> Doesn't dropping the .la files present a risk that rdepends
> (either in the archive or of 3rd party software) will fail to build?
This should only ever be a problem if there are other reverse-dependencies in the archive which reference this .la file in .la files of their own, and that's not the case here.
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> Doesn't dropping the .la files present a risk that rdepends
> (either in the archive or of 3rd party software) will fail to build?
This should only ever be a problem if there are other reverse- dependencies in the archive which reference this .la file in .la files of their own, and that's not the case here.