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On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 11:21:46PM -0700, Abhishek Amit wrote: |
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> While we may not(we being users of wms only) use desktop |
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> enviorments, KDE and GNOME are still in the default USE flags. ALSA |
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> is also in there(/etc/make.profile/use.defaults). I think that the |
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> defualt flags should be the basis of testing, and note I am writing |
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> this from mutt in flxbox. |
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But, remember that the default flags are what maintainers usually are |
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running. So a tinderbox system would only test exactly what the |
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maintainers are testing, and thus wouldn't give any idea of how good |
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an ebuild was. |
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I have no statistics or not even investigated it, but I have a hunch |
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that most ebuilds fail because of; |
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*) Forgotten dependencies |
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*) virtual dependencies satisfies another package than the maintainer |
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are running |
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*) Strange USE flags |
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I don't think it would be feasable for a tinderbox to test all the |
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possible combinations for every new ebuild. |
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Although, a tinderbox would be nice for maintainers that doesn't have |
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access to sparc/powerpc architectures to test that their packages |
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atleast build on them. But gentoo perhaps already has a couple of |
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servers that can be used to manually test different archs? |
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//H |
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Btw, if you're using mutt... Can't you investigate if there are some |
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way to make your editor do linebreaks? ;) |
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To segfault is human; to bluescreen moronic. |
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