On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 4:56 PM Kristian Fiskerstrand <k...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > 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.
As an end user of Gentoo, I may not care about "contributing to upstream"; I just want the software to compile and install. As has been previously stated, people who care can add -Werror to their own CFLAGS. It's quite a bit harder for a user to remove -Werror from the build system, assuming they can even interpret the error output.
