On 08/18/2016 06:21 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 08:13:14 -0400 > Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> If you just check your packages occassionally to make sure they build >> with gold it completely achieves the goal, and it will actually result >> in fewer bugs using the non-gold linker as well. > > > That's what a tinderbox is for. The only QA problem I see here is that > QA doesn't automate that kind of checks anymore since Diego left. Maybe > QA should ask Toralf to run a ld.gold tinderbox and avoid asking people > to randomly test random packages ? > I dunno, if testing packages that one maintains is as simple as reconfiguring a package, testing, and switching back then I don't think it's unreasonable to ask us to test our own packages. We're supposed to do that already, and for packages whose dependencies aren't 100% hashed out, it can help us figure out what the real deps are.
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