Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: konsolebox <konsolebox@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Disarm FEATURES=distcc-pump
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 00:22:52
Message-Id: CAJnmqwajMKQzfzeFvAZf2A4kimN=+cpkvv42boZkgC=pj=uYwg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Disarm FEATURES=distcc-pump by "Michał Górny"
1 On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 11:28 PM Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 > Sure, provided that they are warned that any suspicious bug reports will
4 > be rejected. Developers have better things to do than try to figure out
5 > whether some unmaintained-for-years, half-broken feature may have been
6 > the cause of a misbehaving system.
7
8 Yes, even a strong warning like "Warning: Usage of distcc-pump can
9 lead to broken builds. Any bug report that involves a package or a
10 package dependency of any level that is compiled with the use of
11 distcc-pump will unconditionally be rejected. You might as well just
12 rebuild your system without distcc-pump to make a valid bug report."
13 is very agreeable to me.
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16 konsolebox