Am Sonntag 29 April 2007 19:50 schrieb Marius Mauch: > 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. >
There is also the part about: "packages that can install static and shared libraries should always be installing them." [http://marc.info/?l=gentoo-dev&m=116026024223024&w=2] Which means either that this statement was meant for another context (and not in such a general meaning) or it says that there shouldn't/won't be a way to change this behavior. In case 1 this misses the point. (As Ciaran pointed out.) Since I was not specifically talking about the 'static' useflag. For case 2 I'm very interested in the reason.
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