Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> skribis: > Usually use flags that are discouraged are intended mainly to solve > limitations in how we express dependencies/etc. It isn't that we > don't want users to use them, but more that in the future we might > change how they work and they could go away, causing trouble for those > who depend on them. Think of them as unintentionally-exposed private > interfaces.
My view on this current problem is that, given -fno-stack-protector in the make.conf works nearly everywhere, there isn’t a problem as far as building the OS is concerned. As for a ‘user compiler’, this seems not to be a serious change, either. (An example of actually making life harder for a user are the default-settings changes in Debian’s GNU linker. They make it harder than with stock GNU to construct dynamic plugins.)
