On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 2:17 AM, Gaetan Bisson <[email protected]> wrote: > [2013-03-02 15:17:02 +0100] Jelle van der Waa: >> Can't we add a rule to namcap, which warns packagers about static libs? >> Then the packager can decide whether they should included or removed. > > Most packagers would not notice or care enough to remove static libs > from the many packages where they are a complete waste of resources. > > In contrast, adding *.a to PURGE_TARGETS will definitely solve that > problem in the long term without requiring anything from packagers - > only those specific packages relying on static libs will need to add > '!purge' to their options array. This seems the best solution to me.
What's about adding a new option? We already have libtool to clean libraries unwanted stuff. We can add a static or archive options which take care of this files. I can provide a patch for pacman. -- Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer https://www.seblu.net GPG: 0x2072D77A
