On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 17:11:28 +0000 (UTC) Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh posted on Tue, 02 Aug 2011 16:05:54 +0100 as > excerpted: > > Because going behind the package mangler's back results in horribly > > screwed up systems (as anyone who's ever used lafilefixer will tell > > you...). > > Well, not "anyone". I never had any problems with it.
You did, you just didn't notice it. You'll find out sooner or later when you get bitten by one of the will-never-be-uninstalled-now .la files that it modified on your system without updating VDB. > (Observation: Unqualified any/all statements are rather like > greedy .* regex handling, sometimes they include more than one might > intend!) Well, if you prefer, "anyone who's ever used lafilefixer and then either looked carefully at what happened or got hit by random nastiness later on". -- Ciaran McCreesh
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