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

[Alec Warner <antarus@gentoo.org>]

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Stephen P. Becker wrote:
> Grant Goodyear wrote:
> 
>>Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
>>
>>>My point is that that's a nasty QA bug that's relying upon input from
>>>Stuart to be fixed. Whilst that one's still alive, I'm not going to go
>>>around filing more similar "breaks non-interactively" bugs because the
>>>discussion will just get repeated over and over.
>>
>>Huh?  I just read through the bug, and it actually appears to be
>>resolved pending Chris' testing w/ the needed USE flags added to the
>>various profiles.  I'll admit that the fix is inelegant, but I'm missing
>>where it's waiting upon Stuart for additional info.  Am I missing something?
> 
> 
> Yes, you are missing that the bug really isn't fixed.  There are still
> USE combinations which would be otherwise perfectly valid, but which
> cause php to fail to emerge, thus reaking non-interactivity and forcing
> people to (ab)use /etc/portage/package.use to get things working properly.
> 
> -Steve

The bug is about *default* use flags breaking interactivity.  There are
donzens of packages that die in pkg_setup if incorrect USE flags are
sepcified, because use-dependencies are not implemented.  I don't
believe anyone is trying to enforce interactivity in that case, because
as far as I'm aware there is no workaround present.

-Alec Warner

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