On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 22:12 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > Honestly, I don't think maintainers should be asked to justify > features unless they're actually causing some kind of conflict. > > If Robin wants to support USE=static for lvm2, he can do so. If it > somehow caused problems with other packages that would be a different > matter, but I can't see how a static binary should hurt anything. If > he wanted to drop dynamic linking support I'd also be concerned. > However, maintainers should be free to support options even if some > consider them a waste of time. > > If Robin wants to satisfy our idle curiosity he can do so, but let's > not hound maintainers willing to do extra work unless they're actually > causing problems.
The problem is when that extra work results in a flag on virtual/udev which cannot be satisfied by some of the virtual's implementations (like systemd) and which then leads to several screen lengths of uninformative portage errors facing users who are upgrading to gnome-3.8.
