Hello,
Here is a paragraph explaining why some libs may be usefull in their
static version:
* in the case of user compiled programs doing numerical computations or
data analysis, using static libraries may be useful. Indeed it allows
to build static executables that have more chance to be run on other
platforms than the box they were compiled in, that have different
dynamic library versions or even that don't have the library installed
at all. At the same time those applications, in general, don't need
the features brought in by shared libraries (no need for nss, no
security issue, no need for iconv...). Therefore it may be acceptable
or even desirable to ship static libraries for numerical and data
processing libraries to help users needing to link statically their
locally compiled executables. The static libraries still need to be
in separate sub-packages.
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Pat
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