[pacman-dev] [PATCH] makepkg: only remove static libraries if they have a shared version

[Allan McRae]

On 01/11/13 01:40, Sébastien Luttringer wrote:
> On 31/10/2013 14:25, Allan McRae wrote:
>> It is fairly common that packages contain static libraries with no
>> shared counterpart.  These should not be removed with !staticlibs.
> 
> Why not let packagers do their job and add staticlibs.
> Using "!staticlibs" will no more ensure that static libs are cleaned.
> This make usage of this option less simple and clear than before.
> 

I have struck many packages where we have to use options=('staticlibs')
and then manually remove a bunch of static libraries because one needs
to be kept.

I see this as making packaging more simple, because I no longer need to
check whether to apply !staticlibs to a package - it will just do the
right thing.

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