On 05/10/2017 03:29 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 10. Mai 2017, 13:58:56 CEST schrieb Dirkjan Ochtman: >> On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 11:19 AM, Kristian Fiskerstrand <k...@gentoo.org> > wrote: >>> Sounds like a reasonable action plan. The consequences of such a change >>> definitely seems to be sufficiently high to merit a proper migration >>> plan which doesn't seem to have been established at this point. Whether >>> that can be added to a later point with gcc6 (e.g by adding a new >>> profile, or a later point release) I don't have strong opinions on, but >>> there should be a plan and proper overview of the consequences. >> >> Yeah, I think I agree. From the discussions so far, I think that we >> should definitely aim for making pie the default for everyone (on >> arches where it makes sense), but doing it in the gcc-6 now which has >> seen only a short period of testing so far seems a bit hasty based on >> data from the messages that I've seen in these threads so far. > > Actually the idea I like best so far is Jason's profile suggestion. > > * package.use.mask gcc[pie] in the 13.0 profiles > > * generate a new set of profiles 17.0 where it's package.use.forced > * tell people they may have to rebuild world when they switch > > -> This would also give us some time to discuss what other changes we might > make with the transition to the new profiles. > > -> Also, this means the transition is independent of gcc release timing. > > (We just need to be careful since hardened also inherits 13.0, so the setting > must be overridden there. As far as I can see that's already done there > though.) >
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