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On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 12:30:04AM +0100, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: |
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> Am Freitag, 10. Januar 2014, 00:26:03 schrieb Ryan Hill: |
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> > > Please avoid "noblah" use flags. |
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> > > http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/use-flags/ |
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> > > ssp flag that defaults to on is fine. |
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> > This flag already exists and has always worked this way. |
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> "already exists and has always worked this way" is not really a good argument. |
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> The rest of the tree sticks to guidelines, so why not here? |
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Agreed again. Saying that something has always worked a certain way in |
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the past is not justification for keeping it working that way, |
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especially when there are preferred ways of doing the same thing that |
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are different. |
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> > We don't have USE defaults yet. |
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> Now if you had said "we can't use USE defaults yet since current ebuilds are |
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> still at EAPI=0"... that would have been slightly more informative. :) |
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> (Yes I've seen that there is work going on, and I think that's good. Being |
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> careful when modernizing makes sense here of course.) |
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Right, I thought someone had updated toolchain.eclass to use a modern |
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eapi, but I hadn't seen any more on that in some time. What's the |
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latest? |
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Thanks, |
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William |
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