Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (135 mails)

[Richard Guenther <rguenther@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Dirk Mueller wrote:

> On Wednesday, 22. August 2007, Richard Guenther wrote:
> 
> > Though in general we do not want to ship static libraries, so .la files
> > without a static library should be avoided.
> 
> its imho fine shipping them in the -devel subpackage *if* its not a security 
> relevant package. 

Well "fine" as in if it doesn't only uselessly waste space.  And which
packages are _not_ security relevant...

So as a rule of thumb don't package static libs unless the lib is a
base library written in C (that is, it doesn't require other static libs
to link a program static).

Like for example I have on my 10.2 system static boost libraries installed
which is pointless.  Current stable has 959 static libs in /usr/lib
including "interesting" stuff like libxml++-2.6.a.  All in all 320MB
worth of static libs.  Ugh.

Richard.
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