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Il giorno lun, 04/10/2010 alle 11.19 -0400, Richard Freeman ha scritto: |
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> That said, supporting this use case should not interfere with more |
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> mainstream use of the distro. I like the USE flag proposal because it |
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> lets us have our cake and eat it too. Those who don't need .la files |
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> don't get them except where absolutely essential, and those who need |
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> and |
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> are willing to live with tons of them can have it their way. |
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USE flags add complexity, and in real use cases there are near to no |
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good reasons at all to keep .la files around. |
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I don't want to sound like a douchebag, but can you (or anyone else |
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supporting the USE flag notion) explain what .la files actually do? |
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What I'm quite sure of is that about half the people who express their |
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opinion regarding .la files have no idea what they are used for, they |
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expect them to be some kind of magic problem-solving fairy dust. They |
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are not. |
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They are a legacy of older operating system and static linking notions; |
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they are also not magical enough as they are only consumed back by |
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libtool. And not all the packages out there use libtool to link the |
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final application even if they were to use autotools. |
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