static libraries' policy: possible solution

[Tom 'spot' Callaway]

On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 17:49 +0300, Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
> What about the idea to ship static libraries the same way as debuginfo 
> is done?
> 
> On the one hand, no more static libs will be present in most of devel 
> packages. This should satisfy "no-static' guys, as no any static will be 
> on CD, DVD, most of mirrors etc. (the same way as there are no debuginfo 
> packages there).
> On the other hand, this can satisfy "save-static" guys, as there will be 
> possibility to download ready/correct static libraries for some rare 
> (but needed!) purposes.

I'm not opposed to this. Jeremy, what do you think?

~spot
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