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

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Sun Jun 3 15:34:24 UTC 2007


On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 01:32:06PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > 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. 

That's because these are the cases where static libs may be usefull and
shared libs are not needed.

> No idea what FESCO did, if they agreed to it, they failed.

The ratified
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/StaticLibraryChanges

unless I am wrong (not my paragraph).

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Pat




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