From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QoIeq-0008Ci-BI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2011 17:21:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1E42F21C1AA; Tue, 2 Aug 2011 17:21:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7127421C086 for ; Tue, 2 Aug 2011 17:20:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwf26 with SMTP id 26so6219318wwf.10 for ; Tue, 02 Aug 2011 10:20:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type; bh=wkI1kBTggghGG9JLFXl5AklItbtpMVxbZqYzfsXyaqs=; b=iEpkfIusbf9rDrzSfg2TJMBqXyToo8qAoyeAsDcvN3qQ5VINhFS3JDKQGF9+0rNReg U5SouwY/0qn3fEF1lIIrd2EdF4+uCFISYMBX1I6IUFL4TJEb0n0jePZkycv0qrYFaHVx HoDphEfW4QPmLokyex6pDWOHOuWpL8SqyIDhQ= Received: by 10.216.68.200 with SMTP id l50mr1935552wed.106.1312305652593; Tue, 02 Aug 2011 10:20:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (cpc1-broo4-0-0-cust780.14-2.cable.virginmedia.com [86.4.215.13]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e56sm1218248wed.41.2011.08.02.10.20.51 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 02 Aug 2011 10:20:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 18:17:17 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: POSIX capability in Gentoo Message-ID: <20110802181717.6e156630@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: References: <4E356A0C.7070004@gentoo.org> <4E35B468.10604@gentoo.org> <20110802090832.2cd03a32@pomiocik.lan> <4E3809AA.2050609@gentoo.org> <20110802153134.7cab1727@googlemail.com> <4E380EEA.6080505@gentoo.org> <20110802155454.5fb24cb4@googlemail.com> <4E38123E.90709@gentoo.org> <20110802160554.68059c64@googlemail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9 (GTK+ 2.24.5; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/3oNXgAKiAXcMO=Dq+CF.INR"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: f850f09b654a7a83cb2cf5a1979d5b8b --Sig_/3oNXgAKiAXcMO=Dq+CF.INR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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...). >=20 > 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". --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/3oNXgAKiAXcMO=Dq+CF.INR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk44MSEACgkQ96zL6DUtXhGDtQCguMgXBdaiJTNP6dv9kS+XnddZ 31UAoKzRnr8WMKVhQydIwuaoIFlEp9Gf =jieK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/3oNXgAKiAXcMO=Dq+CF.INR--