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From: Peter Stuge <peter@stuge.se>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Make inotify a global USE flag?
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:10:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130321121007.8615.qmail@stuge.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <514AF6E7.9090703@gentoo.org>

Samuli Suominen wrote:
>> Samuli Suominen wrote:
>>> it should always be enabled with 'kernel_linux' and let the
>>> application itself do a runtime check if inotify is available or not
>>
>> I think it's great if you are working on such patches for upstreams!
>
> no, i'm talking from experience -- every package I've seen/touched/...
> with IUSE="inotify" has had code that made it safe to use also for
> non-inotify'd kernels
> i'm referring to the mistakes done by maintainers by adding
> unnecessarily the flag

That was not at all clear, but that's great! Then you could fix those
ebuilds. Except there's that rule to not fix bugs in others' ebuilds,
so even though you've found a bug you're not allowed to fix it.. :\


//Peter


  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-21 12:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-21 10:29 [gentoo-dev] Make inotify a global USE flag? Ulrich Mueller
2013-03-21 10:32 ` Samuli Suominen
2013-03-21 11:43   ` Peter Stuge
2013-03-21 12:02     ` Samuli Suominen
2013-03-21 12:10       ` Peter Stuge [this message]
2013-03-21 12:19         ` Sergey Popov
2013-03-21 12:26         ` Samuli Suominen
2013-03-21 13:33           ` Peter Stuge
2013-03-21 14:30             ` Tom Wijsman
2013-03-21 16:32   ` Michał Górny
2013-03-21 11:48 ` Alexander Berntsen
2013-03-21 14:14   ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-03-21 16:14     ` Alexander Berntsen

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