On Sunday 23 October 2011 09:50:04 Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> On Sonntag 23 Oktober 2011 15:34:30 Samuli Suominen wrote:
> > If you only wanted to remove these files, you are free to use
> > INSTALL_MASK locally instead of downgrading the quality of tree.
> > 
> > Do you have any idea how much time me, and aballier spent to make
> > cdparanoia's build system as clean as it is now? And then to coordinate
> > them with upstream xiph.org?
> > Then I see this... Not acceptable by any standards.
> 
> I'd like to get my standards up to speed, so may I respectfully ask- what
> is, apart from link time, the Gentoo-user-visible difference between
> * removing the .a files in the ebuild
> * and not building them in the first place?

there is no post-emerge visible difference, but i wouldn't underestimate the 
speed of things.  for most packages, you're talking about compiling the files 
twice (once as PIC and once as not).
-mike