Proposal: allow *-static as multilib

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 09 Jul 2012 18:13:29 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:

> Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=837901
> > 
> > has requested boost static libraries be shipped as multilib so that they
> > can be used with "gcc -m32".
> > 
> > We historically haven't done this for anything besides glibc & libstdc++,
> > but there's nothing technically preventing us from changing the policy in
> > this manner. Opinions?
> 
> +1, do it.  -static probably ought to be treated the same as -devel

Static-only -devel packages with a virtual -static package name are
shipped as multilib already anyway (and -static packages with a virtual
-devel package name probably, too, in case mash takes a look at virtual
package names).