[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: .la files removal news item (GLEP 42)

2010-10-01 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
Il giorno sab, 02/10/2010 alle 00.42 +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan ha scritto: > Right, so a few weeks later when they re-merge a binpkg, they suddenly > get build failures again. And that confuses them since it's > unexpected. This is in general a bad experience for stable users who > want to get work d

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: .la files removal news item (GLEP 42)

2010-10-01 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
Il giorno ven, 01/10/2010 alle 21.22 +0200, Enrico Weigelt ha scritto: > > Why not just introducing a FEAUTURE or USE flag which causes > them not to be installed at all ? > Because don't ask obvious questions unless you read the original references. Libtool archive files are used by ImageMagick