Re: [gentoo-dev] fix binary debug support, part elevenity billion + 1

[Mike Frysinger]

On Wednesday 07 June 2006 16:10, Zac Medico wrote:
> Grant Goodyear wrote:
> > Zac Medico wrote: [Wed Jun 07 2006, 01:30:38PM CDT]
> >> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >>> this is a *huge* con ... developers are lazy, *i'm* lazy ... i
> >>> certainly do not want to go through every single package i maintain
> >>> and add 'debug-build' to IUSE or 'inherit some-new-eclass'
> >>
> >> Sometimes it takes a little extra work to do things right, but
> >> hopefully it will pay off in the long run.  A poor design decision
> >> made now can haunt us for years to come.
> >
> > A "little extra work"?  I'm pretty sure that such an eclass would be
> > required for better than half the tree (every package that contains some
> > C or C++).  If almost everybody has to add the same piece of
> > boilerplate to their ebuilds, then perhaps a sane package manager should
> > be able to figure out what to do without the boilerplate.  That
>
> It's a slippery slope when we start to incorporate special cases like that
> into a generic package manager.  Where does it end?  The same argument
> could be made again and again to add more special cases that further
> pollute the package manager.  We already have a standard solution for cases
> such as this, and that is to share the specialized functionality via an
> eclass.

the package maintainer provides some sane defaults ... the idea is for the 
full configuration to be offloaded to the profiles

> Well, I'd say that per-package environment variables would be a better way
> to implement per-package CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, etc.. There is a patch attached
> to bug 44796 that implements this.  Note that the debug-build.bashrc
> attached to my last post actually allows per-package debug-build via
> package.use.

ok ?  so what's stopping it from being integrated ?  people want it ;)
-mike