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From: Joonas Niilola <juippis@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] call for agenda items -- council meeting 2021-05-09
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2021 04:10:20
Message-Id: b85ff99f-c5d5-50c5-7d05-8d0de361e476@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] call for agenda items -- council meeting 2021-05-09 by "Andreas K. Huettel"
1 On 27.4.2021 21.56, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
2 > Am Sonntag, 25. April 2021, 21:01:03 CEST schrieb William Hubbs:
3 >> All,
4 >>
5 >> two weeks from today (2021-05-09) the Gentoo Council will meet
6 >> at 19:00 utc in the #gentoo-council channel on freenode.
7 >>
8 >> Please respond to this message with any items you would like us to
9 >> discuss or vote on. The agenda will be sent to this list a week from now
10 >> (2021-05-02).
11 > I'd like to kick off a discussion whether LTO should be considered "supported". With that I essentially mean that bugs involving LTO should be considered valid, and fixes (be it only stripping -flto from flags, or similar solutions) should be committed to the tree.
12
13 I don't use lto, but been wondering when would be a good time to provide
14 a stage3-lto installation media. Reasoning is similar to yours.
15
16 -- juippis
17
18 >
19 > I would like to clarify this before possibly suggesting an initiative to make the Gentoo repository LTO-safe (similar to what we did years ago with --as-needed).
20 >
21 > Background is, just about every binary distribution out there builds with LTO by default now. It's not so great if we then keep telling people "LTO is dangerous".
22 >
23 > Cheers,
24 > Andreas
25 >
26 > (Yes I'm aware of the LTO overlay. It may be a great source.)
27 >

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