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

[Hussam Al-Tayeb]

On Wednesday 29 May 2013 11:31:11 Allan McRae wrote:
> 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?
> 
> Allan
> 
> 
> [1]
> https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-March/024552.ht
> ml

Why not check first which applications build with --disable-static?
A few packages like libpng, etc.. can be compiled with --disable-static which 
feels like a more neat approach then deleting the static libraries.