On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 06:25 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > Also consider: Any package using libtool by default installs *.la's, any > package's author (Note: author, not Fedora package maintainer) has the > liberty of removing them upon installation as part of his package's > "installation step", if he thinks they are harmful/not useful. You're wrong. *.la's provides benefit to upstream. It does not always provide benefits to downstream. Therefore it is downstream which must make the decision whether to remove the .la files. *.la's guarantee that upstream will get a certain set of features when people try to link against their library and provide a means of portably implementing loadable modules with libltdl. In Fedora these are provided without the *.la files present (as long as the application doesn't explicitly ask for the *.la's which, if the purpose is portability, they shouldn't.) *.la's might make some sense when linking statically, but if our general Fedora Policy is to remove static libraries then our general *.la policy should be removal as well. If you know of a feature that *.la's provide on Fedora that otherwise is not present, feel free to share it so we can refine the Guidelines to do the right thing. -Toshio
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