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

2010-10-03 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-10-03 12:15 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: Yes once 2.1.9.x series of Portage goes stable (i.e.: if all goes well, by November) there won't be any need for adding the snipped; you'll still have to run at least once lafilefixer to avoid keeping stuff around on the system unfixed, but

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

2010-10-02 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
Il giorno sab, 02/10/2010 alle 19.51 +0800, William Kenworthy ha scritto: What are the implications of adding this snippet - will it come back to bite us (users) when the next version of portage comes along? No, it'll waste a bit of time if it's not removed because the same logic is running

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

2010-10-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 5:35 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@gmail.com wrote: Il giorno sab, 02/10/2010 alle 19.51 +0800, William Kenworthy ha scritto: What are the implications of adding this snippet - will it come back to bite us (users) when the next version of portage comes along? No,

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

2010-10-02 Thread Dale
Still on topic but I have a question and you are in the know on this. I'm running unstable portage, 2.2_rc67 to be exact. Does this new a version of portage take care of this already? It sounds like it is the stable portage that has issues. I been running unstable for a long while now.

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

2010-10-02 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
Il giorno sab, 02/10/2010 alle 19.14 -0400, Tanstaafl ha scritto: For those of us who prefer to stay with the stable portage, am I correct that once the 2.1.9 portage series goes stable, that we would then remove the above from /etc/portage/bashrc? What would happen if I forgot to do so

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

2010-09-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:14:52 -0700, walt wrote: On 09/29/2010 03:40 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: Hi all users, we hope to be able to provide a better experience for all of you at the end of this (bumpy) journey. Thanks! It's good to have direct communication from devs, especially

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

2010-09-30 Thread covici
walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/29/2010 03:40 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: Hi all users, we hope to be able to provide a better experience for all of you at the end of this (bumpy) journey. Thanks! On behalf of the Geriatric Gentoo Users Group I say, No, please, allow us to

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

2010-09-30 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
Il giorno gio, 30/09/2010 alle 09.55 +0100, Neil Bothwick ha scritto: I find this part a little confusing. Are you saying to add the function to bashrc if you are not using portage 2.1.9? How about those of us using 2.2? 2.2 series also got the same feature, but I don't remember since which

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

2010-09-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 30 September 2010 09:53:40 Neil Bothwick wrote: Hey, how do I join GGUG? You're too old, Neil. Same as me. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.

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

2010-09-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:47:10 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hey, how do I join GGUG? You're too old, Neil. Same as me. In that case, I'll declare myself a member of the other GGUG, Grumpy Gentoo User Group. -- Neil Bothwick Micro-: (prefix) anything both very small and very expensive.

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

2010-09-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:31:57 +0200, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: I find this part a little confusing. Are you saying to add the function to bashrc if you are not using portage 2.1.9? How about those of us using 2.2? 2.2 series also got the same feature, but I don't remember since

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

2010-09-30 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
Il giorno gio, 30/09/2010 alle 16.10 +0100, Neil Bothwick ha scritto: 2.2 series also got the same feature, but I don't remember since which rc… the latest masked version is definitely fine though. Does that mean I shouldn't have to run lafilefixer as it run automatically on new

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

2010-09-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 30 September 2010 16:08:25 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:47:10 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hey, how do I join GGUG? You're too old, Neil. Same as me. In that case, I'll declare myself a member of the other GGUG, Grumpy Gentoo User Group. Is membership open

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

2010-09-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@gmail.com wrote: Il giorno gio, 30/09/2010 alle 16.10 +0100, Neil Bothwick ha scritto: 2.2 series also got the same feature, but I don't remember since which rc… the latest masked version is definitely fine though. Does that

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

2010-09-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:01:14 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: In that case, I'll declare myself a member of the other GGUG, Grumpy Gentoo User Group. Is membership open to Grumpy Old Gentoo Users like me as well? Membership is open to anyone proud to admit to being a member :) -- Neil

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

2010-09-30 Thread 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

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

2010-09-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: 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

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

2010-09-30 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:01:14 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: In that case, I'll declare myself a member of the other GGUG, Grumpy Gentoo User Group. Is membership open to Grumpy Old Gentoo Users like me as well? Membership is open to anyone proud to admit

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

2010-09-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 30 September 2010 19:30:04 Mark Knecht wrote: GGUG +1 GOGUG +1 Time to set up an e-mail list? -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.

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

2010-09-30 Thread walt
On 09/30/2010 11:13 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: I consider most uses of emerge -e world as the Gentoo equivalent of a Windows reinstall. You are obviously already a member of the Geriatric Gentoo Users Group, but perhaps you just forgot about it. I certainly did.

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

2010-09-29 Thread walt
On 09/29/2010 03:40 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: Hi all users, we hope to be able to provide a better experience for all of you at the end of this (bumpy) journey. Thanks! On behalf of the Geriatric Gentoo Users Group I say, No, please, allow us to thank YOU for all the great work you do

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

2010-09-29 Thread Dale
walt wrote: On 09/29/2010 03:40 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: Hi all users, we hope to be able to provide a better experience for all of you at the end of this (bumpy) journey. Thanks! On behalf of the Geriatric Gentoo Users Group I say, No, please, allow us to thank YOU for all the great

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

2010-09-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 30 September 2010, walt wrote: On 09/29/2010 03:40 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: Hi all users, we hope to be able to provide a better experience for all of you at the end of this (bumpy) journey. Thanks! On behalf of the Geriatric Gentoo Users Group I say, No,

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

2010-09-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
Alan is relaxing by the seaside watching the waves go in and out. So he has nothing sensible to add at this time, but maybe on Sunday :-) On 09/29/2010 03:40 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: Hi all users, we hope to be able to provide a better experience for all of you at the end of this (bumpy)