Once you use the 'hardened' flag on sys-devel/gcc and base-gcc it shows this :
blacknoxis SpecialPackages # gcc-config -l [1] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-4.6.2 * [2] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-4.6.2-hardenednopie [3] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-4.6.2-hardenednopiessp [4] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-4.6.2-hardenednossp [5] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-4.6.2-vanilla You can chose then. > Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 08:46:56 +0100 > From: lx...@sabayon.org > To: devel@lists.sabayon.org > Subject: Re: [sabayon-dev] Sabayon Hardening: Proposed Roadmap > > I agree with you that we should introduce hardened features one by one > and the proposed roadmap does make sense. > Does the hardened version of GCC show up as a different gcc-config > profile? Or does it replace the non-hardened profile in the same > sys-devel/gcc slot? > > Cheers, > -- > Fabio Erculiani >