On Tue, 2012-08-28 at 02:15 +0200, hasufell wrote: > Is there a reason not to support static-libs in an ebuild if the package > supports it? > > It seems some developers don't care about this option. What's the gentoo > policy on this? Isn't this actually a bug?
For example, static linking is disabled in gtk+, pango, and gdk-pixbuf because they heavily rely on plugin loading. And anything that links to gtk+ should not be using static linking unless it wants to crash a lot.
