Re: Re: Disable SPP On GCC-4.8.3

Volker Armin Hemmann <[email protected]> skribis:
> Am 17.06.2014 21:57, schrieb Barry Schwartz:
> > Frank Peters <[email protected]> skribis:
> >> I appreciate your concern but, all too often it seems, the notion
> >> of "not a good idea" becomes "not a good idea therefore it should
> >> be irrevocably disabled for everyone whether they want it or not."
> > Yeah, that seems to be common.
> >
> > There is a tug-of-war between the idea of Gentoo as (a) an OS like the
> > usual suspects except you can easily compile it yourself and (b) a
> > framework for rolling your own OS. I lean in preference towards (b).
> >
> > (The xLFSes are suffering from the same tug-of-war.)
> 
> so make yourself an overlay, put an ebuild with apropriate patches there
> and be happy.

I have _more than one_ overlay, hosted on Bitbucket.

Please try to be nice about this. Is it not even acceptable to discuss
that there is such a tug-of-war?  Should discussions about the
balances of pros and cons in Gentoo take place in ‘discussion
overlays’?