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Date:      Wed, 24 Apr 2002 16:52:44 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
To:        michaelnottebrock@gmx.net
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: .la files in ports, maintainers please fix them
Message-ID:  <200204241452.g3OEqisY092634@Magelan.Leidinger.net>
In-Reply-To: <200204241646.19518.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>

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On 24 Apr, Michael Nottebrock wrote:

>> >> I have a report from someone who has 134k of those useless (for us)
>> >> files.
>> >
>> > I am not so sure about that anymore,  could you please recap for me why
>> > they are useless for us? I have not been able to find proper
>> > documentation about that issue.
>> 
>> Have a look at such a file with e.g. less. It's plain text. We don't
>> need them to link working programs. They may be needed on other
>> platforms, but not on FreeBSD.
> 
> What about 
> http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/3.0-api/classref/kdecore/KLibLoader.html#library
> ,for instance, then?

Dependcies should get resolved at link time in the normal case. For
plug-ins one should know the dependency graph. Everything should be
known at development time. It's not neccessary (a waste of resources) to
do it at runtime.

I assume removing the kde .la's breaks KDE. Can someone confirm this?

Bye,
Alexander.

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