Re: [gentoo-user] Notice: possible past, present and future breakage related to .la files

[William Kenworthy]

On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 00:40 +0200, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: 
> Hi all users,
>
> Secondly, you can avoid any future requirement for this by sanitising
> the newly installed .la files; this can be done either by using the
> (currently testing) Portage 2.1.9 series, or by adding the following
> snippet to your /etc/portage/bashrc:
>
> post_src_install() {
>     lafilefixer "${D}"
> }
>


A question I cant see answered anywhere though its been asked:

What are the implications of adding this "snippet" - will it come back
to bite us (users) when the next version of portage comes along?


and in addition:
- none of my systems have a /etc/portage/bashrc so Ive created them, but
should they be executable, have a hash-bang line, ... ?

- will this snippet fix the problems with "equery check" marking
libraries as broken after lafilefixer is run? (I presume an emerge -e
world will be needed to update the database ...)

BillK