install_qa_check

I’m not sure that there is a connection, but at about the same time that I updated my Gentoo profile to 2008.0 developer I started to get strange errors when doing an emerge –update world. The errors were not very helpful, one being “poor programming breaks airplanes” That might be cute (and even true), but does not provide much help to the hapless user trying to work out what to do!

Anyway, after some digging around I found out that the issue is a result of my setting the ~x86 keyword for portage, something which I clearly needed for a long forgotten issue, long ago.

It turns out that the test version of portage (sys-apps/portage) has changed the default QA Check Setting from strict to stricter while at the same time debugging the change.

So, if your Gentoo installation is endangering airplanes, just add

FEATURES=”-stricter”

to your /etc/make.conf file and all will be well again.