proposal to remove static libs from -devel packages for FC5

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 13:16 +0900, Jens Petersen wrote:
> Christopher Aillon wrote:
> > Let's get rid of static libs where we can.  But there's no need to force
> > people to move things around in packages.  Firefox, Mozilla,
> > Thunderbird, etc. ABSOLUTELY CANNOT BUILD without the static lib of
> > nspr.  Sure, that is a bug that is worth fixing, however, moving the
> > static lib out of nspr-devel currently makes nspr-devel USELESS, so I
> > see no point in doing this if people will need to install the -static
> > package anyway to make use of the -devel package.
> 
> Ok, sure there will have to be exceptions and nspr will be one of them. :)
Why? Ship a nspr-static instead of nspr-devel.

> > Veto on the proposed package naming scheme
> 
> That does not mean that -static is necessarily a bad idea in general though. :)
It only makes sense if it is strictly obeyed. I.e. no exceptions should
be allowed.

Ralf