On 03/01/2017 08:51, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: > On 01/02/2017 10:34 PM, Justin <jlec> wrote: >> >> Seems to be very consistent in usage. > > But I'm not convinced it is a correct approach to have use flag changing > this. First thing that springs to mind is if introducing something like > that it should be done consistently across Gentoo, so a GLEP. But > presumably a lot of packages are already built using C++11 without a use > flag given Qt5.7 requiring it etc. > > If using C++11 enables different features the feature should be the use > flag rather than C++11. Couldn't this just be determined using Autotools > etc? What is the gain of the use flag? Immediately it sounds like it > adds complexity without much gain. >
I tried to find some example usages from upstream. Two things I found * Most upstreams dropped the flag in recent versions * If present, it is used to append -std=c++11 Probably we should keep it local and wait until it is gone everywhere upstream. Justin
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