On Monday, 25 September 2006 at 20:24, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 08:42 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: > > Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > > > I'd say packaging static libs into separate *-static packages should be > > > made mandatory to > > > * make such dependencies apparent (otherwise the next maintainer will > > > want to drop them from *-devel and nobody will notice until somebody who > > > can't resist linking against them will yell). > > > * avoid bloating the distro with unnecessary libs (Almost nobody will > > > use them). > > > * make packages providing static libs obvious. > > > > Excellent logic (that I previously totally missed, which I will blame on > > insufficient morning coffee). +1 to Ralf's suggestion for -static pkg. > > +1 from me as well. Finally! Let me point out that PLD has been doing that for YEARS. 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-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging