On Fri, 22 Feb 2019 23:30:15 -0500 desultory wrote:
> On 02/20/19 02:36, Michał Górny wrote:
> > On Wed, 2019-02-20 at 07:20 +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> >>>>>>> On Wed, 20 Feb 2019, Matt Turner wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> # Don't install libtool archives (even for modules)
> >>> - prune_libtool_files --all
> >>> + find "${D}" -name '*.la' -delete || die
> >>
> >> Maybe restrict removal to regular files, i.e. add "-type f"?
> >
> > I suppose you should have spoken up when people started adopting that
> > 'find' line all over the place. Though I honestly doubt we're going to
> > see many packages installing '*.la' non-files.
> >
> Just so we are all clear here: your argument is that more fully correct
> approaches should not be considered in the present and future because
> less fully correct approaches were implemented in the past? And,
> further, that since nothing matching a specific pattern happens to come
> to your mind at he moment, such things do not exist? Perhaps dialing
> back the rhetoric from 11 and considering feedback as an opportunity to
> improve existing code is called for in this case, among others.If we are going to improve code, we should also use find -O3. Best regards, Andrew Savchenko
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