On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 09:27 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > Since spot was the person who described it to me, perhaps it would be > best to get his input here. The way he stated it was that if there > were > static libs around at link time, they would get automatically linked, > even if the didn't want them to. > A lot of packages will look first for static libraries, then if (and only if) they are not found, look for shared libraries. By splitting into static and static-noshared, we can safely put in -devel and -static-noshared and avoid this confusion. ~spot -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
