On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 12:30:04AM +0100, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Am Freitag, 10. Januar 2014, 00:26:03 schrieb Ryan Hill: > > > > > Please avoid "noblah" use flags. > > > > > > http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/use-flags/ > > > > > > ssp flag that defaults to on is fine. > > > > This flag already exists and has always worked this way. > > "already exists and has always worked this way" is not really a good > argument. > The rest of the tree sticks to guidelines, so why not here?
Agreed again. Saying that something has always worked a certain way in the past is not justification for keeping it working that way, especially when there are preferred ways of doing the same thing that are different. > > We don't have USE defaults yet. > > Now if you had said "we can't use USE defaults yet since current ebuilds are > still at EAPI=0"... that would have been slightly more informative. :) > > (Yes I've seen that there is work going on, and I think that's good. Being > careful when modernizing makes sense here of course.) Right, I thought someone had updated toolchain.eclass to use a modern eapi, but I hadn't seen any more on that in some time. What's the latest? Thanks, William
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