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This might be a little off-topic, but anyone knows whether gentoo's USE flags will come to debian derivatives?
by amirouche 9y ago
This might be a little off-topic, but anyone knows whether gentoo's USE flags will come to debian derivatives?
- thomasfortes 9y agoProbably not, gentoo compiles everything, building deb packages for every possible combination of flags would be almost impossible, and if you add the fact that you can change the flags for a single package then you will get something impossible to do. USE flags and equivalents are a thing that only comes with systems that compile most of the software instead of relying in binaries.
- amirouche 9y agoI don't want debian to compile every combination of use flags. I just want to be able to opt-in to use softwares compiled and optimized by me.
- kasabali 9y agoDEB_BUILD _OPTIONS was already a thing. There is now also more formal build profiles feature. (https://wiki.debian.org/BuildProfileSpec https://wiki.debian.org/BuildProfileSpec) this is closest you'll get though, as Debian is not a source distribution and these features are not aimed at users