Simon Stelling schrieb: > Edgar Hucek wrote: >> Just a side hint. Try to enable all flags at the first cimpile time would >> reduce trys drasticaly ;) > > If you had a look at the php ebuild (just because we took it as example > here), you'd see that it is a bit more complicated than just enabling > everything to have everything tested. > >> So you say a developer cant't test all useflags? That is a strange >> message from you. How can a developer garantee that his package is correct. > > He can't. That's what we're saying. Nobody said we can, nor do, nor want to. > >> Realy funny, i only hear exuses but no real solution for the problem. > > You have heard the real solution for the specific problems you pointed > out: File a bug. You have also heard why it is impossible to guarantee > that it simply works. > >> The fact is, that long outstanding bugs are simple ignored. If a useflag >> would only apply to one package it could be ok, but not when the same >> useflag is in other packages and makes this one useflag for the "normal user" >> unusable. > > man portage: > > package.use > Per-package USE flags. Useful for tracking local USE > flags or for enabling USE flags for certain packages > only. Perhaps you develop GTK and thus you want documen- > tation for it, but you don't want documentation for QT. > Easy as pie my friend! > > Format: > - comments begin with # > - one DEPEND atom per line with space-delimited USE flags > > Example: > # turn on docs for GTK 2.x > =x11-libs/gtk+-2* doc > # disable mysql support for QT > x11-libs/qt -mysql > > Know your tools, man. >
I know my tools but not necessarly the normal user who wanna use gentoo and is ending frustrated. cu Edgar (gimli) Hucek -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
