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
next 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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