Bug 487640

Summary:	dev-lang/python: add USE static-libs
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Nikoli <nikoli>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Python Gentoo Team <python>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	pacho
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	695878

Description Nikoli 2013-10-11 13:38:36 UTC

Now python package installs one of the biggest static libs, please make it optional.

# equery f python|grep '\.a$'
/usr/lib64/libpython2.7.a
# du -sh /usr/lib64/libpython2.7.a
3,2M    /usr/lib64/libpython2.7.a
# equery l python
 * Searching for python ...
[IP-] [  ] dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7

Comment 1 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2013-10-11 14:11:50 UTC

Provide a patch to disable building the static libs, or add it to INSTALL_MASK. I'm not doing rm *.a in src_install.

Comment 2 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2020-05-28 14:55:42 UTC

See also: https://projects.gentoo.org/qa/policy-guide/installed-files.html#pg0302