If this change is implemented, manual removal in packages becomes unnecessary. Will you do a 'mass change' sweep to drop those removals?
I've already looked at all the packages I listed, so looking at them again shouldn't be a problem. But that's just the list of packages that currently ship .la files and not the list of packages that *don't* ship them because they successfully remove them. I don't have a list for that and I'm not sure how I would generate one.