Re: [Fedora-packaging] paragraph on shipping static numerical libs

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 10:15 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:

> I only advocate shipping static libraries, no statically linked packages
> against those libraries. These libs are for use for locally compiled 
> programs, not for packages shipped with fedora. So no maintainance
> issue.
> 

The obvious question is, if this is only for locally compiled programs,
why not compile the necessary static libraries locally as well ? Why
should we carry that burden ?