On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 1:01 AM, Allan McRae <allan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 29/10/13 08:43, Carsten Mattner wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 2:17 AM, Timothée Ravier <siosm99@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On 26/10/2013 22:22, Carsten Mattner wrote: >>>> Yes but this was news to me and is unusual. So this should be stated >>>> clearly on archlinux.org or at least the wikipedia article. >>> >>> Please edit/update the pages you deem fit for this information in the >>> Arch Wiki and/or Wikipedia. >> >> Checked Debian and Fedora and was surprised that both don't bundle >> .a files. Must be not that unusual and I was wrong. >> > > Not quite correct. Fedora and Debian do provide static libs in their > -devel packages along with headers. That makes sense and I had been wondering how I used to link statically on Debian. So this is a noteworthy differentiating feature after all then. Suggestions where in the wikipedia article to add the "disclaimer"?
