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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@×××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 21:06:18
Message-Id: 20060706215856.64d8d6c2@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags by "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò"
1 On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 22:46:31 +0200 "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò"
2 <flameeyes@g.o> wrote:
3 | On Thursday 06 July 2006 22:24, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
4 | > Well, if you're playing that game, I'd suggest that anybody wanting
5 | > to make proposals on this issue should know what CFLAGS is and
6 | > understand how it is nothing other than a set of flags that are
7 | > passed to the compiler when compiling a C program, and then
8 | > evaluate the impact of subverting such a variable for nefarious
9 | > purposes.
10 |
11 | And I suggest that anybody willing to comment on user-side of things
12 | would know what an user is and understand how users feel about
13 | issues, instead of going on and on and on commenting without having a
14 | clue.
15
16 You're not going to give in gracefully, huh? Ok, I'd like to ask the
17 council to declare that abusing CFLAGS in the manner proposed in this
18 thread is a very bad idea.
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21 Ciaran McCreesh
22 Mail : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <flameeyes@g.o>