2009/11/11 Jan de Groot <[email protected]> > libtool always used to be the default and will stay this way. Some > packages require .la files, and it's a hard job detecting them when they > get removed by default. Showing a warning with namcap is much easier > than finding out the other way around. > > >From this list posted above, I know at least mpg123, libsasl and > libgphoto2 require libtool files to load their plugins. > I think fam and gnutls kept the .la files for no clear reason. Fedora > was the first to start deleting all these .la files, they kept the files > in these packages. Nowadays Fedora removes the .la files from gnutls and > gamin too, so we might do that in the near future also. Note that > removing these files also means rebuilding all packages with .la files > that include it. > For libarchive we kept the .la files because static linking would fail > without them. We don't do static linking with libarchive anymore, so if > we ever decide to --disable-static, we should also remove the .la files > in it. > Fedora still keeps .la files in neon and even patches them to include > less crap, so I guess they have a reason to keep the files. > Moonlight doesn't contain .la files, and about kdemod-meanwhile: I don't > use kdemod, so I can't comment on it. >
Awesome; exactly what I wanted to know, thanks guys!
