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Hi Dirk, |
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First of all, I would like to thank you for your numerous bugs reported |
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in our Bugzilla. It looks to me like you are just going through every |
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package you find in a given category. This is fine because it |
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immediately tells us which packages are the low hanging fruit ones that |
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compile out of the box. However, compilation only is not the only thing |
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we consider when keywording a package. |
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The simplest thing we can do, before keywording is checking whether the |
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compiled binary actually starts. Then we try to figure out if the build |
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application works like expected on some key points. |
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Often ebuilds hav USE flags which control additional behaviour and |
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compilation options. Of course each (combination of) these USE flags |
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should work before we keyword the package. |
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In a reply to your latest flood of bug mails, I would like to ask you on |
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behalf of the Gentoo/OSX team to keep this in mind, and where possible: |
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1) check at least all of the USE flags enabled |
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2a) give a quick fling to the build application to see if it works or not |
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2b) if you perform a test somehow, report, so we can retry that |
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3) make sure you are not reporting bugs on working packages on packages |
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already marked ppc-macos or ~ppc-macos |
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Again, thanks for your contributions. We hope you can ease our lives a |
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little bit by supplying us with some more detailed info on what you have |
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tried in order to get what you got. |
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Regards, |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo for Mac OS X |
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