Would it be smart to enable the use of static-libs on certain packages? Or should it be considered as bloat in Gentoo/Sabayon?
How I see it: At compile time if you enable static-libs it will copy all the needed functions from external libs into its own binary blob. Benefits: - Lesser breakage (on the build chroot), smaller deptree (in the binary tree) Downside: - Bigger binaries - A potential security problem if a library dep. had some bug, it is now hardcoded in the binary. Is that manageable? Myself sees it as being bloat and a potential security risk. But maybe that is because I most likely don't 100% understand how it works.
