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The Fedora docs[0] say:

> Packages including libraries SHOULD exclude static libs as far as possible

> In general, packagers SHOULD NOT ship static libraries.

[0] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#p...

But that's if the libraries are going to be used by another package (and even then it's not a prohibition - packagers should use common sense). Linus said this applied to a single package so it wouldn't need to ship *.a files at all, as everything would presumably be linked to binaries. I'm going to check out this subsurface diving program to find out what really happened here.

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