Date: 01 Mar 2003 12:05:54 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> 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: <1046538354.310.18.camel@gyros> In-Reply-To: <200303011759.35456.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.53.0302272130150.72813@e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net> <200303011732.59310.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> <1046536616.310.8.camel@gyros> <200303011759.35456.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
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--=-GekBT1M2MOWrWL0CucQr Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 11:59, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > 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_ applicat= ions > > > 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 wher= e > > 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. >=20 > Well it's not at all rare for KDE apps, since they all use libltdl (if yo= u=20 > ever wanna b0rk someone's KDE installation out of malice, sneak up to his= =20 > machine and do find / -name *.la -delete ;)).=20 So do the KDE components roll their own ltdl and compile it in statically? I only found five ports that actually depend on libltdl. > The question remains what is to=20 > be gained by nuking the libtool archives. All the reasons people come up = with=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). I guess it's best left to the porter's preference and knowledge of the application. I'm not going to go on a crusade to remove all .la files from all ports. However, in the GNOME ports that I know don't need those libraries, I'll not install them.=20 Joe --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-GekBT1M2MOWrWL0CucQr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+YOhyb2iPiv4Uz4cRAv29AJ9a6H9Zuf0tfnfTRadHmBy+XJMTfQCgqdFW CfhaDs1O2RKGaG10+8g+HBM= =hw9l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-GekBT1M2MOWrWL0CucQr-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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