[Mageia-discuss] Removing .la files?

[Pascal Terjan]

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 23:07, Olivier Blin <mageia at blino.org> wrote:
> Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> 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
>
> Why should they be needed in static-devel?
> Isn't Libs.private from pkgconfig files enough?

Yes for things using pkgconfig