Brian Harring wrote:
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 05:15:53PM +0200, Philipp Riegger wrote:
On Apr 7, 2006, at 5:26 PM, Alec Warner wrote:
We have a new cache format, confcache, parallel fetch, etc... The
bonus
is these features are already mature and relatively old ( a year +
as of
now ).
Reading about confcache i have one question:
When i saw, that this feature exists (in make.examples) i activated
it. But it did not work because i had not emerged confcache. I think
this check should be stricter, if i want confcache and have
FEATURES="confcache" and confcache is not emerged, i think
emerge ... should die, not just say "Ok, you said you want it but
you don't have it, so i don't use it". What do you think about that?
Precedent is against you in this case...sandbox is the same way
(notify instead of bailing).
Personally I prefer the "if I told you to do something, bail if you
can't" approach, but for features portage has usually done the
opposite.
~harring
Meh, past behavior is not really a great excuse here. If the majority
thinks it sucks, then it can always be changed.
-Alec
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