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From: Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o>
To: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, pr@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: .la files removal news item (GLEP 42)
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 21:11:40
Message-Id: AANLkTi=AawTAKPs3iPKNN=t5-gk73nYaKXO4U40NW91Y@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: .la files removal news item (GLEP 42) by Zac Medico
1 On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 1:08 AM, Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
2 > On 10/01/2010 12:12 PM, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
3 >> Right, so a few weeks later when they re-merge a binpkg, they suddenly
4 >> get build failures again. And that confuses them since it's
5 >> unexpected. This is in general a bad experience for stable users who
6 >> want to get work done, not baby-sit their system.
7 >
8 > Maybe advise them to use post_pkg_preinst instead of post_src_install,
9 > so it works even for binary packages.
10 >
11
12 If that won't cause problems with portage-2.1.9 (mtime/checksum
13 messiness, for example; you're the best judge for this), then we
14 should do it.
15
16 --
17 ~Nirbheek Chauhan
18
19 Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team

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