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".

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh