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I'm now using gentoo with EXTRA_ECONF="--disable-static" for a while and it |
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seems quite stable. Sometimes I encounter a package that won't build with |
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this setting, but that's a rare occasion. At the moment this packages are for |
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me: |
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x11-libs/libXxf86vm |
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sys-devel/gdb-6.6 |
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dev-libs/jrtplib-3.5.2 |
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dev-libs/libpcre |
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sys-apps/ed |
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I see that this way to disable static libraries is not perfect. |
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Disabling static linking has - for me - before all the advantage of reducing |
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size for most packages - for some packages up to 50%. |
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So I'm curious why (nearly?) all ebuilds build static _and_ dynamic libraries? |
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I understand that the current way is pretty hassle-free. But from my |
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perspective a (possibly officialy unsupported) way to make things easier for |
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people who wan't the choice would be fine. |
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I'm sorry if there has been such a discussion already. Also I don't want to |
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start a flame about what is the better choice (static or dynamic). |
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regards |
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Roman |