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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] debug USE flag misuse
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 02:55:27
Message-Id: pan.2010.07.02.02.52.49@cox.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] debug USE flag misuse by Ryan Hill
1 Ryan Hill posted on Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:48:49 -0600 as excerpted:
2
3 > We've had per-package CFLAGS for quite a long time now. Maybe we need
4 > to advertise this a little more? There would certainly be a market for
5 > some util to manage all the per-package options that we have scattered
6 > around in different config files.
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8 The answer has always been that various devs are afraid of publicizing the
9 env dir, particularly since settings there are not directly exposed via
10 emerge --info, because it'd make bugs rather more difficult to trace due
11 to the hidden settings.
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13 Is that fixed yet? Because I've always thought it was a useful tool too
14 few knew about, as well.
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