On 19 December 2013 06:33, Jan Kundrát <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm worried by the cost of such a policy, though, because we would suddenly > have to patch some unknown amount of software
Given the nature that changing that CXX Flag globally for all users could cause many packages to spontaneously fail to build, wouldn't that imply that changing that flag would essentially be de-stabilizing the whole tree, and a package being (arch) would no longer be an indication of sane, tested behaviour? This is really the perk of the USE driven process, the granular piecemeal approach that does only as much as necessary, without changing things that are already stable. -- Kent
