Am Samstag, 2. September 2006 13:18 schrieb Edgar Hucek: > >> 2.) Enable the use flage accessibility gnome cant be > >> merged. It fails on compile the speech-tools. > >> It seams that USE flags are not realy tested or how > >> can it happen that there are already know bugs in the > >> stable distro ? > >> > >> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116030 > >> > >> Festival and the speech-tools are well know not to > >> compile with gcc >=4. > > > > Well, you know - if you go to read the speech-tools/festival & co. > > bug, and read the ebuild, you'll see that the whole thing and code > > is one huge mess, that doesn't compile even w/ gcc-3.3 without > > patching. You'd probably prefer to never put out a new release, I > > guess? How many people are using this one, and how does it justify > > delaying the release even more? > > From my point of view, should it be garanted that a package and > depencies compiles when all use flags are enabled. If a depency can't > be compiled the use flag and depence should be dissabled/removed from > a package. Please _think_ before you make such a demand. Just a small investigation would show this:
dev-lang/php-5.1.4-r6 has _96_ USE flags. That makes 2^96 = 7.9928+28 combinations. Given the (unreasonable) assumption that each compilation would only take 1s and each compilation would actually succeed, you'd still have ~8e28 seconds. The age of the universe is approximately 4e17 seconds. This hasn't yet investigated allt he possible combinations of packages depending on dev-lang/php, or the ~10,000 other packages in the tree. Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
