On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 01:32:06PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> This issue is addressed by the new paragraph, isn't it?
<cite>
* in the case of user compiled programs doing numerical computations or
data analysis, using static libraries may be useful.
</cite>
You are explicitly referring to numerical computation or data analysis.
This is silly.
That's because these are the cases where static libs may be usefull and
shared libs are not needed.
No idea what FESCO did, if they agreed to it, they failed.
The ratified
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/StaticLibraryChanges
unless I am wrong (not my paragraph).
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Pat