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From: Angelo Arrifano <miknix@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] .la files and their future on Gentoo
Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2010 16:58:04
Message-Id: 4CA8B606.7010909@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] .la files and their future on Gentoo by Luca Barbato
1 On 03-10-2010 15:29, Luca Barbato wrote:
2 > On 10/03/2010 01:53 PM, David Leverton wrote:
3 >> While I do agree that the underlying problem we're trying to solve is
4 >> worth solving, I do have a couple of small concerns about how it's
5 >> being done. The first is that it seems people are judging whether a
6 >> particular .la file is "needed" by checking whether anything currently
7 >> in the tree needs it, but this doesn't take into account anything that
8 >> /isn't/ in the tree yet.
9 >
10 > I think the simpler solution is that if it needs .la, before reaching
11 > the tree it has to be fixed...
12
13 <joke>
14 Was libtool deprecated or something? Judging by your reply, it really
15 made me think so.
16 </joke>
17
18 The farther we walk from upstream, the greater is the quantity of work
19 we have to do to maintain their packages.
20
21 >
22 > lu
23 >

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Re: [gentoo-dev] .la files and their future on Gentoo Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>