Mart Raudsepp [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted
[EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 01 Jul 2008
05:05:51 +0300:
Over a year or two ago, it was communicated that it supposedly a policy
that USE=static should only control if a package installs static
libraries INSTEAD of shared libraries, and never to be used to control
if static libraries are installed in _addition_ to shared ones or not.
That's as I understand it too.
Packages were coerced to stop using USE=static for controlling that, and
most of them ended up unconditionally installing both static and shared
libraries. What's worse - they were told that if a package can provide
both shared libraries and static libraries at once, it just MUST (or
SHOULD) install them both instead of choosing to not ship the static
libraries.
OK, but see below.
End result that affects me: GNOME does not fit on LiveCD installation
media anymore.
Ouch!
So I'm proposing a USE=static-libs or similar to get out of this
problem, and a lifting of the supposed (I wasn't around as a dev that
long ago to know for sure) policy of having to install both instead of
choosing to never install static libraries.
I'm not sure this is warranted. See below.
I am quite sure that absolutely nothing whatsoever uses about 97% of the
static GNOME libraries we are now installing as an end result. [...]
Probably others than GNOME, too.
There are packages in the tree that are required to install static
libraries, or something else in the system breaks. So INSTALL_MASK=*.a
is not a solution in my eyes.
This is the ticklish bit, but there's still a way around it for users
(such as those trying to fit GNOME on a liveCD) that need it. Useing
portage's bashrc, setup a conditional that excepts packages that need
static libs and set INSTALL_MASK='*.a' for everything else.
If you've not yet seen Ed Catmur's bashrc script setup, I+'5 d4 60mb!
I don't personally find many of its capabilities useful, but his auto-
patching setup has sure come in handy, and the entire thing is just
incredibly extensible on a nicely solid base. =8^) It should make
setting this up a breeze, and be handily expansible for 'most anything
else you might come up with as well. If it were me, I'd use that as a
base and go from there utilizing the idea I suggested above.
http://catmur.co.uk/gentoo/
Additionally, you don't mention whether you checked with them already or
not, but releng and subprojects may have some suggestions in this area.
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