On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 18:43:29 +0200 Roman Zimmermann 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. Marius -- Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better.