On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 1:20 PM Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > + eqawarn > + eqawarn "It is impossible to reliably guarantee that the > extended attributes" > + eqawarn "will be reliably preserved while merging. Please > ensure that any" > + eqawarn "extended metadata necessary is applied in > pkg_postinst() phase," > + eqawarn "and that the implementation includes a fallback if > necessary."
This message suggests that applying xattrs in pkg_postinst is acceptable. However, your patch offers no way to disable the QA warning for ebuilds that do so.
