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Re: [Packaging bug] Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: fontconfig-2.4.1-1


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Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> The .la files are needed at runtime if client code uses libtool's
> libltdl's dlopen'ing to access the shared library.
> 
> For example, try readline activation code in guile without it's .la
> or try dlopening fontconfig, ftm

According to this argument, every library should include it's .la.
Nevertheless, the precedent in all the distros is that .la belongs in
- -devel packages, because it's primary purpose is for libtool linking;
not that much actually uses libltdl after all.


Yaakov
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