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On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:50:58 +0200 |
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Marius Mauch <genone@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 18:43:29 +0200 |
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> Roman Zimmermann <mereandor@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Those links Jakub posted are interesting, but I don't find an |
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> > explanation why this decission was made. Maybe you have a link to |
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> > that discussion too? |
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> What decision? That USE=static shouldn't be used for (not) installing |
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> static libraries is simply because the flag is used to control how |
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> (parts of) a package should be linked and global flags |
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> shouldn't be used for completely different purposes. That's been the |
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> case since the beginning, so I doubt you'll find any dicussion about |
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> it. |
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The more interesting question is why static libraries are built and |
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installed for most packages at all. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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