does removef ... break patches?

Hmmm, since SUN still ships brain dead *.la files, which will certainly break compilation of other related software when libfool is used, I wanna remove all the *.la files. However rm -f does not work, since patches usually re-install those file :(. So I would try to removef them. Would this work, or does a patch install those files anyway or would it even break a patch, which tries to update those files?

Similar to this, on clients SUNWsndm{r|u} packages are sufficient, however, sendmail.cf and submit.cf are not and thus replaced by a customized version. Unfortunately sendmail patches seem to "reinstall" their old (insufficient) *.cf files, even if the original files have been changed. So, may I prevent this by removf the *.cf files?

[757 byte] By [elkner] at [2007-11-26 10:32:24]