From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LUjQf-00070o-NE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:12:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E78BAE0971; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 14:07:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 240BFE0AD8 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 14:07:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from krikkit (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6C23A46267F for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 14:06:53 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 14:06:51 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: "optimized for your system" -- huh? Message-ID: <20090204140651.7786f07c@krikkit> In-Reply-To: <20090204133126.GC22980@revolver> References: <200902040858.23559.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20090204130332.GB22980@revolver> <1233753351.4596.18.camel@silversword> <20090204133126.GC22980@revolver> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0cvs53 (GTK+ 2.14.7; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/HbbhbR37lvn3QcammL3p2uy"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 48d4cc76-d23f-4f8d-bd3e-668f39807cd1 X-Archives-Hash: 24ae7cf0e68bacac2a4e4f6a4bcd7423 --Sig_/HbbhbR37lvn3QcammL3p2uy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 14:31:26 +0100, Momesso Andrea wrote: > Sure, I've used per-package optimizations myself in some particular > cases, but that's not the point. >=20 > A package manteiner *should* know better than an average user which > optimizations will tune better their own package. But the user knows their own needs and system better. If the user is using -Os, it is reasonable to assume they have a reason for doing so and not override it. The only time ebuilds should override user CFLAGS is when the build is known to fail with certain settings. --=20 Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 36: Alone together --Sig_/HbbhbR37lvn3QcammL3p2uy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmJoPsACgkQum4al0N1GQNeXQCdGyDoxFoXptl+wKaSCrKKTj23 C2sAnjEh2i/9GjKb4uBkng8FOTv8gwdD =jxe/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/HbbhbR37lvn3QcammL3p2uy--