On Tuesday 28 May 2013 13:53:54 Michał Górny wrote:
> On Tue, 28 May 2013 16:43:10 +0200 David Carlos Manuelda wrote:
> > I posted a bug about that along with a suggestion, despite sometimes I do
> > not explain myself correctly (I am very sorry): bug #471590
> > 
> > Many packages are bundling its own libraries rather than link against
> > system ones, and there is a bug tracker for that (bug #251464)
> > [...]
> > What I propose for example, is a very good and simple approach: to have
> > an option in portage's make.conf, something like that (the name may
> > change):
> > 
> > 1.- USE_SYSTEM_LIBRARIES="cairo sqlite XXX"
> > 2.- USE_SYSTEM_LIBRARIES="* -cairo"
> > 3.- USE_SYSTEM_LIBRARIES="*"
> 
> I don't think we should do it like this.
> 
> Bundling libraries is a pathological case. In general, we should work
> on fixing this and getting rid of bundled libraries. In that general
> case, the flags are not required.

+1
-mike