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