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Am Sonntag 29 April 2007 20:46 schrieb paul kölle: |
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> Roman Zimmermann wrote: |
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> > (without the ugly EXTRA_ECONF-hack)? |
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> I wonder why you call this an ugly hack? It seems to me everyone who |
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> wishes to avoid installing static libs is able to do so with a simple |
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> variable. Having such a feature exposed to the mainstream crowd without |
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> proper support by developers (testing and such) will not do any good. |
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This is an ugly code since it's relies on econf which is - as an |
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implementation detail - only used for packages with ./configure. (according |
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to the ebuild howto). So it's not really a feature but a lucky assumption |
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that most packages know what to do with "./configure --disable-static". |
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Additionally handling exceptions with package.env can be a pain. It is much |
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less supported by tools than package.use or .keywords. |
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You are right that it would be wrong to expose this feature. But having it |
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readily available and exposing it are two different sorts of things. |
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