On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Samuli Suominen <ssuomi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > If you only wanted to remove these files, you are free to use > INSTALL_MASK locally instead of downgrading the quality of tree.
How is this a quality issue? Why do we have a static-libs USE flag is packages can't use it to determine whether the package installs static libs? It seems like this is only a "quality" issue in some aesthetic sense of the word. From an end-user point of view not installing the files or not building them are the same thing, unless you're talking about CPU time and tmp space usage. Now, if the time to build those files was actually significant then I could see an argument here, although you haven't actually proposed an alternative that addresses this. This doesn't really impact me much personally, but it just seems like we nitpick stuff like this way too much when the goal should be things that work. By all means improve on things, but we shouldn't just be reverting them. Now, if in the course of making a minor change like this the committer also rewrote half the ebuild which is something the maintainer has to deal with that a fly-by-night visitor doesn't then I could see more of an issue. I don't really see this as creating any kind of maintenance burden. Rich
