On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Aaron Walker wrote:

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> Nick Rout wrote:
> > I thought perhaps
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> > CFLAGS="whatever" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" emerge foo
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> > no doubt some dev guru will tell me I am way out of line :-)
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> wrong! there's nothing wrong with doing that.  If it was something like
> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS you were setting, that'd be different :)

There may not be nothing wrong with it, but it is nevertheless almost as
crappy way to do it. This is because the next time the package with custom
CFLAGS gets updated as part of a world/system update, it will be emerged
with the default CFLAGS again...


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