Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Removing .la files...
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:55:09
Message-Id: 200904131855.07087.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Removing .la files... by Gilles Dartiguelongue
1 On Monday 13 April 2009 17:17:36 Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote:
2 > So we are now a year later,
3 >
4 > some people are getting excited at getting rid of .la files again but no
5 > decent solution has been presented yet that I am aware of. We've had two
6 > situations recently:
7 > * https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=264249 which got
8 > reverted
9 > * https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=266016 which author of
10 > the change don't want to revert
11 >
12 > My questions are simple:
13 > * do we have a plan ? I mean something real, not people doing
14 > stuff in their "territory" or "lonewolves".
15 > * do we want to *harm* our users base by changing this starting
16 > from low level libs ?
17
18 it either moves ahead sanely, or it doesnt move ahead at all. Bug 266016 is
19 an example of doing it wrong for no real benefit whatsoever.
20 -mike

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