questions + remarks about slink

[Xander van Wiggen <uruz@trinity.warande.net>]

Hi,

I'm using debian (2.1) for quite some time now and I really like it.
However, I needed newer versions of some packages so I got the
diffs,dsc's from potato and rebuilt them myself.

If I upgrade in the near future to potato, will my own glibc2.0 linked
packages (potato version!) be replaced by potato's glibc2.1 linked ones?
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About rebuilding; other package tools (rpm) have architecture info in
their config, so if I put my own CFLAGS in this config, every package
I rebuild automatically uses my CFLAGS; can/will dpkg behave like
this?
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In /etc/environment you can put variables which are imported into
every shell (very convenient); the problem is:
  if I do e.g. echo "CFLAGS=-mpentium -O2 -pipe" >>/etc/environment" and
  startx then errors result because /etc/X11/Xsession (called by
  /etc/X11/xinit) includes a line ". /etc/environment". Is there another
  way of setting CFLAGS exactly to -mpentium -O2 -pipe in /etc/environment?

Continuing, could there be something like an /etc/alibaba file which
contains aliases which are imported by every shell (similar to
environment)? That way, alternatives (e.g. (x)emacs19/20) could be
handled somewhat more elegantly IMHO w.r.t. defaults.

Finally, will there be 'SMP support' in Debian? E.g. modified procps
packages etc.

Thanks in advance,
Please address mails, flames, etc. also to me as I'm not subscribed to
this mailing list...

greets,
xander van wiggen <uruz@trinity.warande.net>