Re: proposal to remove static libs from -devel packages for FC5

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 23:28 +0900, Jens Petersen wrote:
> For the cases where it is still desirable or necessary to ship static libs,
> I would suggest to move them from -devel into a separate -static
> subpackage so that people who don't need them don't have to suffer
> downloading and installing them.

I'd rather not ship them in most cases and not add a package in the case
where it might be needed.  It ends up leading to a much worse comps
nitemare otherwise.

Jeremy