On 10:20 Sat 02 Oct     , Alistair Bush wrote:
> Would it not be a better solution to have this information documented 
> "properly" under Upgrade Guides or Gentoo System Documentation and 
> then have this news item linked to it.

This is a good point if it turns out that this isn't temporary. See 
below...

> How is this news item going to help ppl in a month from now (till the 
> issue is solved in its entirety). Can we reasonably expect a new user 
> to be aware of this.  Do we expect users to read old ( and this could 
> potentially become very old) news items.

As soon as new stages get built with portage 2.1.9 (i.e., as soon as it 
goes stable, as I understand the autobuild process), it should no longer 
be a problem for fresh installations.

It will of course remain a problem for people who wait forever to update 
their systems, but it will come in as a news item whenever they do 
update.

It almost makes you wonder whether portage-2.1.9 should run lafilefixer 
itself in postinst, just to ensure everything's fixed on the system 
before it starts fixing individual new packages.

-- 
Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com