[Fedora-packaging] Static Library Policy Draft Changes

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 09:27 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> Since spot was the person who described it to me, perhaps it would be
> best to get his input here.  The way he stated it was that if there
> were
> static libs around at link time, they would get automatically linked,
> even if the didn't want them to.
> 
A lot of packages will look first for static libraries, then if (and
only if) they are not found, look for shared libraries. By splitting
into static and static-noshared, we can safely put in -devel and
-static-noshared and avoid this confusion.

~spot