Re: [gentoo-dev] Prelinking in Gentoo and interactions with portage

[Stefan Jones <cretin@gentoo.org>]

On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 17:41, David Olsen wrote:
> On 2002-11-18-09:53:03, Felipe Ghellar <fghellar2@yahoo.com.br> wrote:
> > What about including it in the variable FEATURES in make.conf?
> > 
> > FEATURES="sandbox ccache prelink"
> 
> Prelinking may be more suited as a USE variable, just an opinion though.
> 

I am siding on the side of "FEATURES" as prelinking globally effects
binaries and libraries, you cannot always say that certain libraries are
not to be prelinked, as USE flags would imply.

Also you would have a messy problem on uninstall having to read the USE
flags. Although you could choose to always uninstall in the prelink safe
way.

Plus it fits better into the portage overview to have USE flags effect
the behaviour of the ebuild code and FEATURES flags effect the portage
(python) code.

My two pence ,

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Stefan Jones <cretin@gentoo.org>
Gentoo Linux


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