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On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 17:11:28 +0000 (UTC) |
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Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote: |
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> Ciaran McCreesh posted on Tue, 02 Aug 2011 16:05:54 +0100 as |
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> excerpted: |
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> > Because going behind the package mangler's back results in horribly |
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> > screwed up systems (as anyone who's ever used lafilefixer will tell |
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> > you...). |
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> Well, not "anyone". I never had any problems with it. |
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You did, you just didn't notice it. You'll find out sooner or later |
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when you get bitten by one of the will-never-be-uninstalled-now .la |
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files that it modified on your system without updating VDB. |
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> (Observation: Unqualified any/all statements are rather like |
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> greedy .* regex handling, sometimes they include more than one might |
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> intend!) |
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Well, if you prefer, "anyone who's ever used lafilefixer and then either |
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looked carefully at what happened or got hit by random nastiness later |
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on". |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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