Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy for bugs because of use flags

[Ciaran McCreesh]

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 23:49:42 +0100 Jörg Schaible <joerg.schaible@×××.de>
wrote:
| please let me know, since when do we have a bug policy for "standard
| accepted safe use flags"? I don't expect any developer to test a
| variety of different use flags, but what if a user reports, that a
| package is seriously broken because of a use flag? In former times a
| critical flag was just filtered out in the ebuild, but why is such a
| thing fix now rejected ?

Are you talking about USE flags or CFLAGS? If you mean USE flags, it
used to be the case that no combination should cause a failure, but
nowadays certain developers are making things barf in pkg_setup instead
(which IMO sucks, since any failure of this kind should happen *before*
all the dependencies start to be merged).

If you mean CFLAGS, you won't have any problems if you stick with a nice
sane set (on the rare occasions when sensible CFLAGS do cause problems,
they're generally filtered). If you use stupid CFLAGS, expect things to
break. Anyone using -ffast-math globally, for example, deserves
everything they get...

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