Re: [gentoo-dev] February 2014 QA policy updates

[Gilles Dartiguelongue]

Le 19 févr. 2014 à 23:07, Chris Reffett <creffett@g.o> a écrit :

> Hello all,
> The following are the policy changes from this month's QA team meeting:
[…]
> -Regarding the gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation: we mandate that gtk
> move to versioned USE flags. For simplicity of migration, we will allow
> USE=gtk to mean "depend on gtk2," since there are only a few USE=gtk2
> remaining in tree. USE=gtk3 will mean "depend on gtk3," and in the
> future, USE=gtk4 will mean "depend on gtk4," and so on. USE=gtk may
> not be used to mean "depend on some version of gtk."
>
> -More generally: we recommend that in future situations like this (a package
> can optionally depend on different versions of a library), we recommend the
> use of versioned USE flags. It should be discussed with the QA team either
> way.
>
[…]
> Chris Reffett
> Gentoo QA Lead

I feel this policy is even less precise than what we had written in our wiki page and will in fact bring more confusion.
Can we actually get together in the writing of this, I feel a bit unhappy about the process.

-- 
Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o>