On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 06:02:10PM +0900, Jens Petersen wrote: > Daniel Veillard wrote: > > 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? because you really can't allow -static and -devel to mismatch > > 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. for me an user, i.e. the person who need to be aware that the library exists is a developper, not an end-user. The end-user can't care less, or should not. > > 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? Tell me first why an end-user should need a -devel package ever ? Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Desktop team http://redhat.com/ veillard@xxxxxxxxxx | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/
