On Sunday 23 October 2011 09:50:04 Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > On Sonntag 23 Oktober 2011 15:34:30 Samuli Suominen wrote: > > If you only wanted to remove these files, you are free to use > > INSTALL_MASK locally instead of downgrading the quality of tree. > > > > Do you have any idea how much time me, and aballier spent to make > > cdparanoia's build system as clean as it is now? And then to coordinate > > them with upstream xiph.org? > > Then I see this... Not acceptable by any standards. > > I'd like to get my standards up to speed, so may I respectfully ask- what > is, apart from link time, the Gentoo-user-visible difference between > * removing the .a files in the ebuild > * and not building them in the first place?
there is no post-emerge visible difference, but i wouldn't underestimate the speed of things. for most packages, you're talking about compiling the files twice (once as PIC and once as not). -mike
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