Hello, Here is a paragraph explaining why some libs may be usefull in their static version: * in the case of user compiled programs doing numerical computations or data analysis, using static libraries may be useful. Indeed it allows to build static executables that have more chance to be run on other platforms than the box they were compiled in, that have different dynamic library versions or even that don't have the library installed at all. At the same time those applications, in general, don't need the features brought in by shared libraries (no need for nss, no security issue, no need for iconv...). Therefore it may be acceptable or even desirable to ship static libraries for numerical and data processing libraries to help users needing to link statically their locally compiled executables. The static libraries still need to be in separate sub-packages. -- Pat -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
