Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: David W Noon <dwnoon@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] installation aborted due to poor programming practices
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:25:29
Message-Id: 20100419154814.6caa41b8@karnak.local
1 On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:00:03 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote about Re:
2 [gentoo-user] installation aborted due to poor programming practices:
3
4 >On 19 Apr, Neil Bothwick wrote:
5 >> On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:47:17 +0200 (CEST), Helmut Jarausch wrote:
6 >>
7 >>> the installation of a package (unofficial gimp-gap) is 'aborted due
8 >>> to poor programming practices' probably since there have been lots
9 >>> of dereferencing type-punned pointers and similar warnings.
10 >>>
11 >>> How can I forced portage to install it anyway?
12 >>
13 >> Possibly FEATURES="-strict" emerge --opts blah
14 >>
15 >
16 >Unfortunately this didn't help.
17
18 The other possibility for ebuilds that have ropey programming practices
19 is:
20
21 export VERY_BRAVE_OR_VERY_DUMB='yes'
22 emerge <some pile of crap>
23
24 This environment variable is self-documenting.
25 --
26 Regards,
27
28 Dave [RLU #314465]
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30 dwnoon@××××××××.com (David W Noon)
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