On Sun, 31 Oct 2021 12:48:19 +0100
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> wrote:
> My worry is that leaving .a files around will cause some build 
> systems to silently prefer them to the .so and link statically.  I 
> can't remember the name of the packages, but this does happen.
Could it also do that when the static libraries are split in their
own package/derivation like openssl:static for instance?

Denis.