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On Sep 12, 2018, at 4:28 PM, Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge@g.o> wrote: |
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>> If a package really ought to have |
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>> -Werror due to a very good reason and is properly maintained to support it, |
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>> then there is nothing wrong with inventing a USE flag to give users the |
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>> option of enforcing that. |
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> There is something very *much* wrong with that. |
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> 1) It's trivial to enforce -Werror via the packages.env mechanism on specific |
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> packages (e.g. those that you maintain). |
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That really does not help the users see which packages explicitly support -Werror if they want it. |
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> 2) Compared to that, an additional useflag introduces a lot of unnecessary |
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> overhead at the package manager level *and* requires yet another level of |
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> policies and Gentoo-specific definitions. |
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It occurs to me that this is really a debug feature, so it really ought to be turned on for USE=debug. Use of USE=debug in production is largely discouraged, so this could be fine. However, this is very much a case by case thing. |
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> Andreas K. Hüttel |
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> dilfridge@g.o |
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> Gentoo Linux developer |
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> (council, toolchain, perl, libreoffice, comrel) |
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