Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting

2011-09-18 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 10:26:57PM -0700, Zac Medico wrote: On 09/17/2011 08:47 PM, Donnie Berkholz wrote: On 14:06 Fri 16 Sep , Zac Medico wrote: Bumping the EAPI of the root profiles/eapi file would be a different matter, since it applies to the whole repository. If you want to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting

2011-09-18 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Sat, 17 Sep 2011, Zac Medico wrote: So in your opinion, it would be fine to bump profiles/eapi to EAPI=4 now? Yes, it's feasible. As a consequence, we may get some complaints from users who haven't upgraded during the last six months.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting

2011-09-18 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: On 09/17/2011 08:47 PM, Donnie Berkholz wrote: On 14:06 Fri 16 Sep     , Zac Medico wrote: Bumping the EAPI of the root profiles/eapi file would be a different matter, since it applies to the whole repository. If you want

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting

2011-09-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 14:54:56 +0530 Nirbheek Chauhan nirbh...@gentoo.org wrote: I don't see any features in EAPI 3 and 4 that are useful for the profiles. However, a bump to EAPI 2 (or at least 1) would be *extremely* beneficial, and cause much less chaos. Speaking with my GNOME hat, it will

proposal for cross-compie support in EAPI-5, was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting

2011-09-18 Thread Thomas Sachau
Thomas Sachau schrieb: Tomáš Chvátal schrieb: Start collecting ideas for EAPI5. 1) USE-flag based support to cross-compile packages (mostly implemented in multilib-portage) let me extend this a bit, first the reasoning behind it: For amd64 users, there is sometimes the issue, that they

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting

2011-09-18 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18-09-2011 09:33, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 14:54:56 +0530 Nirbheek Chauhan nirbh...@gentoo.org wrote: I don't see any features in EAPI 3 and 4 that are useful for the profiles. However, a bump to EAPI 2 (or at least 1) would

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting

2011-09-18 Thread Michał Górny
On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 10:33:32 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 14:54:56 +0530 Nirbheek Chauhan nirbh...@gentoo.org wrote: I don't see any features in EAPI 3 and 4 that are useful for the profiles. However, a bump to EAPI 2 (or at least 1) would

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting

2011-09-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 16:47:14 +0200 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: For example, people might think they can start masking cat/pkg[flag]. Is this a replacement for package.use.mask or does it mean something else? I have a sneaking suspicion that if there's not a policy saying no use

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting

2011-09-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 14:20:34 + Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto jmbsvice...@gentoo.org wrote: For example, people might think they can start masking cat/pkg[flag]. Is this a replacement for package.use.mask or does it mean something else? I have a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting

2011-09-18 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sep 18, 2011 12:05 PM, Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 14:20:34 + Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto jmbsvice...@gentoo.org wrote: As we're talking about updating profiles EAPI, what do we need to get to be able to mask use flags for the stable tree,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting

2011-09-18 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto jmbsvice...@gentoo.org wrote: As we're talking about updating profiles EAPI, what do we need to get to be able to mask use flags for the stable tree, but not the testing tree? What's wrong with versioned masking of use-flags? The fact

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting

2011-09-18 Thread Zac Medico
On 09/18/2011 07:20 AM, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: What other meanings could it have? What would be the problem with moving the package use flag masks from package.use.mask to package.mask? As Ciaran said, these two kinds of masks give two very different behaviors that are not

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting

2011-09-17 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 14:06 Fri 16 Sep , Zac Medico wrote: Bumping the EAPI of the root profiles/eapi file would be a different matter, since it applies to the whole repository. If you want to version bump that repository-level EAPI, then you need to wait until at least 6 months after supporting package

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting

2011-09-17 Thread Zac Medico
On 09/17/2011 08:47 PM, Donnie Berkholz wrote: On 14:06 Fri 16 Sep , Zac Medico wrote: Bumping the EAPI of the root profiles/eapi file would be a different matter, since it applies to the whole repository. If you want to version bump that repository-level EAPI, then you need to wait

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting

2011-09-16 Thread Zac Medico
On 09/15/2011 05:20 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: 2011-09-16 01:54:44 Brian Harring napisał(a): On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 01:21:55AM +0200, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: 2011-09-15 09:55:08 Ciaran McCreesh napisał(a): On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:35:21 +0200 Michał

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting

2011-09-15 Thread Michał Górny
On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 23:53:50 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:47:17 -0400 Aaron W. Swenson titanof...@gentoo.org wrote: I second the allowing dots in USE flag names. Definitely would be helpful for declaring version related USE flags. You

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting

2011-09-15 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:35:21 +0200 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: Could you point me to at least a single program not supporting dots in useflags? My quick check shows that all PMs handle them well, quse and euse as well. Hrm, it's rather disappointing that they're accepted everywhere.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting

2011-09-15 Thread Michał Górny
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:55:08 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:35:21 +0200 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: Could you point me to at least a single program not supporting dots in useflags? My quick check shows that all PMs handle them

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting

2011-09-15 Thread Brian Harring
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 09:35:21AM +0200, Micha?? G??rny wrote: On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 23:53:50 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:47:17 -0400 Aaron W. Swenson titanof...@gentoo.org wrote: I second the allowing dots in USE flag names.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting

2011-09-15 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2011-09-15 09:55:08 Ciaran McCreesh napisał(a): On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:35:21 +0200 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: Could you point me to at least a single program not supporting dots in useflags? My quick check shows that all PMs handle them well, quse and euse as well. Hrm, it's

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting

2011-09-15 Thread Brian Harring
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 01:21:55AM +0200, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: 2011-09-15 09:55:08 Ciaran McCreesh napisał(a): On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:35:21 +0200 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: Could you point me to at least a single program not supporting dots in useflags?

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting

2011-09-15 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2011-09-16 01:54:44 Brian Harring napisał(a): On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 01:21:55AM +0200, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: 2011-09-15 09:55:08 Ciaran McCreesh napisał(a): On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:35:21 +0200 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: Could you point me to at least

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting

2011-09-08 Thread Thomas Sachau
Tomáš Chvátal schrieb: Start collecting ideas for EAPI5. 1) USE-flag based support to cross-compile packages (mostly implemented in multilib-portage) 2) USE-flag based support to install for different slots (e.g. python, ruby or php) 3) (internal) USE-flag based support to re-install packages

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting

2011-09-08 Thread Alec Warner
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Thomas Sachau to...@gentoo.org wrote: Tomáš Chvátal schrieb: Start collecting ideas for EAPI5. 1) USE-flag based support to cross-compile packages (mostly implemented in multilib-portage) 2) USE-flag based support to install for different slots (e.g. python,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting

2011-09-08 Thread Ole Markus With
On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 19:03:56 +0200, Thomas Sachau to...@gentoo.org wrote: Tomáš Chvátal schrieb: Start collecting ideas for EAPI5. 2) USE-flag based support to install for different slots (e.g. python, ruby or php) The second one is already done in some eclasses, afaik php and ruby, but

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting

2011-09-08 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2011-09-08 19:03:56 Thomas Sachau napisał(a): Tomáš Chvátal schrieb: Start collecting ideas for EAPI5. 2) USE-flag based support to install for different slots (e.g. python, ruby or php) The second one is already done in some eclasses, afaik php and ruby, but it might be a good idea

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting

2011-09-08 Thread Michał Górny
On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 20:10:23 +0200 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfrever@gmail.com wrote: 2011-09-08 19:03:56 Thomas Sachau napisał(a): Tomáš Chvátal schrieb: Start collecting ideas for EAPI5. 2) USE-flag based support to install for different slots (e.g. python, ruby or

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting

2011-09-08 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 20:35:48 +0200 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: PM needs to provide us with a nice ability to handle all that. I've yet to see a complete, detailed, accurate description of what all that really is. It's a bit hard to come up with an EAPI solution when we don't know what

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting

2011-09-08 Thread Michał Górny
On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 19:33:03 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 20:35:48 +0200 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: PM needs to provide us with a nice ability to handle all that. I've yet to see a complete, detailed, accurate description of what

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting

2011-09-08 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday, September 08, 2011 14:10:23 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: 2011-09-08 19:03:56 Thomas Sachau napisał(a): Tomáš Chvátal schrieb: Start collecting ideas for EAPI5. 2) USE-flag based support to install for different slots (e.g. python, ruby or php) The

[gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting

2011-09-07 Thread Tomáš Chvátal
Resending as i sent it from gmail instead of google acc so it didn't hit the list. -- Přeposlaná zpráva -- Od: Tomáš Chvátal tomas.chva...@gmail.com Datum: 5. září 2011 18:08 Předmět: Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting Komu:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting

2011-09-07 Thread Andreas K. Hüttel
Ack.. both makes definitely sense. -- Přeposlaná zpráva -- Od: Tomáš Chvátal tomas.chva...@gmail.com Datum: 5. září 2011 18:08 Předmět: Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting Komu: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Start collecting ideas

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting

2011-09-07 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Wed, 7 Sep 2011, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: Start collecting ideas for EAPI5. I suggest that EAPI 5 should include the two features that have been omitted from EAPI 4 [1,2]. Apart from this, I think we should be more careful for the next EAPI, in order to avoid such long delays as we had with

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting

2011-09-07 Thread Tomáš Chvátal
2011/9/7 Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org: On Wed, 7 Sep 2011, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: Start collecting ideas for EAPI5. I suggest that EAPI 5 should include the two features that have been omitted from EAPI 4 [1,2]. Apart from this, I think we should be more careful for the next EAPI, in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting

2011-09-07 Thread Michał Górny
On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 16:27:01 +0200 Tomáš Chvátal scarab...@gentoo.org wrote: Well the patches code is in base eclass. Then you should first consider moving epatch to PMS. I'd honestly prefer going the other way. For Recommended it works like this: blabla.spec Recommended: xf86-video-ati

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting

2011-09-07 Thread Michał Górny
On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 11:07:21 +0200 Tomáš Chvátal scarab...@gentoo.org wrote: Start collecting ideas for EAPI5. I'd highlight the following bugs: 311795 - [Future EAPI] Allow dots in USE flag names 373377 - [Future EAPI] Remove IMAGE (deprecated already) -- Best regards, Michał Górny

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting

2011-09-07 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 11:07:21 +0200 Tomáš Chvátal scarab...@gentoo.org wrote: Start collecting ideas for EAPI5. http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-pms/msg_dfef93f8d6bc6684d4dc9793563b4fdf.xml was my list. There are also various bits of lousy wording in PMS that I'd like to get cleared up over an

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting

2011-09-07 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 09/07/2011 11:48 AM, Michał Górny wrote: On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 11:07:21 +0200 Tomáš Chvátal scarab...@gentoo.org wrote: Start collecting ideas for EAPI5. I'd highlight the following bugs: 311795 - [Future EAPI] Allow dots in USE flag

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting

2011-09-07 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:47:17 -0400 Aaron W. Swenson titanof...@gentoo.org wrote: I second the allowing dots in USE flag names. Definitely would be helpful for declaring version related USE flags. You know you won't be able to mention such flags in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting

2011-09-07 Thread Brian Harring
On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 11:53:50PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:47:17 -0400 Aaron W. Swenson titanof...@gentoo.org wrote: I second the allowing dots in USE flag names. Definitely would be helpful for declaring version