On 1/3/17 4:08 AM, Justin <jlec> wrote: > 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 >
Agreed. Keep it local. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail : bluen...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 1FED FAD9 D82C 52A5 3BAB DC79 9384 FA6E F52D 4BBA GnuPG ID : F52D4BBA
