On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 13:40 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Friday 17 August 2007, Hans de Graaff wrote:

> > Unfortunately FEATURES=stricter stopped being really useful when it
> > started to die on bad programming practices QA messages. These happen a
> > lot and often are beyond our direct control because it may not be easy
> > to fix them or to convince upstream to fix them. I've turned off
> > stricter for this reason.
> 
> i can make it more selective about which ones actually die ...

That would be useful, because I'm sure that different people have
different ideas about which checks to die on, and introducing more
FEATURES for this seems to take it a bit too far.

> > dodoc stuff on the other hand is within our control, so I'd be happy to
> > see ebuilds die because of that, either with stricter or even with
> > strict.
> 
> FEATURES=strict is inappropriate as it implies things like Manifest checking 
> and is the default for everyone

Agreed if it is the default.

Kind regards,

Hans

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