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

[Sébastien Luttringer]

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On 04/03/13 12:01, Sébastien Luttringer wrote:
>> 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.html
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sébastien Luttringer <seblu at seblu.net>
>> ---
>
> 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,

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Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer
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