On Tue, 6 Dec 2016 20:11:34 -0600 William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 05:26:19PM -0500, Mike Gilbert wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 4:15 PM, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > On Tue, 6 Dec 2016 12:54:26 -0500 > > > Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > > > >> On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 6:13 AM, konsolebox <konsole...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> > > >> > Please consider promoting the use of tinfo flag in packages that > > >> > depend on sys-libs/ncurses so that they would synchronize properly > > >> > with sys-libs/ncurses[tinfo]. > > >> > > >> I would rather see the tinfo USE flag removed from ncurses. > > > > > > vapier doesn't consider this QA violation a QA violation. > > > > > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/487844 > > > > Perhaps QA could take some action then? > > > > Updating ~1500 ebuilds with a [tinfo=] use-dep seems like a poor solution. > > <qa hat on> > Our policies are in the dev manual, so please cite the violation there. > If you can't, this is not a qa violation, so please don't call it one. > </qa hat> > > I don't see a problem with the use flag and suggest updating the other > ebuilds. The flag randomly changes ABI, breaking all reverse dependencies. Please tell me this is a good practice. But yeah, Gentoo lately is: everything with a single bit of sense has to be converted into 3-page manual that covers every corner case, and eventually has 5 ways for every developer to ignore it. -- Best regards, Michał Górny <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>
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