On Fri, Aug 25, Andreas Hanke wrote: > Hi, > > while looking at various spec files, I noticed that it seems to become > increasingly popular these days that libtool archives (*.la files) are > removed from packages, by deleting them during the build or by using the > %exclude directive or similar. > > Is there a general policy about this?
The general policy is: Remove it if this makes no trouble. > The idea seems to come from Fedora, No, we did it (at least I for my packages) for a much longer time than Fedora. > where this _is_ a general policy. I'd like to know whether we > have a similar policy or whether each packager decides that himself. There are three kind of packages: - The package will stop working if you remove the *.la file - Building other packages will become much order or will break - A lot of problems will be solved by removing the *.la file or nobody cares. In the first case we will of course not remove the *.la file. In the seond case: depends on if there is the time to fix all other packages. In the third case: remove it. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Maxfeldstr. 5 D-90409 Nuernberg -------------------------------------------------------------------- Key fingerprint = 8C6B FD92 EE0F 42ED F91A 6A73 6D1A 7F05 2E59 24BB --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
