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Summary: Review Request: flite - Small, fast speech synthesis engine (text-to-speech)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=207793
------- Additional Comments From green@redhat.com 2006-09-26 15:17 EST ------- (In reply to comment #5)
Personally I agree that static libs are usually not too useful (hence the separate flite-devel-static subpackage). The Fedora Packaging Guidelines makes provision for exceptions to the static libs-rule; does this package qualify?
I don't think so. Shared libraries have the advantage that bug/security fix updates are automatically made available to users of those shared libraries. Static linking hides these dependencies. I can't think of any exceptional reason to override this thinking for flite.