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On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o> wrote: |
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>> On Nov 17, 2014, at 7:03 PM, hasufell <hasufell@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> On 11/18/2014 12:47 AM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: |
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>>> Am Dienstag, 18. November 2014, 00:38:36 schrieb hasufell: |
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>>> We just don't want to answer a thousand |
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>>> questions when things break for others. That is the whole point of sane |
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>>> defaults. |
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>> Except that sane defaults are not a substitute for correct dependencies |
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>> (like people omitting USE flag deps on libsdl, because they assume users |
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>> won't disable them). |
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>> Also, you don't have to answer questions if it's clear that certain |
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>> settings break stuff and what they break. There are ways to communicate |
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>> this (even in USE flag descriptions). |
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>> If you don't communicate it, then you will have to answers questions... |
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> Can we all agree that dependencies should be correct regardless of the use flag settings? And leave the rest of this discussion to the bikeshed it belongs in ? :) |
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Indeed. |
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Back to the original topic: as I understand it, toolchain deps are |
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just really hard to do correctly and would increase the complexity of |
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the average ebuild quite a lot, which is why we don't try. Especially |
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when you introduce the possibility of cross-compilation. |
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