Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: FEATURES="binchecks strip" for plain file packages e.g. latex, perl, python

On 9/20/13 12:24 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
> As Michał said.

Please consider updating the documentation - ebuild(5):

> RESTRICT = [strip,mirror,fetch,userpriv]
>        This  should  be a space delimited list of portage features to
>        restrict.  You may use conditional syntax to vary restrictions as
>        seen above in DEPEND.
>        binchecks
>               Disable all QA checks for binaries.  This should ONLY be
>               used in packages  for which binary checks make no sense
>               (linux-headers and kernel-sources, for example, can safely
>               be skipped since they have no binaries).  If the binary
>               checks need  to  be skipped for other reasons (such as
>               proprietary binaries), see the QA CONTROL VARIABLES section
>               for more specific exemptions.

This is currently used at least by sys-apps/man-pages, as well as
packages in x11-themes and sys-kernel.

I'm fine either way, let's just make sure our "mailing list advice"
matches documentation and established practice.

Paweł