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 clean, but >> you can forget about it afterwards, and even unmerge it from the system. > > Ah, so portage uses an internal finction, it doesn't need lafilefixer. In > that case I'll run and unmerge it. > >> The alternative, of course, is to emerge -e world — but I wouldn't >> suggest that just to spend some time ;) > > I consider most uses of emerge -e world as the Gentoo equivalent of a > Windows reinstall.
So true. The couple of times I've used it my mental state was "I give up." I must admit that nearly every day I spend using Windows 7 (which I have to for my futures trading) I feel pretty much the same. So depressing how bad even this newest version of Windows is compared to where Linux & Gentoo have gotten to. GGUG +1 GOGUG +1 - Mark
