.la files deps

[Rex Dieter]

Jeff Pitman wrote:

> Would an effort to remove /usr/lib/*.la and see what builds okay, be 
> something important to do for FC5?  Or not?

Absolutely.  For shared libraries, in most(90%?) cases, the 
/usr/lib/lib*.la files packaged are superfluous.  The are also a sort of 
cancer, that infects other .la files, causing library dependancy bloat 
(ie, adding extra Requires to -devel packages that include the infected 
.la files)

Here's a start of my efforts to help in this area:
SDL: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/145974
rpm: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/145978
subversion: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzila/170029
   svn is tricky, it has lots of sublibraries
expat: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/170031
db4: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/170032
libjpeg: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/170046
neon: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/170049
apr:  http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/170050
apr-util:  http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/170051

-- Rex