Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 18:30:11 +0200 From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> To: Mikhail Teterin <mi+kde@aldan.algebra.com> Cc: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net>, Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>, Michael Nottebrock <lofi@freebsd.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Subject: Re: NOT installing the .la files Message-ID: <m3lkry2xgs.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org> In-Reply-To: <200606141029.16701@aldan> (Mikhail Teterin's message of "Wed, 14 Jun 2006 10:29:16 -0400") References: <200606112110.39148@aldan> <m3odwwaux2.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org> <20060614133024.ku2ialxj6s4ocogc@netchild.homeip.net> <200606141029.16701@aldan>
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Mikhail Teterin <mi+kde@aldan.algebra.com> writes: > On Wednesday 14 June 2006 07:30, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > =3D The current libtool port does install .la files. There's no work in = =A0 > =3D progress to change this. If nobody sends patches to the upstream =A0 > =3D maintainers, there will never be a libtool version which completely = =A0 > =3D works without .la files. So the right thing to do ATM is to *not* =A0 > =3D remove .la files in ports.=20 > > We go through quite some trouble to conditionally install port documentat= ion=20 > for many ports. Many ports also have options, which allow lighter=20 > configurations, with some features disabled -- to save space and build ti= mes.=20 > > It may sound like "a lot of work" to save a few Kb and inodes, but rememb= er,=20 > that these get multiplied by the countless thousands of computers... How= =20 > hard is something like: Not a valid argument - one or perhaps five inodes per port with a single FS block each -- it's not a global resource that's being wasted, but a local resource that is readily available. I'm not going to risk build errors with PREFIX or something just to save some bytes... --=20 Matthias Andree
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