From: "Diego Elio Pettenò" <flameeyes@flameeyes.eu>
To: "gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org" <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce global dmalloc USE flag?
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 11:47:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHcsgXQ+z9SH17XfXp=9-ypDwTz_0Zs_TxG2L3h9WybVnWj+QQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1372070234.19250.6.camel@gilles.gandi.net>
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On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@gentoo.org>wrote:
> To be clear, the justification of USE=dmalloc being separated from
> USE=debug is that it is so "intrusive" than anyone excepts a developer
> would find it too cumbersome to attempt to debug a problem with the
> application ?
>
I think we already got a number of packages where that holds true. It was
one of the reasons why I did my best to make sure people understand that
debug symbols and nostrip should *not* be conflated with USE=debug.
If I'm not mistaken, app-editors/nano[debug] is hardly usable.
Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes
flameeyes@flameeyes.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-13 1:35 [gentoo-dev] Introduce global dmalloc USE flag? Dennis Lan (dlan)
2013-06-13 2:00 ` Kent Fredric
2013-06-13 5:05 ` Michał Górny
2013-06-20 18:34 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2013-06-22 7:48 ` Dennis Lan (dlan)
2013-06-24 8:54 ` Gilles Dartiguelongue
2013-06-24 9:05 ` Samuli Suominen
2013-06-24 10:37 ` Gilles Dartiguelongue
2013-06-24 10:47 ` Diego Elio Pettenò [this message]
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