[aur-general] status of libtool slaying

[Ronald van Haren]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Ray Rashif <schivmeister at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/11/11 Ray Rashif <schivmeister at gmail.com>
>
>> 2009/11/11 Ronald van Haren <pressh at gmail.com>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:34 AM, Ray Rashif <schivmeister at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > I remember the consensus used to be !libtool by default and now it's
>>> libtool
>>> > in makepkg.conf, so what happened?
>>> >
>>>
>>> some packages need the libtool files to function properly if that is
>>> what you mean.
>>>
>>> Ronald
>>>
>>
>> I mean, that was always the case:
>> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Libtool_slaying
>>
>> So the default for some time was to get rid of them, but in the event a
>> package did need its libtool files, then we used options=('libtool'), right?
>> But of course, there aren't many that install libtool files unnecessarily
>> now, so that's good. Just curious, in case I missed anything.
>>
>
> Oops, I think I answered my own question. It's because "there aren't many
> that install libtool files unnecessarily now". Thanks and sorry for the
> blob!
>

haha, good you figured it out! :lol:

Ronald