On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:04:52 -0600 Grant Goodyear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
| Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
| > My point is that that's a nasty QA bug that's relying upon input
| > from Stuart to be fixed. Whilst that one's still alive, I'm not
| > going to go around filing more similar "breaks non-interactively"
| > bugs because the discussion will just get repeated over and over.
| 
| Huh?  I just read through the bug, and it actually appears to be
| resolved pending Chris' testing w/ the needed USE flags added to the
| various profiles.  I'll admit that the fix is inelegant, but I'm
| missing where it's waiting upon Stuart for additional info.  Am I
| missing something?

Yup. It's a huge policy violation being passed off as a feature. See
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=1
in the paragraph starting "Occasionally, ebuilds will have conflicting
USE flags for functionality.".

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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat)
Mail            : ciaranm at gentoo.org
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