[arch-dev-public] cleaning up unneeded static libraries?

[Sébastien Luttringer]

On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Andreas Radke <andyrtr at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Our packages in our repos by default don't need static libraries
> (random .a files all around). I think they are a waste of disc space
> and abuse bandwidth when uploading/mirroring packages. Most users will
> never need them.
>
> I suggest to drop all static libs by creating a ToDo list and install a
> rule to not ship static libraries anymore, maybe with some exceptions.
> Whenever users require static libs we should point to abs.
>

Could you tell me if removing all statics libs will avoid us to easily
build static binaries using those binaries?

Cheers,

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