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On Monday, October 17, 2016 4:37:50 AM EDT Duncan wrote: |
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> William L. Thomson Jr. posted on Sun, 16 Oct 2016 18:30:44 -0400 as |
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> excerpted: |
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> > Then how would you test that against non official? You cannot install |
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> > the same package twice at the same time with different USE flags. You |
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> > can't even make binaries easily of the same package with different USE |
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> > flags. The previous binary will get overwritten. |
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> AFAIK, with current portage now you can have multiple binaries of the |
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> same package, with different USE flags or built with different CFLAGS or |
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> whatever, tho the feature's off by default. |
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Very nice, any chance that also includes generated binaries? |
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I make binaries for other systems to merge allot (binpkg). It sucks to have |
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them clobbered with different USE flags. I always wanted to be able to keep the |
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various binaries with different USE flags. Like some systems are hardened |
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others not, so recompile gcc vs having 2. |
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Not sure if that is a step in that direction, but it is a cool feature just |
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the same. Allows for further testing. |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |
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