On Fri, 02 Jun 2017 14:07:44 +0700 "Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov" <gen...@mva.name> wrote:
> Shouldn't we mention "debug" USE-flag in this context somehow? Not sure it should. Even though one package may be the logical equivalent of a handful of debian packages, doesn't mean there's going to be a useful USE <-> package mapping for such things. Maybe debug seems more obvious, but, well, with Gentoo, you don't actually *need* a USE flag for that: You control that via CFLAGS and the FEATURES="splitdebug" options. USE="debug" *changes the compile* and introduces source-code level enhancements, that can change the resulting binary parts. Whereas the debian equivalents are just the equivalents of our splitdebugs rolled up so you can debug stack traces with gdb, if I remember correctly. eg: https://packages.debian.org/jessie/amd64/vlc-dbg/filelist In hindsight, maybe -dbg mappings might not make sense, and should be discouraged. Otherwise you're gonna need to add a descriptive field of some kind to the <remote-id> data, and at that point, it gets really hairy. I have ideas how you get around that, but it moves away from <remote-id> entirely, and that's really just over-complicating it.
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