[gentoo-hardened] Removal of hardened-gcc

[Martin Bene]

Hi,

Looks like support for hardened-gcc was dropped/removed a few days ago
with release of "dummy" hardened-gcc 5.0.

For me, this is a fairly drastic and unexpected change - I hadn't heared
anything about end-of-life for hardened gcc previously.

Also, from reading the bugtracker, it looks like there's supposed to be
a replacement for the functionality available in a few weeks?

For now, change of make.conf compiler flags is proposed as a workaround?

So, could someone please tell me 
 - What flags are suggested for make.conf
 - How will this work with packages like lilo that previosuly didn't
work with hardened-gcc and had extra flags set in their ebuilds to turn
off hardened gcc?

Personaly, I'd have prefered a smoother transition with
  - some information on gentoo-hardened prior to disabling hardened-gcc
  - leaving it in place until a replacement is actually available

Thanks, for your time,

Martin


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