[csw-maintainers] .la discussion

[Chad Harp]

Philip Brown wrote:

> Well, I'd say there are two "clean" ways to handle this.
> One is less work, and less clean to outside, but clean to US.
> Other is a lot more work, but clean to everyone.
> 
> "clean to us":  ssh buildX && rm /opt/csw/lib/lib*.la
> 
> 
> "clean to outside":
>   make a list of all packages that have .la files, and graph em as
>   dependancies, and then start prodding the appropriate people
>   to repackage them starting at "leaf nodes" in the graph.
> 
>   Note: It's no good just doing a one-time repackage. we need to make sure
>   that the maintainers build it "the next time" without .la files too.

Why not do both?  The "clean to us" would allow our maintainers to 
continue building their packages while we take care of the "clean to 
outside".