Daniel Veillard wrote: > I dislike that. Any non-LSB lib should have static libs available one way > or another from the distro otherwise we just make the distro unsuitable for > ISV development (from an LSB POV). Ok, fair point. Except for some of the gnome libs perhaps as was pointed out earlier. > 1/ breaks all the documentation and user expectations I don't see this, since most users don't need static libs at all anyway. > 2/ forces Fedora Core 5 spec to be different from other distro specs Perhaps we can encourage other distros to follow suite? > then user should also install libxml2-static and it must also be in the same rpm > transaction as the main, devel and python packages otherwise this > may just fail. Why would libxml2-static have to be installed in the same rpm transaction? > Now multiply by the number of library we ship, to me you annoy the user > and the maintainers. Maintainers perhaps, but it seems most users don't need static libs at all. > I really disagree with this myself. Ok, but what about all the wasted bandwidth of users who are forced to download static libs as part of -devel packages every time they update that they never ever use? Thanks for your comments, Jens
