On 1/17/10 6:57 PM, Vaeth wrote: > On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: >> I wonder why the affected package (eselect-opengl) couldn't run >> lafilefixer itself. It's mandatory for all users, and would save a lot >> of frustration. > It is not mandatory: You could as well re-emerge the affected packages > (shown by revdep-rebuild) which is a much cleaner solution, since it > does not break the portage database like lafilefixer does.
I see. To be more precise, I meant "something must be done to have a not-broken system". > Please: When you run tools which break checksums/dates of the database, > give the user the possibility to decide whether he really wants this. Good point, I didn't realize that. However, I'd rather fix the tool (for example to update the portage database). Paweł Hajdan jr
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