Hi, On 25.02.2015 15:35, Ian Jackson wrote: >> In libvxi-dev I provide a -fPIC .a library only, mainly for size reasons >> (the library consists of RPC proxy/stub code for the VXI-11 protocol, >> and is completely generated with rpcgen). > Do many other packages use that library ? No, just one. If that package were to be a shared library, the required space in the Packages file would be similar to the size of the files installed by the package. IMO, that's not really a good trade-off. Simon
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