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From: David W Noon <dwnoon@ntlworld.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] installation aborted due to poor programming  practices
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:48:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100419154814.6caa41b8@karnak.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eAYJZ-6ob-31@gated-at.bofh.it>

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On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:00:03 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] installation aborted due to poor programming  practices:

>On 19 Apr, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:47:17 +0200 (CEST), Helmut Jarausch wrote:
>> 
>>> the installation of a package (unofficial gimp-gap) is 'aborted due
>>> to poor programming practices' probably since there have been lots
>>> of dereferencing type-punned pointers and similar warnings.
>>> 
>>> How can I forced portage to install it anyway?
>> 
>> Possibly FEATURES="-strict" emerge --opts blah
>> 
>
>Unfortunately this didn't help.

The other possibility for ebuilds that have ropey programming practices
is:

export VERY_BRAVE_OR_VERY_DUMB='yes'
emerge <some pile of crap>

This environment variable is self-documenting.
-- 
Regards,

Dave  [RLU #314465]
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dwnoon@ntlworld.com (David W Noon)
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       reply	other threads:[~2010-04-19 19:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <eAWIa-2Oh-21@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <eAX1w-3Ad-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <eAYJZ-6ob-31@gated-at.bofh.it>
2010-04-19 14:48     ` David W Noon [this message]
2010-04-19 10:47 [gentoo-user] installation aborted due to poor programming practices Helmut Jarausch
2010-04-19 10:59 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-04-19 12:55   ` Helmut Jarausch
2010-04-19 14:19     ` Arttu V.
2010-04-19 14:39       ` Mike Edenfield

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