On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 06:59 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
Matthias Saou wrote:
> Regarding this bug :
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/204568
>
> It does makes sense to ship the DirectFB static libraries for some
> users. So here are my questions :
> - Should they be put into the existing -devel sub-package?
> - Should they be put into a new separate sub-package? (-static)
As long as the static lib doesn't change the behavior of (most) typical
builds using
BuildRequires: DirectFB-devel
I'd say a separate package is overkill.
I'd say packaging static libs into separate *-static packages should be
made mandatory to
* make such dependencies apparent (otherwise the next maintainer will
want to drop them from *-devel and nobody will notice until somebody who
can't resist linking against them will yell).
* avoid bloating the distro with unnecessary libs (Almost nobody will
use them).
* make packages providing static libs obvious.
Besides this: Is using a userspace library such as DirectFB inside of
initrd useful? I hardly can't imagine why.
Ralf