On 06/30/2015 11:12 AM, Zac Medico wrote: > As I mentioned in my reply to William [1], we might invent a notion of > having one ebuild execute another ebuild in order to install static > dependencies into a temporary build directory. That way, static > libraries would be built on-demand, and discarded as soon as possible. > > [1] > https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/4b150fe36bf9e0ba1eb29b1d695a3193 >
I should note that I'm not very fond of this idea. If the dependencies have separate ebuilds (like dev-go/*), then you can already use something like 'emerge --depclean --with-bdeps=n' to remove the static libraries that aren't needed at run-time. -- Thanks, Zac
