-static packages

Hi, I've recently had to link a fair amount of my work statically so that it'll run on a cluster of RHEL machines. Unfortunately, I am just a user of these machines, and so I don't have the power to get them to run Fedora or even to get the admins to install RHEL packages in a timely manner. Building statically also helps me to eliminate as many of the inevitable fractional differences between cluster nodes as possible, to achieve reproducible results from simulation runs. However, only a few packages in Fedora provide -static variants. This has meant that I've had to locally build these, which is obviously not desirable from a maintenance perspective. So, would be acceptable to register requests for -static package variants as tickets on bugzilla? Or is there a better way to try to encourage people to generate these packages? Cheers, Rob