proposal to remove static libs from -devel packages for FC5

Tue Jul 26 13:07:13 UTC 2005

On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 11:57:27AM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:

> I'd rather not ship them in most cases and not add a package in the case
> where it might be needed.  It ends up leading to a much worse comps
> nitemare otherwise.

Well, I'd like to be able to link a library statically if I choose to.
I do not care much if the .a file is in the -devel or a -static package,
but I'd like to have it.