static libraries' policy

[Christian.Iseli at licr.org]

ville.skytta at iki.fi said:
> But I tend to think that splitting the current -devel packages to -devel and
> -static(-devel) doesn't really add much value; the only thing off the top of
> my head being somewhat smaller devel/build system install sizes for the
> majority of cases (ie. ones that use shared libs only).  Am I missing
> something else?

The pain of waiting for the .a bits to crawl through the ADSL line while 
attempting a mock build ?

:-)

					Christian