Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Wednesday 27 September 2006 19:56, Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] First Impressions': > >> Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> >>> On Wednesday 27 September 2006 11:11, "Hemmann, Volker Armin" >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] >>> >>> First Impressions': >>> >>>> -O3 don't do it. O2 is much, much safer and not really slower. It >>>> will prevent a lot of breakage. >>>> >>> -O3 breaking just doesn't happen anymore. >>> Also, some applications break with just -O2. >>> Now, it is an open question whether -O3 is significantly faster than >>> -O2. My >>> recommendation is -O3. :) >>> >> I've always used "-O3". >> I think I've read somewhere in *.gentoo.org that It should be reported >> if a "testing" version works fine so it could get in the stable tree >> faster. >> > > Please only file a stabilization bug if (a) there are no open bug reports > on the version you want stabilized (b) all dependencies of the that > version can be satisfied with stable packages on the ARCH you want > stabilized AND (c) at least 30 days have passed since the ebuild for that > version has been modified. > > There has to be some time between an ebuild being available and it becoming > stable to test on setups that aren't exactly like yours. I know (some) > people want things declared stable ASAP, but declaring a package stable > doesn't make it so and there are (many, many) people that want stable > Gentoo to actually be stable. E.g. they do real work on the system. :P > > >> Should this "replace-flags" stuff be reported when the package >> compiles successfully with "-O3"? >> > > I fear you may find such bugs closed as WONTFIX/INVALID fairly quickly, > especially if you started reporting en masse. That said, if you have a > compelling reason to use -O3 instead of what it is replaced with (not > just "it works for me") for a specific package, I'd say file the bug, but > be sure to include the reason(s) the replacement doesn't work for you. > >
But of course! ;-) I was just thinking if it would be theoretically right to classify the use of "replace-flags" as a bug if it is not needed (and also not harming). I don't think someone would really file a bug report for this It's true that my OCD about optimizing becomes painful when I see my flags overruled but I (still) can control myself ;-) The thing I like most in Gentoo is that it gives many choices while its maintenance still remains automated. If I wanted to choose and manually change everything and everywhere I'd rather build myself an LFS [1] system. [1] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ -- Best regards, Daniel -- [email protected] mailing list
