proposal to remove static libs from -devel packages for FC5
Jens Petersen
petersen at redhat.com
Fri Jul 29 09:02:10 UTC 2005
Daniel Veillard wrote:
> I dislike that. Any non-LSB lib should have static libs available one way
> or another from the distro otherwise we just make the distro unsuitable for
> ISV development (from an LSB POV).
Ok, fair point. Except for some of the gnome libs perhaps as was pointed out
earlier.
> 1/ breaks all the documentation and user expectations
I don't see this, since most users don't need static libs at all anyway.
> 2/ forces Fedora Core 5 spec to be different from other distro specs
Perhaps we can encourage other distros to follow suite?
> then user should also install libxml2-static and it must also be in the same rpm
> transaction as the main, devel and python packages otherwise this
> may just fail.
Why would libxml2-static have to be installed in the same rpm transaction?
> Now multiply by the number of library we ship, to me you annoy the user
> and the maintainers.
Maintainers perhaps, but it seems most users don't need static libs at all.
> I really disagree with this myself.
Ok, but what about all the wasted bandwidth of users who are forced to download
static libs as part of -devel packages every time they update that they never
ever use?
Thanks for your comments,
Jens
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