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From: Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] RIP lafilefixer: I must have missed the memo
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 14:46:32
Message-Id: BANLkTi=2SG=w7baUdX0u3qcTv4ndU7FmZA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] RIP lafilefixer: I must have missed the memo by "Sebastian Beßler"
1 On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 1:14 AM, Sebastian Beßler <sebastian@××××××××××××.de
2 > wrote:
3
4 > Am 19.05.2011 04:09, schrieb Kevin O'Gorman:
5 > > I've been using dev-util/lafilefixer ever since I learned about it. Now
6 > > I've bumped into a thread whose latest posts suggests that it is now
7 > > obsolete, with a better capability built into portage.
8 >
9 > From man make.conf
10 >
11 > FEATURES =
12 >
13 > fixlafiles Modifies .la files to not include other .la files and
14 > some other fixes (order of flags, duplicated entries, ...)
15 >
16 > As far as I can see this feature is on by default.
17 >
18 > > If so, why is it still in portage and no mention of its obsolesence in
19 > the
20 > > elogs?
21 >
22 > I use sys-apps/portage-2.2.0_alpha34 so it it possible that it is not
23 > yet in stable portage.
24 >
25 >
26 Yep, it's in stable and I'm very glad. I'm unmerging lafilefixer, which has
27 been a pain in several ways.
28
29 Thanks for the info.
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33 Kevin O'Gorman, PhD