As promised, here is my new proposed draft for handling static libs: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/StaticLibraryPolicy I know that it won't make everyone happy (it doesn't just leave static bits in -devel), but we really do want to track who is building against static libraries. ~spot -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging