On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 11:57:27AM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > I'd rather not ship them in most cases and not add a package in the case > where it might be needed. It ends up leading to a much worse comps > nitemare otherwise. Well, I'd like to be able to link a library statically if I choose to. I do not care much if the .a file is in the -devel or a -static package, but I'd like to have it.