RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for yoursystem' -- huh?

>Unless you mean a different thing, that can be achieved and
>is already done in some packages. For example, mplayer has a
>USE flag called custom-cflags which freely allow you to break
>it as much as you want.

What I meant was something like this: supposed that the maintainer of a
particular package knows the -O3 causes a massive performance increase
(just an example, I know that usually -03 only gives marginally better
performance and that it can even make stuff slower), if the user has the
"simmonsays" USE flag enabled, that package will be built with -03,
respecting the users' -march setting but overriding -On.

Developing the idea, there could be a "performance" and a "stability"
USE flags, that would use the recommended CFLAGS for each package, some
sort of "automated ricing" ;-)