proposal to remove static libs from -devel packages for FC5

[Daniel Veillard]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 06:02:10PM +0900, Jens Petersen wrote:
> Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >      then user should also install libxml2-static and it must also be in the same rpm
> >      transaction as the main, devel and python packages otherwise this
> >      may just fail.
> 
> Why would libxml2-static have to be installed in the same rpm transaction?

  because you really can't allow -static and -devel to mismatch

> >  Now multiply by the number of library we ship, to me you annoy the user
> > and the maintainers.
> 
> Maintainers perhaps, but it seems most users don't need static libs at all.

  for me an user, i.e. the person who need to be aware that the library exists
is a developper, not an end-user. The end-user can't care less, or should not.

> >   I really disagree with this myself.
> 
> Ok, but what about all the wasted bandwidth of users who are forced to download
> static libs as part of -devel packages every time they update that they never
> ever use?

  Tell me first why an end-user should need a -devel package ever ?

Daniel

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