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On 03/08/2018 10:40 AM, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> So, developers, please *stop adding USE=static-libs* to random libraries |
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> that have no reason whatever to be statically linked to. And by that I |
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> mean a good reason, not creeping featurism, not 'user asked for it', not |
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> 'this broken package hardcodes libfoo.a'. |
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> If upstream doesn't build static libraries by default, don't add flags |
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> to make it do it. |
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I've felt the same way for a long time. Flexibility is usually good, but |
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we shouldn't be going out of our way to add time bombs just because |
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"safe OR fragile" is technically added flexibility. |
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