On May 30, 2011, at 1:45 PM, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: > On Monday 30 of May 2011, Tomasz Pala wrote: >> While updating my system I've noticed that xorg* packages still got >> *.la files, while they all got *.pc as well. >> Are there any other (not discussed before) reasons not to remove them? >> Having *.pc was the main rule allowing to do this. > > No one was brave enough to rebuild all dependencies on ftp.pld- which would > be > required if la were dropped. >
Is it merely a matter of "bravery" or is there still a need for *.la?
I'm asking the engineering, not the advocacy, question here:
Are *.la files useful?
I already know my non-linux answer: Yes.
73 de Jeff
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