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 1QMshW-0001M5-A7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 19 May 2011 02:11:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6B6F91C063; Thu, 19 May 2011 02:09:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 229D41C063 for ; Thu, 19 May 2011 02:09:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyi11 with SMTP id 11so2116596wyi.40 for ; Wed, 18 May 2011 19:09:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=d3Ji2AFxJgRcN2xrtp2AHPZIrN+rw5L3KtSozetfu5w=; b=kJDH7LKI73HQ7eTlk+opdKRzoJTw0m2h+f7dyAJ2Wlpjj3qwLqKpC5mCXC+J7LYdVA wL32j+wcN5cly1ciKdeETLdvepfB94KPnj2hMEp7XECF0FmfFAimD/+n/HTK0rlEaLEu 6qQ5gg3NsxfGRTyzCJqDBIaLPsid5n/Uc4hI8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=ltIOl/rvXzEQCtZDa29i48OmYW+oQPfwKsGzCYqErGPrkuG/OWwvwQIatzqzBj4YGf KGzsZxtvU5OFQ9JiQaoadCcFi6nCFIeYXDUPEiXiQ+DKUim4SD7kQulmX41zZsq5vUdu NS9qQZlUitLqJtJnu9RZyyiUGZcVc/7W/D1Po= 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 10.227.159.136 with SMTP id j8mr2499046wbx.99.1305770976409; Wed, 18 May 2011 19:09:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.227.138.10 with HTTP; Wed, 18 May 2011 19:09:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 19:09:36 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: [gentoo-user] RIP lafilefixer: I must have missed the memo From: "Kevin O'Gorman" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=00248c0d739034f8e204a3977fda X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 28c6e7686f919308c7d1bceaa3a0a532 --00248c0d739034f8e204a3977fda Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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. I hope this is true. I'd love to ditch it because "lafilefixer --justfixit" never fails to process some packages that are hardwired for one reason or another. Some search engine results suggest this may be true, but they're mostly old. Is this still and permanently true? If so, why is it still in portage and no mention of its obsolesence in the elogs? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD --00248c0d739034f8e204a3977fda Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I've been using dev-util/lafilefixer ever since I learned about it.=C2= =A0 Now I've bumped into a thread whose latest posts suggests that it i= s now obsolete, with a better capability built into portage.

I hope = this is true.=C2=A0 I'd love to ditch it because "lafilefixer --ju= stfixit" never fails to process some packages that are hardwired for o= ne reason or another.=C2=A0 Some search engine results suggest this may be = true, but they're mostly old.=C2=A0 Is this still and permanently true?=

If so, why is it still in portage and no mention of its obsolesence in = the elogs?

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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

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