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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] The dreaded debug use flag/eclass
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 02:28:58
Message-Id: 200508012226.38226.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] The dreaded debug use flag/eclass by Mike Frysinger
1 On Monday 01 August 2005 10:07 pm, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Monday 01 August 2005 09:22 pm, Alec Warner wrote:
3 > > Many people do not like the fact that a USE flag changes CFLAGS.
4 > > Although there are other USE flags that do this too ( pic comes to mind
5 > > in a couple ebuilds, checkpassword fex ) they are a minority compared to
6 > > debug.
7 >
8 > your USE=pic example is wrong, it does not change CFLAGS (and if your
9 > package does, it is broken)
10
11 and i just reviewed all packages which declare IUSE=pic and they were pretty
12 much all wrong:
13 amanda
14 tvtime
15 sil-plugin
16 c-client
17 uw-imap
18 checkpassword
19 chillispot
20 cherokee
21 -mike
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Re: [gentoo-dev] The dreaded debug use flag/eclass Danny van Dyk <kugelfang@g.o>