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Re: RFC: Sort input section by list
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi H.J.
>
>>> A generic method which will work with currently installed versions of gcc
>>> and the linker on most linux boxes...
>>> ...versus a new, untested feature in the linker, in a version of the
>>> linker
>>> that has not even been released yet.
>
>> All linker features were new, untested at one time. It shouldn't be
>> the reason not to implement/experiment them.
>
> True - but I am trying to avoid feature bloat here. I do not want to add a
> new feature to solve a problem that can already be solved using existing
> methods.
>
As Arjan mentioned, it isn't practical to change so many packages to add
section attribute. It doesn't scale with number of packages nor updates
on packages.
--
H.J.