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On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 21:12:22 +0000 Stuart Herbert <stuart@g.o> |
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wrote: |
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| This point is another example of an attempt to enforce an undocumented |
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| QA policy, which is where I made my input, as the architect of our new |
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| (and well-received) PHP packages. ... and then the discussion |
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| deteriorated into something I'm not particularly proud of, for my part |
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| in it. |
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Huh? |
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I quote the official policy: |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=1 |
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> Occasionally, ebuilds will have conflicting USE flags for |
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> functionality. Checking for them and returning an error is not a |
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> viable solution. Instead, you must pick one of the USE flags in |
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> conflict to favour. One example comes from the msmtp ebuilds. The |
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> package can use either SSL with GnuTLS, SSL with OpenSSL, or no SSL |
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> at all. Because GnuTLS is more featureful than OpenSSL, it is |
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> favoured: |
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It's a QA violation, and not a feature as you claim. |
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I find it particularly worrying that you try to pass of blatant policy |
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violations as a feature. The first step in QA is detecting that there |
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is a problem. |
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-- |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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