Does D need standard locations?

[Dicebot via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 3 February 2015 at 11:51:31 UTC, Joseph Rushton
Wakeling wrote:
> On Monday, 2 February 2015 at 17:44:53 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>> In Arch Linux it is prohibited to package source-only libraries
>
> How do they handle boost?

Boost does provide prebuild static libraries, despite being
template-heavy - thus it still fits allowed "library + bindings"
model. It is not very suitable for D though.

On a related topic, @Iain, does using static libraries still
prevent inlining in gdc?