From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OUPzs-0003Rg-Hq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:04:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1C52D1C074; Thu, 1 Jul 2010 20:04:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 416ECE0A9B for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2010 20:04:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE95D1B4513 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2010 20:04:15 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.944 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.944 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.345, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ceHR1W4CID-d for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2010 20:04:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F1131B451D for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2010 20:04:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OUPzR-0003aI-RX for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:04:05 +0200 Received: from athedsl-388087.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.67.245]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:04:05 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-388087.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:04:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] debug USE flag misuse Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:04:10 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <20100701140013.4b9edf1c@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-388087.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100626 Thunderbird/3.1 In-Reply-To: <20100701140013.4b9edf1c@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 49d2cff9-2bf6-4afa-a775-9d9cb0d9624e X-Archives-Hash: 345f75f91b88f2f0fce7ff2de240d59f On 07/01/2010 11:00 PM, Ryan Hill wrote: >[...] > The way to control compiler flags in Gentoo is CFLAGS. That is true. However, there's a problem; you can control package options of individual packages with USE flags, but you can't control compilation switches of individual packages with CFLAGS. This will naturally make people feel like using USE flags to modify compilation options is a good idea. Surely, one has to sympathize with this mindset even though it's a wrong thing to do.