On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 15:33 +0200, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: > Jens Petersen <petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Indeed people who don't need -devel packages don't need -static either. > > My concern is developers having to download static libs that they never > > use. > > Given the fact that selecting "development" in the installation process > will give you almost each and every -devel package the system has to > offer anyway I thinks this is a kind of moot point. Disk space is cheap. And if the static libs are split out, then it will give you the -static packages as well. But at a huge cost of maintenance for the comps file + overhead of more headers in the rpmdb (with duplicated changelogs, etc). The more I think about this, the more I think that it's a solution in search of a real problem. Jeremy
