proposal to remove static libs from -devel packages for FC5
Jens Petersen
petersen at redhat.com
Wed Jul 27 04:16:17 UTC 2005
Christopher Aillon wrote:
> Let's get rid of static libs where we can. But there's no need to force
> people to move things around in packages. Firefox, Mozilla,
> Thunderbird, etc. ABSOLUTELY CANNOT BUILD without the static lib of
> nspr. Sure, that is a bug that is worth fixing, however, moving the
> static lib out of nspr-devel currently makes nspr-devel USELESS, so I
> see no point in doing this if people will need to install the -static
> package anyway to make use of the -devel package.
Ok, sure there will have to be exceptions and nspr will be one of them. :)
> Veto on the proposed package naming scheme
That does not mean that -static is necessarily a bad idea in general though. :)
Jens
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