proposal to remove static libs from -devel packages for FC5

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 05:43 -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 06:02:10PM +0900, Jens Petersen wrote:
> > Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > >      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?
Not true. 

>   because you really can't allow -static and -devel to mismatch
<package>-static:
Requires: <package>-devel = %{name}-%{version}

Ralf