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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
To: gentoo-doc@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-doc] Re: Portage per-package environment/behavior
Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 09:31:46
Message-Id: pan.2012.01.01.09.30.56@cox.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-doc] Portage per-package environment/behavior by Joshua Saddler
1 Joshua Saddler posted on Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:13:59 -0800 as excerpted:
2
3 > per-package cflags has never been an officially supported portage
4 > feature. in fact, it's mostly been an env hack that users have been
5 > actively discouraged from using. they can expect to see bugs closed RESO
6 > WONTFIX when per-package cflag monkeying has been detected. as such, we
7 > shouldn't be documenting how to do it.
8
9 You are correct that it used to be that way, but isn't that what emerge
10 --info <pkg> was designed to fix and why portage's error messages are
11 far more specific now about both that and various log files that should
12 be posted than they used to be?
13
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16 "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
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