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Alec Warner wrote: |
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>> The whole argument here is that bailing out with conflicting use flags |
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>> breaks some extensive compiles. So you suppose users will be sitting in |
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>> front of their monitor and stare on the screen waiting for a scary |
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>> warning? |
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>> No, they won't. And even if they were, how exactly is that warning |
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>> better |
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> No they won't, but elog in portage-2.1 will gladly send them a message |
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> via whatever configuration they have about the warning that the ebuild |
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> produced. |
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> -Alec Warner |
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Greetings dear Gentoo developers. |
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I would like to give you my humble point of view on this subject as a |
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simple gentoo user. |
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A few days after an emerge that took 7 hours to complete I used the |
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portlog-info script to extract the warnings from the portage log (I'm |
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using portage 2.0.54 on that computer so no elog there). While reading |
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these warnings I came to this one: |
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=== 2006-02-12 01:01 =========== php-4.4.0-r4 === |
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= /var/log/portage/2729-php-4.4.0-r4.log (4.0K) = |
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... |
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* If you have both freetds and mssql in your USE flags, parts of PHP |
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* may not behave correctly, or may give strange warnings. You have |
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* been warned! It's recommended that you pick ONE of them. For sybase |
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* support, chose 'freetds'. For mssql support choose 'mssql'. |
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* If you have additional third party PHP extensions (such as |
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* dev-php/eaccelerator) you may need to recompile them now. |
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... |
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So now, even if I have no knowledge about PHP, I know that if something |
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is going wrong with it I will have to check these use flags. And if I |
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was not so lazy I would have a look at them right now to be sure |
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nothing bad will happen. |
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I feel more comfortable with this behavior than with a long emerge that |
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would have stopped in the middle because of potentially conflicting use |
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flags. |
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(sorry for my bad English and thank you all for your good work. I just |
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love Gentoo) |
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Fabrice Bellamy |
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