On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Sébastien Luttringer <se...@seblu.net> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Andreas Radke <andy...@archlinux.org> wrote: >> Our packages in our repos by default don't need static libraries >> (random .a files all around). I think they are a waste of disc space >> and abuse bandwidth when uploading/mirroring packages. Most users will >> never need them. >> >> I suggest to drop all static libs by creating a ToDo list and install a >> rule to not ship static libraries anymore, maybe with some exceptions. >> Whenever users require static libs we should point to abs. >> > > Could you tell me if removing all statics libs will avoid us to easily > build static binaries using those binaries? >
After private talk with Andy, I understood we loose the ability of building static binaries with this move. Not a big deal for me. Just everyone knows. -- Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer https://www.seblu.net GPG: 0x2072D77A