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Subject: Re: [PATCH] util-linux: Remove static libraries from -dev packages
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On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 23:00 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:

> That'd be inconsistent with other packages, since we do generally build
> and ship the static libraries.  Having a big switch to turn off static
> libraries globally seems like a fine plan, but I can't see any obvious
> reason why the util-linux ones are any more useless than the rest.

Makes sense.  I wonder if there are actually any users of the static
libraries.

For what it's worth in gnome-ostree I do just globally pass
--disable-static by default.