Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

On Tuesday 28 February 2006 13:00, Jakub Moc wrote:
> 28.2.2006, 18:11:57, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:02:11 +0000 Renat Lumpau <rl03@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > | On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 04:35:32PM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> | >> Ebuilds can't override this either. Read on in the eclass and you'll
> | >> notice that it checks that SLOT hasn't been changed to something
> | >> sane.
> > |
> > | Excepting that you can set WEBAPP_MANUAL_SLOT="yes" and set SLOT to
> > | whatever the hell you want. But don't let my facts get in the way of
> > | your nonsense.
> >
> > And it sticks out a nasty ewarn and says that the ebuild is probably
> > broken.
>
> <snip>
> ewarn "This ebuild overrides the default SLOT behaviour for webapps"
> ewarn "If this package installs files into the htdocs dir, this is"
> ewarn "probably a bug in the ebuild."
> </snip>
>
> Sigh... what kind of QA issue is that?

which part dont you understand ?  the user sets a variable and then is told 
that the package probably contains a bug ... seems pretty confusing to me
-mike
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