Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 2006.1

[Kevin F. Quinn]

On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 12:34:38 +0200
Edgar Hucek <gimli@g.o> wrote:

> Apeal on extended testing :
>
> Developer, please test things more carefull before you
> release it.

There are over 10,000 packages in the tree (11247 to be exact); each
of which can be built many ways with USE flags.  It is simply not
feasible to test all of the packages in all possible combinations in
all possible USE configurations for all architectures.  The number of
combinations is literally astronomical.

So, we test what we can, but rely on users to raise a bug in bugzilla
when a combination they try, that we haven't, fails.

> I already found things which does not compile out of
> the box.

So raise bugs on bugs.gentoo.org.  Make sure you include data about the
configuration of your system (i.e. the output of 'emerge --info').

> 1.) Use wacom does not compile out of the box. You
> have to unmask linuxwacom.

Raise a bug, if one hasn't already been raised.

> 2.) Enable the use flage accessibility gnome cant be
> merged. It fails on compile the speech-tools.

Raise a bug, if one hasn't already been raised.

> It seams that USE flags are not realy tested or how
> can it happen that there are already know bugs in the
> stable distro ?
>
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116030

> Festival and the speech-tools are well know not to
> compile with gcc >=4.

Er, because the bug is not yet fixed.  If we were to hold up the
release of everything until all bugs are fixed, we'd never release
anything.

You have the power to sort out this problem on your own system.  Just
build the relevant packages with gcc-3.4.6 instead of gcc-4.1.1 (see
gcc-config for switching your selected compiler).

-- 
Kevin F. Quinn