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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:42:30
Message-Id: 200602281339.15979.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role by Jakub Moc
1 On Tuesday 28 February 2006 13:00, Jakub Moc wrote:
2 > 28.2.2006, 18:11:57, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
3 > > On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:02:11 +0000 Renat Lumpau <rl03@g.o> wrote:
4 > > | On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 04:35:32PM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
5 > | >> Ebuilds can't override this either. Read on in the eclass and you'll
6 > | >> notice that it checks that SLOT hasn't been changed to something
7 > | >> sane.
8 > > |
9 > > | Excepting that you can set WEBAPP_MANUAL_SLOT="yes" and set SLOT to
10 > > | whatever the hell you want. But don't let my facts get in the way of
11 > > | your nonsense.
12 > >
13 > > And it sticks out a nasty ewarn and says that the ebuild is probably
14 > > broken.
15 >
16 > <snip>
17 > ewarn "This ebuild overrides the default SLOT behaviour for webapps"
18 > ewarn "If this package installs files into the htdocs dir, this is"
19 > ewarn "probably a bug in the ebuild."
20 > </snip>
21 >
22 > Sigh... what kind of QA issue is that?
23
24 which part dont you understand ? the user sets a variable and then is told
25 that the package probably contains a bug ... seems pretty confusing to me
26 -mike
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Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role Jakub Moc <jakub@g.o>