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From: Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] FEATURES use or misuse?
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 16:48:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200911031648.04090.patrick@gentoo.org> (raw)

Hi there,

a while ago Thilo Bangert spent quite some time on filing lots of bugs. While 
I appreciate such QA efforts I don't agree with those bugs at all.

All of these bugs were for the use of the FEATURES variable in ebuilds, which 
is a very convenient thing to work around issues. 
For example known failures with FEATURE="distcc" or funky things like test 
failures with FEATURES="userpriv" and so on. All other methods of expressing 
that are much more verbose and inherently sucky.

One example of such a bug is https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278960 
for those too lazy to search.

To quote:
"FEATURES is a portage specific package manager configuration variable not
specified in PMS and cannot reliably be used in ebuilds or eclasses."

Well then, I suggest we finally start documenting reality and fix PMS. The use 
of the FEATURES variable, while it has been there for ... uhm ... as long as I 
can think back, actually :), should not be randomly suppressed. 

So ... what's your opinion? Should we do things as they are correct, or as 
they are specified in PMS? ( /me points at bash 3.0 )

Take care,

Patrick



             reply	other threads:[~2009-11-03 15:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-03 15:48 Patrick Lauer [this message]
2009-11-03 17:27 ` [gentoo-dev] FEATURES use or misuse? Sebastian Pipping
2009-11-03 20:36   ` Patrick Lauer
2009-11-03 20:58     ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-11-03 22:28       ` Patrick Lauer
2009-11-04  0:11         ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
2009-11-04  8:26           ` Patrick Lauer
2009-11-05  1:36             ` Ryan Hill
2009-11-05  4:56               ` [gentoo-dev] a pragmatic approach to FEATURES [was FEATURES use or misuse?] Brian Harring
2009-11-05  8:49                 ` Thilo Bangert
2009-11-05  9:36                   ` Brian Harring
2009-11-08  9:21                     ` Thilo Bangert
2009-11-03 21:26 ` [gentoo-dev] FEATURES use or misuse? Alexis Ballier
2009-11-03 22:04   ` Patrick Lauer
2009-11-03 22:26     ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-11-04  0:33     ` Sebastian Pipping
2009-11-04  8:26       ` Patrick Lauer
2009-11-03 23:04 ` David Leverton
2009-11-04  1:31   ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2009-11-04 22:12 ` Peter Hjalmarsson
2009-11-05  5:04   ` Brian Harring

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