[Fedora-packaging] Static Library Policy Draft Changes

[Bill Nottingham]

Tom spot Callaway (tcallawa at redhat.com) said: 
> > Since spot was the person who described it to me, perhaps it would be
> > best to get his input here.  The way he stated it was that if there
> > were
> > static libs around at link time, they would get automatically linked,
> > even if the didn't want them to.
>
> A lot of packages will look first for static libraries, then if (and
> only if) they are not found, look for shared libraries. By splitting
> into static and static-noshared, we can safely put in -devel and
> -static-noshared and avoid this confusion.

That's not the case for anything that just passes -l<foo>. Can't
we just fix those packages?

Bill