On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 18:29 -0400, Thomas Cort wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 23:58:46 +0200
> "Kevin F. Quinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > It's not about trust, it's about knowing what the CFLAGS/FEATURES
> > were.  That way if someone else reports a failure, you can compare the
> > reports and see what differences might be triggering the fault.
> 
> I get that posting `emerge --info` provides a "known good" set of
> CFLAGS/USE-flags/FEATURES/toolchain versions/etc which can be useful at
> times. However, we don't require that developers post their emerge
> --info when a package works, so why do we require that ATs do it?

Honestly, it might be sufficient to only post 'emerge --info' when it
*doesn't* work.  If we need corroboration from someone where it did
work, we can ask.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
x86 Architecture Team
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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