Suggestion: Static libs policy, a draft (was: Re: Static linking considered harmful)

[Bill Nottingham]

Dmitry Butskoy (buc at odusz.so-cdu.ru) said: 
> 1. IF a library is needed for some binary which are built static in 
> Core, such a library must have static variant too.
> In other words, for all statically linked executables in Core 
> (recovering, init/boot time etc.), all the libraries which take place in 
> the correspond static linkage must be present.

Obviously. This is sort of prerequisite for self-hosting.

One issue with separate, auto-generated -devel-static packages - how 
do you handle dependencies? Or do you just handwave around the fact
that (for example) kudzu-devel requires pciutils-devel?

Bill