Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] make.globals: Enable FEATURES=multilib-strict by default

[Michał Górny]

On śro, 2017-07-26 at 09:58 -0700, Zac Medico wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 12:20 AM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
> > Enable the multilib-strict feature necessary for Portage to detect
> > ebuilds not respecting libdir for libraries. Since those issues were
> > reliably fixed over the years and we're nearing the removal of 'lib'
> > symlink, I think we can safely enable it by default for our users
> > without risking many additional issues for them.
> >
> > At the same time, many proxied maintainers keep submitting ebuilds that
> > do not respect libdir, and that require us to explicitly point that out
> > to them. Having Portage detect that by default would be really helpful.
> > ---
> >  cnf/make.globals | 3 ++-
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> That seems reasonable, especially given that the profile controls the
> MULTILIB_STRICT_* variables that enable this. Maybe this is worthy of
> sending a warning to the -dev mailing list?

I could do that. However, I suspect that everyone who's developing
Gentoo in any way already uses it ;-).

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Best regards,
Michał Górny