Hello, I think that we should make an exception for not shipping static library for plotting or numerical stuff. Indeed the arguments to avoid static libraries in that case don't hold as security/bugfixes/nss/glibc are not an issue in that case. At least the arguments listed at http://people.redhat.com/drepper/no_static_linking.html don't seem to be relevant for such cases. Moreover the shared libs will be picked up in priority, so the user must link on purpose with static libraries. On the other hand it is very handy to be able to rerun a model or a program that do a graph 5 years later and on other linux boxes. Any thoughts on this? If it is agreed, could it be stated on the wiki? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#head-2302ec1e1f44202c9cc4bcce24cb711266557ad7 I don't think that we should ship static libraries in general, for example I believe that this should be avoided for network stuff, image or text processing, basic system stuff and so on... -- Pat -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
