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.
-Toshio