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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 17:31:40 -0400
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing policy about -Werror
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org>
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On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 5:01 PM Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 4:56 PM Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 9/10/18 10:51 PM, Matt Turner wrote:
> > > Consider again the bug that started this. The maintainer had not built
> > > this configuration. None of the arch teams had built this
> > > configuration until I did for the last architecture Cc'd. The patch
> > > committed doesn't change anything installed on the system, if not for
> > > Werror preventing the code from building.
> >
> > one way to look at it though, is that it is a valuable upstream
> > contribution that this configuration produces the error, so Gentoo is
> > contributing to upstream development because of it.
>
> As an end user of Gentoo, I may not care about "contributing to
> upstream"; I just want the software to compile and install.
>
For more critical packages (like the example of zfs) whether it
compiles and installs isn't 1/10th as important as whether it eats my
data...
--
Rich