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 1P1Ntk-0000Xi-Sn for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:30:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 71423E06FA; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:30:05 +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 35D2AE06FA for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:30:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwb34 with SMTP id 34so337237wwb.10 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:30:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Ral2OtTH4WsPIxjAGPt9WLUq4J3194m4u7a2EkpPE8E=; b=PaeCLX46835q6BY2FnMbHJyNyIO3nEgM9rnmQMC6L6D08RndrN2hgumvpnlptUmqtw fP4DaYGie49/cM0k7w12LQgdvxQmEECLXztYP+su0XMRhc3FLsPRUOW/em4ZigVuDLAX nElTrZ69QOuxF7DR5yNRAlodXCxe+BVKp1vNk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=vTRykKysd5bwAiGn9dvZELMUVilTKWLHFz++LUAMLFrAn4Fpzc7rbjuofSYMbdff1P ad9SAKB3jEu5Bmm0qtWDejBRsUVtGFrulc4anN76Kvq/1Iwduv82hK89HmzQIDWohbqQ OHTrWKkW+DfAy1k0rjOA05xY7qP6csHZmxgP4= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.227.145.146 with SMTP id d18mr3419741wbv.172.1285871404637; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:30:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.3.138 with HTTP; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:30:04 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100930191353.1c80f8f1@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> References: <1285800006.6591.313.camel@yamato.local> <20100930095515.4daafb84@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <1285853517.6591.558.camel@yamato.local> <20100930161036.42054ffe@digimed.co.uk> <1285860357.6591.566.camel@yamato.local> <20100930191353.1c80f8f1@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:30:04 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Notice: possible past, present and future breakage related to .la files From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 6c2ef063-46a7-4da7-b908-76971dced21e X-Archives-Hash: 6475d0b6ab2836e419c14cf14b15cecd On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:25:57 +0200, Diego Elio Petten=C3=B2 wrote: > >> > Does that mean I shouldn't have to run lafilefixer as it runs >> > automatically on new installs? >> >> You should still run it once, to make sure that the system is clean, but >> you can forget about it afterwards, and even unmerge it from the system. > > Ah, so portage uses an internal finction, it doesn't need lafilefixer. In > that case I'll run and unmerge it. > >> The alternative, of course, is to emerge -e world =E2=80=94 but I wouldn= 't >> suggest that just to spend some time ;) > > I consider most uses of emerge -e world as the Gentoo equivalent of a > Windows reinstall. So true. The couple of times I've used it my mental state was "I give up." I must admit that nearly every day I spend using Windows 7 (which I have to for my futures trading) I feel pretty much the same. So depressing how bad even this newest version of Windows is compared to where Linux & Gentoo have gotten to. GGUG +1 GOGUG +1 - Mark