Tom spot Callaway (tcallawa(a)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