On 2016-08-03 04:18, Marco Atzeri wrote:
On 03/08/2016 10:00, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Aug 2 22:09, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
Any objections?
User confusion about incomplete packages?
That is my concern, although we are generally dealing with -devel
packages here. AFAICS the only way to
On 03/08/2016 10:00, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Aug 2 22:09, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
Libtool .la files are generally a waste of time and space. They slow down
linking of other libraries with libtool, and they cause otherwise
unnecessary private dependencies to be pulled in by -devel packages.
On Aug 2 22:09, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> Libtool .la files are generally a waste of time and space. They slow down
> linking of other libraries with libtool, and they cause otherwise
> unnecessary private dependencies to be pulled in by -devel packages.
> Therefore, the major distros generally r
On Aug 2, 2016, at 9:09 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
>
> Any objections?
This script would need to consult the same package database cygcheck uses to
find out if an installed Cygwin package owns each *.la file it proposes to
remove. It should not remove any other *.la file just because it happ
Libtool .la files are generally a waste of time and space. They slow
down linking of other libraries with libtool, and they cause otherwise
unnecessary private dependencies to be pulled in by -devel packages.
Therefore, the major distros generally remove them from their packages
unless they ar
