New comment by ericonr on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/31959#issuecomment-879963828

Comment:
I think you can remove

```
Either I'm not understanding how static linking works (AFAIK you *need*
the .a file?), or this is a very unpopular thing to do as it's been like
this for 9 years (changed in commit 9526648, in 2012) thinking
```

from the commit, you are correct in how static linking works. And yeah, it can be unpopular.