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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] Removing .la files...
From:       Mike Frysinger <vapier () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2009-04-13 22:55:06
Message-ID: 200904131855.07087.vapier () gentoo ! org
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On Monday 13 April 2009 17:17:36 Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote:
> So we are now a year later,
>
> some people are getting excited at getting rid of .la files again but no
> decent solution has been presented yet that I am aware of. We've had two
> situations recently:
>       * https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=264249 which got
>         reverted
>       * https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=266016 which author of
>         the change don't want to revert
>
> My questions are simple:
>       * do we have a plan ? I mean something real, not people doing
>         stuff in their "territory" or "lonewolves".
>       * do we want to *harm* our users base by changing this starting
>         from low level libs ?

it either moves ahead sanely, or it doesnt move ahead at all.  Bug 266016 is 
an example of doing it wrong for no real benefit whatsoever.
-mike

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