From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GJVuh-0005qi-Rq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 02 Sep 2006 13:52:00 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k82DojXF011534; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 13:50:45 GMT Received: from buggy.blubb.ch (cable-static-87-245-102-53.shinternet.ch [87.245.102.53]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k82Dma23006146 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 13:48:36 GMT Received: from [192.168.10.5] (helo=[192.168.10.5]) by buggy.blubb.ch with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1GJVqk-0002N0-Bs for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 02 Sep 2006 15:47:54 +0200 Message-ID: <44F98BB5.5010402@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 15:48:37 +0200 From: Simon Stelling User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060824) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The Age of the Universe References: <44F95E3E.9000708@gentoo.org> <44F96559.6010003@gentoo.org> <44F96881.90806@gentoo.org> <200609021426.03618.kugelfang@gentoo.org> <44F988FB.3070001@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <44F988FB.3070001@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1e5d78de-53d3-424f-8cd1-b554d02b723f X-Archives-Hash: 8460e03c45570677baad62ad36498532 Edgar Hucek wrote: > Just a side hint. Try to enable all flags at the first cimpile time would > reduce trys drasticaly ;) If you had a look at the php ebuild (just because we took it as example here), you'd see that it is a bit more complicated than just enabling everything to have everything tested. > So you say a developer cant't test all useflags? That is a strange > message from you. How can a developer garantee that his package is correct. He can't. That's what we're saying. Nobody said we can, nor do, nor want to. > Realy funny, i only hear exuses but no real solution for the problem. You have heard the real solution for the specific problems you pointed out: File a bug. You have also heard why it is impossible to guarantee that it simply works. > The fact is, that long outstanding bugs are simple ignored. If a useflag > would only apply to one package it could be ok, but not when the same > useflag is in other packages and makes this one useflag for the "normal user" > unusable. man portage: package.use Per-package USE flags. Useful for tracking local USE flags or for enabling USE flags for certain packages only. Perhaps you develop GTK and thus you want documen- tation for it, but you don't want documentation for QT. Easy as pie my friend! Format: - comments begin with # - one DEPEND atom per line with space-delimited USE flags Example: # turn on docs for GTK 2.x =x11-libs/gtk+-2* doc # disable mysql support for QT x11-libs/qt -mysql Know your tools, man. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list