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From: hasufell <hasufell@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: Daniel Scharrer <daniel@constexpr.org>
Subject: [gentoo-dev] static-libs: change global USE flag description
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 19:56:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52BF1EED.5080406@gentoo.org> (raw)

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static-libs - Build static libraries

This can be ambiguous as some packages (like SDL2 - after I apply the
necessary patch) have libraries that are not supposed to be dynamic at
all.

An alternative description would be:
static-libs - Build static versions of dynamic libraries as well

that makes clear that
a) it's about _additionally_ installing static libraries
and
b) there is a dynamic "counterpart" of that library

This is often a confusing topic for new ebuild writers. The
description might help with that too.

Are there any known exceptions that would need a local description
after this change?
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             reply	other threads:[~2013-12-28 18:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-28 18:56 hasufell [this message]
2013-12-29  8:43 ` [gentoo-dev] static-libs: change global USE flag description Sergey Popov

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