From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1P29OK-0005cU-82 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 21:13:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C7E89E076B; Sat, 2 Oct 2010 21:13:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp1-g21.free.fr (smtp1-g21.free.fr [212.27.42.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BE16E072C for ; Sat, 2 Oct 2010 21:12:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.10] (unknown [78.192.105.75]) by smtp1-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id B22EE9400F7 for ; Sat, 2 Oct 2010 23:12:31 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4CA7A034.5050104@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2010 23:12:20 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?UsOpbWkgQ2FyZG9uYQ==?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Thunderbird/3.1.4 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] .la files and their future on Gentoo References: <4CA78DFC.9060801@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <4CA78DFC.9060801@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: c37cc874-699d-4000-a6c2-334b874d0357 X-Archives-Hash: 96bd563a98762ea50361d5e58e171be4 Le 02/10/2010 21:54, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto a =C3=A9crit : > With that goal in mind, I'd like to ask anyone with arguments about thi= s > issue to present them as a reply to this thread. [putting on my X11 cap] As far as X11 packages are concerned (libX11, libXext, cairo, etc), we can remove .la files now since upstream only supports linking through pkg-config (static linking included). So X11 can remove them any time, I was just waiting for a flag-day to do = it. Cheers, R=C3=A9mi