*.la files in xorg* packages

Arkadiusz Miskiewicz arekm at maven.pl
Tue May 31 15:12:11 CEST 2011


On Tuesday 31 of May 2011, Tomasz Pala wrote:
> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 19:53:52 +0200, Tomasz Pala wrote:
> >> No one was brave enough to rebuild all dependencies on ftp.pld- which
> >> would be required if la were dropped.
> 
> So basically every *.la file that can be safely removed (packages with
> *.pc) and is not required by any package we got might be removed without
> any rebuilds? I mean - if some outer la file was polluted it would be
> seen in rpm requires list, right?

In theory. I guess there are cases when it will be in .la but not in requires.

> And the full list doesn't look scarry either:

There are few which don't build at the moment at all, so...

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