On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 4:10 AM, Wols Lists <antli...@youngman.org.uk> wrote: > On 02/11/10 08:54, Sebastian Spaeth wrote: >> On Mon, 01 Nov 2010 22:18:46 +0000, Wols Lists wrote: >>> I've now got configure autodetecting Qt4, and created an "automagic" >>> patch. Things are still partly broken because to fix things properly I >>> need to get rid of OOO_WIDGET_FLAGS, and that's probably a big job ... >>> Adds a new --enable-automagic option. >> Shouldn't automagic be the default? ie building support for whatever is >> available on the machine sounds a sensible default to >> me. People/Packagebuilder can still manually enable/disable support fot >> things. >> > I get the impression it isn't. Do we really want to enable a bunch of > obscure options by default? cf the discussion we just had about > binfilter (although I gather that's slightly different :-) > > Anyways, we've now got the option - configure will by default set up a > sane bunch of options, while automagic will force all defaults to either > "on" or "off". > > In particular, there's a page on the gentoo wiki (I've put a pointer to > it in our development wiki) that says that automatically enabling things > can be a packager's nightmare. They've only got to miss a "disable" for > some weird option they happen to have installed, and next thing they > know they've shipped a package that depends on this weird option - AND > DOESN'T DOCUMENT THAT FACT!
How about a --packager-mode kind of flag, that will yell at you if you forgot to explicitly choose a value ? > > That's why, imho, "disable-automagic" is important (and that's why it's > called magic not matic :-). If that happens, it's now an upstream bug, > not a silly packager. And it's easy for us to fix each option as we add > it, not so easy for them to spot we've enabled something obscure. > >> /me shrugs. Not sure. >> >> Sebastian > > Cheers, > Wol > _______________________________________________ > LibreOffice mailing list > LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice > _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
