static libraries' policy

[Christian.Iseli at licr.org]

paul at city-fan.org said:
> Packages including libraries should exclude static libs as far as  possible
> (eg by configuring with --disable-static). Static libraries  should only be
> included in exceptional circumstances. Also applications  linking against
> libraries should as far as possible link against shared  libraries not static
> versions. 

Yup, and according to some recent discussion on the GCC list:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-11/msg00358.html
this is a sane thing to have in the Guidelines...

					Christian