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I have tried to address the issues you mentioned, and rewritten the GLEP |
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to be a IMHO much more precise in exactly how I see this being |
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accomplished. |
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Please have a look, and tell me what you think. |
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The rewritten GLEP is still here: |
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http://vsen.dk/files/GLEP-Making_updates_never_break_dependencies.txt |
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On tor, 2003-11-06 at 17:13, Grant Goodyear wrote: |
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> > I just wrote a GLEP, proposing a solution to the problem that updating |
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> > f.ex. openssl, requires recompiling almost world |
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> > (kde,mozilla,galeon,wget,irrsi,python etc.) - and breaks your system if |
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> > you don't complete all this, while you are running (since the old |
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> > openssl files are removed after the openssl upgrade -and programs that |
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> > haven't been recompiled will break). |
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> |
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> Dear Mr. Klavsen, |
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> Thank you very much for submitting this GLEP. I think it may need a |
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> bit of work before we can accept it, however. A minor point is that we |
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> request that GLEPs be written in a formal manner (no abbreviations such |
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> as "f.ex", spelling should be checked, sentences should be complete, |
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> subject and predicate should agree in number, etcetera). The more |
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> substantive comment is that this GLEP raises a number of issues that I |
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> think the GLEP itself should address: who will be making the required |
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> portage changes, how would these changes impact developers, how |
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> extensive would those changes be, how would these changes impact |
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> performance, are there other alternative solutions to this problem that |
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> should be considered, would the introduction of "reverse-dependencies" |
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> solve this problem? I've CC'd carpaski, the Gentoo Portage lead, in |
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> case he might have additional comments. |
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> |
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> Sincerely, |
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> Grant Goodyear |
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> GLEP Editor |
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Regards, |
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Klavs Klavsen, GSEC - kl@××××.dk - http://www.vsen.dk |
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