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From: Sergey Popov <pinkbyte@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: useflag policies
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 13:39:58
Message-Id: 55C9FB20.7080704@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: useflag policies by Michael Palimaka
1 11.08.2015 16:30, Michael Palimaka пишет:
2 >
3 > Don't forget that as a project with no special authority, Qt's policy
4 > remains a suggestion for the vast majority of maintainers. If someone
5 > wishes to provide support for only one Qt version or abuse their users
6 > with REQUIRED_USE they are still free to do so.
7 >
8
9 Not enforcing policies on main tree is a bad thing. If you make policy,
10 make other maintainers follow it. I am not against consistent policy
11 that ease life BOTH for developers and users.
12
13 You think that REQUIRED_USE is abusive to users: fine. Point accepted.
14 I think that provided DEPEND strings if they will be typed at every
15 single qt-related ebuild that needs them are abusive to developers.
16
17 So, maybe we should wrap them into eclass and stop riding our own
18 bicycles...
19
20 And then - use apropriate one-liner where it's needed, providing
21 reasonable default and NOT confusing users with overmanaging their
22 package.use
23
24 --
25 Best regards, Sergey Popov
26 Gentoo developer
27 Gentoo Desktop Effects project lead
28 Gentoo Quality Assurance project lead
29 Gentoo Proxy maintainers project lead

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[gentoo-dev] Re: useflag policies Michael Palimaka <kensington@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: useflag policies Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>