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On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Andrey Falko <ma3oxuct@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Andrey Vul <andrey.vul@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> > Good digging around :). So this is a python bug then? Or does portage |
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>> > need |
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>> > to be update for some change that went into python? Actually, is this |
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>> > really |
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>> > even a bug...its just a minor cosmetic problem really. |
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>> One's bug is another's feature. |
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>> libc in uname is honestly WTF but this begs the real question: why |
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>> doesn't portage (emerge and repoman to be specific) simply get the |
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>> output of uname -a ? It's not written in C, you don't have to mess |
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>> around with 5-6 fd's to get the needed data. |
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>> And I think that this is both a design bug and a red herring. |
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>> By the way, should I make a bug report with a patch to remove this issue? |
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>> Making it selectable via FEATURES requires more digging around in portage. |
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>> Andrey Vul |
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>> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. |
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>> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? |
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>> A: Top-posting. |
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>> Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? |
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> Maybe we should ask gentoo-dev? The reason not to use uname -a straight up |
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> is because it forces portage to depend on coreutils. Portage ebuilds |
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> currently do not depend on it unless userland_GNU is enabled. I'm split, I |
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> prefer code to always be as easy as possible, yet I don't like unnecessary |
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> dependencies. |
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I'm going to try and reverse-engineer uname and make it python-able. I |
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just hope python<->C is much more simple than Java<->C (JNI is a |
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complex, horrible, and ugly piece of bloat). |
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Andrey Vul |
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. |
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Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? |
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A: Top-posting. |
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Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? |