On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 17:19 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > I don't think that's fair. Perhaps nobody had compiled it using the > exact set of USE flags and the exast set of library versions and > configurations you were using, but I've never seen anything appear in > testing that was so broken it could be said that nobody had ever tried > to build it.
I have.. even for packages w/o a USE flag. Granted, I'm not blaming the developers.. they have a lot of work to do. But it *does* happen. Usually the fix is easy enough. Just yesterday I reported a bug with webkit-gtk. The gtk2 version doesn't build at all (it's an upstream issue that they call a gtk3-specific function). No matter what combination of USE flags you use it wasn't gonna build, but it was obvious nobody had ever tried to build it, not even upstream apparently. :P -a
