On Tuesday, 20. February 2007 13:40, Richard Guenther wrote:
Most .la files packaged in -devel packages can be removed in case static linking is not required. .la files necessary at runtime to make ltdlopen work should be packaged in the regular library package.
in case of libpopt (which for very strange reasons is built by rpm), the .la file can just be deleted, because it doesn't have additional dependencies.
Now, whether we should stop packaging static libraries for each and every library we have is another (valid) question.
static libs should at least be in the -devel subpackage and removed if it is a library that likely suffers from security vulnerabilities (to avoid that the code is statically linked into some other package). Dirk --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org