This is mostly a nit-like RFC. The developer profile adds a profile.bashrc, which prints the "You should enable -g (or higher) for debugging!" message when "-g" is not in CFLAGS.
I wonder if we can remove that file. It has been added 3 years ago: <http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/profiles/targets/developer/profile.bashrc?view=markup> It is not obvious from looking at emerge output what prints this message, it doesn't fit well with the rest of the output, and may be easy to miss: * USE: elibc_glibc gtk kernel_linux test userland_GNU x86 * FEATURES: sandbox splitdebug test userpriv usersandbox You should enable -g (or higher) for debugging! >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking mtr-0.80.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/net-analyzer/mtr-0.80/work I think it is not necessary for every developer to add "-g" to CFLAGS - the main point is to have any symbols at all, not just to-the-file-and-line-precise debugging info. If the latter is needed, the developer will obviously know what to do. What do you think about removing gentoo-x86/profiles/targets/developer/profile.bashrc file?
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