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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: rich0@g.o, Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>, udev-bugs@g.o, systemd <systemd@g.o>, base-system <base-system@g.o>, agk@××××××.com, Federico Tomassetti <f.tomassetti@×××××.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Dropping static libs support from cryptsetup and lvm2
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 17:36:11
Message-Id: 20130801193612.2e1febdb@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Dropping static libs support from cryptsetup and lvm2 by Rich Freeman
1 Dnia 2013-08-01, o godz. 13:32:28
2 Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> napisał(a):
3
4 > On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
5 > > Dnia 2013-08-01, o godz. 17:17:35
6 > > Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o> napisał(a):
7 > >
8 > >> On 01/08/13 17:04, William Hubbs wrote:
9 > >> > There is a hack in our udev and kmod ebuilds that makes it possible to
10 > >> > build the static libraries, but I think we should remove that hack since
11 > >> > upstream bans building them.
12 >
13 > Thanks for the clarification - that makes sense.
14 >
15 > >> Anyway I volunteered Federico to sort out this mess and he got that part
16 > >> more or less done.
17 > >>
18 >
19 > If you're willing to do the work I think the teams should be willing
20 > to allow you to support the necessary changes. That is, assuming that
21 > the changes aren't so intrusive that they create a real potential for
22
23 If only people were that keen to fix the core issue. That is, to fix
24 static linking on Linux and make it useful without two batches of hacks
25 on top of it.
26
27 --
28 Best regards,
29 Michał Górny

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