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On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 8:33 AM, hasufell <hasufell@g.o> wrote: |
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> So this makes no sense, since it's already an unsupported corner case. |
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Just what use of Gentoo do you not consider an unsupported corner |
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case, which isn't already better supported by some other distro? |
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The whole point of using Gentoo is having "support" for all those |
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"unsupported corner cases." If you just want everything to support |
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doing things in the one way which is most supportable, you're |
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basically doing a really bad job at re-inventing Debian. |
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I use quotes around support since all support on Gentoo is |
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best-effort, and that is all I'm getting at here. If a package |
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maintainer can support multiple configurations and are willing to do |
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so, they should be encouraged to do so. |
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>> I'm not suggesting that package maintainers should be forced to |
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>> support both whenever possible. I just don't think they should be |
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>> discouraged from doing so. |
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> Yes, they should be discouraged. It's a QA matter. |
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Well, I'm glad we've all aired our opinions on the matter. :) |
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I just fail to see the QA issue here, unless it again boils down to |
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that it is easier to do QA when you have one configuration (like |
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Debian) and not many (like Gentoo). |
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The other issue that keeps coming up is that we don't have good |
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standards for USE flag naming in these situations, and the solution to |
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that is to come up with a good uniform practice. |
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