On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Dirk Mueller wrote: > On Wednesday, 22. August 2007, Richard Guenther wrote: > > > Though in general we do not want to ship static libraries, so .la files > > without a static library should be avoided. > > its imho fine shipping them in the -devel subpackage *if* its not a security > relevant package.
Well "fine" as in if it doesn't only uselessly waste space. And which packages are _not_ security relevant... So as a rule of thumb don't package static libs unless the lib is a base library written in C (that is, it doesn't require other static libs to link a program static). Like for example I have on my 10.2 system static boost libraries installed which is pointless. Current stable has 959 static libs in /usr/lib including "interesting" stuff like libxml++-2.6.a. All in all 320MB worth of static libs. Ugh. Richard. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
