Peter Gordon wrote: > Back when I used Gentoo (mid-2003 through Nov. 2005), I remember there > being a "-static" flag that could be set. I don't remember if that was > in FEATURES or USE though; and not all ebuilds honored it. :| Is there > similar functionality in modern Portage?
As was explained elsewhere in this thread by Marius, that's not what the static flag controls. For your convenience: Marius Mauch wrote: > 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. Thanks, Donnie
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