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Mart Raudsepp <leio@g.o> posted |
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1214877951.29224.54.camel@localhost, excerpted below, on Tue, 01 Jul 2008 |
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> Over a year or two ago, it was communicated that it supposedly a policy |
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> that USE=static should only control if a package installs static |
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> libraries INSTEAD of shared libraries, and never to be used to control |
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> if static libraries are installed in _addition_ to shared ones or not. |
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That's as I understand it too. |
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> Packages were coerced to stop using USE=static for controlling that, and |
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> most of them ended up unconditionally installing both static and shared |
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> libraries. What's worse - they were told that if a package can provide |
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> both shared libraries and static libraries at once, it just MUST (or |
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> SHOULD) install them both instead of choosing to not ship the static |
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> libraries. |
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OK, but see below. |
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> End result that affects me: GNOME does not fit on LiveCD installation |
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> media anymore. |
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Ouch! |
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> So I'm proposing a USE=static-libs or similar to get out of this |
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> problem, and a lifting of the supposed (I wasn't around as a dev that |
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> long ago to know for sure) policy of having to install both instead of |
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> choosing to never install static libraries. |
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I'm not sure this is warranted. See below. |
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> I am quite sure that absolutely nothing whatsoever uses about 97% of the |
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> static GNOME libraries we are now installing as an end result. [...] |
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Probably others than GNOME, too. |
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> There are packages in the tree that are required to install static |
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> libraries, or something else in the system breaks. So INSTALL_MASK=*.a |
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> is not a solution in my eyes. |
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This is the ticklish bit, but there's still a way around it for users |
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(such as those trying to fit GNOME on a liveCD) that need it. Useing |
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portage's bashrc, setup a conditional that excepts packages that need |
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static libs and set INSTALL_MASK='*.a' for everything else. |
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If you've not yet seen Ed Catmur's bashrc script setup, "I+'5 d4 60mb!" |
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I don't personally find many of its capabilities useful, but his auto- |
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patching setup has sure come in handy, and the entire thing is just |
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incredibly extensible on a nicely solid base. =8^) It should make |
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setting this up a breeze, and be handily expansible for 'most anything |
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else you might come up with as well. If it were me, I'd use that as a |
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base and go from there utilizing the idea I suggested above. |
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http://catmur.co.uk/gentoo/ |
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Additionally, you don't mention whether you checked with them already or |
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not, but releng and subprojects may have some suggestions in this area. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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