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Simon Stelling schrieb: |
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> Edgar Hucek wrote: |
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>> Just a side hint. Try to enable all flags at the first cimpile time would |
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>> reduce trys drasticaly ;) |
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> |
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> If you had a look at the php ebuild (just because we took it as example |
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> here), you'd see that it is a bit more complicated than just enabling |
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> everything to have everything tested. |
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> |
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>> So you say a developer cant't test all useflags? That is a strange |
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>> message from you. How can a developer garantee that his package is correct. |
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> He can't. That's what we're saying. Nobody said we can, nor do, nor want to. |
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>> Realy funny, i only hear exuses but no real solution for the problem. |
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> |
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> You have heard the real solution for the specific problems you pointed |
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> out: File a bug. You have also heard why it is impossible to guarantee |
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> that it simply works. |
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> |
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>> The fact is, that long outstanding bugs are simple ignored. If a useflag |
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>> would only apply to one package it could be ok, but not when the same |
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>> useflag is in other packages and makes this one useflag for the "normal user" |
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>> unusable. |
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> |
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> man portage: |
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> |
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> package.use |
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> Per-package USE flags. Useful for tracking local USE |
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> flags or for enabling USE flags for certain packages |
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> only. Perhaps you develop GTK and thus you want documen- |
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> tation for it, but you don't want documentation for QT. |
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> Easy as pie my friend! |
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> |
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> Format: |
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> - comments begin with # |
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> - one DEPEND atom per line with space-delimited USE flags |
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> |
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> Example: |
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> # turn on docs for GTK 2.x |
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> =x11-libs/gtk+-2* doc |
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> # disable mysql support for QT |
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> x11-libs/qt -mysql |
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> |
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> Know your tools, man. |
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I know my tools but not necessarly the normal user who wanna use gentoo |
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and is ending frustrated. |
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cu |
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Edgar (gimli) Hucek |
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