2009/11/11 Ray Rashif <[email protected]> > 2009/11/11 Ronald van Haren <[email protected]> > > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:34 AM, Ray Rashif <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > I remember the consensus used to be !libtool by default and now it's >> libtool >> > in makepkg.conf, so what happened? >> > >> >> some packages need the libtool files to function properly if that is >> what you mean. >> >> Ronald >> > > I mean, that was always the case: > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Libtool_slaying > > So the default for some time was to get rid of them, but in the event a > package did need its libtool files, then we used options=('libtool'), right? > But of course, there aren't many that install libtool files unnecessarily > now, so that's good. Just curious, in case I missed anything. >
Oops, I think I answered my own question. It's because "there aren't many that install libtool files unnecessarily now". Thanks and sorry for the blob!
