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From: Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: global USE c++11
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2017 08:51:48
Message-Id: 65388c1f-e0f1-8127-61d3-033d2e4f775f@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] RFC: global USE c++11 by "Justin "
1 On 01/02/2017 10:34 PM, Justin <jlec> wrote:
2 >
3 > Seems to be very consistent in usage.
4
5 But I'm not convinced it is a correct approach to have use flag changing
6 this. First thing that springs to mind is if introducing something like
7 that it should be done consistently across Gentoo, so a GLEP. But
8 presumably a lot of packages are already built using C++11 without a use
9 flag given Qt5.7 requiring it etc.
10
11 If using C++11 enables different features the feature should be the use
12 flag rather than C++11. Couldn't this just be determined using Autotools
13 etc? What is the gain of the use flag? Immediately it sounds like it
14 adds complexity without much gain.
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17 Kristian Fiskerstrand
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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: global USE c++11 "Justin <jlec>" <jlec@g.o>