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libdrm_nouveau-2.4.32 into its own separate
package and renaming/modifying libdrm_nouveau.pc to make it installable in
parallel to more recent libdrm[video_cards_nouveau] (bug 409593 comment
30). We ultimately decided against it though.
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-drivers/xf86-video-psb
Telling people to use xf86-video-fbdev for Poulsbo would be bad advice, they
should use xf86-video-modesetting.
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than useless.
# du -sh /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/kmod-11-r1/image/
240K /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/kmod-11-r1/image/
I think the complaint was not about the installed size. Some people have
install as little unnecessary code as possible as part of their security
concepts.
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# Build and runtime issues, bugs #340883, #369385, #435444.
# If you require a graphical monitor configuration tool and your desktop
# environment doesn't provide any, try x11-misc
or seamonkey against xulrunner is
possible, but not a supported configuration by Mozilla.
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with no
maintainer reaction, and hasn't been touched by anyone from voip herd
in over a year. This would include the ekiga, opal and yate packages
mentioned above.
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dependency
FORTRAN_WANT_COMPILER=always would unconditionally depend on
virtual/fortran
FORTRAN_WANT_COMPILER=useflag would depend on useflag? ( virtual/fortran )
To avoid breaking existing packages, you could default to
FORTRAN_WANT_COMPILER=fortran
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Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn schrieb:
To avoid breaking existing packages, you could default to
FORTRAN_WANT_COMPILER=fortran
Sorry, it has to be FORTRAN_WANT_COMPILER=always
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was sufficiently motivated to speak out
against this either.
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Ben de Groot schrieb:
Since CIA.vc is dead [1], I think we should be looking into a
replacement service, or host our own [2].
I understand that ohloh is already tracking us (sometimes at least).
http://www.ohloh.net/p/gentoo/
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this.
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and radeon-ucode) and it works well there:
bitstream-cyberbit: 0 but not 1, 2 or 3.
radeon-ucode: 0 and 2 but not 1 or 3.
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.
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the snippets.
We would maybe have to find a different operator for license
concatenation.
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it the Right Thing™.
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happily stand corrected.
If your disk is GPT partitioned, then you can use root=PARTUUID=...
without initramfs.
Note that PARTUUID is the partition UUID, not the filesystem UUID.
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) would be ok with me though.
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Debian uses for this purpose (a UTF-8 locale without side effects)
appears more suitable to me.
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prefer
firmware-gpu/radeon-ucode
firmware-video/cx18-firmware
firmware-audio/alsa-firmware
firmware-net/isdn-firmware
or similar. This would be better than deviating from upstream package name.
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iconv -t ASCII//TRANSLIT -f UTF-8
and compare the output.
For the previous discussion, see this thread:
http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_2ffb7ea72e6209439600c371f6fc071d.xml
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-ftp/tftp-hpa should
replace it in all ways.
So it'll be removed next month if there are no reasons to keep it around.
Please report a removal bug for this, so any issues concerning users of
netkit-tftp can be tracked.
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include packaging parts of the airprobe suite,
and importing some interesting ebuilds from Pentoo and betagarden overlay.
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Hi,
as no packages I am interested in depend on net-libs/libmicrohttpd any
more, I plan to remove myself from maintainers.
You are welcome to take over the package. Else it will become
maintainer-needed in a couple of days.
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differently from other bugs, as
they require attention too. After you CC: arches, you could change the
status to IN_PROGRESS in order to not receive future reminders.
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is
probably infeasible.
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
manager, and the user can easily whitelist both individual loaders and
the keys used to sign them.
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reverts a commit that it is not
part of your shallow clone's history, and then you pull.
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and will frequently break
compilation, so the majority opinion is to remove -Werror from compiler
flags.
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+ deprecated warnings.
Note that I don't propose the current policy to be changed. I can
totally live with filtering -Werror in order to reduce maintenance work,
at the small cost mentioned above.
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[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/57643/focus=57918
[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/15/296
[3] https://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/1/217
that Android is an operating system based on Linux. It is not
'the Linux stack'.
I think he was wondering whether the lock-in between dbus, udev and the
Linux kernel will reach proportions where they will be distributed in
one source tree.
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configurations will see fewer
testers. This issue may need to be addressed, e.g. by extending
stabilization period or disallowing package.use.stable.mask in default
or desktop profile.
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message.
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claims of wrongdoing
here.
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. It's not possible to uninstall a
package whose EAPI is unknown.
Would it be feasible to do a pkg_pretend() check and refuse
install/upgrade if packages with unsupported EAPI are detected?
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Ciaran McCreesh schrieb:
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 16:14:33 +0100
Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn chith...@gentoo.org wrote:
Ciaran McCreesh schrieb:
Is there really much of a benefit to this? I guess for anybody who
runs scripts to mass-manipulate ebuilds it might be helpful, but I
think all
Ciaran McCreesh schrieb:
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:18:45 +0100
Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn chith...@gentoo.org wrote:
Assume a new version 13.37 of your package manager drops EAPI=1
support. So package-manager-13.37.ebuild checks in pkg_pretend() if
any EAPI=1 package is installed on the system
Rich Freeman schrieb:
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
chith...@gentoo.org wrote:
Assume a new version 13.37 of your package manager drops EAPI=1 support.
So package-manager-13.37.ebuild checks in pkg_pretend() if any EAPI=1
package is installed on the system
users who update less than once every 6 months are
worth this investment. (I tend to say yes, but that may just be because
many come to #gentoo IRC with the resulting problems.)
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. But for
a number of setups it is not well-suited. So a documented and stable
grub2 will still be needed.
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purposes :-/
Grub is the only blocker. I don't want to unmask something that
makes people's systems unbootable.
I'm also out of ideas and open to suggestions.
Does gcc-4.7 have the same problem with grub?
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C.UTF-8. It has the advantage of not messing with
transliteration as LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 would.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=609306
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/libcompizconfig
x11-plugins/compiz-plugins-extra
x11-plugins/compiz-plugins-main
x11-plugins/compiz-plugins-unsupported
x11-themes/emerald-themes
x11-wm/compiz
x11-wm/compiz-fusion
x11-wm/emerald
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[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/treecleaners/maintainer
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Mike Frysinger schrieb:
On Thursday 02 February 2012 17:56:16 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
wrote:
there have been a number of packages masked lately due to lack
of maintainer. However, their metadata.xml does not list
maintainer-needed@g.o which
.
The cdrom group will give access to /dev/sr* but not the associated /dev/sg*
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and masked in
profiles that don't support building from source.
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Alexandre Rostovtsev schrieb:
Answers to anticipated questions:
Q8: SLOT can change after the package was installed. How to handle this
case?
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HIGHMEM on 32
bit systems. If you do that, you might run out of address space.
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,
probably not worth the effort.
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by crawlers. Like crawling the entire 13000 rev
history for package.mask (or similar.)
Would it be feasible to use mod_rewrite to direct the most expensive
requests to a static copy, which is re-generated every
${REASONABLE_TIMEFRAME}?
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this for build.log when
reporting bugs.
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, if
you don't mind I will commit them to portage with ayatana herd and join
it myself.
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think that the change is better for users, and they just need
time to adjust, then be a man and stand to your opinion. Don't hide it
behind such phony claims.
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potential instability may be preferable to not
working at all.
openrc can already use busybox udhcpc instead of dhcpcd, so there is a
precedent.
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Mike Frysinger schrieb:
On Sunday 13 November 2011 13:04:57 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
Mike Frysinger schrieb:
until we have replacement for all of its tools, it's always going to be
there.
After net-tools is no longer needed for basic setups (which I understand
will be still
enabled by default if -v is not passed to emerge.
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Zac Medico schrieb:
On 11/13/2011 04:36 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
Zac Medico schrieb:
Per discussion on IRC, I propose to make -v turn off quiet-build by
default.
It can remain enabled by default if -v is not passed to emerge.
I think -v controls too many other things to make
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, I think he won't
be confused or angry about it.[1]
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[1] http://xkcd.com/242/
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-tools by default as
soon as openrc switches to iproute. However I think this would make many
users unhappy so has to be carefully prepared and users educated first.
Debian has set this goal in 2007[1] and they have not reached it yet.
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[1] http
iproute2 at all? I think you could fall back to busybox if
iproute2 is not installed.
While you are at it, please also switch from wireless-tools to iw :)
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=261655
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to the user.
Removing/replacing references to the old tools from Gentoo documentation
would be something worth considering though.
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.
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and needs not be removed as long as
linux-headers-2.6.38 is in the tree.
Of course any package breaks when you remove its dependencies.
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Ciaran McCreesh schrieb:
On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:23:07 +0200
Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn chith...@gentoo.org wrote:
So qutecom is not broken and needs not be removed as long as
linux-headers-2.6.38 is in the tree.
Dependencies using , =, =, ~ or =* are broken, except in certain
special
a p.mask is justified IMO (though I
understand that QA can mask packages at their discretion without needing
any reason).
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search
didn't turn up anything) then it could be reason for masking. But not
reason for removal.
Only after all linux-headers-2.6.38 versions are removed, then it is
indeed uninstallable and needs to be fixed or treecleaned.
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, not before.
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. If it is a bug that affects a small number of users
in a minor way and there is no easy fix, then the bug will get less
attention than one that affects many users in a serious way. Live with it.
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on
things with unclear ownership until you've tried to clear it up.
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311241#c2 but that talks about
libraries not headers. And a bug comment can hardly be called
authoritative documentation.
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October (when the 30 days are over) and I have not fixed it yet.
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Mike Frysinger schrieb:
On Sunday, October 02, 2011 08:58:19 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
Samuli Suominen schrieb:
Please point to existing authoritative documentation which says that
downgrades are unacceptable.
It is NOT gentoo-x86 compatible package in it's current form.
It sets
.
If the old versions and reverse dependencies are dropped in accordance
with
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2chap=5#doc_chap7
then I won't complain.
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fails to build against old linux-headers, then he has to make
sure to have the correct version installed before proceeding. Blaming
that on qutecom is far-fetched IMO.
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to -dev.
Bug 361181 is certainly on my TODO list, just not very high up to now.
If you think that there is some urgency in getting rid of the package,
please do explain so in advance.
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Donnie Berkholz schrieb:
On 23:12 Thu 25 Aug , Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
Existing users will not be switched automatically.
Why not? If it's considered the supported route going forward, we should
just do it automatically.
Some users might be using UMS instead of KMS still
to gallium.
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Hello,
Please see the attached news item for review. The news item should be
published before mesa-7.11 goes stable.
Corresponding bug report: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=377349
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Title: Mesa r600 driver now defaults to gallium
Author: Chí
Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike) schrieb:
You can point the reader to
http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature#Decoderringforengineeringvsmarketingnames
in order to know wether his ATI card is or not an r600 ATI card.
Specially since the reference to HD2000 includes some r500 cards.
You
in the portage tree, its USE syntax
can also be used for news items.
2. Council must approve EAPIs for news items
3. A new GLEP or new version of the News-Item-Format is necessary
Your thoughts? Am I missing something?
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reflecting that.
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Ciaran McCreesh schrieb:
On Sun, 21 Aug 2011 14:48:53 +0200
Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn chith...@gentoo.org wrote:
Question is, can I put the EAPI 2 USE conditional
media-libs/mesa[video_cards_radeon] in Display-If-Installed: or
not?
No.
Last time this came up ([gentoo-dev] Removal
first, and removes me from metadata.xml.
If you plan to maintain the driver, you may also want to look at the
out-of-tree rtlwifi driver in bug 379953.
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full of some stuff.
Regarding the problem of the developer neglecting (happened to me too,
ahem) to upload distfiles, maybe repoman could check for this?
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Nirbheek Chauhan schrieb:
A side-note that we've wanted to get out to all devs is that everyone
should *always* use IUSE=+introspection.
Then why is it a flag?
So that people who use, say, json-glib in embedded environments don't
need to pull in a package that is quite unnecessary for them.
with the +introspection default. Useless to me, and my
host. No problems since June 24 2011. (I thought it was already unmasked
since I discovered it enabled back then)
Sounds to me like profile defaults are more appropriate than IUSE
defaults in this case.
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[foo-icons], while the virtual depends on
foo-icons? ( || ( list of packages known to contain foo-icons ) )
Of course, this makes sense only if it is known or easy to find out
which icon-themes contain which icons.
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Samuli Suominen schrieb:
that's my impression now too since nobody has managed to provide useful
case for separate /usr, or they have been very vague like adding 1+1 on
/ and /usr filesystem sizes and counting the risk of corrupted
filesystem from that (one word: backup)
Maybe I have to
make sense to keep /var separate depending on which
services write there.
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as /, then there is
no real reason to not just make a symlink /usr - .
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, right?
There are folks who seriously take this into consideration. I don't
necessarily agree with them, though.
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break, but
then the ebuild has your attention anyway.
And there is no real disadvantage over a python.eclass that dies on EAPI
4 and a python-2.eclass that dies on EAPI =3
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Maxim Koltsov schrieb:
Also i'd want to ask: is it woth to add new category (e.g.
leechcraft-plugins) to simplify managing leechcraft ebuilds. And the
last question: is it good to add versions for all ebuilds too?
I don't think there is a need for a new category. But I do think it is
-bin
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