On Wednesday 29 May 2013 11:31:11 Allan McRae wrote: > We discussed removing static libraries for most packages back in March [1]. > > Now makepkg for pacman-4.1 has an option "staticlibs" that automatically > removes them. Should I make that the default in our makepkg.conf? > > Allan > > > [1] > https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-March/024552.ht > ml Why not check first which applications build with --disable-static? A few packages like libpng, etc.. can be compiled with --disable-static which feels like a more neat approach then deleting the static libraries.
