On Tuesday 28 May 2013 13:53:54 Michał Górny wrote: > On Tue, 28 May 2013 16:43:10 +0200 David Carlos Manuelda wrote: > > I posted a bug about that along with a suggestion, despite sometimes I do > > not explain myself correctly (I am very sorry): bug #471590 > > > > Many packages are bundling its own libraries rather than link against > > system ones, and there is a bug tracker for that (bug #251464) > > [...] > > What I propose for example, is a very good and simple approach: to have > > an option in portage's make.conf, something like that (the name may > > change): > > > > 1.- USE_SYSTEM_LIBRARIES="cairo sqlite XXX" > > 2.- USE_SYSTEM_LIBRARIES="* -cairo" > > 3.- USE_SYSTEM_LIBRARIES="*" > > I don't think we should do it like this. > > Bundling libraries is a pathological case. In general, we should work > on fixing this and getting rid of bundled libraries. In that general > case, the flags are not required.
+1 -mike
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