[Mageia-discuss] Removing .la files?

[Pascal Terjan]

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 13:35, 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?

Well they are mostly needed in static-devel, the only other case I
remember needing them many years ago was some kde plugins
I have always removed them when packaging non static libraries