Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: AT emerge info cruft > attachments on bugs.g.o

[Thomas Cort]

On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 23:58:46 +0200
"Kevin F. Quinn" <kevquinn@g.o> wrote:

> It's not about trust, it's about knowing what the CFLAGS/FEATURES
> were.  That way if someone else reports a failure, you can compare the
> reports and see what differences might be triggering the fault.

I get that posting `emerge --info` provides a "known good" set of
CFLAGS/USE-flags/FEATURES/toolchain versions/etc which can be useful at
times. However, we don't require that developers post their emerge
--info when a package works, so why do we require that ATs do it?

-Thomas