Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
I thought Michael Schwendt pointed out times when plugin .la's
would
cause issues as well. Is this chain of reasoning correct: Plugin .la
encodes need for library foo's .la. foo .la is packaged in the -devel
subpackage. Plugins now drag in the -devel package and its dep chain.
Could be, but afaik missing .la items haven't caused runtime problems afaik (as long
as symbols are otherwise resolvable), but that would change when/if rpm's automatic
.la file dependencies were ever used.
So, yeah, still a good general idea (per guidelines) to avoid the hassle whenever
possible.
-- Rex