-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Edgar Hucek wrote: > Danny van Dyk schrieb: >> Am Samstag, 2. September 2006 13:18 schrieb Edgar Hucek: >>>>> 2.) Enable the use flage accessibility gnome cant be >>>>> merged. It fails on compile the speech-tools. >>>>> It seams that USE flags are not realy tested or how >>>>> can it happen that there are already know bugs in the >>>>> stable distro ? >>>>> >>>>> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116030 >>>>> >>>>> Festival and the speech-tools are well know not to >>>>> compile with gcc >=4. >>>> Well, you know - if you go to read the speech-tools/festival & co. >>>> bug, and read the ebuild, you'll see that the whole thing and code >>>> is one huge mess, that doesn't compile even w/ gcc-3.3 without >>>> patching. You'd probably prefer to never put out a new release, I >>>> guess? How many people are using this one, and how does it justify >>>> delaying the release even more? >>> From my point of view, should it be garanted that a package and >>> depencies compiles when all use flags are enabled. If a depency can't >>> be compiled the use flag and depence should be dissabled/removed from >>> a package. >> Please _think_ before you make such a demand. Just a small investigation >> would show this: >> >> dev-lang/php-5.1.4-r6 has _96_ USE flags. That makes 2^96 = 7.9928+28 >> combinations. Given the (unreasonable) assumption that each compilation >> would only take 1s and each compilation would actually succeed, you'd >> still have ~8e28 seconds. The age of the universe is approximately 4e17 >> seconds. >> >> This hasn't yet investigated allt he possible combinations of packages >> depending on dev-lang/php, or the ~10,000 other packages in the tree. >> >> Danny > > Just a side hint. Try to enable all flags at the first cimpile time would > reduce trys drasticaly ;) > So you say a developer cant't test all useflags? That is a strange > message from you. How can a developer garantee that his package is correct. > Realy funny, i only hear exuses but no real solution for the problem. > The fact is, that long outstanding bugs are simple ignored. If a useflag > would only apply to one package it could be ok, but not when the same > useflag is in other packages and makes this one useflag for the "normal user" > unusable. > > cu > > Edgar (gimli) Hucek > Edgar-
You clearly have absolutely no idea how development and testing happens. This is *free* software with no warranty. Our releases are tested with the profile defaults provided in the release. Nothing more. If that's not good enough for you, please find a distribution that you have to pay for like RHEL. Their testing is no better than ours, but at least paying something entitles you to bitch at them. - -- ======================================================= Mike Doty kingtaco -at- gentoo.org Gentoo/AMD64 Strategic Lead Gentoo Developer Relations Gentoo Recruitment Lead Gentoo Infrastructure GPG: E1A5 1C9C 93FE F430 C1D6 F2AF 806B A2E4 19F4 AE05 ======================================================= -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBRPmNU4BrouQZ9K4FAQLu0QQAwHVnw/zCbHTjDLb3h50tMiUkdgfhZTpF sEYpsee/LlgYpoVqZoukOQ7X3h8N5uRaHNU/SkcS6blMYGNGhdbPuu9taOylp+x1 6BoXi7FlA3tbSpmRQQdsSO3/fqWwS26lHYKtvkYkhFfqjSP+wd3NZPBlUH4hVpbo id2I+hvq8R0= =3jiw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
