On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 13:35, Reinout van Schouwen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > In the "build it yourself instructions" for Gnome 3, it says that > Mandriva users need to remove .la files first: > http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/RemovingLaFiles > > Apparently this is also the case for Mageia. Debian has made it a > release goal to remove .la files: > http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/LAFileRemoval > > So, if they're mostly causing trouble, are there any reasons to keep > .la files in Mageia?
Well they are mostly needed in static-devel, the only other case I remember needing them many years ago was some kde plugins I have always removed them when packaging non static libraries
