Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC v2: news item for the 17.0 profiles

["Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org>]

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Am Mittwoch, 11. Oktober 2017, 06:41:06 CEST schrieb Walter Dnes:
> 
> 1) Will 6.3.0 be skipped for stabilization?

Yes. 

(Actually I'd prefer to drop it yesterday, but didn't manage to wake up enough 
toolchain team members for that.)

> 
> 2) If someone decides to override and set "-pie" in USE, will their
> current systems continue to function? 

Yes. 

(Though technically if you override masked/forced flags you lose your warranty. 
:)

Depending on your system the fallout from 1) switching pie on and 2) *not* 
rebuilding *world* *may* be rather small. You'll get some spurious link 
errors, especially when static libraries are involved, and may have to 
manually rebuild dependencies. If you're willing to deal with that (and 
promise not to file bugs) ...

> On a new install I'll go with
> the default, but "emerge -e" takes a long time on my current machine.
> It's an ancient 2008 CORE2 with 3 gigs of ram, but it works fine for
> me, including Youtube 1080P streaming.


-- 
Andreas K. Hüttel
dilfridge@gentoo.org
Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffice)

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