[arch-general] static libraries in packages

Antonio Rojas nqn1976list at gmail.com
Wed May 14 05:51:23 EDT 2014


Christian Hesse wrote:

> I think gcc, glibc, llvm and friends are ok. But zlib, mupdf,
> mysql/mariadb and some others should go away.

 There was a to-do list to cleanup all static libs, so all remaining ones 
are there for a reason. Check the changelogs for the specific reasons for 
each package, e.g.

https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/zlib&id=83d05088a1cb1b56561b9ebe365d18d033752c72

https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/mupdf&id=c34f53eeb8efd6b4b033c2fdc58d0a329efdeeef



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