On Sun, 15 Jun 2014 16:06:57 +0700 "Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov" <m...@mva.name> wrote:
> My idea is to allow failing for some patches without breaking build > at all. And, in parallel, to add groupping. > > [...] > > Any objections/approvals/suggestions? What are the use cases of this idea? What is its goal? In my use case, I've found or written patches with a permanent purpose; therefore, I'd like the patches to apply or die hard with a purpose. I can't imagine an use case where you don't want them to apply. Temporary backported patches (eg. from version 2) come to mind; it then becomes tricky to know whether it fails because it is the new version (2), or whether it is a version (<2) in between that breaks. That would become a whole new feature request with specific directory, file or header syntaxes, which takes time to implement; at which point, one wonders if just (re)moving away the patch when you see it fail in the early src_prepare phase followed by a --resume is more favorable. -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : tom...@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D
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