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

[Jens Petersen <petersen redhat com>]

Christopher Aillon wrote:
> Let's get rid of static libs where we can.  But there's no need to force
> people to move things around in packages.  Firefox, Mozilla,
> Thunderbird, etc. ABSOLUTELY CANNOT BUILD without the static lib of
> nspr.  Sure, that is a bug that is worth fixing, however, moving the
> static lib out of nspr-devel currently makes nspr-devel USELESS, so I
> see no point in doing this if people will need to install the -static
> package anyway to make use of the -devel package.

Ok, sure there will have to be exceptions and nspr will be one of them. :)

> Veto on the proposed package naming scheme

That does not mean that -static is necessarily a bad idea in general though. :)

Jens