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Subject: Re: [PATCH] util-linux: Remove static libraries from -dev packages
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On 9/25/12 5:11 PM, Colin Walters wrote:
> 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.

Users are primarily small systems, where static linking may result in a slightly 
smaller system.  (When I say small systems, I'm talking about single application 
embedded systems..)

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