On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:36:36 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: > > I'm really not trying to rehash this thread, but the original reason for > > nuking .la files was the nasty tendency they had of creating bogus (?) > > dependency spirals of doom. Am I wrong in remembering that? If I'm not > > wrong, has this been solved somehow? > > Nope, still an unsolved problem. Plus: creating compat-* packages becomes much more difficult whenever there are dependencies between .la files (such as the infamous absolute paths). On the contrary, properly named and versioned .so files can coexist nicely. -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
