On Fri, Jul 12, İsmail Dönmez wrote:
I would say the point of the extra -devel-static packages is that, we do not want to provide static libraries unless there are exceptional circumstances (glibc-devel-static). So I'd say this extra hassle is a feature, not a bug.
There are two reasons: 1. avoid linking applications against static libraries by accident 2. easy way to find out, which applications are linked against a static library, so that if a security problem in the static library pops up, we can re-release all applications now build against the fixed static library. Security wise, static libraries are a really bad idea. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk, Distinguished Engineer, Senior Architect SLES & MicroOS SUSE Linux GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Mary Higgins, Sri Rasiah, HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org