Daniel Wagener wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:55:37 +0200
> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> lafilefixer --justfixit".
>> The last one, "lafilefixer --justfixit" is especially valuable as it
>> gets right of a huge gigantic steaming pile of crap that a) should
>> never have been there at all in the first place and b) if it's causing
>> the problem is almost impossible to pin down without lots of work. So
>> even if b) is not true, you still get the huge benefit of a)
> while we are at it…
> does it still make sense to run it on a regular basis or can I purge it from my maintenace script?e
>
>

I think it depends on your version of portage. Older portage versions
needs you to run it and newer versions I think have it built into
portage or another way to fix this. You may want to post what version
of portage you are using to get a more accurate answer.

Dale

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On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Daniel Wagener <stelf@gmx.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:55:37 +0200
> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > lafilefixer --justfixit".
>
>> The last one, "lafilefixer --justfixit" is especially valuable as it
>> gets right of a huge gigantic steaming pile of crap that a) should
>> never have been there at all in the first place and b) if it's causing
>> the problem is almost impossible to pin down without lots of work. So
>> even if b) is not true, you still get the huge benefit of a)
>
> while we are at it…
> does it still make sense to run it on a regular basis or can I purge it from my maintenace script?e

In newer version of portage you can add "fixlafiles" to FEATURES and
there is no need to manually run the lxfilefixer program.

On Thu, Sep 20 2012, Paul Hartman wrote:

> In newer version of portage you can add "fixlafiles" to FEATURES and
> there is no need to manually run the lxfilefixer program.

Thanks. I hadn't seen this before. It is in the make.conf man page for
my system which is ~amd64. So I assume "newer versions of portage" does
not require the 2.2 (masked, but used by some on this list).

Thanks again,
allan