currently mpfr ebuilds have the following dep: RDEPEND=">=dev-libs/gmp-4.1.4-r2[static-libs=]" while it is very good to propagate static-libs, imho, we do not need to force gmp[-static-libs] with mpfr[-static-libs] proposed patch: Index: mpfr-3.0.1_p4-r1.ebuild =================================================================== RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/dev-libs/mpfr/mpfr-3.0.1_p4-r1.ebuild,v retrieving revision 1.1 diff -u -B -r1.1 mpfr-3.0.1_p4-r1.ebuild --- mpfr-3.0.1_p4-r1.ebuild 25 Aug 2011 19:44:27 -0000 1.1 +++ mpfr-3.0.1_p4-r1.ebuild 9 Dec 2011 12:26:01 -0000 @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sh ~sparc ~x86 ~sparc-fbsd ~x86-fbsd" IUSE="static-libs" -RDEPEND=">=dev-libs/gmp-4.1.4-r2[static-libs=]" +RDEPEND=">=dev-libs/gmp-4.1.4-r2[static-libs?]" DEPEND="${RDEPEND}" S=${WORKDIR}/${MY_P} Index: mpfr-3.1.0.ebuild =================================================================== RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/dev-libs/mpfr/mpfr-3.1.0.ebuild,v retrieving revision 1.2 diff -u -B -r1.2 mpfr-3.1.0.ebuild --- mpfr-3.1.0.ebuild 29 Nov 2011 16:52:55 -0000 1.2 +++ mpfr-3.1.0.ebuild 9 Dec 2011 12:26:01 -0000 @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sh ~sparc ~x86 -sparc-fbsd -x86-fbsd" IUSE="static-libs" -RDEPEND=">=dev-libs/gmp-4.1.4-r2[static-libs=]" +RDEPEND=">=dev-libs/gmp-4.1.4-r2[static-libs?]" DEPEND="${RDEPEND}" S=${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}
while you can technically statically link against just mpfr while dynamically linking against everything else, that is the extremely unlikely case. mpfr needs gmp. if you do a static link, it will need the gmp static libraries. packages doing static linking against mpfr shouldn't have to also depend on all of mpfr's deps. thus the static-libs needs to ripple.
nonono, you didnt get the point: i like the static-libs use propagation, however, i want to statically link against _gmp_ thus enabled static-libs on gmp but i have no use of mpfr static libs, with the = use dep, this forces me to also enable static-libs on mpfr, with the ? use dep, if i want mpfr static-libs i'll need gmp static-libs but not the other way around.
feel free to commit then w/out revbump
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