Hi there, a while ago Thilo Bangert spent quite some time on filing lots of bugs. While I appreciate such QA efforts I don't agree with those bugs at all.
All of these bugs were for the use of the FEATURES variable in ebuilds, which is a very convenient thing to work around issues. For example known failures with FEATURE="distcc" or funky things like test failures with FEATURES="userpriv" and so on. All other methods of expressing that are much more verbose and inherently sucky. One example of such a bug is https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278960 for those too lazy to search. To quote: "FEATURES is a portage specific package manager configuration variable not specified in PMS and cannot reliably be used in ebuilds or eclasses." Well then, I suggest we finally start documenting reality and fix PMS. The use of the FEATURES variable, while it has been there for ... uhm ... as long as I can think back, actually :), should not be randomly suppressed. So ... what's your opinion? Should we do things as they are correct, or as they are specified in PMS? ( /me points at bash 3.0 ) Take care, Patrick
