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Sending this from the right address this time.... |
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-g2boojum- |
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Grant Goodyear wrote: |
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> Jakub Moc wrote: |
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>> Please, until something is clarified/some consent reached, avoid changing |
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>> the docs w/ funny stuff like "just flip a coin"... |
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> I don't believe the text is meant to be funny. It's meant (I think) to |
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> suggest that if all else is equal, meaning that there is no obvious |
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> "best choice", then just choose a flag, by whatever means, to support as |
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> the default. Even if it is not what the user might have chosen, at |
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> least the build will complete. Moreover, the results will then be |
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> deterministic. |
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>> http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/proj/en/devrel/handbook/hb-guide-ebuild.xml?root=gentoo&r1=1.31&r2=1.32 |
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>> What's the above again? QA policy? How does user benefit from flipping a |
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>> coin wrt choosing a functionality? Sigh... :/ |
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> It prevents emerge from crashing out in the middle of what could be a |
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> quite extensive build. Personally, I would rather rebuild one package |
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> to get desired functionality _after_ the emerge completes than have to |
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> fix the flags for that one package to be able to build everything else. |
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> -g2boojum- |
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