El Martes, 28 de mayo de 2013 14:03:52 Mike Frysinger escribió:
> On Tuesday 28 May 2013 13:53:54 Michał Górny wrote:
> > On Tue, 28 May 2013 16:43:10 +0200 David Carlos Manuelda wrote:
> > > I posted a bug about that along with a suggestion, despite sometimes I
> > > do
> > > not explain myself correctly (I am very sorry): bug #471590
> > > 
> > > Many packages are bundling its own libraries rather than link against
> > > system ones, and there is a bug tracker for that (bug #251464)
> > > [...]
> > > What I propose for example, is a very good and simple approach: to have
> > > an option in portage's make.conf, something like that (the name may
> > > change):
> > > 
> > > 1.- USE_SYSTEM_LIBRARIES="cairo sqlite XXX"
> > > 2.- USE_SYSTEM_LIBRARIES="* -cairo"
> > > 3.- USE_SYSTEM_LIBRARIES="*"
> > 
> > I don't think we should do it like this.
> > 
> > Bundling libraries is a pathological case. In general, we should work
> > on fixing this and getting rid of bundled libraries. In that general
> > case, the flags are not required.
> 
> +1
> -mike
Ok, thinking it better I agree, that having them use system libraries is far 
better, but why then those affected ebuilds have corresponding USE disabled by 
default?

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