[Fedora-packaging] Re: Including a static library

Mon Sep 25 20:16:41 UTC 2006

On Monday, 25 September 2006 at 20:24, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 08:42 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > 
> > > I'd say packaging static libs into separate *-static packages should be
> > > made mandatory to
> > > * make such dependencies apparent (otherwise the next maintainer will
> > > want to drop them from *-devel and nobody will notice until somebody who
> > > can't resist linking against them will yell).
> > > * avoid bloating the distro with unnecessary libs (Almost nobody will
> > > use them).
> > > * make packages providing static libs obvious.
> > 
> > Excellent logic (that I previously totally missed, which I will blame on 
> > insufficient morning coffee).  +1 to Ralf's suggestion for -static pkg.
> 
> +1 from me as well.

Finally! Let me point out that PLD has been doing that for YEARS.

Regards,
R.

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