Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: lzma tarball usage

[Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>]

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On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 16:23 +0300, Mart Raudsepp wrote:
> I do realize one would remove build-time dependencies and the toolchain
> on an embedded system on deployment anyway, but this means gcc USE=nocxx
> USE flag is pretty much useless, while it would be nice to use it to
> ensure that nothing sneaks in during development that depends on the C++
> standard library easily instead of finding things break later.

It's a pain in the ass for Release Engineering, too.  At this point,
we're looking into how we need to modify the bootstrap sequence to
accommodate people using lzma for system (and lower) packages.

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220074

We're already getting reports of this due to someone deciding that it'd
be a good idea to use lzma for our daily portage snapshots without any
discussion here.  Luckily, we still have the other tarballs to use, too.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering Strategic Lead
Games Developer

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