On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 21:12:22 +0000 Stuart Herbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | This point is another example of an attempt to enforce an undocumented | QA policy, which is where I made my input, as the architect of our new | (and well-received) PHP packages. ... and then the discussion | deteriorated into something I'm not particularly proud of, for my part | in it.
Huh? I quote the official policy: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=1 > Occasionally, ebuilds will have conflicting USE flags for > functionality. Checking for them and returning an error is not a > viable solution. Instead, you must pick one of the USE flags in > conflict to favour. One example comes from the msmtp ebuilds. The > package can use either SSL with GnuTLS, SSL with OpenSSL, or no SSL > at all. Because GnuTLS is more featureful than OpenSSL, it is > favoured: It's a QA violation, and not a feature as you claim. I find it particularly worrying that you try to pass of blatant policy violations as a feature. The first step in QA is detecting that there is a problem. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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