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 1OUWPX-00043w-GW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 02 Jul 2010 02:55:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3C4B2E0B8E; Fri, 2 Jul 2010 02:55:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6CC0E0B88 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2010 02:55:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6A7B2AC002 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2010 02:55:14 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.527 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.527 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.072, 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 ZAn5tvScW2aU for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2010 02:55:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DE962AC009 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2010 02:55:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OUWP9-00039B-Ri for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Fri, 02 Jul 2010 04:55:03 +0200 Received: from ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.231.22.224]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 02 Jul 2010 04:55:03 +0200 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 02 Jul 2010 04:55:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] debug USE flag misuse Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 02:52:49 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20100701140013.4b9edf1c@gentoo.org> <20100701194849.360d20dc@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=UTF-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies; GIT a971f44 branch-testing) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 5d35b6d8-9189-45c1-ab2b-bfd902b28476 X-Archives-Hash: bbb5ce003c99e09d8b5afb4ce2845383 Ryan Hill posted on Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:48:49 -0600 as excerpted: > We've had per-package CFLAGS for quite a long time now. Maybe we need > to advertise this a little more? There would certainly be a market for > some util to manage all the per-package options that we have scattered > around in different config files. The answer has always been that various devs are afraid of publicizing th= e=20 env dir, particularly since settings there are not directly exposed via=20 emerge --info, because it'd make bugs rather more difficult to trace due=20 to the hidden settings. Is that fixed yet? Because I've always thought it was a useful tool too=20 few knew about, as well. --=20 Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman