On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Colin Walters <walters@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Debarshi Ray <debarshi.ray@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I noticed that the dia package has %{_libdir}/%{name}/*.la files. Any >> particular reason for them to be there? Doesn't guidelines ask us to >> remove them? > > Yes, please remove them. We should not encourage the libtool agenda > to redefine how shared libraries work on our platform. I've got quite a collection of .la files under /usr/lib64 on my Fedora 9 x86_64 machine. All of the following packages contain at least one .la file: alsa-lib apr-devel apr-util-devel arts banshee bluez-utils brasero db4-devel db4-java db4-tcl directfb gamin-python gdesklets ghostscript-devel gnome-bluetooth-libs GraphicsMagick gtkglextmm-devel gutenprint hplip ImageMagick imlib2 imlib2-devel libesmtp libieee1284-devel libstatgrab-devel libtool-ltdl-devel libxml2-python nfs-utils-lib opensp-devel pinball planner subversion-devel subversion-javahl -- Jerry James http://loganjerry.googlepages.com/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list