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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: POSIX capability in Gentoo
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 17:12:43
Message-Id: pan.2011.08.02.17.11.27@cox.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] POSIX capability in Gentoo by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Ciaran McCreesh posted on Tue, 02 Aug 2011 16:05:54 +0100 as excerpted:
2
3 > Because going behind the package mangler's back results in horribly
4 > screwed up systems (as anyone who's ever used lafilefixer will tell
5 > you...).
6
7 Well, not "anyone". I never had any problems with it.
8
9 (YMMV, but soon enough, I switched to an installmask with an exception
10 for libtool, then rebuilt the system. No *.la file worries since! =:^)
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12 (Observation: Unqualified any/all statements are rather like greedy .*
13 regex handling, sometimes they include more than one might intend!)
14
15 --
16 Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs.
17 "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
18 and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: POSIX capability in Gentoo Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>