New comment by oreo639 on void-packages repository https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/50980#issuecomment-2187869747 Comment: > Cool. The package dependency part remains. `libcurl-devel` should not pull in `libunistring-devel` because libcurl does not depend on libunistring (static or not). It is `libidn2-devel` that statically depends on `libunistring-devel`. (so the `depends=` would be added to `libidn2-devel`) Also, in general we don't list static linking dependencies in packages with some exceptions (e.g. glib for qemu-user-static or incidently because the dependencies headers are included in public headers). Not sure if curl is an exception.