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From: Mart Raudsepp <leio@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing policy about -Werror
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 20:59:56
Message-Id: 1536613181.17304.1.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing policy about -Werror by Kristian Fiskerstrand
1 Ühel kenal päeval, E, 10.09.2018 kell 22:56, kirjutas Kristian
2 Fiskerstrand:
3 > On 9/10/18 10:51 PM, Matt Turner wrote:
4 > > Consider again the bug that started this. The maintainer had not
5 > > built
6 > > this configuration. None of the arch teams had built this
7 > > configuration until I did for the last architecture Cc'd. The patch
8 > > committed doesn't change anything installed on the system, if not
9 > > for
10 > > Werror preventing the code from building.
11 >
12 > one way to look at it though, is that it is a valuable upstream
13 > contribution that this configuration produces the error, so Gentoo is
14 > contributing to upstream development because of it.
15
16 And losing users and thus relevance in the process. Not everyone goes
17 to bugzilla always and then waits for a fix, or fixes it themselves.
18 Normal people wipe that stuff away and install an operating
19 system/distribution that doesn't cause them grief in its place.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing policy about -Werror "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" <chithanh@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing policy about -Werror Richard Yao <ryao@g.o>