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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] debug USE flag misuse
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:04:33
Message-Id: i0isbd$tmg$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] debug USE flag misuse by Ryan Hill
1 On 07/01/2010 11:00 PM, Ryan Hill wrote:
2 >[...]
3 > The way to control compiler flags in Gentoo is CFLAGS.
4
5 That is true. However, there's a problem; you can control package
6 options of individual packages with USE flags, but you can't control
7 compilation switches of individual packages with CFLAGS. This will
8 naturally make people feel like using USE flags to modify compilation
9 options is a good idea.
10
11 Surely, one has to sympathize with this mindset even though it's a wrong
12 thing to do.

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