Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 17:59:35 +0100 From: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: howto stop port from installing .la files ? Message-ID: <200303011759.35456.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <1046536616.310.8.camel@gyros> References: <Pine.BSF.4.53.0302272130150.72813@e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net> <200303011732.59310.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> <1046536616.310.8.camel@gyros>
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--Boundary-02=_3bOY+J491KOgnhn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 01 March 2003 17:36, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 11:32, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > On Saturday 01 March 2003 17:21, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > > On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 11:13, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > > > > > My advice is to see if your port will work without them. If not, > > > install them, and note why you're doing it. > > > > That's not good advice, because you cannot know what _other_ applicatio= ns > > might want to lt_dlopen(ext) the libraries your port installs. > > Like I said, in all my porting, I've only run across two instances where > this has been the case. It's very easy to go back and install the .la > files should they be needed later. However, this is a _very_ rare > thing. Well it's not at all rare for KDE apps, since they all use libltdl (if you= =20 ever wanna b0rk someone's KDE installation out of malice, sneak up to his=20 machine and do find / -name *.la -delete ;)). The question remains what is = to=20 be gained by nuking the libtool archives. All the reasons people come up wi= th=20 (like "waste of disk space, CPU time and developer's time", quote sobomax)= =20 sound rather smug to me when you look at what that's actually about (~1k=20 textfiles). =2D-=20 Regards, Michael Nottebrock --Boundary-02=_3bOY+J491KOgnhn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+YOb3Xhc68WspdLARAuVRAJ4zzZt6STujqVV5hr+RjvSdrkuufgCfTJQJ RImi0vvo6NiKGr1fbr+V+BM= =pVNc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_3bOY+J491KOgnhn-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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