proposal to remove static libs from -devel packages for FC5
Jens Petersen
petersen at redhat.com
Fri Jul 29 10:05:35 UTC 2005
Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 06:02:10PM +0900, Jens Petersen wrote:
>
>>Why would libxml2-static have to be installed in the same rpm transaction?
>
> because you really can't allow -static and -devel to mismatch
Err, can't the -static package just requires the -devel package with the same EVR?
>>Maintainers perhaps, but it seems most users don't need static libs at all.
>
> for me an user, i.e. the person who need to be aware that the library exists
> is a developper, not an end-user. The end-user can't care less, or should not.
Yep, by user here I meant developers of the distro, as in users of -devel
packages. Sorry for the confusion. :)
>>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?
>
> Tell me first why an end-user should need a -devel package ever ?
Indeed people who don't need -devel packages don't need -static either.
My concern is developers having to download static libs that they never use.
Jens
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