[arch-dev-public] Signoff report for [testing]

2013-03-02 Thread Arch Website Notification
=== Signoff report for [testing] === https://www.archlinux.org/packages/signoffs/ There are currently: * 24 new packages in last 24 hours * 0 known bad packages * 0 packages not accepting signoffs * 13 fully signed off packages * 68 packages missing signoffs * 9 packages older than 14 days

[arch-dev-public] cleaning up unneeded static libraries?

2013-03-02 Thread Andreas Radke
Our packages in our repos by default don't need static libraries (random .a files all around). I think they are a waste of disc space and abuse bandwidth when uploading/mirroring packages. Most users will never need them. I suggest to drop all static libs by creating a ToDo list and install a

Re: [arch-dev-public] cleaning up unneeded static libraries?

2013-03-02 Thread Allan McRae
On 02/03/13 19:16, Andreas Radke wrote: Our packages in our repos by default don't need static libraries (random .a files all around). I think they are a waste of disc space and abuse bandwidth when uploading/mirroring packages. Most users will never need them. I suggest to drop all static

Re: [arch-dev-public] cleaning up unneeded static libraries?

2013-03-02 Thread Andreas Radke
Am Sat, 02 Mar 2013 19:29:13 +1000 schrieb Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org: Just add *.a to PURGE_TARGETS in makepkg.conf rather than manually removing them. Anyone who needs them can disable that. (I will keep them in glibc/gcc/binutils...) Allan Nice solution. We should add *.a to

Re: [arch-dev-public] cleaning up unneeded static libraries?

2013-03-02 Thread Alexander Rødseth
Hi, Note that one of the two most popular Go compilers relies on static compilation and .a files: pacman -Ql go | grep \.a$ | wc -l 261 Go was created by some of the same people that created Plan9, so I assume the choice of using static compilation is inspired by that:

Re: [arch-dev-public] cleaning up unneeded static libraries?

2013-03-02 Thread Thomas Dziedzic
as long as there is a simple way to turn off purging static libs, thiz sounds good Note that haskell also uses static libs

Re: [arch-dev-public] cleaning up unneeded static libraries?

2013-03-02 Thread Jelle van der Waa
On 02/03/13 12:10, Thomas Dziedzic wrote: as long as there is a simple way to turn off purging static libs, thiz sounds good Note that haskell also uses static libs Can't we add a rule to namcap, which warns packagers about static libs? Then the packager can decide whether they should

Re: [arch-dev-public] cleaning up unneeded static libraries?

2013-03-02 Thread Sébastien Luttringer
On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Andreas Radke andy...@archlinux.org wrote: Our packages in our repos by default don't need static libraries (random .a files all around). I think they are a waste of disc space and abuse bandwidth when uploading/mirroring packages. Most users will never need

Re: [arch-dev-public] [aur-general] Substitute nss_ldap/pam_ldap from [Extra] to nss-pam-ldapd

2013-03-02 Thread Dave Reisner
On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 01:32:48PM -0300, Thiago Kenji Okada wrote: nss-pam-ldapd is actively maintained while nss_ldap/pam_ldap are not updated in a while. nss-pam-ldapd is more robust too (I had a similar problem like https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/33672 that didn't occur with

Re: [arch-dev-public] [aur-general] Substitute nss_ldap/pam_ldap from [Extra] to nss-pam-ldapd

2013-03-02 Thread Dave Reisner
On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 04:13:01PM -0500, Dave Reisner wrote: On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 01:32:48PM -0300, Thiago Kenji Okada wrote: nss-pam-ldapd is actively maintained while nss_ldap/pam_ldap are not updated in a while. nss-pam-ldapd is more robust too (I had a similar problem like

Re: [arch-dev-public] cleaning up unneeded static libraries?

2013-03-02 Thread Stéphane Gaudreault
Le 2013-03-02 05:14, Andreas Radke a écrit : Am Sat, 02 Mar 2013 19:29:13 +1000 schrieb Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org: Just add *.a to PURGE_TARGETS in makepkg.conf rather than manually removing them. Anyone who needs them can disable that. (I will keep them in glibc/gcc/binutils...)

Re: [arch-dev-public] [RFC] Add Wayland/Weston

2013-03-02 Thread Sébastien Luttringer
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:38 AM, Sébastien Luttringer se...@seblu.net wrote: On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 1:23 AM, Sébastien Luttringer se...@seblu.net wrote: ... Some news from the front: - Wayland is in extra, thanks to Tom G. for moving it. - Mesa and cairo have their wayland backend enabled

Re: [arch-dev-public] cleaning up unneeded static libraries?

2013-03-02 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-03-02 15:17:02 +0100] Jelle van der Waa: Can't we add a rule to namcap, which warns packagers about static libs? Then the packager can decide whether they should included or removed. Most packagers would not notice or care enough to remove static libs from the many packages where they are