Am Dienstag, 9. Mai 2017, 22:10:21 CEST schrieb Alexis Ballier: > > Do you realize that this breaks linking against about any static lib > ever built before upgrading ? And I'm not even considering people > toggling the flag.
Toggling the flag is definitely bad. So it should be either on or off. > > While I believe it might be a bit too early to default-enable pie, why > not, but the news item *must* contain instructions that people should > 'emerge -e world' in order for it to work. > > Also, I don't believe default-pie should even be a useflag. It's always > been forced-on for hardened and forced-off for non-hardened I think. > Switching between the two types of profiles has always been difficult > because of that kind of differences. I strongly believe this should stay > that way (that is: this cant be toggled by a simple useflag). > Well... Hanno and Matthias said Gentoo is about the only place where it isn't on by default. So why are we "early", and why not just force it on for everybody? -- Andreas K. Hüttel dilfri...@gentoo.org Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffice)
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