DE

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: storing predefined INSTALL_MASK directory lists in repos

2014-01-11 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2014-01-11, o godz. 16:56:37 Luis Ressel ara...@aixah.de napisał(a): I've got an additional proposal: It would be interesting if this feature could also make use of the LINGUAS var for selectively filtering /usr/share/man and and /usr/share/locale, as most ebuilds don't respect this

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: storing predefined INSTALL_MASK directory lists in repos

2014-01-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 11/01/2014 18:01, Michał Górny wrote: Dnia 2014-01-11, o godz. 16:56:37 Luis Ressel ara...@aixah.de napisał(a): I've got an additional proposal: It would be interesting if this feature could also make use of the LINGUAS var for selectively filtering /usr/share/man and and

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: storing predefined INSTALL_MASK directory lists in repos

2014-01-11 Thread Luis Ressel
On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 17:01:34 +0100 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: That's a side goal. I was thinking of something like: INSTALL_MASK=linguas -linguas_XX that would remove all linguas except for language XX. That would be enough for me. A bit of a duplication of information,

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: storing predefined INSTALL_MASK directory lists in repos

2014-01-11 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2014-01-11, o godz. 17:21:46 Luis Ressel ara...@aixah.de napisał(a): On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 17:01:34 +0100 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: That's a side goal. I was thinking of something like: INSTALL_MASK=linguas -linguas_XX that would remove all linguas except for

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: storing predefined INSTALL_MASK directory lists in repos

2014-01-11 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2014-01-11, o godz. 18:15:09 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com napisał(a): A far better method from a user point of view is to install the linguas the user explicitly asked for. Your proposal as worded will be taken at first glance to mean install all linguas, but not XX as most users

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: storing predefined INSTALL_MASK directory lists in repos

2014-01-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 11/01/2014 18:52, Michał Górny wrote: Dnia 2014-01-11, o godz. 18:15:09 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com napisał(a): A far better method from a user point of view is to install the linguas the user explicitly asked for. Your proposal as worded will be taken at first glance to mean

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: storing predefined INSTALL_MASK directory lists in repos

2014-01-11 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2014-01-11, o godz. 19:11:21 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com napisał(a): On 11/01/2014 18:52, Michał Górny wrote: Dnia 2014-01-11, o godz. 18:15:09 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com napisał(a): A far better method from a user point of view is to install the linguas the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Feature Request: making thirdpartymirrors easier to manage

2014-01-11 Thread Gordon Pettey
On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Ben Kohler bkoh...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Robin H. Johnson robb...@gentoo.orgwrote: I would like to make it a directory instead of a single file, and extend the internal syntax. I'm not sure I see much real value in allowing

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: storing predefined INSTALL_MASK directory lists in repos

2014-01-11 Thread Peter Stuge
Duncan wrote: INSTALL_MASK=systemd bash-completion What are your thoughts? It seems like this will generally duplicate all -USE flags. Would it make sense to instead have a single setting which changes the meaning of USE to be that everything not USEd is install-masked? No,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Feature Request: making thirdpartymirrors easier to manage

2014-01-11 Thread Kent Fredric
On 10 January 2014 17:58, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: Just to be clear, what is the exact use case for this? I can't think of a really good reason to manipulate mirror lists in subsequent repos. For Perl, in ::gentoo , its considered not too optimal to have backpan listed as a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Feature Request: making thirdpartymirrors easier to manage

2014-01-11 Thread Kent Fredric
On 12 January 2014 08:16, Kent Fredric kentfred...@gmail.com wrote: diff ( grep cpan /var/paludis/repositories/perl-git/profiles/thirdpartymirrors ) ( grep cpan /usr/portage/profiles/thirdpartymirrors ) Oh... also, there's a wide variety of location specific CPAN mirrors available that

[gentoo-dev] Default USE changes for fortran and mudflap?

2014-01-11 Thread Ryan Hill
While I'm adding USE defaults to toolchain.eclass and moving them out of the profiles, I thought now would be a good time to review a couple default flag settings. mudflap: This is currently enabled by default but I'd like to disable it. It controls libmudflap and the -fmudflap flag. I think

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Check for and report read-only filesystems

2014-01-11 Thread Chris Reffett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/11/2014 12:09 AM, Brian Dolbec wrote: On Fri, 2014-01-10 at 22:07 -0500, Chris Reffett wrote: Hi all, Attached is a patch to test if Portage is going to write to a read-only filesystem and print out the list of filesystems that need to be

[gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Feature Request: making thirdpartymirrors easier to manage

2014-01-11 Thread Kent Fredric
On 10 January 2014 17:58, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: Just to be clear, what is the exact use case for this? I can't think of a really good reason to manipulate mirror lists in subsequent repos. For Perl, in ::gentoo , its considered not too optimal to have backpan listed as a

[gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Feature Request: making thirdpartymirrors easier to manage

2014-01-11 Thread Kent Fredric
On 12 January 2014 08:16, Kent Fredric kentfred...@gmail.com wrote: diff ( grep cpan /var/paludis/repositories/perl-git/profiles/thirdpartymirrors ) ( grep cpan /usr/portage/profiles/thirdpartymirrors ) Oh... also, there's a wide variety of location specific CPAN mirrors available that