Re: [gentoo-user] custom-cxxflags not supported but on anyway

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Monday 16 February 2009 20:36:02 Dale wrote:
> Well, it is done now.  You know what would be nice, a mailing list that
> announces these new "features".  Maybe one that only devs can post to
> but anyone can receive.  Just a little note that something new is coming
> and what it does would be really nice.

Well, there sort-of is something like that already - the Changelog. The 
trouble with news-announce-change lists is that no-one can ever make up their 
mind as to what goes on it and what doesn't, so they end up sooner or later 
being a dump for the entire Changelog (which you already have :-) )

I've been caught out by this stuff too many times. Now I always read 
/var/portage/profiles/package.mask before an update. With a bit of practise 
anf doing it frequently, you get a good idea of what parts of the tree are 
active and where changes are being made. Helps with predicting stuff :-)

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