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* [gentoo-dev] I have a question about dependent packages.
@ 2023-07-10 23:41 TrakRailySurely
  2023-07-11  3:17 ` Anna (cybertailor) Vyalkova
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: TrakRailySurely @ 2023-07-10 23:41 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-dev

Hello Everyone.

When one package has another library that only depends on that package, 
should that library be statically linked?
For example, the library aws-crt-cpp on which aws-sdk-cpp depends.
This package only depends on aws-sdk-cpp.

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* Re: [gentoo-dev] I have a question about dependent packages.
  2023-07-10 23:41 [gentoo-dev] I have a question about dependent packages TrakRailySurely
@ 2023-07-11  3:17 ` Anna (cybertailor) Vyalkova
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Anna (cybertailor) Vyalkova @ 2023-07-11  3:17 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-dev

On 2023-07-11 08:41, TrakRailySurely wrote:
> Hello Everyone.
> 
> When one package has another library that only depends on that package, 
> should that library be statically linked?
> For example, the library aws-crt-cpp on which aws-sdk-cpp depends.
> This package only depends on aws-sdk-cpp.

Dynamic linking is preferred in Gentoo.
https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2021/02/19/the-modern-packagers-security-nightmare/

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