Christian Hesse wrote: > I think gcc, glibc, llvm and friends are ok. But zlib, mupdf, > mysql/mariadb and some others should go away. There was a to-do list to cleanup all static libs, so all remaining ones are there for a reason. Check the changelogs for the specific reasons for each package, e.g. https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/zlib&id=83d05088a1cb1b56561b9ebe365d18d033752c72 https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/mupdf&id=c34f53eeb8efd6b4b033c2fdc58d0a329efdeeef
