[gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH] profiles: update pie use-flag masks for sys-devel/gcc

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Matthias Maier posted on Thu, 11 May 2017 19:17:51 -0500 as excerpted:

> In light of the recent discussion, I will restore the status quo for the
> pie use-flag: masked on non-hardened profiles, unmasked and forced on
> hardened profiles.
> 
> The next step will be to switch the pie use-flag on default profiles
> from masked to unmasked/forced with a profile update.

For those of us who already have a default-pie system and now that we do, 
don't want to go back, what's the prescribed override?  I've never felt 
the need to override a masked flag like that, before.

(I'm sure I could find the general documentation and handle it myself, 
but I'm equally sure that there's likely to be others in my situation by 
now, and we shouldn't /all/ need to figure it out on our own.)

(As some may remember, yes, I do have USE="-* ..." set, so didn't get pie 
with the initial gcc6 emerge and @world rebuild, but I was persuaded by 
the discussion here to try it, second global rebuild, and so far it 
works.  So both because it's supposed to be safer and because I don't 
want to do now a /third/ global rebuild, I strongly prefer to keep it, 
now that I have it, and no issues so far.)

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