Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-21 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 2:46 AM, Hans de Graaff gra...@gentoo.org wrote: Setting the option in the profile tells me: Here's this option you can play with, and we think you might need it. Or not. Setting the option in the ebuild tells me: You know, we are nice and give you this option, but

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-20 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Summarizing this thread: * move setting USE=dri from default/linux/make.defaults to targets/desktop/make.defaults +1 by dilfridge, djc, kensington, vapier, pesa, hwoarang chitanh, titanofold, zerochaos wants to keep this in default profile === done because it's still 2:1 (see remark at

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-20 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Andreas K. Huettel schrieb: Summarizing this thread: * move setting USE=dri from default/linux/make.defaults to targets/desktop/make.defaults +1 by dilfridge, djc, kensington, vapier, pesa, hwoarang chitanh, titanofold, zerochaos wants to keep this in default profile === done because

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-20 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn schrieb: * move setting USE=dri from default/linux/make.defaults to targets/desktop/make.defaults +1 by dilfridge, djc, kensington, vapier, pesa, hwoarang chitanh, titanofold, zerochaos wants to keep this in default profile === done because it's still 2:1 (see

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-20 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn chith...@gentoo.org wrote: Andreas K. Huettel schrieb: Summarizing this thread: * move setting USE=dri from default/linux/make.defaults to targets/desktop/make.defaults +1 by dilfridge, djc, kensington, vapier, pesa, hwoarang

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-20 Thread Ben de Groot
On 20 January 2013 23:22, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn chith...@gentoo.org wrote: Andreas K. Huettel schrieb: * move setting USE=dri from default/linux/make.defaults to targets/desktop/make.defaults I must say that I am unhappy about this. The packages in question should not be built with

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-20 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Ben de Groot schrieb: On 20 January 2013 23:22, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn chith...@gentoo.org wrote: Andreas K. Huettel schrieb: * move setting USE=dri from default/linux/make.defaults to targets/desktop/make.defaults I must say that I am unhappy about this. The packages in question

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-20 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Sun, 2013-01-20 at 10:30 -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: It seemed like most who were knowledgeable suggested disabling dri was a bad move. I think it is required for kernel-modesetting among other things. Why would somebody install xorg and not use dri? Rich Since I'm not so

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-20 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Brian Dolbec schrieb: But, doesn't your point above very strongly suggest that IUSE=+dri should be set on those pkgs irregardless of where/if the dri USE flag should be set in some profile. We can either set it in the base profile, then there is no need for IUSE=+dri. Or we can set it in every

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-20 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 20 January 2013 10:54:55 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: Ben de Groot schrieb: On 20 January 2013 23:22, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: Andreas K. Huettel schrieb: * move setting USE=dri from default/linux/make.defaults to targets/desktop/make.defaults I must say

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-20 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Mike Frysinger schrieb: On Sunday 20 January 2013 10:54:55 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: Yes, I mentioned this in another post already. We can use EAPI=1 IUSE defaults instead. But this will not change any systems so I fail to see the point behind this. This will only move clutter from

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-20 Thread Rick Zero_Chaos Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If we have it as IUSE default, it can be removed from the profiles entirely. Having it only in the desktop profile is not good in any scenario I can think of. chithanh, maybe you can explain to everyone why USE=dri is needed for base profile.

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-20 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:59:24 -0500 Rick \Zero_Chaos\ Farina zeroch...@gentoo.org wrote: chithanh, maybe you can explain to everyone why USE=dri is needed for base profile. You seem to be the most knowledgable here, can you cite a specific example

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-20 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Rick Zero_Chaos Farina zeroch...@gentoo.org wrote: If we have it as IUSE default, it can be removed from the profiles entirely. Having it only in the desktop profile is not good in any scenario I can think of. chithanh, maybe you can explain to everyone why

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-20 Thread James Cloos
AWS == Aaron W Swenson titanof...@gentoo.org writes: AWS That's why there's a base desktop profile and desktop/{gnome,kde} AWS profiles. /usr/portage/profiles/targets/desktop/make.defaults still has too much crap for a real base profile for a box which (might) run X or wl. Also, I suspect the

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-20 Thread Hans de Graaff
On Sun, 2013-01-20 at 18:03 +0100, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: We can either set it in the base profile, then there is no need for IUSE=+dri. Or we can set it in every single ebuild that has the dri flag. I prefer the former because it reduces our maintenance burden. You make it sound

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-19 Thread Ben de Groot
On 19 January 2013 04:49, Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org wrote: During the server profile discussion, it became clear that we could clean up the base profiles a bit. This is unrelated to the profile versions, as the change would affect all versions (well, at least without bigger

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-19 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 3:18 AM, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: I'm not sure whether we need to keep cups at all. I haven't printed anything from my personal PC or laptop in years. And I'm sure I'm not the only one. Won't repeat my previous email, but this is the kind of situation where

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-19 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 19/01/13 05:33 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 3:18 AM, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: I'm not sure whether we need to keep cups at all. I haven't printed anything from my personal PC or laptop in years. And I'm sure

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-19 Thread Philip Webb
On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 3:18 AM, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: I'm not sure whether we need to keep cups at all. I haven't printed anything from my personal PC or laptop in years. As a user, I'ld say this wb a very unpopular move with some of us. I rarely use my 2nd-hand 1995 printer,

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-19 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 03:53:25PM -0500, Philip Webb wrote: On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 3:18 AM, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: I'm not sure whether we need to keep cups at all. I haven't printed anything from my personal PC or laptop in years. As a user, I'ld say this wb a very

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-19 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Sat, 2013-01-19 at 21:04 +, Aaron W. Swenson wrote: On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 03:53:25PM -0500, Philip Webb wrote: On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 3:18 AM, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: I'm not sure whether we need to keep cups at all. I haven't printed anything from my personal PC

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-19 Thread James Cloos
This question only matters if you expect there to be non-desktops where there are packages installed that IUSE dri. I'd note that there is no correlation between the use of the desktop profiles and the use of an X11 or wayland server on any given box. The (gui) world is much more than

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-19 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 07:40:56PM -0500, James Cloos wrote: This question only matters if you expect there to be non-desktops where there are packages installed that IUSE dri. I'd note that there is no correlation between the use of the desktop profiles and the use of an X11 or wayland

[gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-18 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
During the server profile discussion, it became clear that we could clean up the base profiles a bit. This is unrelated to the profile versions, as the change would affect all versions (well, at least without bigger changes). What I suggested and what djc and kensington supported was: *

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-18 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 18 January 2013 15:49:38 Andreas K. Huettel wrote: During the server profile discussion, it became clear that we could clean up the base profiles a bit. This is unrelated to the profile versions, as the change would affect all versions (well, at least without bigger changes). What

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-18 Thread Davide Pesavento
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org wrote: During the server profile discussion, it became clear that we could clean up the base profiles a bit. This is unrelated to the profile versions, as the change would affect all versions (well, at least without

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-18 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Andreas K. Huettel schrieb: * move setting USE=dri and USE=cups from default/linux/make.defaults to targets/desktop/make.defaults I would prefer to keep USE=dri in the default profile. If you want to move VIDEO_CARDS that would be fine with me though. Best regards, Chí-Thanh Christopher

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-18 Thread Patrick McLean
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 18/01/13 02:02 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: Andreas K. Huettel schrieb: * move setting USE=dri and USE=cups from default/linux/make.defaults to targets/desktop/make.defaults I would prefer to keep USE=dri in the default profile.

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 15:18:25 -0800 Patrick McLean chutz...@gentoo.org wrote: USE=dri is usually only relevant on desktops, why enable it on all profiles? This question only matters if you expect there to be non-desktops where there are packages

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-18 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Patrick McLean schrieb: I would prefer to keep USE=dri in the default profile. If you want to move VIDEO_CARDS that would be fine with me though. USE=dri is usually only relevant on desktops, why enable it on all profiles? Because it should be enabled when the respective packages are

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-18 Thread Markos Chandras
On 18 January 2013 23:29, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn chith...@gentoo.org wrote: Patrick McLean schrieb: I would prefer to keep USE=dri in the default profile. If you want to move VIDEO_CARDS that would be fine with me though. USE=dri is usually only relevant on desktops, why enable it

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-18 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 11:55:07PM +, Markos Chandras wrote: On 18 January 2013 23:29, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn chith...@gentoo.org wrote: Patrick McLean schrieb: I would prefer to keep USE=dri in the default profile. If you want to move VIDEO_CARDS that would be fine with me

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 23:58:22 + Aaron W. Swenson titanof...@gentoo.org wrote: Hell, as discussed, the base profile should contain the absolute minimal flags, and dri does not appear to be one of these. Having graphics support on such a profile is not expected. IMHO it should be moved to

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-18 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Markos Chandras schrieb: On 18 January 2013 23:29, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn chith...@gentoo.org wrote: Because it should be enabled when the respective packages are installed, and not depending on the profile the user has selected. Hell, as discussed, the base profile should contain the

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-18 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 01:02:04AM +0100, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: Markos Chandras schrieb: On 18 January 2013 23:29, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn chith...@gentoo.org wrote: Because it should be enabled when the respective packages are installed, and not depending on the

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-18 Thread Rick Zero_Chaos Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/18/2013 07:02 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: Markos Chandras schrieb: On 18 January 2013 23:29, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn chith...@gentoo.org wrote: Because it should be enabled when the respective packages are installed, and