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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in media-sound/cdparanoia: ChangeLog cdparanoia-3.10.2-r3.ebuild
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:45:45
Message-Id: 4F16B02D.6010509@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in media-sound/cdparanoia: ChangeLog cdparanoia-3.10.2-r3.ebuild by Mike Frysinger
1 On 01/18/2012 01:40 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Sunday 23 October 2011 09:50:04 Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
3 >> On Sonntag 23 Oktober 2011 15:34:30 Samuli Suominen wrote:
4 >>> If you only wanted to remove these files, you are free to use
5 >>> INSTALL_MASK locally instead of downgrading the quality of tree.
6 >>>
7 >>> Do you have any idea how much time me, and aballier spent to make
8 >>> cdparanoia's build system as clean as it is now? And then to coordinate
9 >>> them with upstream xiph.org?
10 >>> Then I see this... Not acceptable by any standards.
11 >>
12 >> I'd like to get my standards up to speed, so may I respectfully ask- what
13 >> is, apart from link time, the Gentoo-user-visible difference between
14 >> * removing the .a files in the ebuild
15 >> * and not building them in the first place?
16 >
17 > there is no post-emerge visible difference, but i wouldn't underestimate the
18 > speed of things. for most packages, you're talking about compiling the files
19 > twice (once as PIC and once as not).
20 > -mike
21
22 [ ... grabbing random mail from this thread ... ]
23
24 i've already fixed cdparanoid properly.
25 it was pretty much 2 liner, so whatever was committed before was simply
26 out of laziness to investigate.

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