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Hello! |
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I think flameeyes should have sent this himself in the first place, but |
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since he's clearly not going to do that and prefers to just force it on |
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our users I'm mailing this... |
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flameeyes talked about .la files in his blog recently: |
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http://blog.flameeyes.eu/articles/2008/04/14/what-about-those-la-files |
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Now he decided that simply removing them for several packages, resulting |
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in http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218286 and its dupes. |
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This is annoying for quite a few users as they will have to rebuild lots |
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of stuff for KDE, Gnome and other packages and I'm not sure if this is |
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really the way we want to fix --as-needed failures. |
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Furthermore, such things should not be decided and pushed through |
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unilaterally but be agreed upon here prior to doing this change. |
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Especially since even though removing .la files might make sense (with |
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exceptions, of course) we should think about either doing it |
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distribution-wide or not at all. |
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Best regards, Wulf |