On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 15:12 -0600, Jerry James wrote: > 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: <snip> > bluez-utils Obsolete package, bluez doesn't have any .la files. <snip> > gnome-bluetooth-libs Fixed in CVS. Cheers -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list