On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 01:23:53PM -0600, William Hubbs wrote: > The reason that gen_usr_ldscript exists is that we do not install > static libraries in /. I think the argument for this is that they > aren't needed at boot time. I would agree that they are not, but, given > all of the issues we have had in the past with gen_usr_ldscript, and > that issues keep coming up with it, I would like to propose something > different. I know the original purpose of gen_usr_ldscript. I'm objecting to the fact that it removes a critical symlink entirely (instead of moving it).
I was a Gentoo user when gen_usr_ldscript was introduced, and it certainly helped then for keeping cleaner installs. I don't want it removed, just improved slightly. > I would like to propose that we stop splitting the installation > locations of libraries and use the upstream build systems to install the > libraries where we want them. If we do that, it means we could get rid > of gen_usr_ldscript completely. I'm against that one, for bloat of /. If we ever fully merge /usr and / like other distros have done, then it will become moot, but not before then. > We could start doing this today, except that portage has a hard ban > against installing static libraries in /, which I have opened up a bug > about [1]. I don't know when or why the hard ban was introduced, but I'm sure > it was pre-2004 and pre-council. I think it was late 2002. -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux: Developer, Infrastructure Lead E-Mail : robb...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85
