On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 11:15:36PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > If there are concerns over archive size, why don't we drop all static > .a libraries at the same time. Given that in Debian we typically > always link dynamically, is there a need for .a libraries in all but a > handful of cases? Dropping most .a libraries is something I agree with. I see no reason why we should have them for most of the libraries. Kurt