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

[Neil Bothwick]

On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:25:57 +0200, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:

> > Does that mean I shouldn't have to run lafilefixer as it runs
> > automatically on new installs?
>
> You should still run it once, to make sure that the system is clean, but
> you can forget about it afterwards, and even unmerge it from the system.

Ah, so portage uses an internal finction, it doesn't need lafilefixer. In
that case I'll run and unmerge it.

> The alternative, of course, is to emerge -e world — but I wouldn't
> suggest that just to spend some time ;)

I consider most uses of emerge -e world as the Gentoo equivalent of a
Windows reinstall.


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Neil Bothwick

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