Re: Question regarding policy (11.2)
James Troup writes:
> Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr> writes:
>
> > For the record, I *need* static libraries.
>
> Why?
I need some programs I built to run on my different accounts on machines
running a lot of different GNU/Linux distributions, Debian, Redhat, Mandrake,
etc... with even several versions of each[1]. Some accounts are even
NFS-shared.
The less painful way to do that for me is to build the application
shared against a old libc and static against most libs[2].
Also I need static libs in *stable*, so asking for them via a bug report
is a no-go.
If the concern is bandwidth then allowing to put them in libxxx-static
should save some bandwidth.
Is there some data about bandwidth use per packages available ? I am sure we
will find more better way to reduce bandwidth than getting rid of static
libraries.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
[1] Of course I am not the sysadmin!
[2] Some distributions's use of soname is hopeless, e.g. Mandrake has changed
soname of readline4 twice.
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