On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 1:14 AM, Sebastian Beßler <sebast...@darkmetatron.de > wrote:
> Am 19.05.2011 04:09, schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: > > I've been using dev-util/lafilefixer ever since I learned about it. Now > > I've bumped into a thread whose latest posts suggests that it is now > > obsolete, with a better capability built into portage. > > From man make.conf > > FEATURES = > > fixlafiles Modifies .la files to not include other .la files and > some other fixes (order of flags, duplicated entries, ...) > > As far as I can see this feature is on by default. > > > If so, why is it still in portage and no mention of its obsolesence in > the > > elogs? > > I use sys-apps/portage-2.2.0_alpha34 so it it possible that it is not > yet in stable portage. > > Yep, it's in stable and I'm very glad. I'm unmerging lafilefixer, which has been a pain in several ways. Thanks for the info. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
