From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 24 08:01:34 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EA7437B401 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 08:01:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from procyon.firepipe.net (procyon.firepipe.net [198.78.66.151]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B053943FE9 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 08:01:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from will@csociety.org) Received: by procyon.firepipe.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DB39C2271C; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 08:01:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 08:01:32 -0700 From: Will Andrews To: Stijn Hoop Message-ID: <20030424150132.GI1836@procyon.firepipe.net> Mail-Followup-To: Stijn Hoop , ports@freebsd.org References: <20030424144359.GH65428@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030424144359.GH65428@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: .la files again X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 15:01:34 -0000 On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 04:43:59PM +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote: > I got another software package that keeps insisting on installing .la > files. Seeing as the previous discussion (in the archives around > March 1) didn't really get resolved, I'd like to ask: IIRC, no one could refute my opinion to any significant degree: .la files do not hurt anything (and are potentially useful). Even if they are useless for a particular third-party distribution, you don't really need to put a big effort into removing them. After all, they are but a few KB of disk. There are bigger fish to fry. Regards, -- wca