On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 1:14 AM, Sebastian Beßler <sebastian@darkmetatron.de
> wrote:

> Am 19.05.2011 04:09, schrieb Kevin O'Gorman:
> > I've been using dev-util/lafilefixer ever since I learned about it.  Now
> > I've bumped into a thread whose latest posts suggests that it is now
> > obsolete, with a better capability built into portage.
>
> From man make.conf
>
> FEATURES =
>
> fixlafiles       Modifies .la files to not include other .la files and
> some other fixes (order of flags, duplicated entries, ...)
>
> As far as I can see this feature is on by default.
>
> > If so, why is it still in portage and no mention of its obsolesence in
> the
> > elogs?
>
> I use sys-apps/portage-2.2.0_alpha34 so it it possible that it is not
> yet in stable portage.
>
>
Yep, it's in stable and I'm very glad.  I'm unmerging lafilefixer, which has
been a pain in several ways.

Thanks for the info.


-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD