Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

[Ciaran McCreesh]

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:30:24 +0100 Jakub Moc <jakub@g.o> wrote:
| OK, so kernel-2.eclass is abusing the slot as well, go scream on
| kernel devs.

No. kernel-2 installs sources, not an actual package.

| > | Yeah, it checks for that since that's the way the eclass is
| > | designed. You can't declare a slot in a kernel ebuild either.
| 
| > One is a design flaw. The other is not.
| 
| Ah, tell me about the dual standards :P

Not dual standards at all. There's nothing wrong with saying "don't do
x unless you're doing y", with appropriate justification.

| > | Well, starts to be boring - so, either come with something valid
| > | from QA standpoint or stop now.
| 
| > This is a valid issue from a QA standpoint. This is also why I'm not
| > going to waste my time doing a proper list -- rather than addressing
| > issues, they are being passed off as irrelevant or even features.
| 
| Next time, rather think a couple of times up before claiming
| something very broken on a public mailing list where you have no
| proof for such claims. Will be immensely helpful for everyone
| involved.

No proof?

Sheesh, you'll probably claim that this isn't broken next too:

    if [ "${IS_UPGRADE}" = "1" ] ; then
        einfo "Removing old version ${REMOVE_PKG}"

        emerge -C "${REMOVE_PKG}"
    fi

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