Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] backend support for FEATURES=debug-build (again)

[Donnie Berkholz]

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Thursday 11 May 2006 02:41, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
>> Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>> yes, it's a user-friendly interface issue:
>>> we have *no* *sane* way of doing a debug emerge
>> I don't find this particular implementation very user-friendly either,
>
> if you read my original e-mail in this thread (or even the subject), i said
> this is the back-end changes *only*
>
> the next step is to add `emerge --debug-build foo`
>
>> since AFAIK the FEATURES settings still aren't remembered
>
> nor should they
>
>> or settable on a per-package level.
>
> unrelated topic, see per-package.env bug
>
>> That's why x-modular.eclass has USE=debug to accomplish the same thing.
>
> which is totally wrong
>
> read the thread i started on gentoo-dev where i went over how USE=debug in the
> portage tree is complete trash atm

It may be wrong, but it's the only way that works usefully. This is
totally useless IMHO until you can set it on a per-package level, so
they are related.

Thanks,
Donnie