Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] eapply: Drop -s option for patch.
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 21:42:53
Message-Id: d3b3da3fd8dd38017bc7f2d6bf14be29a1333232.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] eapply: Drop -s option for patch. by Mike Gilbert
1 On Fri, 2019-12-13 at 16:37 -0500, Mike Gilbert wrote:
2 > On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 3:36 PM Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
3 > > Just like 'many of the proposals lately', developers are going to be
4 > > the ones disabling it (because they don't care), and users will be the
5 > > ones enabling it (because they do care), just to learn that developers
6 > > don't care and go complaining to the mailing lists that users dare
7 > > report issues they don't care about.
8 >
9 > I care if the patch is actually broken, which the warning doesn't
10 > really tell me. It's just not a very reliable indicator, and will
11 > produce false-positives frequently.
12 >
13
14 You can also take less context into the patch and use -F0. Then you'll
15 have the same effect, no warnings to bother you and no pretending that
16 the patch applies when it doesn't.
17
18 --
19 Best regards,
20 Michał Górny

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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] eapply: Drop -s option for patch. Michael 'veremitz' Everitt <gentoo@×××××××.xyz>
Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] eapply: Drop -s option for patch. Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>