From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MyvCd-0004Ve-9i for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:23:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 40D60E07BC; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:23:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from jolexa.net (jolexa.net [69.164.197.24]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21564E07BC for ; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:23:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jolexa.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B39715B7A4 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:23:13 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at jolexa.net Received: from jolexa.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (jolexa.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id YQmIXtEbDAbM for ; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:23:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.110] (c-24-245-20-2.hsd1.mn.comcast.net [24.245.20.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by jolexa.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4F3C35B781 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:23:13 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4AD8F24F.2030205@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:23:11 -0500 From: Jeremy Olexa User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090920) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-x86 commit in net-mail/getmail: ChangeLog getmail-4.9.2.ebuild References: <20091011171120.TA51e64.tv@veller.net> <20091013192213.GB16985@gentoo.org> <20091013234849.545579a4@epia.jer-c2.orkz.net> <1255680250.4873.5.camel@su.perronet.esiee.net> In-Reply-To: <1255680250.4873.5.camel@su.perronet.esiee.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: cd9e2b1f-f9b1-4918-a444-1e9f7be11e1b X-Archives-Hash: ce75d1b51fcab38d1c4ee4a8554bf28f Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote: > Le mardi 13 octobre 2009 =C3=A0 23:48 +0200, Jeroen Roovers a =C3=A9cri= t : >> On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:22:13 +0200 >> Fabian Groffen wrote: >> >>> We are working on a proper explanation targetted to devs of this. I'= m >>> sorry for the inconvenience caused. >> How large of a change to the tree will this involve? Is it a small >> number of packages that need to be fixed through the ebuilds right now= ? >> will that number grow? Will you notify package maintainers of these >> changes? >=20 > Apparently not, it's not that the change is complicated but I (and the > rest of the gnome herd) would rather have an upfront information about > any kind of changes to our ebuilds than discovering these through > gentoo-commits... Jeroen / Gilles : Coming soon. The internal draft was just prepared but=20 Fabian will be sending it. >=20 >>> For the moment you can find our own documentation here: >>> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/techdocs.xml >> Where did you document D -> ED? Can you briefly describe what it does? See the section "The variables ED and EROOT" on that link. I don't want=20 to open it up for discussion on this thread though. >=20 > I'd also like to know why this cannot be handled by the usual D with > package manager support, this would save a lot of changes to ebuilds > (like the python abi stuff that still has no documentation afaik). >=20 > I sincerely want to see progress in the way we handle prefix, python > abis and all the cool stuff that is still in preparation, but let's do > it in a way to makes every dev aware of it (sending a mail to > gentoo-dev-announce for example), thanks. Thanks for your support on behalf of the Prefix team, -Jeremy