Re: [gentoo-dev] The request to abolish games team policy

2014-07-08 Thread Eray Aslan
On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 11:45:02PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: I would like to ask the Council to abolish the following policies that have been established by the games team: Why? What's the use case? Or in other words, what has ticked you off to request the abolishment of status-quo? The

[gentoo-dev] Re: The request to abolish games team policy

2014-07-08 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Mon, 7 Jul 2014, Michał Górny wrote: iii. that the games group along with the game-specific install tree should be deprecated and phased out. Games should be installed alike any other applications. The install locations (/usr/games, /usr/share/games, /var/games, etc.) are specified by the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The request to abolish games team policy

2014-07-08 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 3:31 AM, Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, 7 Jul 2014, Michał Górny wrote: iii. that the games group along with the game-specific install tree should be deprecated and phased out. Games should be installed alike any other applications. The install

[gentoo-dev] Re: The request to abolish games team policy

2014-07-08 Thread Michael Palimaka
On 07/08/2014 07:45 AM, Michał Górny wrote: Dear Community, First of all, please do not take this personally. I don't want to attack any member of the games team or the team in general. I respect their experience and long-term contribution to Gentoo. However, I strongly disagree with the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The request to abolish games team policy

2014-07-08 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 6:52 AM, Michael Palimaka kensing...@gentoo.org wrote: On 07/08/2014 07:45 AM, Michał Górny wrote: 1. that the games team has authority over the actual maintainers on every game ebuild, Why is Council intervention needed to abolish these policies? They're not

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The request to abolish games team policy

2014-07-08 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2014-07-08, o godz. 20:52:49 Michael Palimaka kensing...@gentoo.org napisał(a): On 07/08/2014 07:45 AM, Michał Górny wrote: I would like to ask the Council to abolish the following policies that have been established by the games team: 1. that the games team has authority over the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The request to abolish games team policy

2014-07-08 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 7:38 AM, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: The games team believes that they're binding. In fact, I recall one of the team members remarking explicitly that they're going to alter ebuilds that were committed without their approval. In fact, they did remove ebuilds

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The request to abolish games team policy

2014-07-08 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Tue, 8 Jul 2014, Rich Freeman wrote: On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 3:31 AM, Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote: The install locations (/usr/games, /usr/share/games, /var/games, etc.) are specified by the FHS. So they're not entirely games team policy. I just checked some random packages on

[gentoo-dev] Re: The request to abolish games team policy

2014-07-08 Thread Michael Palimaka
On 07/08/2014 09:38 PM, Michał Górny wrote: Dnia 2014-07-08, o godz. 20:52:49 Michael Palimaka kensing...@gentoo.org napisał(a): On 07/08/2014 07:45 AM, Michał Górny wrote: I would like to ask the Council to abolish the following policies that have been established by the games team: 1.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The request to abolish games team policy

2014-07-08 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Tue, 8 Jul 2014, Michał Górny wrote: In fact, they did remove ebuilds from the tree in the past for this reason [1]. Given that this was a live ebuild that failed to compile [2] and was dumped onto the games team few weeks after it was committed to the tree [3], I can even understand their

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The request to abolish games team policy

2014-07-08 Thread Tomáš Chvátal
2014-07-08 14:42 GMT+02:00 Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org: On Tue, 8 Jul 2014, Michał Górny wrote: In fact, they did remove ebuilds from the tree in the past for this reason [1]. Given that this was a live ebuild that failed to compile [2] and was dumped onto the games team few weeks

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The request to abolish games team policy

2014-07-08 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2014-07-08, o godz. 08:10:14 Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org napisał(a): On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 7:38 AM, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: The games team believes that they're binding. In fact, I recall one of the team members remarking explicitly that they're going to alter

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The request to abolish games team policy

2014-07-08 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Tue, 8 Jul 2014, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: [3] I remved myself from maitnainership as I found out I don't have enought time to work on stuff in Gentoo to keep myself only in office and to make them working... So if they didn't want the live version it is perfectly sane reasoning for pruning

[gentoo-dev] Looking for alternative to RESTRICT=userpriv

2014-07-08 Thread Michał Górny
Hello, developers. I've been doing some research wrt use of RESTRICT=userpriv [1] lately and found out that most of the affected packages use it solely to gain access to files or devices that are restricted to specific groups. I've specifically noted three cases: 1) ebuilds using CUDA that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The request to abolish games team policy

2014-07-08 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tue, 8 Jul 2014, Michał Górny wrote: In fact, they did remove ebuilds from the tree in the past for this reason [1]. Given that this was a live ebuild that failed to compile [2] and was dumped onto the games team few

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The request to abolish games team policy

2014-07-08 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2014-07-08, o godz. 09:38:08 Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org napisał(a): Uh, and what is up with games-strategy/openxcom and games-engines/openxcom? Was the re-introduction a dup? If so, then removal of it makes sense, though for that reason, and not simply because it was added without

[gentoo-dev] Re: Looking for alternative to RESTRICT=userpriv

2014-07-08 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Tue, 8 Jul 2014, Michał Górny wrote: a) explicitly requesting user to alter group membership for the build user. This is already done in some of the CUDA ebuilds. [...] This doesn't work out of the box for users, therefore it is not really a solution. b) SUPPLEMENTARY_GROUPS support

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The request to abolish games team policy

2014-07-08 Thread Maxim Koltsov
2014-07-08 16:10 GMT+04:00 Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org: On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 7:38 AM, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: The games team believes that they're binding. In fact, I recall one of the team members remarking explicitly that they're going to alter ebuilds that were

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The request to abolish games team policy

2014-07-08 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 08/07/14 17:18, Maxim Koltsov wrote: 2014-07-08 16:10 GMT+04:00 Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org mailto:ri...@gentoo.org: On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 7:38 AM, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org mailto:mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: The games team believes that they're binding. In

[gentoo-dev] Re: The request to abolish games team policy

2014-07-08 Thread Michael Palimaka
On 07/09/2014 01:22 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: And some personal thoughts about the initial proposal... I don't care about the suggestion 3. in mgorny's proposal at all, but 1. and 2. should definately stay as is. What authority does the game team have over anything? Did it get special

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The request to abolish games team policy

2014-07-08 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Michael Palimaka kensing...@gentoo.org wrote: On 07/09/2014 01:22 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: And some personal thoughts about the initial proposal... I don't care about the suggestion 3. in mgorny's proposal at all, but 1. and 2. should definately stay as is.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The request to abolish games team policy

2014-07-08 Thread hasufell
Samuli Suominen: It seems to me like people aren't making the effort of joining to the team and meeting the high quality ebuild syntax they've kept up... There is no games _team_. There is Mr_Bones_ (and I have learned a lot from him and am able to collaborate with him). And that is that.

[gentoo-dev] Re: The request to abolish games team policy

2014-07-08 Thread Michael Palimaka
On 07/09/2014 02:58 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Michael Palimaka kensing...@gentoo.org wrote: On 07/09/2014 01:22 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: And some personal thoughts about the initial proposal... I don't care about the suggestion 3. in mgorny's proposal at all,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The request to abolish games team policy

2014-07-08 Thread Pacho Ramos
El mar, 08-07-2014 a las 17:15 +, hasufell escribió: Samuli Suominen: It seems to me like people aren't making the effort of joining to the team and meeting the high quality ebuild syntax they've kept up... There is no games _team_. There is Mr_Bones_ (and I have learned a lot

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The request to abolish games team policy

2014-07-08 Thread hasufell
Pacho Ramos: What kind of games packages does he want to maintain in a strictly way? Maybe one way to cooperate would be to have two herds: - games-base (or similar) - the more stricter and the one Mr_Bones would likely still prefer to handle himself. It would take care of central libs

[gentoo-dev] splitting out arm keywords

2014-07-08 Thread Matthew Thode
arm has a historical problem with stabilization, while keywording doesn't require access to all arm sub-arches the problem with the stabilization slowness causes running a full ~arm to become hard. By that I mean that if someone keywords something for arm because it works on armv7 and I run ~arm

[gentoo-dev] Re: The request to abolish games team policy

2014-07-08 Thread Jonathan Callen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/08/2014 08:32 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: On Tue, 8 Jul 2014, Rich Freeman wrote: On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 3:31 AM, Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote: The install locations (/usr/games, /usr/share/games, /var/games, etc.) are specified

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The request to abolish games team policy

2014-07-08 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 08/07/14 19:17, Michael Palimaka wrote: On 07/09/2014 01:22 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: And some personal thoughts about the initial proposal... I don't care about the suggestion 3. in mgorny's proposal at all, but 1. and 2. should definately stay as is. What authority does the game team

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The request to abolish games team policy

2014-07-08 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 09 Jul 2014 06:55:54 +0300 Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: On 08/07/14 19:17, Michael Palimaka wrote: On 07/09/2014 01:22 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: And some personal thoughts about the initial proposal... I don't care about the suggestion 3. in mgorny's proposal at

[gentoo-portage-dev] support multiple eclass variants (aka unstable eclasses)

2014-07-08 Thread Michael Haubenwallner
Hello fellow Portage developers, attached portage patch draft aims to allow for easy distributing eclasses to be tested by multiple tinderboxes on various architectures, without being active for normal installs. Usage is to have in make.conf (or profile): PORTAGE_ECLASS_VARIANTS=testing and

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] support multiple eclass variants (aka unstable eclasses)

2014-07-08 Thread Sebastian Luther
Am 08.07.2014 18:58, schrieb Michael Haubenwallner: Hello fellow Portage developers, attached portage patch draft aims to allow for easy distributing eclasses to be tested by multiple tinderboxes on various architectures, without being active for normal installs. What does the patch

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] support multiple eclass variants (aka unstable eclasses)

2014-07-08 Thread Michael Haubenwallner
Am 2014-07-08 19:11, schrieb Sebastian Luther: Am 08.07.2014 18:58, schrieb Michael Haubenwallner: Hello fellow Portage developers, attached portage patch draft aims to allow for easy distributing eclasses to be tested by multiple tinderboxes on various architectures, without being active