The ports-system and userland in general.

[Eduardo Tongson]

On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 15:07:02 +0100, Weapon of Mass Deduction
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> That is also caused by lack of separation of compilation (which is an
> executive process) and configuration. It must be almost impossible to
> get rid of it, certainly when we don't have a huge crew for it.
> 
> So, I will keep on looking into a mechanism to bypass/wrap around those
> nasty makefiles.

Something like Gentoo's USE flags can mitigate this.

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