"Ivan E. Moore II" <rkrusty@earthlink.net> writes: > Hi, > > Policy reads: > > "All libraries must have a shared version in the lib* package and > a static version in the lib*-dev package" > > I'm not too keen on providing static versions of libraries who's intent are > for embedded devices. The idea, of course, for embedded devices are to have > as little of a install base as possible. Providing static libs implies that > statically linking libraries into binaries is something we want. In some > cases this would be the case but I believe in most cases this is not. Am > I not seeing some advantage to this specific policy when it comes to embedded > applications/libraries or does this policy need a revision? This came up a couple months ago as #168435, though not with respect to embedded devices. Personally, I think the "must" should be changed to a "should" in policy, especially regarding static libraries since they are largely unnecessary and essentially optional in most cases. -- My secret to happiness... is that I have a heart of a 12-year-old boy. It's over here in a jar. Would you like to see it?
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