[gentoo-dev] Re: Portage 2.0.51 comments/questions

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Paul de Vrieze posted <200409271101.42703.pauldv@gentoo.org>, excerpted
below,  on Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:01:42 +0200:

> On Monday 27 September 2004 05:52, Duncan wrote:
>>
>> Evidently .51 is rather stricter in some things than .50 and a number
>> of things are QA Notices now that were silent, before.  Are things to
>> the point where it's worthwhile bugging the various ebuilds that emit
>> these notices, illegal eclass inheritance and the like, or are there
>> still enough of them it'd just be unnecessary noise?
> 
> If you could come up with patches for those ebuilds (or eclasses) then 
> please post them to bugzilla. (We get the notices too) Without patches it 
> is probably more of an annoyance than actually useful (most maintainers 
> know about them).

Thanks.  I figured something of that nature.  My ability in that area is
somewhat limited and I haven't looked to see if it's within my range, yet,
so I'll avoid filing on them now.  I had just seen enough of them to goad
me into asking, lest I be guilty of not giving back where I could, since
one thing I /can/ do is file bugs! <g>

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