On Wednesday, 22 November 2006 at 16:54, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
Once upon a time Wednesday 22 November 2006 4:08 am, Jakub Jelinek
wrote:
> Hi!
>
> We should more proactively discourage static linking in FC7+, for
> reasons for that see
>
http://people.redhat.com/drepper/no_static_linking.html
The Fedora Packaging guidelines for quite some time have actively been
discouraging static linking. Very few applications have gotten though with
static libraries. We have also push to have upstream make shared
libraries if they do not see
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=196393 as an example.
yes Red Hat is upstream so its all the more reason to do the right thing.
But this is definetly something that has been on its way for awhile now.
I give a big +1 lets make it happen.
What's wrong with providing some -static subpackages for those who need them?
Regards,
R.
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