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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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(Yes, I know that this might involve manual fixing the order shown |
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by revdep-rebuild or emerging packages twice or packages not listed, |
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but it *is* possible to do it cleanly). |
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> And I think we're doing something similar with gcc (fix_libtool_files.sh |
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> seems to run automatically on gcc upgrade). |
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Yes, this is terrible: I actually considered filing a bug about it, |
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requesting to make it at least only optional. |
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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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For instance, USE="+lafilefixer" might be such an option. |
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Martin |
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