Bug 656322

Summary:	proposing sys-devel/muslpatches-xyz because I feel horror seeing the patchsets
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ulenrich <ulenrich>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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)