gnome-panel-2.16.3 (and likely older versions) don't install when using FEATURES="stricter" due to QA checks: * QA Notice: Package has poor programming practices which may compile * fine but exhibit random runtime failures. * panel-widget.c:1680: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules applet.c:533: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules applet.c:1206: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules clock.c:1385: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules clock.c:1391: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules clock.c:1470: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules clock.c:1620: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules fish.c:408: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules window-list.c:1027: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules workspace-switcher.c:927: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules !!! ERROR: gnome-base/gnome-panel-2.16.3 failed. Call stack: misc-functions.sh, line 570: Called install_qa_check misc-functions.sh, line 325: Called die Reproducible: Always
Given the feedback on my email to gentoo-dev yesterday it seems that this should not be considered a QA issue that needs fixing in Gentoo, so I'm closing the bug. If upstream considers this a problem they should be fixing it.