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From: Ervin Nemeth <ervin.nemeth@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Say no to static libraries!
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 16:55:15
Message-Id: 433432D5.4000601@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Say no to static libraries! by Brian Jackson
1 Brian Jackson wrote:
2 > Solar had a nifty per package INSTALL_MASK in his bashrc at one point I
3 > think.
4
5 Now I think the USE flag should be "install no static libraries for
6 which shared version is provided".
7
8 In Solaris 10 Sun engineers have eliminated static libraries. Linux is
9 not yet ready for this.
10
11 So INSTALL_MASK is not sufficient - see Mike's post about xorg-x11.
12
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14 /Ervin
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