proposal to remove static libs from -devel packages for FC5

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 00:56 -0400, Christopher Aillon wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 13:16 +0900, Jens Petersen wrote:
> > 
> >>Christopher Aillon wrote:
> >>
> >>>Let's get rid of static libs where we can.  But there's no need to force
> >>>people to move things around in packages.  Firefox, Mozilla,
> >>>Thunderbird, etc. ABSOLUTELY CANNOT BUILD without the static lib of
> >>>nspr.  Sure, that is a bug that is worth fixing, however, moving the
> >>>static lib out of nspr-devel currently makes nspr-devel USELESS, so I
> >>>see no point in doing this if people will need to install the -static
> >>>package anyway to make use of the -devel package.
> >>
> >>Ok, sure there will have to be exceptions and nspr will be one of them. :)
> > 
> > Why? Ship a nspr-static instead of nspr-devel.

> Obviously, in both cases we disservice the developer.  The real
> solution is to fix things to not require the static libs,
Right.

>  and just simply remove them, not to hack around it by adding -static
> packages.  That just causes confusion.
No, it just makes package bugs/deficiencies obvious. 

If it affects mozilla, firefox and friends, so be it ... what shall I
say ... design probs therein.

Ralf