Christopher Aillon wrote: > Let's get rid of static libs where we can. But there's no need to force > people to move things around in packages. Firefox, Mozilla, > Thunderbird, etc. ABSOLUTELY CANNOT BUILD without the static lib of > nspr. Sure, that is a bug that is worth fixing, however, moving the > static lib out of nspr-devel currently makes nspr-devel USELESS, so I > see no point in doing this if people will need to install the -static > package anyway to make use of the -devel package. Ok, sure there will have to be exceptions and nspr will be one of them. :) > Veto on the proposed package naming scheme That does not mean that -static is necessarily a bad idea in general though. :) Jens
