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From: Edgar Hucek <gimli@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 2006.1
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 11:23:31
Message-Id: 44F96881.90806@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 2006.1 by Jakub Moc
1 Jakub Moc schrieb:
2 > Edgar Hucek wrote:
3 >> Apeal on extended testing :
4 >>
5 >> Developer, please test things more carefull before you
6 >> release it.
7 >> I already found things which does not compile out of
8 >> the box.
9 >> 1.) Use wacom does not compile out of the box. You
10 >> have to unmask linuxwacom.
11 >
12 > Shrug. Noone even filed a stabilization bug, ask x11-drivers folks why.
13 > There's one now: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145891
14 >
15 >> 2.) Enable the use flage accessibility gnome cant be
16 >> merged. It fails on compile the speech-tools.
17 >> It seams that USE flags are not realy tested or how
18 >> can it happen that there are already know bugs in the
19 >> stable distro ?
20 >>
21 >> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116030
22 >>
23 >> Festival and the speech-tools are well know not to
24 >> compile with gcc >=4.
25 >
26 >
27 > Well, you know - if you go to read the speech-tools/festival & co. bug,
28 > and read the ebuild, you'll see that the whole thing and code is one
29 > huge mess, that doesn't compile even w/ gcc-3.3 without patching. You'd
30 > probably prefer to never put out a new release, I guess? How many people
31 > are using this one, and how does it justify delaying the release even more?
32 >
33 >
34
35 >From my point of view, should it be garanted that a package and depencies
36 compiles when all use flags are enabled. If a depency can't be compiled the
37 use flag and depence should be dissabled/removed from a package.
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40 cu
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42 Edgar (gimli) Hucek
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The Age of the Universe (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 2006.1) Danny van Dyk <kugelfang@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 2006.1 Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>