On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 22:16 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > 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. > If you know of a feature that *.la's provide on Fedora that otherwise is > not present, * library dependencies. * rpath (consider parallel installed package, e.g. openmotif in parallel to lesscrap) * redundancy - Remember: Conflicts between *.la's, *.pc's, ld.so.conf and rpm deps not always are libtool's fault. Esp. *.pc's are MANUALLY written. * Inconsistent flags: Remember *.pc's are manually written. Some people tend to abuse CFlags in *.pcs. Ralf -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
