Bug 241896

Summary:	Don't install static libraries for most GNOME packages
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Mart Raudsepp <leio>
Component:	[OLD] GNOME	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	pacho
Priority:	Lowest
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Mart Raudsepp gentoo-dev

2008-10-14 08:52:30 UTC

Back when we were forced to remove USE=static for bogus policies, we ended up always installing static libraries due to yet another bogus policy. We should stop that, as there are absolutely NO consumers of the static libraries for 95% of the GNOME packages. They are maybe useful only for the C++ bindings, and glib (syslog-ng could use it, and it resides in /bin, while glib in /usr).

So we could either be exclusive of static libraries and have some variable that eclass looks to pass --disable-static, or inclusive and by default do that and have exceptions for glib and co. Or we just pass --disable-static for most packages in G2CONF separately.
What sounds like the best approach here?
Note that there is still some discussion to do about this on gentoo-dev as well, for making sure no-one is coming after us for not installing static libraries anymore because vapier said we must.

Shipping static libraries appears to be the primary reason why GNOME does not fit on the LiveCD anymore and they had to start using XFCE just because others in the team honored the USE=static + always install static libs statement (I'm not happy about that if you didn't figure yet :P).

Comment 1 Mart Raudsepp gentoo-dev

2008-10-14 09:26:48 UTC

*** Bug 241898 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-10-02 15:33:48 UTC

do we need to keep this bug open. Deletion of static libraries and now of la files where it makes sense is now in good shape, maybe we should move this information this policy page and close this bug once it is done, what do you think guys ?

Comment 3 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2011-01-27 13:30:26 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> do we need to keep this bug open. Deletion of static libraries and now of la
> files where it makes sense is now in good shape, maybe we should move this
> information this policy page and close this bug once it is done, what do you
> think guys ?
> 

I fully agree

Comment 4 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2011-12-17 13:51:47 UTC

I think most of this has been already covered (specially with Gnome3 and latest Gnome 2.32 ebuilds)