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

[Patrice Dumas <pertusus free fr>]

On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 11:10:22AM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> 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 ?

Because we care about users?

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Pat