On Sunday, September 18, 2011 18:16:30 Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 2:25 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > > '$(use_enable static-libs static)' themselves. While at it, it may be > > better to just drop the flag if no other package relies on it and no > > user has ever requested the static build of that package. > > I don't see any harm with including IUSE="static-libs" for every > package that has working/usable static libraries[1]. Why wait for > users to request it on bugzilla when it's a near-zero-cost and > zero-maintenance to add it to ebuilds?
i missed this sentence from Michał's e-mail. unconditionally not building static libraries is against policy. if you install shared libs that get linked against, then you must provide static libraries unconditionally as well or support IUSE=static-libs. maintainers do not get to choose "no one has asked for it and no one in the tree is using it thus my ebuild isnt going to". -mike
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