Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH] Add liba option in PKGBUILD

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Allan McRae wrote:

On 04/03/13 12:01, Sébastien Luttringer wrote:

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This option (enabled by default) removes static library files in packages.

Related to the thread: https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-March/024552.ht...

Signed-off-by: Sébastien Luttringer ---

You think given I was the one who suggested to use PURGE_TARGETS for this, that you might of thought have thought twice about doing this being the way to implement it... I thought you suggest PURGE_TARGETS as a way to find a quick solution, saving you time to add a new option.

So provide an explanation why this is better. libtool option is not an answer because we could merge that into PURGE too... Having all the unwanted stuff removed in the purge option, avoid duplication of the same code and make removal of future others files a regex addition. Merge libtool into purge was my alternative patch option but looking at the number of PKGBUILD using the option, I thougth it was a lighter path to keep it and provide it counterpart for *.a files to stay coherent. .$ grep -lri '!libtool' /var/abs|wc -l 1354 As libtool is not an answer, this patch is in the bad way.

Cheers, -- Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer https://www.seblu.net GPG: 0x2072D77A