proposal to remove static libs from -devel packages for FC5
Jens Petersen
petersen at redhat.com
Fri Jul 22 14:28:28 UTC 2005
This has been in my mind for a while, but now I finally post it here:
I believe we're still shipping many static libs in -devel not least
in Core, which make our -devel packages rather heavy. I think the
vast majority of them are not needed or used really at all.
So they should just be removed. Some packages may have a --disable-static
configure option for example to help with this, or they can just be
deleted easily by hand in the %install section.
For the cases where it is still desirable or necessary to ship static libs,
I would suggest to move them from -devel into a separate -static
subpackage so that people who don't need them don't have to suffer
downloading and installing them.
Does this sound reasonable? Make any sense? :)
Comments and discussion welcome. What would be the best way to proceed?
Filing bugs against every package that ships static libs?
Jens
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