Le 2013-03-02 05:14, Andreas Radke a écrit :
Am Sat, 02 Mar 2013 19:29:13 +1000 schrieb Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>:
Just add *.a to PURGE_TARGETS in makepkg.conf rather than manually removing them. Anyone who needs them can disable that.
(I will keep them in glibc/gcc/binutils...)
Allan
Nice solution. We should add *.a to the default PURGE_TARGETS in the next pacman release. Static libs will die out then pretty quick.
Maybe after some time a ToDo list could clean the older packages then.
-Andy
I agree to remove unneeded static libraries. However, we need to take care because the default building system of some packages, eg suitesparse, only provide static libs. I suggest to send patches/bug reports upstream for these packages. For suitesparse, I sent a patch upstream a few months ago. Cheers, Stéphane