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On 1/17/10 6:57 PM, Vaeth wrote: |
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> On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: |
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>> I wonder why the affected package (eselect-opengl) couldn't run |
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>> lafilefixer itself. It's mandatory for all users, and would save a lot |
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>> of frustration. |
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> It is not mandatory: You could as well re-emerge the affected packages |
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> (shown by revdep-rebuild) which is a much cleaner solution, since it |
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> does not break the portage database like lafilefixer does. |
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I see. To be more precise, I meant "something must be done to have a |
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not-broken system". |
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> Please: When you run tools which break checksums/dates of the database, |
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> give the user the possibility to decide whether he really wants this. |
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Good point, I didn't realize that. However, I'd rather fix the tool (for |
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example to update the portage database). |
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Paweł Hajdan jr |
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