Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> Why would anyone want to do that? (I'm not talking about the case
> mentioned elsewhere in the thread were a non-libtool file is removed
> by a mistake, but the actual case where one would want to keep
> distributing a libtool file.)

The kdelibs3 plugin loader breaks down horribly if you remove the .la file 
under it. (This was fixed in kdelibs 4, but the kdelibs3 compat library 
stack still ships those .la files for that reason.)

        Kevin Kofler
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