On 2022/10/31 20:17, John Goerzen wrote: > I have a question here: why are we bothering to encode anything about > features in the package system at all? > > A build will fail if we have things that are missing for a needed > feature anyhow. IIRC golang has a similar concept now and they're not > trying to encode all that in the packaging system there. > > It would make things SO much simpler, eliminate a ton of debian/patches, > etc. if we just didn't try to put extra stuff in the packaging system. IMO it's feasible to encode *missing* feature information so builds can fail early and save some time and CPU cycles. -- Sdrager, Blair Noctis
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