On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 04:08:32PM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > >>>>> "AT" == Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > AT> I think this is nice OTOH, but difficult to foresee OTOH. > > Well, at some point you have to know you need a static library, > because you'll put the necessary bits in the spec to make it happen. The problem is that the packager of libfoofastmem may not know that building the unpackaged supernumberbar and bazcrunch requires libfoofastmem. E.g. the people that know where a static lib is needed are not the packagers, but the consumers. > I see no reason a comment explaining the need couldn't be added at > that time. > > And if someone doesn't know that the static library is needed, it > probably shouldn't be packaged. The packager of libfoofastmem may not be interested in any numeric stuff at all, he may need libfoofastmem for a fuse tmpfs module and not ever having thought about other consumers. E.g. the knowledge to document the use of static libs implies that reverse build dependencies of unpackaged software are known to the consumed party, which must not be the case. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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