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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] LFS QA warnings coming soon to a build near you
Date: Sun, 31 May 2015 17:27:28
Message-Id: CAJ0EP41pQA1i4UHrNaWRenUSZ3nTJVCaJwLaDn9WwYGip0TWjg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] LFS QA warnings coming soon to a build near you by Mike Frysinger
1 On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:
2 > On 31 May 2015 11:58, Mike Gilbert wrote:
3 >> It might still be nice to adjust such packages for consistency, but it
4 >> might be harder to justify patches to upstream developers.
5 >
6 > pkg-config already merged it and it's already been pulled back into Gentoo ;)
7 > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90078
8 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/550508
9 >
10 > that said, i'm not entirely sure why there would be a lot of push back.
11 > when i gathered data on this years ago (which i no longer have, so i'd have
12 > to recreate), the increased foot print and runtime cost was not significant.
13 > especially when you consider that we're talking about I/O operations which
14 > inherently kill CPU performance due to stalls.
15 > -mike
16
17 Sure, I don't really expect much resistance. I just like to be
18 prepared in the event some developer starts asking questions.