Re: [gentoo-dev] LibGL.la removal news item for =eselect-opengl-1.1.1-r2 going stable

["\"Paweł Hajdan, Jr.\"" <phajdan.jr@gentoo.org>]

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On 1/17/10 6:57 PM, Vaeth wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote:
>> I wonder why the affected package (eselect-opengl) couldn't run
>> lafilefixer itself. It's mandatory for all users, and would save a lot
>> of frustration.
> It is not mandatory: You could as well re-emerge the affected packages
> (shown by revdep-rebuild) which is a much cleaner solution, since it
> does not break the portage database like lafilefixer does.

I see. To be more precise, I meant "something must be done to have a
not-broken system".

> Please: When you run tools which break checksums/dates of the database,
> give the user the possibility to decide whether he really wants this.

Good point, I didn't realize that. However, I'd rather fix the tool (for
example to update the portage database).

Paweł Hajdan jr


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