From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HiE4I-0006Mv-PR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 18:24:19 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l3TINLIb019811; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 18:23:21 GMT Received: from ik-out-1112.google.com (ik-out-1112.google.com [66.249.90.179]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l3TILO2j017596 for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 18:21:24 GMT Received: by ik-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id c21so1648569ika for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 11:21:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=t35uIJ+CqK+Zx12p9Yg4gzWPbgSGdZHTYr20kzlCWYCtkWLJkmBPyyVRosolxnXHHj2uybz3ZAS3/WqVpsf8DV7cT3IGUZd7T+15brQZFnXUD0IaXZ7R1KnOHWvxkpTCDaWZDHk3ks/v6akNlgxJrfZJUh6y2GXhYIgmp1oH7T0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=q2I24TJSC+vLHRZm+kou7J3irAbys2uY36nyVg+xz8lqKUVFac7elj5G++f8w85RuQVaj55QfD6CA8cxkzz9doYZh5YdTSN+ZJCbYizFCsqmKlTHS0qOb+WOwrIM7sjsMbWtBuxkqiSy8J+DUkBEqjAg03kmHPhDS4GtZ5WKdM0= Received: by 10.82.152.16 with SMTP id z16mr10303238bud.1177870884365; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 11:21:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pender.zimmermann.local ( [85.124.110.28]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id z34sm9155516ikz.2007.04.29.11.21.23; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 11:21:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Roman Zimmermann To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo: static/dynamic linking libraries Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:21:19 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <200704291032.06932.mereandor@gmail.com> <200704291843.33718.mereandor@gmail.com> <20070429195058.48b3f600@sheridan.genone.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20070429195058.48b3f600@sheridan.genone.homeip.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2118335.38xuZjm1ny"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200704292021.20530.mereandor@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 39a92a82-ad91-4ffa-9820-ecabdce47470 X-Archives-Hash: eb3346c08cbac46a5c881483317f2829 --nextPart2118335.38xuZjm1ny Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Am Sonntag 29 April 2007 19:50 schrieb Marius Mauch: > 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=3Dstatic 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. > There is also the part about: "packages that can install static and shared= =20 libraries should always be installing them."=20 [http://marc.info/?l=3Dgentoo-dev&m=3D116026024223024&w=3D2] Which means either that this statement was meant for another context (and n= ot=20 in such a general meaning) or it says that there shouldn't/won't be a way t= o=20 change this behavior. In case 1 this misses the point. (As Ciaran pointed out.) Since I was not=20 specifically talking about the 'static' useflag. =46or case 2 I'm very interested in the reason. --nextPart2118335.38xuZjm1ny Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGNOIgIAIA2PPsul0RAoQpAKCvDEFJ90WNhN9y7bTL9YaGpP80owCdFckw uE4WbJZh3DC44Ga4q4j1c1g= =DIVG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2118335.38xuZjm1ny-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list