[...] > > If I understand you correctly, we should just drop the USE="pic" > > logic > > from the remaining packages that have it? Or are you trying to say > > something else? >
[...] > Note that having the 'pic' useflag should be considered something to > be > fixed: rewrite the asm in a PIC way. But these days nobody has the > will > to do it since this is mostly an issue on x86+pax, both being slowly > decreasing. As a side note on this: if USE=-pic has no textrel then obviously the useflag should be removed. This can happen over time if we don't pay enough attention.
