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On sob, 2017-06-03 at 02:38 +1200, Kent Fredric wrote: |
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> On Fri, 02 Jun 2017 14:07:44 +0700 |
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> "Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov" <gentoo@×××.name> wrote: |
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> > Shouldn't we mention "debug" USE-flag in this context somehow? |
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> Not sure it should. Even though one package may be the logical equivalent |
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> of a handful of debian packages, doesn't mean there's going to be a useful |
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> USE <-> package mapping for such things. |
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> Maybe debug seems more obvious, but, well, with Gentoo, you don't actually *need* |
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> a USE flag for that: |
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> You control that via CFLAGS and the FEATURES="splitdebug" options. |
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> USE="debug" *changes the compile* and introduces source-code level enhancements, |
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> that can change the resulting binary parts. |
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> Whereas the debian equivalents are just the equivalents of our splitdebugs rolled |
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> up so you can debug stack traces with gdb, if I remember correctly. |
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> eg: https://packages.debian.org/jessie/amd64/vlc-dbg/filelist |
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> In hindsight, maybe -dbg mappings might not make sense, and should be discouraged. |
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> Otherwise you're gonna need to add a descriptive field of some kind to the <remote-id> data, |
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> and at that point, it gets really hairy. |
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> I have ideas how you get around that, but it moves away from <remote-id> entirely, and |
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> that's really just over-complicating it. |
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...so if a Gentoo package is split into 40 packages in Debian, are you |
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going to list all of them? |
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-- |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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