On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:50:58 +0200
Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 18:43:29 +0200
> Roman Zimmermann <mereandor@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Those links Jakub posted are interesting, but I don't find an
> > explanation why this decission was made. Maybe you have a link to
> > that discussion too?
> 
> What decision? That USE=static shouldn't be used for (not) installing
> static libraries is simply because the flag is used to control how
> (parts of) a package should be linked and global flags
> shouldn't be used for completely different purposes. That's been the
> case since the beginning, so I doubt you'll find any dicussion about
> it.

The more interesting question is why static libraries are built and
installed for most packages at all.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh