static libraries' policy
Dmitry Butskoy
buc at odusz.so-cdu.ru
Wed Nov 9 17:22:12 UTC 2005
Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
>Right now, there is not a "no static libs permitted" policy. The policy
>states that they should be avoided wherever possible. I could change
>this to a "no static libs unless you have a darned good reason, which
>you will need to document in the spec file" policy, since some apps are
>just too dumb to work with out them (unless the maintainer is willing to
>do what amounts to their own fork of the code).
>
>The consensus that I'm hearing here is that a policy change would be
>welcomed for FC5+, does anyone dissent?
>
>
Do you mean "after FC5 will be released" ?
Is it correlate with Core's state (where a half of such packages are not
changed too) ?
~buc
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