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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce global dmalloc USE flag?
From:       Diego_Elio_Pettenò <flameeyes () flameeyes ! eu>
Date:       2013-06-24 10:47:42
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On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@gentoo.org>wrote:

> To be clear, the justification of USE=dmalloc being separated from
> USE=debug is that it is so "intrusive" than anyone excepts a developer
> would find it too cumbersome to attempt to debug a problem with the
> application ?
>

I think we already got a number of packages where that holds true. It was
one of the reasons why I did my best to make sure people understand that
debug symbols and nostrip should *not* be conflated with USE=debug.

If I'm not mistaken, app-editors/nano[debug] is hardly usable.

Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes
flameeyes@flameeyes.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/

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<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 24, \
2013 at 11:37 AM, Gilles Dartiguelongue <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a \
href="mailto:eva@gentoo.org" target="_blank">eva@gentoo.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br> \
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc \
solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":1sk" style="overflow:hidden">To be clear, the \
justification of USE=dmalloc being separated from<br> USE=debug is that it is so \
&quot;intrusive&quot; than anyone excepts a developer<br> would find it too \
cumbersome to attempt to debug a problem with the<br> application \
?</div></blockquote></div><br>I think we already got a number of packages where that \
holds true. It was one of the reasons why I did my best to make sure people \
understand that debug symbols and nostrip should *not* be conflated with \
USE=debug.</div> <div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">If \
I&#39;m not mistaken, app-editors/nano[debug] is hardly usable.<br><br \
clear="all"><div>Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes<br><a \
href="mailto:flameeyes@flameeyes.eu" target="_blank">flameeyes@flameeyes.eu</a> — \
<a href="http://blog.flameeyes.eu/" \
target="_blank">http://blog.flameeyes.eu/</a></div>

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