Il giorno dom, 31/10/2010 alle 15.31 +0100, Pacho Ramos ha scritto: > In that case, I think the work on these cases should start as soon as > possible,
I have said that before. > but I think that getting bugs reported (probably from your > next tinderbox run if possible) would help. Search for "pointless .la" and you'll find a bunch of reported bugs; I stopped mostly because of GNOME-related packages (which where the main cause of the bugs): - Tester refused fixing telepathy and the like altogether stating that it's an upstream issue; - leio stated that he didn't care about removing those that are simply pointless already because he wanted to do it in one big sweep, and the bugs I would report would just linger there indefinitely. > For example, I have just > seen in my system that packages like dev-python/pyorbit and > dev-libs/libgamin are installing these .la files that should not be > needed, but I am sure lots of other python packages are also > affected :-/. dev-libs/libbeagle (maintainer-needed) sys-auth/fprintd (xmw) dev-python/pygoocanvas (gnome/python) x11-libs/xpyb (x11) media-libs/hamlib (tomjbe) net-libs/gtk-vnc (gnome) dev-python/pyclutter-gtk (gnome) dev-python/pyclutter (gnome) media-libs/pdflib (maintainer-needed) dev-libs/libnatspec (invalid metadata?) dev-python/notify-python (dev-zero/python) dev-python/telepathy-farsight (nirbheek/tester/voip) sci-libs/geos (sci-geosciences/postgres) sys-libs/libieee1284 (base-system) app-i18n/libtomoe-gtk (cjk) app-i18n/tomoe (cjk) net-libs/farsight2 (voip) x11-libs/vte (gnome) dev-python/pyorbit (gnome) gnome-extra/libgsf (gnome) dev-python/pygtksourceview (gnome) gnome-base/gnome-keyring (gnome) dev-libs/libxslt (gnome) And this is just a list I produced out of the current logs I have on the tinderbox (64-bit version) for the paths of the plugins I _know_ are not loaded through .la files… I think there are a few hundreds .la files in packages maintained by gnome alone that are not being used at all and could have been removed years ago (reducing the pressure of revdep-rebuild on broken .la files). > - For pam, ruby or perl I have no idea :-( find $(get_pammoddir) -name '*.la' -delete find /usr/$(get_libdir)/ruby -name '*.la' -delete Nothing fancy, just delete them ;) -- Diego Elio Pettenò — “Flameeyes” http://blog.flameeyes.eu/ If you found a .asc file in this mail and know not what it is, it's a GnuPG digital signature: http://www.gnupg.org/
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