using non-standard optflags (-O3, in particular)

[Simon Perreault]

Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> So, the only results of recommendations to trust when it comes to
> packaging binaries for a distro is those who are deeply familiar with
> the guts of the OS, in case of Fedora, RH's GCC, glibc and kernel
> developers.

This is BS. Sure, people have thought about the defaults, but it doesn't 
mean that the packager doesn't know what he's doing either. Some 
software, particularly numerical computation stuff, is built for being 
optimized properly. There are some extreme cases where using -O2 instead 
of -O3 simply makes a piece of software useless (take Blitz++ for example).

Using -O3 in specific cases isn't that big of a deal. In any case, if 
there's something the packager hasn't thought about, he'll be quickly 
reminded by way of the Bugzilla.