On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Paul Hartman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Pandu Poluan <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm just wondering, what are the benefits & drawbacks of turning on >> "static" USE flag for sys-boot/grub? > > I seem to remember it has something to do with whether you're using > 32bit vs 64bit, but I can't be certain.
Fundamentally doesn't it build in any libraries, etc.? I don't know really. I actually use the grub-static package on my systems vs grub and messing with USE flags. I think it was Duncan on the amd64 list that recommended that years ago but I haven't a clue as to what the reason was. - Mark
