On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Wayne <[email protected]> wrote: > > Il giorno ven, 25/03/2011 alle 19.29 -0700, Mark Knecht ha scritto: > > FEATURES="nostrip" emerge XXX > > with whatever use flags you want set in package.use will likely get you > close. TTBOMK you don't have to modify ebuilds to do this. You just have to > jump through some number of hoops. > > true. however, we want the debug USE flag to actually make all this > happen automatically, rather than forcing the user to remember to adjust the > FEATURES variable each emerge. there are obviously scenarios where both > would make sense. however, when i enabled the debug USE flag, i expected a > debug build of the package. are there other interpretations of the debug USE > flag that i am missing? > > thanks for all your feedback. > > peace, w >
Being that I'm not a developer I've never tried to understand the reasoning. As a 12 year Gentoo user I can just say that for whatever reason it's always been that way since I started with the distribution. Cheers, Mark
