Static linking considered harmful

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Wednesday, 22 November 2006 at 16:54, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> Once upon a time Wednesday 22 November 2006 4:08 am, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > We should more proactively discourage static linking in FC7+, for
> > reasons for that see
> > http://people.redhat.com/drepper/no_static_linking.html
> The Fedora Packaging guidelines for quite some time have actively been 
> discouraging static linking.  Very few applications have gotten though with 
> static libraries.     We have also push to have upstream make shared 
> libraries  if they do not  see 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=196393 as an example.  
> yes Red Hat is upstream  so its all the more reason to do the right thing.  
> But  this is definetly something that has been on its way for awhile now.
> 
> I give a big +1 lets make it happen.  

What's wrong with providing some -static subpackages for those who need them?

Regards,
R.

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