On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 14:04 -0500, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote: > Quentin Spencer wrote: > > So, not too long ago someone asked why I still had static libs in one of > > my packages since they are "banned" or at least strongly discouraged, so > > I started removing them from my packages. All of the libraries I > > maintain are math libraries, so security concerns are a non-issue. After > > removing the static libs from fftw-devel, it took less than 24 hours to > > get a bug report asking for them back. See > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=181897 for the > > reasoning. > It seems theirs is a rather specific and unique case. Should we change > policy to accommodate corner cases like that? Why? Because a user says he can't build some applications statically? What kind of rationale is this? Where is the technical explanation? Ralf -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
