And since I just added a small check for library-less -devel packages to the -static checker script: * oprofile : it builds a library-less oprofile-devel sub-package for just a single header file (5122 bytes), i.e. it splits off this single file That's the arbitrariness I refer to. Installation footprint here certainly is not the reason for this packaging style. Good however is that is adds a virtual oprofile-static package definition in the oprofile-devel package. ;-) -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging