On 07/10/09, 22:58:38, Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> wrote regarding Re: [csw-maintainers] Handling of devel package splits: > That would result in certain packages quadrupling in size, I think. > Mostly this is to do with the libfoo.a splitout. Why do we ship static libs at all? (Excepting a few obvious cases, gcc) James.