On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 12:02 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote: > On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 10:02:39AM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > > -1 > > > > 1. This proposal is not in the distro's interest, because it causes > > additional bloat. > > I forgot to add that, I'll do another try later. > > > 2. This proposal's focus on "numerical libs" is silly. > > It tries to implement a special exception into the FPC based on an > > application domain, while the problem actually is application domain > > independent. > > > > The real problem is: Cross-distro packaging of local packages, which > > some people (bogusly) try to approach static linkage. > > This issue is addressed by the new paragraph, isn't it? <cite> * in the case of user compiled programs doing numerical computations or data analysis, using static libraries may be useful. </cite> You are explicitly referring to numerical computation or data analysis. This is silly. > Anyway I don't > care about not having it in the guidelines, I can put it in my personal > page in the wiki (although such thing doesn't exist yet). > > It is not really an exception, since this exception is already accepted > since FESCO ratified the original proposal (unless I missed something). > It is more a precision. No idea what FESCO did, if they agreed to it, they failed. Ralf -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
