[Mageia-discuss] Removing .la files?

[Ahmad Samir]

On 5 May 2011 14:35, Reinout van Schouwen <reinout at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In the "build it yourself instructions" for Gnome 3, it says that
> Mandriva users need to remove .la files first:
> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/RemovingLaFiles
>
> Apparently this is also the case for Mageia. Debian has made it a
> release goal to remove .la files:
> http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/LAFileRemoval
>
> So, if they're mostly causing trouble, are there any reasons to keep
> .la files in Mageia?
>
> --
> Reinout van Schouwen
> http://vanschouwen.info/
>

Personally, I've removed .la file in %install in 95% of the packages I
imported/packaged in Mageia.

FWIW, they're not that many packages:

$ urpmf /usr/lib64/*.la | awk -F: '{print $1}' | sort -u
getfem++
gettext-devel
gir-repository
lib64acl-devel
lib64croco0.6_3-devel
lib64glib2.0-devel
lib64pcre-devel
lib64unistring-devel
lib64xml2-devel
virtuoso-opensource
x11-driver-video-intel

-- 
Ahmad Samir