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. I beg to disagree: to me the issue is download time and bandwidth (think "yum upgrade"), but yes diskspace is also an issue. -devel packages without static will typically be much smaller than with, and in some cases very significantly smaller. Most Fedora developers do not need static libs I believe and there is no reason why everyone should need to download them when only a minority use them. Jens
