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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