Maybe it depends on what you mean by 'in control'. What I mean is that
you have a good stable base from which to work on, but nothing prevents
you to tweak things like you want: Gentoo doesn't get in your way.
http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml mentions "Extreme
Configurabiliy" and the main picture states "Larry the Cow was in
control. And he liked it.".
It certainly is, but if you do something against the developers advice
there is a simple rule: If it breaks you get to keep the pieces.
I agree (how could I say otherwise after spending several days with a
hole in my foot finally finding that I had a gun named fast-math in my
hand :-) ).
Apparently many developpers think that it might be in CFLAGS though (see
the amount of 'filter-flags -ffast-math' in ebuilds) so a reminder might
not be wasted for some users.
Those ebuilds should be changed to die instead of filtering. -ffast-math
is just stupid to enable globally.
Paul
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