[gentoo-user] RIP lafilefixer: I must have missed the memo

[gentoo-user] RIP lafilefixer: I must have missed the memo

[Kevin O'Gorman]

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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

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Re: [gentoo-user] RIP lafilefixer: I must have missed the memo

[Sebastian Beßler]

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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.


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Re: [gentoo-user] RIP lafilefixer: I must have missed the memo

[Paul Hartman]

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 3:14 AM, Sebastian Beßler
<sebastian@darkmetatron.de> wrote:
>> 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.

AFAIK this feature has been introduced in portage 2.1.9 (which is stable).

Re: [gentoo-user] RIP lafilefixer: I must have missed the memo

[Kevin O'Gorman]

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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

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