On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 11:53 PM, Ryan Hill <dirtye...@gentoo.org> wrote: > While I'm adding USE defaults to toolchain.eclass and moving them out of the > profiles, I thought now would be a good time to review a couple default flag > settings. > > mudflap: > This is currently enabled by default but I'd like to disable it. It controls > libmudflap and the -fmudflap flag. I think the only reason this flag exists > is > so we can disable it in crossdev. It's not required by anything in the tree, > the code is bitrotten and has been removed for GCC 4.9. If you know how to use > -fmudflap, you know how to set a USE flag.
Sounds good. > fortran: > Do we want to keep enabling fortran by default? The majority of users will > never get the urge to install a fortran package, and the fortran eclass > handles > those that do. I think it should be treated as all the other optional > languages and disabled by default, but I'd like to know if there are other > opinions. I'm for removing fortran by default. Disabling fortran is always one of the first things I do on a new install. I've disabled it by default in the mips profile already.
