Re: [gentoo-user] Skipping static libraries

2008-03-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 15 March 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Saturday 15 March 2008, Chris Brennan wrote: | Hmmm. There are many thousand ebuilds in the tree. Many more in | 3rd party overlays. Your idea fixes 1 problem in 1 ebuild. Just for the sake of amusment and to give a sense of perspective.

Re: [gentoo-user] Skipping static libraries

2008-03-16 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Sunday 16 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: 12618 packages! Didnt realise it was so many. And just the sunrise overlay has 943. That's probably more packages than even Debian has ... Well, while I love Gentoo and would never change it with anything else, Debian is (still) the undiscussed

Re: [gentoo-user] Skipping static libraries

2008-03-16 Thread Emil Beinroth
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 12:11:21PM +0100, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: Well, while I love Gentoo and would never change it with anything else, Debian is (still) the undiscussed champion in terms of number of available packages. $ wget -nv http://packages.debian.org/stable/allpackages 12:32:32

Re: [gentoo-user] Skipping static libraries

2008-03-16 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Sunday 16 March 2008, 13:22, Emil Beinroth wrote: 27602 That is not really fair, we do not have foo-qt3, foo-qt4, foo-mysql, foo-psql .. We have foo with useflags. So either remove the -dev, -qt3, -qt4, virtual packages, [..] from that list, or calculate the number of use-flag

Re: [gentoo-user] Skipping static libraries

2008-03-16 Thread Gustavo Campos
$ grep '^dt' allpackages | \ sed 's/.*a href[^]*\([^]*\)\/a.*/\1/g' | \ cut -d '-' -f 1 | \ uniq | wc -l 12225 No matter how much I live and code, regular expressions always scare me like hell Comments (also about the methodology used to calculate this) are left as an exercise

Re: [gentoo-user] Skipping static libraries

2008-03-15 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A long time ago I read a HUGE thread on b.g.o. about this, the eventual conclusion is that after installation of a lib, a user might well want to link those libs statically and if they are not there, portage will barf big time and has no way to

Re: [gentoo-user] Skipping static libraries

2008-03-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 15 March 2008, Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A long time ago I read a HUGE thread on b.g.o. about this, the eventual conclusion is that after installation of a lib, a user might well want to link those libs statically and if they are not there,

Re: [gentoo-user] Skipping static libraries

2008-03-15 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 | Hmmm. There are many thousand ebuilds in the tree. Many more in 3rd | party overlays. Your idea fixes 1 problem in 1 ebuild. Just for the sake of amusment and to give a sense of perspective. By my count (ls -lshaR /usr/portage | grep ebuild | wc

Re: [gentoo-user] Skipping static libraries

2008-03-15 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Saturday 15 March 2008, Chris Brennan wrote: | Hmmm. There are many thousand ebuilds in the tree. Many more in 3rd | party overlays. Your idea fixes 1 problem in 1 ebuild. Just for the sake of amusment and to give a sense of perspective. By my count (ls -lshaR /usr/portage | grep ebuild |

[gentoo-user] Skipping static libraries

2008-03-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, is there a way for telling emerge that it should NOT install static (.a) libraries ? thx -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/

Re: [gentoo-user] Skipping static libraries

2008-03-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 14 March 2008, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, is there a way for telling emerge that it should NOT install static (.a) libraries ? I shan't answer your question as I ca never find the answer myself, but I keep wanting to do this myself, then I remember why portage installs .a by