Brian Jackson wrote:
Solar had a nifty per package INSTALL_MASK in his bashrc at one point I think.
Now I think the USE flag should be "install no static libraries for which shared version is provided".
In Solaris 10 Sun engineers have eliminated static libraries. Linux is not yet ready for this.
So INSTALL_MASK is not sufficient - see Mike's post about xorg-x11. /Ervin -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list