Re: Core updates status

[Andreas Enge]

Hello,

Am Mon, May 06, 2024 at 10:47:13AM +0200 schrieb Josselin Poiret:
> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:
> > I don't mind too much; when we re-enable the change we should add a
> > phase to the gnu-build-system automatically deleting/moving the libtool
> > archives. so that we're covered.
> 
> I agree, although we'll have to be careful since some packages might
> need them if they don't use pkg-config!

I am a little bit confused by the suggestion; you mean removing all .la
files from all packages? I thought they were there for a reason, and
usually recorded the dependencies. For instance, doing a "guix build mpc"
and looking at libmpc.la, my impression is that I see correct information.
Why would one want to force upstream to add a pkgconfig dependency
additionally to libtool? Or do I misunderstand the suggestion?

Andreas