> On Sep 10, 2018, at 4:59 PM, Mart Raudsepp <l...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> Ühel kenal päeval, E, 10.09.2018 kell 22:56, kirjutas Kristian
> Fiskerstrand:
>>> On 9/10/18 10:51 PM, Matt Turner wrote:
>>> Consider again the bug that started this. The maintainer had not
>>> built
>>> this configuration. None of the arch teams had built this
>>> configuration until I did for the last architecture Cc'd. The patch
>>> committed doesn't change anything installed on the system, if not
>>> for
>>> Werror preventing the code from building.
>>
>> one way to look at it though, is that it is a valuable upstream
>> contribution that this configuration produces the error, so Gentoo is
>> contributing to upstream development because of it.
>
> And losing users and thus relevance in the process. Not everyone goes
> to bugzilla always and then waits for a fix, or fixes it themselves.
> Normal people wipe that stuff away and install an operating
> system/distribution that doesn't cause them grief in its place.
I would like to point out that if -Werror is set by say USE=debug, this is not
an issue.
