[csw-maintainers] Handling of devel package splits

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi James,

Am 08.10.2009 um 10:27 schrieb James Lee:
> 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)

Because there are some cases where you need it.
Perls DynaLoader.a for FFI comes to my mind which bit us lately.
But you are right: Usually static libs should be avoided even
in devel packages. GAR already excludes them by default for all
packages.


Best regards

   -- Dago