Re: static libs ... again

[Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 freenet de>]

On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 12:23 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Quentin Spencer wrote:
> >  See 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=181897 for the 
> > reasoning. At this point, here are my options:
> > 
> > 1. tell the user that static libs are bad and to go use another distro
> > 2. put them back in
> > 3. create a -static package
> > 
> > I'm not going to do option 1.
> 
> Corrolary:  As I don't understand the users' precise requirements for 
> static libs, 
A USER never has any requirements for static libs.

Some DEVELOPERS have, but I've never found any of them who was able to
provide an rationale for this demand.

Ralf