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
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