[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo's plan to remove .la files: eutils function

[Diego Elio Pettenò]

Il giorno dom, 31/10/2010 alle 13.26 +0100, Thomas Sachau ha scritto:
>
>
> The line should exclude those .la files, which contain
> "shouldnotlinkto=yes" or directly use the
> autotools-utils eclass as suggested, since it already contains this
> functionality together with a
> nice USE flag (static-libs) for it.

This would exclude all plugin .la files which are also NOT NEEDED in
most cases.

And I'm starting to get angry at people who install .la files for PAM
modules… or Ruby extensions… or Python modules… and so on so…

_Most of them must die on a package-by-package basis._

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