On 03/08/2018 10:40 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > > So, developers, please *stop adding USE=static-libs* to random libraries > that have no reason whatever to be statically linked to. And by that I > mean a good reason, not creeping featurism, not 'user asked for it', not > 'this broken package hardcodes libfoo.a'. > > If upstream doesn't build static libraries by default, don't add flags > to make it do it.
I've felt the same way for a long time. Flexibility is usually good, but we shouldn't be going out of our way to add time bombs just because "safe OR fragile" is technically added flexibility.
