Re: [gentoo-dev] QA Roles v2

[Mark Loeser]

Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> said:
> one thing i dont think we give enough emphasis to is that our tools arent
> perfect ... sometimes we utilize QA violations to work around portage
> limitations ... if you want to see some really sweet hacks, review any of the
> toolchain related ebuilds and the hacks ive had to add to get cross-compiling
> to the usuable state that it is today.  a handful of them would fall under
> the 'severe' category i'm sure.  and if we want to use the lovely php
> example, personally i think that given portage's current limitations, the
> latest dev-lang/php ebuild is probably one of the best solutions that could
> have been developed, thanks Stuart for all the flak you've had to take over
> this.  also, many games ebuilds break the 'non-interactive' policy by
> displaying licensing and making the user hit "Y" because portage lacks checks
> where the user explicitly states what licenses they accept.

This somewhat touchs on what pauldv mentioned earlier, that we will
acknowledge when no better possible solution is available, and some
"workaround" is needed.  As he also suggested, we should keep a list of
these in the form of open bugs so that we can get a better solution
somewhere in the long-term.

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