On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:00:03 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] installation aborted due to poor programming  practices:

>On 19 Apr, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:47:17 +0200 (CEST), Helmut Jarausch wrote:
>> 
>>> the installation of a package (unofficial gimp-gap) is 'aborted due
>>> to poor programming practices' probably since there have been lots
>>> of dereferencing type-punned pointers and similar warnings.
>>> 
>>> How can I forced portage to install it anyway?
>> 
>> Possibly FEATURES="-strict" emerge --opts blah
>> 
>
>Unfortunately this didn't help.

The other possibility for ebuilds that have ropey programming practices
is:

export VERY_BRAVE_OR_VERY_DUMB='yes'
emerge <some pile of crap>

This environment variable is self-documenting.
-- 
Regards,

Dave  [RLU #314465]
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