On T, 2008-07-01 at 11:33 +0200, Rémi Cardona wrote:
> Duncan a écrit :
> > Probably others than GNOME, too.
> 
> Thus Mart's effort to bring it to gentoo-dev :)

And for constructive discussing of it, including with releng and other
teams.

> > This is the ticklish bit, but there's still a way around it for users 
> > (such as those trying to fit GNOME on a liveCD) that need it.  Useing 
> > portage's bashrc, setup a conditional that excepts packages that need 
> > static libs and set INSTALL_MASK='*.a' for everything else.
> 
> No, it was pointed out that this cannot be done for LiveCD material, as 
> the packages would have a different content as a regular install. So 
> this is just out of the question.
> 
> For those wondering : "find /usr/lib64 -name "*.a" | xargs du -ch" will 
> tell you how much disk space is wasted by static libraries.
> 
> On my Gnome box, this is 246M. I know we won't be able to bring this to 
> 0, but having it closer to 10~20M is a very worthy goal imho.

In addition I'm looking for a clean solution, not every Gentoo user
having to have a INSTALL_MASK set with a few exceptions that they don't
know; and if they don't know what are the exceptions, they'll have
trivial problems like bash not working, iirc.

Btw, just to be clear, I'm not claiming this is the sole reason GNOME
doesn't fit on LiveCD's anymore, but it is a big contributor for that.


-- 
Mart Raudsepp
Gentoo Developer
Mail: leio@g.o
Weblog: http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/leio