On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 5:36 PM Sergei Trofimovich <sly...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > 'tc-directly' tracker https://bugs.gentoo.org/243502 tracks > packages that don't respect users' CC/AR/LD flags. > > I added new USE=-native-symlinks mode for gcc-config and > binutils-config to ease detection of such packages. > > Native symlinks are still installed by default. Nothing should > break for users who use default USE flags. > > USE=-native-symlinks removes a bunch of links that most packages > use by default until are overridden explicitly. Incomplete list is: > - /lib/cpp > - /usr/bin/{gcc,cc,g++,c++,...} > - /usr/bin/{as,ld,ranlib,dwp,...} > > The rule of thumb is: if a tool does not have ${CTARGET}- prefix > it will probably disappear with USE=-native-symlinks. > > (At least eventually) 'emerge' should still be able to build most > of packages in such environment. I expect initial breakage will be > huge though.
Could you please add this flag to package.use.force? I don't think we want to give people the impression that this is a well-supported configuration. I would only expect people to disable this if they want to break their system intentionally. Also, people are likely to disable this accidentally via USE="-*".
