From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: stormbyte@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Better handling of USE flags to enable/disable system libraries
Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 19:53:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130528195354.11512dfc@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1473793.jjmSZnls7x@darkness>
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On Tue, 28 May 2013 16:43:10 +0200
David Carlos Manuelda <stormbyte@gmail.com> 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.
The remaining cases usually involve libraries that are somehow forked
or otherwise deviated from upstream. For example, the sqlite within
Mozilla products has a few braindead features enabled that are not
really suitable for system-wide use.
In those cases, every library needs to be considered separately
and the concept of local flag matches that. Making it anyhow a global
matter would suggest that each bundled sqlite is equal and each reason
for bundling is exact the same.
That said, I don't see why a user would want to choose to have some
libraries bundled, and others not in a global manner.
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Best regards,
Michał Górny
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-28 14:43 [gentoo-dev] Better handling of USE flags to enable/disable system libraries David Carlos Manuelda
2013-05-28 17:53 ` Michał Górny [this message]
2013-05-28 18:03 ` Mike Frysinger
2013-05-28 23:01 ` David Carlos Manuelda
2013-05-28 23:55 ` Rich Freeman
2013-05-29 6:28 ` Sergey Popov
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