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From: Jakub Moc <jakub@g.o>
To: Grant Goodyear <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] QA Roles v2
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 22:08:32
Message-Id: 2356845.20060303230322@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] QA Roles v2 by Grant Goodyear
1 3.3.2006, 22:54:25, Grant Goodyear wrote:
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3 >>> http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/proj/en/devrel/handbook/hb-guide-ebuild.xml?root=gentoo&r1=1.31&r2=1.32
4 >>>
5 >>> What's the above again? QA policy? How does user benefit from flipping a
6 >>> coin wrt choosing a functionality? Sigh... :/
7 >>
8 >> It prevents emerge from crashing out in the middle of what could be a
9 >> quite extensive build. Personally, I would rather rebuild one package
10 >> to get desired functionality _after_ the emerge completes than have to
11 >> fix the flags for that one package to be able to build everything else.
12
13 Erm, how exactly will you find out that you need to recompile that package
14 after such extensive build? You'll spend a couple of hours debugging when
15 your server app stops working? Yay! :P
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17 Oh please, stop making up artificial policies doing no good to users just to
18 hack around lacking features in portage.
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23 jakub

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Re: [gentoo-dev] QA Roles v2 Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@g.o>