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Bug 656322 - proposing sys-devel/muslpatches-xyz because I feel horror seeing the patchsets
Summary: proposing sys-devel/muslpatches-xyz because I feel horror seeing the patchsets
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal with 1 vote (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers
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Reported: 2018-05-23 12:29 UTC by Ulenrich
Modified: 2018-05-28 22:07 UTC (History)
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Description Ulenrich 2018-05-23 12:29:31 UTC
I like to inspect patchsets and comparing them. Though most of the patches as of today are musl related and don't interest me much. But:

When looking into them I sometimes feel a kind of a horror: like random patches, which easily could set into acting code with just having _glibc_ (I think of errors with negative logic, etc ...)

Wouldn't it be safer and more sane 
to just apply musl related patches if a global musl USE flag is active?

Couldn't there be a muslpatches ebuild installing the needed patches like:
/usr/share/muslpatches-123/firefox-60
Where firefox-60.ebuild than has a clause:
 musl? >muslpatches-122
Indicating when having only muslpatches-122 the firefox-60 would not emerge.

... just proposing :)
Comment 1 Ulenrich 2018-05-23 12:43:45 UTC
Pro arguments:

- less patches for _glibc_ users

- ebuilds like firefox-60.0.1 ready for _glibc_ users 
  when not yet for _musl_ user
Comment 2 Ulenrich 2018-05-23 15:37:04 UTC
Please notice my wording "I feel horror" was meant ironical. (I am not a programer)