On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 20:40 +0200, Harald van Dijk wrote: > On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 01:55:03PM -0400, Ned Ludd wrote: > > Keep pushing this and the only thing you will end up with is the > > vanilla flag being removed all together.. > > Is that a threat? If not, is there a reason behind this?
Yes.. When users or devs complain non stop when they don't understand something it leaves us with a few choices. 1) put up with people not having a clue. 2) remove the option so they can't bitch about it. Option #1 is not fun as it pushes the hand on #2 > > You want a pure 100% > > vanilla(POS) non working toolchain then go download it and > > compile it yourself. You will soon see why things exist the way > > they do.. > > If you mean modifying the build system to actually work properly, then I > have no problem with that. USE=vanilla refers to runtime behaviour, not > the build system. (See use.desc.) Specifically, if patches are applied > that make sure GCC compiles, and those patches make sure GCC compiles to > the same program intended by the GCC devs at that release, those patches > are appropriate, IMO. None of the GCC patches I have problems with are > of this nature. > > If you mean vanilla GCC + build fixes is unusable, then I'd appreciate > an explanation, because as far as I know, it can work just fine as a > system compiler, and plenty of people, at some times myself included, > use it as one. You use the Gentoo modified one. Regardless of what USE= flags you have enabled you are still getting Gentoo behaviors. Think vanilla-sources are pure? They are not. They get patched as well with the minimal amount of patches required. -- Ned Ludd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
