On 05/06/13 00:09, Pacho Ramos wrote:
It lacks a maintainer for a long time, also has some opened bugs and I
am unsure if it's still needed. I am not using it for months and never
saw any problem, also, portage fixes .la files by itself, and paludis
people don't approve lafilefixer.
Do we still need it?
+1 for dropping it as...
- gentoo-x86/ has been massively cleaned up with punting of .la files
- -Wl,--as-needed is enabled by default for ages
- portage's own .la file fixing
- emptying of some dependency_libs='' in tree
- the 'coming' GNU gold linker being even more stricter than -Wl,--as-needed
- majority of `lafilefixer` users propably emerged it by accident,
thinking it's some magic bullet for their .la file problem, which it's not
