On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 13:16 +0900, Jens Petersen wrote: > 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. :) Why? Ship a nspr-static instead of nspr-devel. > > Veto on the proposed package naming scheme > > That does not mean that -static is necessarily a bad idea in general though. :) It only makes sense if it is strictly obeyed. I.e. no exceptions should be allowed. Ralf
