On 11.09.2020 18:42, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
I'm not enthusiastic about build-time-only packages, but if the
choice
is between that and retiring the packages (or hiding them in modules
which has the same effect), I'll take it.
This will be Modularity 2.0. All packages must be installable if the end
user wants to do so.
Check header-only C++ libraries packaging. They provide only the -devel
and virtual -static subpackages and can be easily installed in Koji/mock
or directly.
Also check Rust packaging. They build crates to a separate packages and
use them only for the static linkage.
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Sincerely,
Vitaly Zaitsev (vitaly(a)easycoding.org)