On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 11:19 PM, Maciej Mrozowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday 02 of December 2008 10:40:19 Alec Warner wrote:
mean hat
You asked, so the counter proposal is to *do nothing*.
very mean generic rant hat on
Ideas (even good ones) don't always get implemented.
Sometimes
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Maciej Mrozowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Monday 01 of December 2008 22:51:57 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
Experience, manpower, the ability to try out potential enhancements
rapidly, a long track record of getting it right and the growing
recognition that most
On Tuesday 02 of December 2008 10:40:19 Alec Warner wrote:
mean hat
You asked, so the counter proposal is to *do nothing*.
very mean generic rant hat on
Ideas (even good ones) don't always get implemented.
Sometimes that just isn't the direction the maintainers want to take
the project.
On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 08:19:18 +0100
Maciej Mrozowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No, and I'm afraid I cannot provide any single evidence that users
actually need features like:
- per package cflags/ldflags/features
- per category use flags, accept_keywords, cflags
- or tag clouds instead of hard
Maciej Mrozowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
- USE=debug is useless when CFLAGS/LDFLAGS or FEATURES are not appropriate
What are you saying here? I'm afraid you're mistaken here.
For the most part, USE=debug means enable debug code paths, which for
lots of projects simply means enable
On Monday 01 of December 2008 08:04:04 Duncan wrote:
Well, so far it's not GLEP, just an idea thrown to brainstorm.
As such, neither /etc/portage/env nor eclasses can effectively deal with
FEATURES in general, tho there are a few specific exceptions that do
happen to be implemented at the
On Monday 01 of December 2008 09:36:12 Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
- USE=debug is useless when CFLAGS/LDFLAGS or FEATURES are not
appropriate
What are you saying here? I'm afraid you're mistaken here.
The point is to look at this from users' (well, a bit) point of view -
USE=debug
On Monday 01 of December 2008 08:04:04 Duncan wrote:
(Of
course, if it's the latter, it will need to be an official GLEP, and
you'll have three separate package managers and their developers to push
the proposal thru to at least to general agreement, or the council will
almost certainly
Maciej Mrozowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted
[EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 01 Dec
2008 06:16:07 +0100:
Implementation:
Implementation would be provided by build system eclasses [snip]
- replace FEATURES with FEATURES_DEBUG
FEATURES are package-manager implemented, above the bash
