Mart Raudsepp schrieb:
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.
And losing users and thus relevance in the process. Not everyone goes
to bugzilla always and then waits for a fix, or fixes it themselves.
Normal people wipe that stuff away and install an operating
system/distribution that doesn't cause them grief in its place.
This is indeed a problem with -Werror (I mentioned it in a previous message).
Tinderboxing as k_f suggested could not possibly cover the vast number of
configurations that users have either.
An alternative to -Werror could be maybe some kind of "package health" status
that would alert users if warnings happened in supposedly warning-free code.
Portage already has a "Package triggers severe warnings" QA notice which
could be extended for this purpose.
Best regards,
Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
