From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: POSIX capability in Gentoo
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 18:17:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110802181717.6e156630@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pan.2011.08.02.17.11.27@cox.net>
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On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 17:11:28 +0000 (UTC)
Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote:
> Ciaran McCreesh posted on Tue, 02 Aug 2011 16:05:54 +0100 as
> excerpted:
> > Because going behind the package mangler's back results in horribly
> > screwed up systems (as anyone who's ever used lafilefixer will tell
> > you...).
>
> Well, not "anyone". I never had any problems with it.
You did, you just didn't notice it. You'll find out sooner or later
when you get bitten by one of the will-never-be-uninstalled-now .la
files that it modified on your system without updating VDB.
> (Observation: Unqualified any/all statements are rather like
> greedy .* regex handling, sometimes they include more than one might
> intend!)
Well, if you prefer, "anyone who's ever used lafilefixer and then either
looked carefully at what happened or got hit by random nastiness later
on".
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Ciaran McCreesh
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-02 17:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-31 14:43 [gentoo-dev] POSIX capability in Gentoo Anthony G. Basile
2011-07-31 19:46 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2011-07-31 20:00 ` Anthony G. Basile
2011-08-02 7:08 ` Michał Górny
2011-08-02 14:28 ` Anthony G. Basile
2011-08-02 14:31 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-08-02 14:51 ` Anthony G. Basile
2011-08-02 14:54 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-08-02 15:05 ` Anthony G. Basile
2011-08-02 15:05 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-08-02 15:19 ` Anthony G. Basile
2011-08-02 15:20 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-08-02 17:11 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2011-08-02 17:17 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2011-08-02 17:36 ` Jonathan Callen
[not found] ` <20110802173846.AF04F21C12C@pigeon.gentoo.org>
2011-08-02 17:39 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-08-02 20:46 ` Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2011-08-03 1:19 ` Duncan
2011-08-03 0:29 ` Brian Harring
2011-08-03 11:34 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-08-03 21:26 ` Brian Harring
2011-08-03 21:28 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-08-03 21:52 ` Brian Harring
2011-08-02 15:15 ` [gentoo-dev] " Rich Freeman
2011-08-02 15:09 ` Michał Górny
2011-07-31 20:28 ` Michał Górny
2011-07-31 20:27 ` Ciaran McCreesh
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