On Thursday 06 July 2006 10:03, Simon Stelling wrote:
> c) This is not about "regaining" control. Currently, users who want to
> cross-compile are screwed and need nasty use.mask-hacks to not end up
> with broken binaries. The inability to provide per-package CFLAGS is a
> missing feature in portage, it's got nothing to do with this issue.

deficiency in portage that is being slowly resolved ... this is hardly 
specific to cpu-based USE flags and deserves nothing short of a real fix on 
the portage side

as for "broken binaries", i kind of doubt that statement ... when was the last 
time you saw a cross-toolchain accept assembly code written for a different 
architecture ?  now if you had said broken builds, i would have agreed with 
you slightly ... but again, refer to the "this is hardly specific to 
cpu-based USE flags" statement from earlier
-mike