Re: [gentoo-dev] .la files removal news item (GLEP 42)

[Alistair Bush <ali_bush@gentoo.org>]

> Hi lads,
> due to recent situation about .la files status we would like to inform
> users about this situation. See attached file that we propose to be
> included as news item.
> 

Would it not be a better solution to have this information documented 
"properly" under Upgrade Guides or Gentoo System Documentation and then have 
this news item linked to it.    

What i'm concerned about is that this is not really a news item.   From what I 
understand this issue could be with us for a rather long time (years even) 
so...

How is this news item going to help ppl in a month from now (till the issue is 
solved in its entirety). 
Can we reasonably expect a new user to be aware of this.   Do we expect users 
to read old ( and this could potentially become very old) news items.

This is potentually a different situation from someone updating dbus (for 
example) from <y.y.y to >=y.y.y and having a once off (fire and forget) 
migration task.  It is for this reason that I think this should be documented.

Alistair.

> Step 2 will be finding global policy how to get rid of them as fast as
> possible  without too much more hassle for our users :)
> 
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> Tomáš Chvátal
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