Re: [arch-dev-public] Adding !staticlibs to our default makepkg.conf

[2013-05-29 11:31:11 +1000] Allan McRae:

We discussed removing static libraries for most packages back in March [1].

Now makepkg for pacman-4.1 has an option "staticlibs" that automatically removes them. Should I make that the default in our makepkg.conf?

I doubt most of the static libraries our packages ship ever get used, so I strongly support getting rid of all that dead weight (that's 115M on my system, for instance). If needed, we can explicitly re-add options=('staticlibs') to core libraries' PKGBUILD, but that should really be the exception rather than the rule. Cheers. -- Gaetan