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

[Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 freenet de>]

On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 07:05 -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 08:08:17PM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:

> 
>  Now multiply by the number of library we ship, to me you annoy the user
> and the maintainers.
> 
>   I really disagree with this myself.
Then let me turn your remark around into a devel's advocate question:

Which packages in all RH based distributions (FC, FE, etc.)  are
statically linked against libxml and therefore will be subject to the
vulnerability that allows arbitrary users to become root by parsing
xml-files, to be discovered, tomorrow?

Ralf