Re: [gentoo-dev] acceptable alternatives to -Werror, was: Changing policy about -Werror

2018-09-21 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Mike Auty schrieb: Installation will proceed, but the user will get a big fat warning that the sys-fs/zfs package is potentially broken. This seems like a sure-fire way to make users paranoid and/or desensitized? People will learn to ignore warnings if we make them big red and flashing but

Re: [gentoo-dev] acceptable alternatives to -Werror, was: Changing policy about -Werror

2018-09-13 Thread Richard Yao
> On Sep 12, 2018, at 8:23 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn > wrote: > > Rich Freeman schrieb: >>> Requirements: >>> >>> * Do not fail to build/install when a warning is encountered >> On a particularly critical package like a filesystem, wouldn't we want >> to still fail to install when a

Re: [gentoo-dev] acceptable alternatives to -Werror, was: Changing policy about -Werror

2018-09-13 Thread Mike Auty
Hiya, On 13/09/2018 01:23, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: > Installation will proceed, but the user will get a big fat warning that > the sys-fs/zfs package is potentially broken. This seems like a sure-fire way to make users paranoid and/or desensitized? People will learn to ignore

Re: [gentoo-dev] acceptable alternatives to -Werror, was: Changing policy about -Werror

2018-09-12 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Rich Freeman schrieb: If the user recognizes this as a critical package, then they can do the research before deciding on whether to use the package as is, attempt to downgrade, or wait until a fix is released. But, you've ALREADY overwritten the previous version of the package that presumably

Re: [gentoo-dev] acceptable alternatives to -Werror, was: Changing policy about -Werror

2018-09-12 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 8:23 PM Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: > > Rich Freeman schrieb: > >> Requirements: > >> > >> * Do not fail to build/install when a warning is encountered > > > > On a particularly critical package like a filesystem, wouldn't we want > > to still fail to install when

Re: [gentoo-dev] acceptable alternatives to -Werror, was: Changing policy about -Werror

2018-09-12 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Rich Freeman schrieb: Requirements: * Do not fail to build/install when a warning is encountered On a particularly critical package like a filesystem, wouldn't we want to still fail to install when a warning is encountered? Installation will proceed, but the user will get a big fat warning

Re: [gentoo-dev] acceptable alternatives to -Werror, was: Changing policy about -Werror

2018-09-12 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 7:35 PM Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: > > > Requirements: > > * Do not fail to build/install when a warning is encountered On a particularly critical package like a filesystem, wouldn't we want to still fail to install when a warning is encountered? > Also possible