static libraries' policy: possible solution

[Bill Nottingham]

Tom 'spot' Callaway (tcallawa at redhat.com) said: 
> 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?

Sounds messy; it's another tweak to put into rel-eng tools to get
things to work in a sane manner.

Bill