From: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Please review: function epunt_la_files for eutils.eclass
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:23:57 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081113062356.GB15777@comet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200811121724.22042.loki_val@gentoo.org>
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On 17:24 Wed 12 Nov , Peter Alfredsen wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 November 2008, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> > And for people who want to build things statically.
>
> That's true, but we generally don't want to do that, so that's fine.
> If needed for a package, we just don't punt la files for it and its
> dependencies. But generally, we should really only be building .so
> files and they just don't need .la files.
We should enable our users to do things they want to do and not get in
their way. That's the Gentoo philosophy.
> If someone really wants .la
> files, we could introduce a variable:
> IWANTTHECRAPPYLAFILESANDIKNOWWHATIMDOING=yes
> to be placed in make.conf.
Where do you even usefully document its existence, if it's a feature of
some function in some eclass?
> But the great thing about having a utility function is that you can
> make general exceptions to the rule with tweaks like that.
Yep, just as you can with a number of other possible ways of handling
this.
--
Thanks,
Donnie
Donnie Berkholz
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-09 16:04 [gentoo-dev] Please review: function epunt_la_files for eutils.eclass Peter Alfredsen
2008-11-09 16:10 ` Fabian Groffen
2008-11-09 16:34 ` Peter Alfredsen
2008-11-09 16:48 ` Fabian Groffen
2008-11-09 17:46 ` Peter Alfredsen
2008-11-09 17:53 ` Fabian Groffen
2008-11-12 13:41 ` Mart Raudsepp
2008-11-12 14:40 ` Peter Alfredsen
2008-11-12 16:14 ` Rémi Cardona
2008-11-12 17:16 ` Peter Alfredsen
2008-11-13 6:21 ` Donnie Berkholz
2008-11-14 10:35 ` Gilles Dartiguelongue
2008-11-14 17:28 ` Marius Mauch
2008-11-14 14:25 ` Alexis Ballier
2008-11-14 14:35 ` Rémi Cardona
2008-11-16 8:44 ` Michael Haubenwallner
2008-11-16 22:21 ` Rémi Cardona
2008-11-14 22:31 ` Donnie Berkholz
2008-11-14 22:33 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-11-14 22:44 ` David Leverton
2008-11-12 16:53 ` Mart Raudsepp
2008-11-12 17:31 ` Peter Alfredsen
2008-11-13 18:49 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
2008-11-14 4:14 ` Ryan Hill
2008-11-14 23:05 ` Peter Alfredsen
2008-11-14 23:25 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-11-15 0:26 ` Mart Raudsepp
2008-11-15 6:44 ` Duncan
2008-11-17 19:19 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2008-11-12 15:52 ` [gentoo-dev] " Donnie Berkholz
2008-11-12 16:24 ` Peter Alfredsen
2008-11-13 6:23 ` Donnie Berkholz [this message]
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