On Mon, 12 Mar 2018 13:53:34 +
Andrey Utkin wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 05:57:35PM +0100, Jeroen Roovers wrote:
> > On Thu, 08 Mar 2018 16:40:44 +0100
> > Michał Górny wrote:
> >
> > > As part of that we also shouldn't deliver static libraries
> >
> > OK, so you want to absolutely
On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 05:57:35PM +0100, Jeroen Roovers wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Mar 2018 16:40:44 +0100
> Michał Górny wrote:
>
> > As part of that we also shouldn't deliver static libraries
>
> OK, so you want to absolutely kill dead the only current sane way for
> developers who use Gentoo to shi
On 03/08/2018 10:40 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
>
> So, developers, please *stop adding USE=static-libs* to random libraries
> that have no reason whatever to be statically linked to. And by that I
> mean a good reason, not creeping featurism, not 'user asked for it', not
> 'this broken package hardco
2018-03-08 16:40 GMT+01:00 Michał Górny :
> Hello, developers.
>
> I would like to bring to your attention an alarming trend in Gentoo
> ebuilds -- the proliferation of IUSE=static-libs, that is a flag
> allowing our users to build static libraries.
>
> I should like to remind you that static link
On Thu, 08 Mar 2018 16:40:44 +0100
Michał Górny wrote:
> So, developers, please *stop adding USE=static-libs* to random libraries
> that have no reason whatever to be statically linked to.
Sorry, I like a lot of your ideas but I'm with the others on this one.
I have, on the rare occasion, used t
On Thu, 08 Mar 2018 16:40:44 +0100
Michał Górny wrote:
> As part of that we also shouldn't deliver static libraries
OK, so you want to absolutely kill dead the only current sane way for
developers who use Gentoo to ship static binaries to their users'
target systems? Drive them away to another L
On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 10:40 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
>
> So, developers, please *stop adding USE=static-libs* to random libraries
> that have no reason whatever to be statically linked to. And by that I
> mean a good reason, not creeping featurism, not 'user asked for it', not
> 'this broken packa
On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 10:40 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
> Hello, developers.
>
> I would like to bring to your attention an alarming trend in Gentoo
> ebuilds -- the proliferation of IUSE=static-libs, that is a flag
> allowing our users to build static libraries.
>
> I should like to remind you that
