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* Thomas T. Veldhouse <veldy@×××××.net> [2002-12-11 12:35]: |
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> It is relatively safe to make sure that you have tested every use flag, not |
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> every combination of use flags. |
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Yeah, I suppose you're right about that. What I was getting at is that a system |
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like this is inevitably going to leave holes in the testing and that these will |
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very likely be the very same holes left by the developer of the ebuild if they |
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did a minimum of testing on their own ebuild. e.g. Trying a build with each |
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one of the use flags. To do more than this, such as trying permutations of USE |
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flags or building against multiple versions of dependencies runs into the |
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exploding problem space issue I mentioned before. |
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I just think that users will find bugs much faster than a build bot since I |
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think that a large portion of the Gentoo user population tend to be bleeding |
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edgers and put that ~arch in their make.conf. Not that I would discourage |
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someone from trying to set up such a system. I just question its usefulness. |
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-Brian |
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