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| From: | Alexandre Rostovtsev <tetromino@g.o> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] supporting static-libs | ||
| Date: | Tue, 28 Aug 2012 01:28:16 | ||
| Message-Id: | 1346117225.9829.140.camel@rook | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-dev] supporting static-libs by hasufell |
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| 1 | On Tue, 2012-08-28 at 02:15 +0200, hasufell wrote: |
| 2 | > Is there a reason not to support static-libs in an ebuild if the package |
| 3 | > supports it? |
| 4 | > |
| 5 | > It seems some developers don't care about this option. What's the gentoo |
| 6 | > policy on this? Isn't this actually a bug? |
| 7 | |
| 8 | For example, static linking is disabled in gtk+, pango, and gdk-pixbuf |
| 9 | because they heavily rely on plugin loading. And anything that links to |
| 10 | gtk+ should not be using static linking unless it wants to crash a lot. |