[gentoo-dev] About lafilefixer removal

[gentoo-dev] About lafilefixer removal

[Pacho Ramos]

It lacks a maintainer for a long time, also has some opened bugs and I
am unsure if it's still needed. I am not using it for months and never
saw any problem, also, portage fixes .la files by itself, and paludis
people don't approve lafilefixer. 

Do we still need it?

Re: [gentoo-dev] About lafilefixer removal

[Samuli Suominen]

On 05/06/13 00:09, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> It lacks a maintainer for a long time, also has some opened bugs and I
> am unsure if it's still needed. I am not using it for months and never
> saw any problem, also, portage fixes .la files by itself, and paludis
> people don't approve lafilefixer.
>
> Do we still need it?

+1 for dropping it as...

- gentoo-x86/ has been massively cleaned up with punting of .la files
- -Wl,--as-needed is enabled by default for ages
- portage's own .la file fixing
- emptying of some dependency_libs='' in tree
- the 'coming' GNU gold linker being even more stricter than -Wl,--as-needed
- majority of `lafilefixer` users propably emerged it by accident, 
thinking it's some magic bullet for their .la file problem, which it's not

Re: [gentoo-dev] About lafilefixer removal

[Sergey Popov]

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05.06.2013 01:16, Samuli Suominen пишет:
> On 05/06/13 00:09, Pacho Ramos wrote:
>> It lacks a maintainer for a long time, also has some opened bugs and I
>> am unsure if it's still needed. I am not using it for months and never
>> saw any problem, also, portage fixes .la files by itself, and paludis
>> people don't approve lafilefixer.
>>
>> Do we still need it?
> 
> +1 for dropping it as...
> 
> - gentoo-x86/ has been massively cleaned up with punting of .la files
> - -Wl,--as-needed is enabled by default for ages
> - portage's own .la file fixing
> - emptying of some dependency_libs='' in tree
> - the 'coming' GNU gold linker being even more stricter than
> -Wl,--as-needed
> - majority of `lafilefixer` users propably emerged it by accident,
> thinking it's some magic bullet for their .la file problem, which it's not
> 

I have masked it. And by the way, i have discovered installed
lafilefixer on one of my desktops(but not on servers), so yeah, probably
i forgot to unmerge it a long time ago ;-)

-- 
Best regards, Sergey Popov
Gentoo developer
Gentoo Desktop Effects project lead
Gentoo Qt project lead


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