On 9 August 2014 04:58, Igor <lanthruster@gmail.com> wrote:

Maintainers have no feedback from their ebuilds, they all do their best but there are no tools
to formalize their work. No compass. They have no access to user
space where the packages are installed, unaware how users are using their ebuilds. It's the design
failure that hunts Gentoo from the start - no global intellectual bug tracking system. Doing not mistakes
- not possible, the automated tracking sub-systems should be there but... we are where we are.

Some of that is doable, ie: we could have installation metrics systems like CPAN has a testers network with a matrix showing where a given thing is failing : http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=CPAN-Meta-Requirements%202.126

But its a lot of work investment to support.

And beyond "it installs" and "its tests pass", its piratically infeasible to track software failing beyond there.

And some of the reasons we have dependency declarations are to avoid problems that will ONLY be seen at runtime and WONT be seen during installation or testing. ( Usually because the problem was found before there were tests for it )

For that, only manual feedback systems, such as our present bugzilla, are adequate.

Kent

KENTNL - https://metacpan.org/author/KENTNL