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From: Antoine Raillon <antoine.raillon@××××××.net>
To: gentoo-perl@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-perl] why different ebuilds for perl and libperl?
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:34:55
Message-Id: 4582B270.6090004@dragou.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-perl] why different ebuilds for perl and libperl? by Michael Cummings
1 Michael Cummings a écrit :
2 >
3 > but then came a discussion on -dev about how the static flag wasn't
4 > intended for deciding whether you wanted a static or dynamic library,
5 > which put this whole debate back into question as to whether it fit the
6 > "rules."
7 it would save between 30 and 40Mb of space (on amd64 at least ;p) to
8 have it only once.
9 BTW, i'm not sure that on a fried box having perl still running is the
10 most important thing (and maybe we could place a rescue perl package
11 somewhere, just like there is a rescue portage ;p)
12
13 Couldn"t this case be solved by a local perl-[static|dynamic] USE, with
14 dynamic behaviour as default, while the rest of the world debates over
15 the use of static USE and other "rules" ? ;p
16
17 cab
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Re: [gentoo-perl] why different ebuilds for perl and libperl? Michael Cummings <mcummings@g.o>