On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 2:17 AM, Gaetan Bisson <bisson@archlinux.org> wrote:
[2013-03-02 15:17:02 +0100] Jelle van der Waa:
Can't we add a rule to namcap, which warns packagers about static libs? Then the packager can decide whether they should included or removed.
Most packagers would not notice or care enough to remove static libs from the many packages where they are a complete waste of resources.
In contrast, adding *.a to PURGE_TARGETS will definitely solve that problem in the long term without requiring anything from packagers - only those specific packages relying on static libs will need to add '!purge' to their options array. This seems the best solution to me.
What's about adding a new option? We already have libtool to clean libraries unwanted stuff. We can add a static or archive options which take care of this files. I can provide a patch for pacman. -- Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer https://www.seblu.net GPG: 0x2072D77A