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From: "Wulf C. Krueger" <philantrop@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: flameeyes@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Removing .la files...
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:51:58
Message-Id: 200804192050.26338.philantrop@gentoo.org
1 Hello!
2
3 I think flameeyes should have sent this himself in the first place, but
4 since he's clearly not going to do that and prefers to just force it on
5 our users I'm mailing this...
6
7 flameeyes talked about .la files in his blog recently:
8
9 http://blog.flameeyes.eu/articles/2008/04/14/what-about-those-la-files
10
11 Now he decided that simply removing them for several packages, resulting
12 in http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218286 and its dupes.
13
14 This is annoying for quite a few users as they will have to rebuild lots
15 of stuff for KDE, Gnome and other packages and I'm not sure if this is
16 really the way we want to fix --as-needed failures.
17
18 Furthermore, such things should not be decided and pushed through
19 unilaterally but be agreed upon here prior to doing this change.
20
21 Especially since even though removing .la files might make sense (with
22 exceptions, of course) we should think about either doing it
23 distribution-wide or not at all.
24
25 --
26 Best regards, Wulf

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Removing .la files... Alistair Bush <ali_bush@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Removing .la files... Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
[gentoo-dev] Re: Removing .la files... flameeyes@gmail.com (Diego 'Flameeyes' =?utf-8?Q?Petten=C3=B2?=)
Re: [gentoo-dev] Removing .la files... Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Removing .la files... Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o>