Sending this from the right address this time.... -g2boojum-
Grant Goodyear wrote: > Jakub Moc wrote: >> Please, until something is clarified/some consent reached, avoid changing >> the docs w/ funny stuff like "just flip a coin"... > > I don't believe the text is meant to be funny. It's meant (I think) to > suggest that if all else is equal, meaning that there is no obvious > "best choice", then just choose a flag, by whatever means, to support as > the default. Even if it is not what the user might have chosen, at > least the build will complete. Moreover, the results will then be > deterministic. > >> http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/proj/en/devrel/handbook/hb-guide-ebuild.xml?root=gentoo&r1=1.31&r2=1.32 >> >> What's the above again? QA policy? How does user benefit from flipping a >> coin wrt choosing a functionality? Sigh... :/ > > It prevents emerge from crashing out in the middle of what could be a > quite extensive build. Personally, I would rather rebuild one package > to get desired functionality _after_ the emerge completes than have to > fix the flags for that one package to be able to build everything else. > > -g2boojum- >
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