Anyone using e2fsprogs static libs?

[Bryn M. Reeves]

On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 23:16 +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 02:59:37PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > I've finally been sufficiently pestered to fix this ;)
> > 
> > Is anybody using any of these static libs from e2fsprogs?
> > 
> > -%{_libdir}/libe2p.a
> > -%{_libdir}/libext2fs.a
> > -%{_libdir}/libcom_err.a
> > -%{_libdir}/libss.a
> > 
> > I'm inclined to just remove them rather than making a -static
> > package, unless anyone needs them.
> 
> Packages in fedora using those would have been breaking the guidelines
> quite badly. The issue is whether any user of fedora uses them for 
> development.

Historically there was a legitimate need for static versions of some of
these tools (e.g. initramfs before it included libc) but that should no
longer be the case for stuff that's in the distribution today.

Regards,
Bryn.