Re: Question regarding policy (11.2)
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:56:48PM +0000, James Troup wrote:
> Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> writes:
> > However disks are cheap enough that it seems reasonable to ask
> > people doing development to go buy a big disk.
> It's not about disks so much as bandwidth. Disk may be cheap, but
> bandwidth isn't, at lesast not universally. I've also no idea who
> would want or need static libraries in this day and age, but maybe I'm
> missing something obvious.
LSB compliant programs have to either be statically linked, or distributed
with the dynamic versions, of all the libraries they use, bar a few. Having
the .a's available for that may be useful.
Cheers,
aj
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