[gentoo-dev] Tinderboxing (was Re: package graveyard)

[Diego Elio Pettenò]

Il giorno mer, 17/08/2011 alle 23.20 +0200, Rémi Cardona ha scritto:
>
> If anything, working on tinderboxes to catch build issues early and
> file
> bugs against packages, _that_ would help to clean up cruft from
> portage.

Maintainers can help that by making sure that src_test is not wasting
useless time running non-tests, false positives, or code deemed to
failure.

Also, make sure that packages do not collide/block just for the sake of
doing so. If they provide binaries with the same name and functionality,
consider making them eselectable, or rename one of them.. if they have
the same name and do different stuff, get one (or both) upstream to
understand that the name is too generic, or already taken, and rename
the file once and for all.

Thank you all,

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