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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