[Fedora-packaging] paragraph on shipping static numerical libs updated

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 12:02 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 10:02:39AM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > 
> > -1
> > 
> > 1. This proposal is not in the distro's interest, because it causes
> > additional bloat.
> 
> I forgot to add that, I'll do another try later.
> 
> > 2. This proposal's focus on "numerical libs" is silly. 
> > It tries to implement a special exception into the FPC based on an
> > application domain, while the problem actually is application domain
> > independent.
> > 
> > The real problem is: Cross-distro packaging of local packages, which
> > some people (bogusly) try to approach static linkage.
> 
> This issue is addressed by the new paragraph, isn't it?
<cite>
* in the case of user compiled programs doing numerical computations or
  data analysis, using static libraries may be useful.
</cite>

You are explicitly referring to numerical computation or data analysis.

This is silly. 

>  Anyway I don't
> care about not having it in the guidelines, I can put it in my personal
> page in the wiki (although such thing doesn't exist yet).
> 
> It is not really an exception, since this exception is already accepted
> since FESCO ratified the original proposal (unless I missed something).
> It is more a precision.
No idea what FESCO did, if they agreed to it, they failed.

Ralf