From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L1838-0000Ut-L0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:26:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0303CE031A; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:26:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.174]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F560E031A for ; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:25:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 30so13161ugs.39 for ; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:25:56 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version :content-type; bh=3NBd8p2gbKKC0Yw/ZdEsrUi1niUxXJFQHMtszT1dwM0=; b=CJjoJM4iXrFNHBTKyhbeDcMVRo0rOGWD1dpLxmJ1ZYJ48uiaZBZ0W39KrAGFYOyogI 8xoI/S3WGzixguQ7i1ZDbxpmV92+HfrVmLR45xvfVzcrUunTXbYbKlCFEckWDSl1OtB6 N7iOnSKw2ohrFWL9cSkgcHFMfNZDptbwKu66Y= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type; b=KSyP0WZUff5fgNfPeWpj2/KObWo88tuygI/suWFYcisPh2dNVPi4ecF1HR8shM6ZSQ qhJOF2pfZ13rWWTJvaWH8QAJM9xJumofsovfMHdxRc6OCqhXyQUK0utTIObVIKYWhDMX LNhUCD8UOVB2dJAKV7r+L4U3ZuSgX1hzC6K3w= Received: by 10.67.116.7 with SMTP id t7mr10397ugm.63.1226705155874; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:25:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from snowmobile (92-235-187-79.cable.ubr18.edin.blueyonder.co.uk [92.235.187.79]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id u7sm33319uge.15.2008.11.14.15.25.54 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:25:55 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:25:47 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Please review: function epunt_la_files for eutils.eclass Message-ID: <20081114232547.15ef805c@snowmobile> In-Reply-To: <200811150005.54423.loki_val@gentoo.org> References: <200811091704.10291.loki_val@gentoo.org> <200811121831.49814.loki_val@gentoo.org> <20081113221413.71edadab@halo.dirtyepic.sk.ca> <200811150005.54423.loki_val@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.6.1 (GTK+ 2.14.4; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/VC1An1Q6JxbBSCRxWR/YoA4"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: f99720f9-6fb3-4d24-9f6a-1a5a17d708c6 X-Archives-Hash: ab57d82fcf419f300820a018163d9c23 --Sig_/VC1An1Q6JxbBSCRxWR/YoA4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:05:52 +0100 Peter Alfredsen wrote: > I just thought it sounded like a tall order, saying that fixing=20 > libtool .la files would take some weekends to do, when this problem > has existed for so long, yet noone has been able to fix it in a way > that causes less pain than removal of all .la files does. Sometimes, doing nothing is better than doing something. > Anyway, we really need to start punting .la files one way or the > other. For desktop users of our distro, they do a lot more harm than > good. For embedded, perhaps static linking serves some purpose, but > really, if you can't afford dynamic linking, what are you going to > run on your board? No, for desktop users they're occasionally a minor inconvenience, which is more than offset by the large inconvenience of their removal. Unfortunately, enough fuss has been made about this that too many people will look bad if it's decided to do nothing, so things have reached the "find the least bad something to do" stage... --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/VC1An1Q6JxbBSCRxWR/YoA4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkkeCP4ACgkQ96zL6DUtXhEw0ACfS6bGNguKRvABwc6t2gvqJJCg eVMAoK9hB4CvQ1Opb5ks6zF2yVfEVxG0 =9x0c -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/VC1An1Q6JxbBSCRxWR/YoA4--