On Wednesday, 22 November 2006 at 16:54, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > Once upon a time Wednesday 22 November 2006 4:08 am, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > > Hi! > > > > We should more proactively discourage static linking in FC7+, for > > reasons for that see > > http://people.redhat.com/drepper/no_static_linking.html > The Fedora Packaging guidelines for quite some time have actively been > discouraging static linking. Very few applications have gotten though with > static libraries. We have also push to have upstream make shared > libraries if they do not see > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=196393 as an example. > yes Red Hat is upstream so its all the more reason to do the right thing. > But this is definetly something that has been on its way for awhile now. > > I give a big +1 lets make it happen. What's wrong with providing some -static subpackages for those who need them? Regards, R. -- Fedora Extras contributor http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DominikMierzejewski MPlayer developer http://rpm.greysector.net/mplayer/ "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
