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