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

[Christopher Aillon <caillon redhat com>]

On 07/27/2005 02:39 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 01:22 -0400, Christopher Aillon wrote:
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> > Ralf Corsepius wrote:
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> > > On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 00:56 -0400, Christopher Aillon wrote:
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> > > If it affects mozilla, firefox and friends, so be it ... what shall I
> > > say ... design probs therein.
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> > Design flaws and all, don't break my packages in your quest for
> > package divinity. 
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> Pardon? Are you seriously expecting "the world isn't a'changing"?
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> We are talking about "changing packaging conventions" to reduce to
> possibilities of potential bugs. If you guys are unwilling to change
> anything on your packages, we can stop this discussion now.
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So let me get this straight.  The package maintainer has alerted 
everyone to the problem (which you agree with), has said what the ideal 
fix is (which you agree with), and has publicly announced that the ideal 
fix will be accepted if someone offers a patch.  How is that unwilling 
to accept change?

IMO, the only thing that we should be discussing now since you are so 
adamant about this whole affair is when you are going to stop ranting 
about naming schemes, and provide me with a patch to let Firefox build 
against the shared nspr libs instead of the static nspr libs, as that 
would obviate this entire discussion.