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From: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH] To enable ssp default in Gcc the toolchain.eclass need some changes.
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2014 23:29:32
Message-Id: 201401100030.11205.dilfridge@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH] To enable ssp default in Gcc the toolchain.eclass need some changes. by Ryan Hill
1 Am Freitag, 10. Januar 2014, 00:26:03 schrieb Ryan Hill:
2 >
3 > > Please avoid "noblah" use flags.
4 > >
5 > > http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/use-flags/
6 > >
7 > > ssp flag that defaults to on is fine.
8 >
9 > This flag already exists and has always worked this way.
10
11 "already exists and has always worked this way" is not really a good argument.
12 The rest of the tree sticks to guidelines, so why not here?
13
14 > We don't have USE defaults yet.
15
16 Now if you had said "we can't use USE defaults yet since current ebuilds are
17 still at EAPI=0"... that would have been slightly more informative. :)
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19 (Yes I've seen that there is work going on, and I think that's good. Being
20 careful when modernizing makes sense here of course.)
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25 Andreas K. Huettel
26 Gentoo Linux developer
27 dilfridge@g.o
28 http://www.akhuettel.de/

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